Dan Shipper

Career

Dan Shipper is the CEO and cofounder of Every, a media and software company founded in 2020. Every publishes a daily newsletter about technology, builds its own software products, offers courses, and provides AI consulting and training services; its website runs on Ruby on Rails and was built in-house.²¹

Channel and publications

Shipper writes Chain of Thought, a weekly column on Every about the frontiers of AI, and hosts The Every Podcast, which features conversations with founders, investors and members of Every's own team. Shipper's author page on Every collects essays going back to 2020.¹³

Many of Shipper's essays look at how people use language models in everyday work. They include "The End of Organizing" (January 2023), on using GPT-3 to work with personal notes, "GPT-4 Is a Reasoning Engine" (March 2023), and "The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy." (January 2024), which argues that people working with AI take on roles more like managers.¹

Work and contributions

• Chain of Thought Show, channel or publication

  Writes the weekly column exploring the frontiers of AI, with pieces on language models, ChatGPT, and how AI changes knowledge work.¹

• The Every Podcast Show, channel or publication

  Hosts Every's interview show about AI and work.³¹

Timeline

1. 2020Cofounded Every, a media and software company.²¹
2. Sep 11, 2020Published "The CEO of No," a profile of entrepreneur Andrew Wilkinson's approach to email, on Every.¹
3. Jan 6, 2023Published "The End of Organizing," about using GPT-3 to turn notes into a working second brain.¹
4. Mar 31, 2023Published the essay "GPT-4 Is a Reasoning Engine" on Every.¹
5. Jan 19, 2024Published "The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy." on Every.¹

Where they work

• Every 1 person in the wiki

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