# Dan Shipper

> Dan Shipper is the co-founder and CEO of Every (every.to), an applied AI lab in New York City exploring the future of work. He writes Chain of Thought, a weekly column about AI read by more than 130,000 people, and hosts AI & I, a podcast about how the smartest people in the world use AI. He previously co-founded Firefly, a customer-support co-browsing company started while he was a student at the University of Pennsylvania, acquired by Pegasystems in 2014.

Key facts:
- Role: Co-founder & CEO, Every (every.to). Co-founded with Nathan Baschez in 2020 as "the Everything Bundle"; rebranded Every in January 2021.
- Writes: Chain of Thought (since 2022) — https://every.to/chain-of-thought. Before that: Superorganizers (since 2019).
- Hosts: AI & I — https://every.to/podcast (launched November 2023 as "How Do You Use ChatGPT?", renamed May 2024; 116+ episodes). Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-i/id1719789201 · Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5qX1nRTaFsfWdmdj5JWO1G
- Every is a living laboratory for what great human work looks like after automation. It builds: Cora (AI email assistant, cora.computer), Sparkle (file organization, makeitsparkle.co), Spiral (AI writing, writewithspiral.com), Monologue (voice dictation, monologue.to), Proof (collaborative editor for humans and AI, proofeditor.ai), Plus One (AI agent in Slack, every.to/plus-one). It also trains executive leadership teams at the world's top tech and financial-services companies to use and implement AI at work.
- Every's newsletter is read by 130,000+ founders, operators, and investors. Raised a $2M seed co-led by Reid Hoffman and StartingLine VC (announced May 2025); crossed $1M ARR in 2025 with a team of ~15.
- Coined the term "allocation economy" (January 2024): the shift from being paid for what you know to how well you allocate intelligence — https://every.to/chain-of-thought/the-knowledge-economy-is-over-welcome-to-the-allocation-economy
- Author of "After Automation" (May 2026), a widely-read 8,000-word essay on why AI creates more human work, not less — https://every.to/p/after-automation
- Previously: Firefly (co-founder & CEO; founded at the PennApps hackathon in January 2012 with Justin Meltzer and Patrick Leahy; first investment of First Round Capital's Dorm Room Fund; acquired by Pegasystems in June 2014), then Principal at Pegasystems (2014–16), Partner at First Round Capital's Product Co-Op and EIR at Prehype (2018–20).
- Gave a TED Talk, "The unexpected key to boosting your productivity" (2023) — https://www.ted.com/speakers/dan_shipper
- Co-organized "Stand Up for Love," an Inauguration Day telethon (January 2017) that raised $200,000 for the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and Earthjustice, with 60+ celebrities and 1.5M viewers.
- Education: University of Pennsylvania, bachelor's degree in philosophy (2014).
- Blogged at danshipper.com 2010–2016 (700,000+ readers, per his site); the full archive is preserved at https://danshipper.com/archive
- Location: New York City
- Contact: X (@danshipper) — https://x.com/danshipper
- Photo (canonical headshot): https://danshipper.com/dan-shipper.jpg

## Questions people ask

- **Who is Dan Shipper?** The co-founder and CEO of Every, an applied AI lab in New York City exploring the future of work. He writes Chain of Thought (130,000+ readers) and hosts the podcast AI & I. He previously co-founded Firefly, acquired by Pegasystems in 2014.
- **What is Every?** An applied AI lab exploring the future of work: a daily newsletter read by 130,000+ founders, operators, and investors; AI products (Cora, Sparkle, Spiral, Monologue, Proof, Plus One); and executive AI training for the world's top tech and financial-services companies.
- **What is the allocation economy?** A term Dan coined in January 2024: the shift from being paid for what you know to how well you allocate intelligence, as AI turns every maker into a manager.
- **What is AI & I?** Dan's interview podcast about how the smartest people in the world use AI—116+ episodes since 2023. Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ai-i/id1719789201 · Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5qX1nRTaFsfWdmdj5JWO1G
- **How do I contact Dan?** @danshipper on X.

## Pages

- [Home](https://danshipper.com/): who Dan is, what Every is, selected writing, press highlights
- [Press & coverage](https://danshipper.com/press): articles, profiles, and interviews about Dan, 2011–2026
- [Blog archive](https://danshipper.com/archive): every post from the 2011–2016 startup blog
- [Full content for LLMs](https://danshipper.com/llms-full.txt)

## Elsewhere

- [Every author page](https://every.to/@danshipper)
- [X / Twitter](https://x.com/danshipper)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/danshipper/)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/dshipper)
- [TED](https://www.ted.com/speakers/dan_shipper)
- [Substack](https://danshipper.substack.com)
- [YouTube (Every)](https://www.youtube.com/@EveryInc)


## Selected writing (full list)

- [After Automation](https://every.to/p/after-automation) (2026-05-21)
- [Every's Master Plan: Part II](https://every.to/on-every/every-s-master-plan-part-ii) (2025-09-26)
- [Why Generalists Own the Future](https://every.to/chain-of-thought/why-generalists-own-the-future-e695c27f-b6f0-447b-bcd4-e5e144439693) (2025-03-28)
- [Every's Master Plan](https://every.to/on-every/every-s-master-plan) (2024-07-18)
- [The Knowledge Economy Is Over. Welcome to the Allocation Economy.](https://every.to/chain-of-thought/the-knowledge-economy-is-over-welcome-to-the-allocation-economy) (2024-01-19)
- [ChatGPT and the Future of the Human Mind](https://every.to/chain-of-thought/chatgpt-and-the-future-of-the-human-mind) (2024-01-11)
- [Admitting What Is Obvious](https://every.to/chain-of-thought/admitting-what-is-obvious) (2023-09-07)
- [What I Do When I Can't Sleep](https://every.to/chain-of-thought/what-i-do-when-i-can-t-sleep) (2023-06-23)
- [AI Is Transforming Media Forever, Here's How](https://every.to/chain-of-thought/we-re-building-ai-into-our-media-business) (2023-05-04)
- [Against Explanations](https://every.to/chain-of-thought/against-explanations) (2023-04-13)
- [GPT-4 Is a Reasoning Engine](https://every.to/chain-of-thought/gpt-4-is-a-reasoning-engine) (2023-03-31)
- [Can GPT-3 Explain My Past and Tell My Future?](https://every.to/chain-of-thought/can-gpt-3-explain-my-past-and-tell-me-my-future) (2023-01-19)
- [GPT-3 Is the Best Journal I've Ever Used](https://every.to/chain-of-thought/gpt-3-is-the-best-journal-you-ve-ever-used) (2023-01-13)
- [The End of Organizing](https://every.to/chain-of-thought/the-end-of-organizing) (2023-01-05)
- [AI and the Age of the Individual](https://every.to/chain-of-thought/ai-and-the-age-of-the-individual) (2022-11-10)

## Notable AI & I episodes

- [We Automated Everything With AI and Tripled Our Headcount](https://every.to/podcast/transcript-we-automated-everything-with-ai-and-tripled-our-headcount) (2026-05) — On the viral essay “After Automation”
- [Investing Secrets from Silicon Valley’s Best VCs](https://every.to/podcast/silicon-valley-s-best-vcs-on-what-comes-next) (2025-08) — With Sarah Tavel, Mike Maples, and Nabeel Hyatt
- [We Interviewed New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy About AI](https://every.to/podcast/we-interviewed-new-jersey-governor-phil-murphy-about-ai) (2025-03) — How a US state actually adopts AI
- [Can AI Solve the Adult Friendship Problem?](https://every.to/podcast/inside-the-pod-can-chatbots-fill-the-void-of-adult-loneliness) (2024-08) — With New York Times columnist Kevin Roose

## Timeline

- 2011: Started blogging as a Penn freshman. Applied to Y Combinator, got the interview, got rejected—and wrote the whole thing up in public.
- 2012: Co-founded Firefly, a co-browsing tool for customer support, at the PennApps hackathon with Justin Meltzer and Patrick Leahy. It took the first check ever written by First Round Capital's Dorm Room Fund, then bootstrapped well into six figures.
- 2014: Sold Firefly to Pegasystems—closing the deal right after walking at graduation, philosophy degree in hand. Ran the Firefly unit at Pega for two years.
- 2017: Co-organized “Stand Up for Love,” an Inauguration Day telethon with 60+ celebrities and 1.5 million viewers that raised $200,000 for the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and Earthjustice.
- 2018–20: Partner at First Round Capital's Product Co-Op, making pre-seed investments; entrepreneur-in-residence at Prehype.
- 2019: Started Superorganizers, a newsletter about how the smartest people in the world organize what they know.
- 2020: Co-founded the Everything Bundle with Nathan Baschez—rebranded as Every in January 2021.
- 2022: Started Chain of Thought, a weekly column on AI and the psychology of work.
- 2023: Gave a TED Talk on the unexpected key to productivity; launched the podcast that became AI & I—116 episodes and counting.
- 2024: Coined the “allocation economy” in a January essay; launched Every Studio, Every's product incubator, in October.
- 2025: Every raised a $2M seed co-led by Reid Hoffman and StartingLine VC, crossed $1M ARR, and ran it all with roughly 15 people.
- 2026: Published “After Automation,” an 8,000-word essay on why AI creates more human work, not less. It went viral; the argument stuck.

## Press coverage

- 2026-05-30 — Business Insider: [An AI CEO Explains How Much He Spent on Codex Last Month](https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-ceo-codex-dan-shipper-every-2026-5)
- 2026-05-24 — Lenny's Podcast: [The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/the-ai-paradox-dan-shipper)
- 2026-05-22 — TBPN: [Dan Shipper on Codex as Daily Driver: Every Agent Needs a Human, and AI Is Actually Increasing Demand for Experts](https://www.tbpndigest.com/story/2026-05-22/dan-shipper-on-codex-as-daily-driver-every-agent-needs-a-human-and-ai-is-actually-increasing-demand-for-experts/transcript)
- 2026-03-28 — The New York Times: [Smaller Is Better in Silicon Valley's 'Tiny Team' Moment](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/business/silicon-valley-tiny-team-two-slice.html)
- 2026-01-13 — Axios: [Anthropic's viral new work tool wrote itself](https://www.axios.com/2026/01/13/anthropic-claude-code-cowork-vibe-coding)
- 2026-01-07 — Axios: [Anthropic's Claude Code transforms vibe coding](https://www.axios.com/2026/01/07/anthropics-claude-code-vibe-coding)
- 2025-11-21 — Big Think: [How Large Language Models View Our World — Dan Shipper: Full Interview](https://bigthink.com/series/full-interview/human-intuition-ai/)
- 2025-11-11 — The New Yorker: [Why Can't A.I. Manage My E-Mail?](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/why-cant-ai-manage-my-e-mails)
- 2025-10-30 — Mixergy: [How Dan Shipper Uses AI to Build Artisanal AI Apps](https://mixergy.com/interviews/how-dan-shipper-uses-ai-to-build-artisanal-ai-apps/)
- 2025-10-20 — Mercury: [What Comes Next? Dan Shipper Is Figuring It Out](https://mercury.com/blog/what-comes-next-dan-shipper-every)
- 2025-10-08 — Business Insider: [AI Status Symbols Are Popping Up Everywhere](https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-status-symbols-openai-anthropic-cursor-2025-10)
- 2025-09-05 — Upstarts Media: ['Give Time to Take Risks': Every's CEO on AI and Trying New Tools](https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/media-ai-every-richard-branson)
- 2025-07-17 — Lenny's Podcast: [The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/inside-every-dan-shipper)
- 2025-05-26 — FinSMEs: [Every Raises $2M in Seed Funding](https://www.finsmes.com/2025/05/every-raises-2m-in-seed-funding.html)
- 2025-05-21 — The New York Times: [Will Writing Survive A.I.? This Media Company Is Betting on It.](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/business/media/ai-every-media-startup.html)
- 2025-03-13 — Generative Now (Lightspeed): [Dan Shipper: The First Multimodal Media Company](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dan-shipper-the-first-multimodal-media-company/id1709773028?i=1000699009475)
- 2024-10-10 — Infinite Loops: [Dan Shipper — I, Writer (EP.237)](https://www.infiniteloopspodcast.com/dan-shipper-i-writer-ep237/)
- 2024-07-21 — Creator Economy (Peter Yang): [How Top Experts Use AI to Write, Code, and Run Their Business](https://creatoreconomy.so/p/how-to-use-ai-to-write-dan-shipper)
- 2024-05-16 — Making Media (Colossus): [Every Things, Everywhere, All at Once with Dan Shipper](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/every-things-everywhere-all-at-once-with-dan-shipper/id1662094664?i=1000655770216)
- 2024-01-15 — Beyond the Prompt: [Dan Shipper, Every: 'Use AI to Make You and Your Business Better'](https://podcast.beyondtheprompt.ai/episodes/dan-shipper-every-use-ai-to-make-you-and-your-business-better)
- 2023-12-20 — The Cognitive Revolution: [Using ChatGPT as a Copilot for Your Mind, with Dan Shipper](https://www.cognitiverevolution.ai/using-chatgpt-as-a-copilot-for-your-mind/)
- 2023-03-29 — TED: [The Unexpected Key to Boosting Your Productivity (The Way We Work)](https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_shipper_the_unexpected_key_to_boosting_your_productivity)
- 2021-07-28 — Indie Hackers Podcast: [#219 — How to Make Your Business Model a Win-Win-Win, with Dan Shipper and Nathan Baschez of Every](https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/219-dan-shipper-nathan-baschez)
- 2021-01-26 — Axios: [The 'Everything' Bundle Is the Latest to Leave Substack for Its Own, More Robust Technology](https://www.axios.com/2021/01/26/everything-bundle-substack-newsletters)
- 2020-11-24 — Business Insider: [How to Make a Living on Substack: Diversify Your Revenue](https://www.businessinsider.com/can-you-make-a-living-on-substack-full-time-2020-9)
- 2020-09-18 — A Media Operator: [Dan Shipper & Nathan Baschez on Building Everything](https://www.amediaoperator.com/podcast/podcast-dan-shipper-and-nathan-baschez/)
- 2017-01-04 — CNNMoney: [Celebrity-Filled Telethon Set for Facebook Live on Inauguration Day](https://web.archive.org/web/20250323183720/https://money.cnn.com/2017/01/04/technology/loveathon-facebook-live/index.html)
- 2015-01-28 — First Round Review: [This 23-Year-Old Built and Sold His Startup While in School — Here's What Made the Difference](https://review.firstround.com/this-23-year-old-built-and-sold-his-startup-while-in-school-heres-what-made-the-difference/)
- 2014-11-25 — Hack To Start: [Episode 17 — Dan Shipper, Co-founder, Firefly](https://podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/hack-to-start-episode-17-dan-shipper-co-founder-firefly/id929857801?i=1000326095607)
- 2014-06-09 — TechCrunch: [Pegasystems Acquires Co-Browsing Tool Firefly, the First Investment by First Round's Dorm Room Fund](https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/09/pegasystems-acquires-co-browsing-tool-firefly-the-first-investment-by-first-rounds-dorm-room-fund/)
- 2014-06-09 — Technical.ly: [Firefly Acquired by Pegasystems](https://technical.ly/startups/firefly-acquired-by-pegasystems/)
- 2014-06-09 — Information Age: [Pegasystems Acquires Collaboration and Co-Browsing Firm Firefly](https://www.information-age.com/pegasystems-acquires-collaboration-and-co-browsing-firm-firefly-29764/)
- 2014-06-09 — Destination CRM: [Pegasystems Acquires Collaboration and Co-Browsing Provider Profeatable (Firefly)](https://www.destinationcrm.com/Articles/CRM-News/CRM-Across-the-Wire/Pegasystems-Acquires-Collaboration-and-Co-Browsing-Provider-Profeatable---97521.aspx)
- 2014-06-09 — Business Insider: [Firefly Acquired by Pegasystems](https://www.businessinsider.com/firefly-gets-acquired-by-pegasus-2014-6)
- 2014-06 — The Philadelphia Inquirer (PhillyDeals): [Dorm Room Fund's Firefly Sold to Pegasystems](https://www.inquirer.com/philly/blogs/inq-phillydeals/Dorm-Room-Funds-Firefly-.html)
- 2014-01-29 — Mixergy: [How Firefly's Founder Bootstrapped a 6-Figure Business from School](https://mixergy.com/interviews/dan-shipper-firefly-interview/)
- 2013-07-30 — Business Insider: [What It's Like to Be a College Kid with a Profitable Side Business That Pulls in 6 Figures](https://www.businessinsider.com/dan-shipper-on-firefly-2013-7)
- 2013-07-30 — Technical.ly: [Firefly's Cobrowsing Software Is Live with Chat Tool Olark's 5K Customers](https://technical.ly/startups/firefly-olark/)
- 2013-04-02 — The New York Times (You're the Boss blog): [A Start-Up Fund That Lets College Students Make the Decisions](https://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/02/a-start-up-fund-that-lets-college-students-make-the-decisions/)
- 2013-03-23 — Entrepreneur: [College Entrepreneurs Create Software to Help Businesses Thrive](https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/225823)
- 2013-02-07 — Life-Long Learner: [An Interview with Dan Shipper: His New Startup and Relationships](https://life-longlearner.com/dan-shipper-interview/)
- 2013 — Inc.: [America's Coolest College Start-ups 2013: Firefly — Making Screensharing Dead Simple](https://www.inc.com/coolest-college-start-ups-2013/lindsay-blakely/dan-shipper-firefly.html)
- 2012-12-06 — The Daily Pennsylvanian: [Dorm Room Fund Selects Student Investment Committee](https://www.thedp.com/article/2012/12/dorm-room-fund-selects-student-investment-committee)
- 2012-12-05 — The Philadelphia Inquirer: [Fund Lets Students Follow Entrepreneurial Dreams](https://www.inquirer.com/philly/business/20121205_Fund_lets_students_follow_entrepreneurial_dreams.html)
- 2012-12-04 — Business Insider: [A Bunch of Students Think They May Have Found the Next Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.businessinsider.com/a-bunch-of-students-think-they-may-have-found-the-next-mark-zuckerberg-2012-12)
- 2012-12-04 — PandoDaily: [Philly Student-Investors Choose Dorm Room Fund's First Deal: Firefly](https://pando.com/2012/12/04/philly-student-investors-choose-dorm-room-funds-first-deal-firefly/)
- 2012-12-04 — The Next Web: [Firefly Nabs $20K from First Round Capital's Dorm Room Fund](https://thenextweb.com/news/firefly-raises-20k-from-first-round-capitals-dorm-room-fund)
- 2012-12-04 — Technical.ly: [Firefly: Dorm Room Fund Announces $20K Investment in Penn Undergrad Startup](https://technical.ly/uncategorized/firefly-dorm-room-fund-20k-investment-penn-undergrad-startup/)
- 2012-06-04 — Business Insider: [These Kids Became Stars in Tech Before They Turned 20](https://www.businessinsider.com/these-kids-became-stars-in-tech-before-they-turned-20-2012-6)
- 2012-05-21 — Business Insider: [Startups Are Flinging Job Offers at Dan Shipper, but the 20-Year-Old Philosophy Major Would Rather Stay at UPenn](https://www.businessinsider.com/startups-are-flinging-job-offers-at-dan-shipper-but-the-20-year-old-philosphy-major-rould-rather-stay-at-upenn-2012-5)
- 2012-05-04 — Business Insider: [42Floors Is Recruiting Dan Shipper](https://www.businessinsider.com/42-floors-recruiting-dan-shipper-2012-5)
- 2012-04-27 — TechCrunch: [42Floors' PDA: The War for Talent Among Startups Needs a New Approach — Here's Why](https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/27/42floors-pda-the-war-for-talent-among-startups-needs-a-new-approach-heres-why/)
- 2011-08-08 — Startup Project: [The Road to Entrepreneurship: An Interview with Dan Shipper](https://startupproject.org/blog/the-road-to-entrepreneurship-an-interview-with-dan-shipper/)
- 2011-02-24 — CNN (from Mashable): [Map Your Facebook Friends in a Few Clicks](https://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/02/24/facebook.friends.mashable/)

## Blog archive (2010–2016)

- 2016-09-28 — [Pricing heuristics](https://danshipper.com/pricing-heuristics)
- 2016-09-20 — [Would I do this for 10 years?](https://danshipper.com/would-i-do-this-for-10-years)
- 2016-09-08 — [One good trick for interviewing candidates at a small startup](https://danshipper.com/one-good-trick-for-interviewing-candidates-at-a-small-startup)
- 2016-09-06 — [Should I OEM my product?](https://danshipper.com/should-i-oem-my-product)
- 2015-02-22 — [Building a Better Train to Brooklyn](https://danshipper.com/building-a-better-train-to-brooklyn)
- 2015-01-19 — [Charlie Munger On How To Build A $2 Trillion Startup](https://danshipper.com/charlie-munger-on-how-to-build-a-2-trillion-startup)
- 2014-12-31 — [The Inverted Pyramid: What Bertrand Russell Can Teach Us About The Limits of Logic](https://danshipper.com/the-inverted-pyramid-what-bertrand-russell-can-teach-us-about-the-limits-of-logic)
- 2014-12-14 — [Writing and Running: Haruki Murakami](https://danshipper.com/writing-and-running-haruki-murakami)
- 2014-11-08 — [Bertrand Russell and Will Durant on Philosophy, Science and Religion](https://danshipper.com/bertrand-russell-and-will-durant-on-philosophy-science-and-religion)
- 2014-09-29 — [Latent serendipity](https://danshipper.com/latent-serendipity)
- 2013-09-11 — [What I learned bootstrapping a 6-figure business from school](https://danshipper.com/what-i-learned-bootstrapping-a-6-figure-business-from-school)
- 2013-08-17 — [You’re selling it wrong](https://danshipper.com/youre-selling-it-wrong)
- 2013-08-12 — [Public speaking for introverts](https://danshipper.com/public-speaking-for-introverts)
- 2013-07-17 — [How to get your first 10 customers](https://danshipper.com/nothing-happens-until-the-sale-is-made)
- 2013-07-02 — [So that’s what they were talking about](https://danshipper.com/so-thats-what-they-were-talking-about)
- 2013-06-19 — [Why you’re on a startup rollercoaster](https://danshipper.com/why-youre-on-a-startup-rollercoaster)
- 2013-06-14 — [On negotiating your first few partnerships](https://danshipper.com/on-negotiating-your-first-few-partnerships)
- 2013-06-12 — [How to read a lot of books](https://danshipper.com/how-to-read-a-lot-of-books)
- 2013-06-11 — [Why are you in such a rush?](https://danshipper.com/why-are-you-in-such-a-rush)
- 2013-04-22 — [19 things that should be fixed](https://danshipper.com/19-things-that-should-be-fixed)
- 2013-03-31 — [How to figure out what you’re good at](https://danshipper.com/how-to-figure-out-what-youre-good-at)
- 2013-02-08 — [How to make a million dollars](https://danshipper.com/how-to-make-a-million-dollars)
- 2013-01-07 — [Here’s what I learned hanging out with Jason Fried](https://danshipper.com/heres-what-i-learned-hanging-out-with-jason-fried)
- 2012-12-27 — [The choices are fake and the truth is all made up](https://danshipper.com/the-choices-are-fake-and-the-truth-is-all-made-up)
- 2012-11-08 — [I am a terrible programmer](https://danshipper.com/i-am-a-terrible-programmer)
- 2012-10-25 — [Taking off the rose colored glasses](https://danshipper.com/taking-off-the-rose-colored-glasses)
- 2012-10-18 — [Selling Umbrellas in a Synagogue](https://danshipper.com/selling-umbrellas-in-a-synagogue)
- 2012-10-02 — [How to build a blog readership](https://danshipper.com/how-to-build-a-blog-readership)
- 2012-09-19 — [The regret fallacy](https://danshipper.com/the-regret-fallacy)
- 2012-09-05 — [Your goals are holding you back](https://danshipper.com/159185755)
- 2012-08-17 — [The “now” syndrome](https://danshipper.com/the-now-syndrome)
- 2012-08-03 — [B2B is unsexy, and I know it](https://danshipper.com/b2b-is-unsexy-and-i-know-it)
- 2012-06-20 — [Why I’m doing it all wrong](https://danshipper.com/why-im-doing-it-all-wrong)
- 2012-06-09 — [Showing up is not enough](https://danshipper.com/showing-up-is-not-enough)
- 2012-05-27 — [Stop Taking Yourself So Seriously](https://danshipper.com/stop-taking-yourself-so-seriously)
- 2012-05-19 — [Success is in NP](https://danshipper.com/success-is-in-np)
- 2012-05-15 — [You Have To Get Good Before You Get Better](https://danshipper.com/you-have-to-get-good-before-you-get-better)
- 2012-04-21 — [This Is 2016 Not 2012](https://danshipper.com/124690091)
- 2012-04-18 — [Getting Started With SEO: Build A Base](https://danshipper.com/123815408)
- 2012-04-03 — [I’m Sure It Will Only Take You A Few Days To Code](https://danshipper.com/non-technical-people-cant-estimate-developmen)
- 2012-03-29 — [The Pragmatist and The Visionary](https://danshipper.com/the-pragmatist-and-the-visionary)
- 2012-03-16 — [What Does It Mean To Love What You Do?](https://danshipper.com/love-is-right-in-front-of-you)
- 2012-03-13 — [DomainPolish: From MVP To Exit In 6 Months](https://danshipper.com/110636263)
- 2012-03-01 — [Why a Venture Capital Bubble Is Good for Bootstrapped Entrepreneurs](https://danshipper.com/why-a-venture-capital-bubble-is-good-for-boot)
- 2012-02-29 — [I Accidentally Blogged For A Year](https://danshipper.com/i-accidentally-blogged-for-a-year)
- 2012-02-28 — [Programming Is Like Dancing](https://danshipper.com/106071264)
- 2012-02-23 — [We’re Running Completely Blind](https://danshipper.com/were-running-completely-blind)
- 2012-02-15 — [Design Your Website Like A Trash Can](https://danshipper.com/design-your-website-like-a-trash-can)
- 2012-02-15 — [Beware the Irrational](https://danshipper.com/beware-the-irrational)
- 2012-01-30 — [Say Hello To Airtime for Email](https://danshipper.com/say-hello-to-airtime-for-email)
- 2012-01-21 — [How To Cross The Street](https://danshipper.com/how-to-cross-the-street)
- 2012-01-18 — [SOPA: The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth](https://danshipper.com/the-meek-shall-inherit-the-earth)
- 2012-01-14 — [Doing Away With Dogmatism](https://danshipper.com/doing-away-with-dogmatism)
- 2012-01-12 — [What I Read Over Break](https://danshipper.com/what-i-read-over-break)
- 2012-01-12 — [How To Tell Someone You Won’t Sign Their NDA](https://danshipper.com/how-to-tell-someone-you-wont-sign-their-nda)
- 2012-01-05 — [Why We Do Startups](https://danshipper.com/92091937)
- 2011-12-31 — [How To Become A Competent Web Designer in 2012](https://danshipper.com/how-to-become-a-competent-web-designer-in-201)
- 2011-12-28 — [My 10 Hour Project](https://danshipper.com/my-10-hour-project)
- 2011-12-20 — [“Damn” is a dirty word](https://danshipper.com/damn-is-a-dirty-word)
- 2011-12-19 — [The Most Common Type of Startup Idea That Probably Won’t Succeed](https://danshipper.com/the-most-common-type-of-startup-idea-that-pro)
- 2011-12-10 — [Taste Isn’t Everything](https://danshipper.com/taste-isnt-everything)
- 2011-12-08 — [B2B Sales Aren’t As Simple As They Seem](https://danshipper.com/b2b-sales-arent-as-simple-as-they-seem)
- 2011-12-07 — [Up and to the right](https://danshipper.com/up-and-to-the-right)
- 2011-11-13 — [Ode of Remembrance](https://danshipper.com/ode-of-remembrance)
- 2011-11-12 — [Interviewing at Y Combinator Part 2](https://danshipper.com/interviewing-at-y-combinator-part-2)
- 2011-11-11 — [Calvin Coolidge on Persistence](https://danshipper.com/calvin-coolidge-on-persistence)
- 2011-11-10 — [Life Lessons According to Reddit](https://danshipper.com/life-lessons-according-to-reddit)
- 2011-11-09 — [My Credo](https://danshipper.com/my-credo)
- 2011-11-08 — [Getting Up Really Early](https://danshipper.com/getting-up-really-early)
- 2011-11-07 — [Weird Things I Do: Memorize Things](https://danshipper.com/weird-things-i-do-memorize-things)
- 2011-11-06 — [Gary Vaynerchuck](https://danshipper.com/gary-vaynerchuck)
- 2011-11-04 — [Cultivating frugality](https://danshipper.com/cultivating-frugality)
- 2011-11-03 — [Great design is all around us](https://danshipper.com/great-design-is-all-around-us)
- 2011-11-02 — [Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism](https://danshipper.com/cutting-through-spiritual-materialism)
- 2011-11-01 — [My Goals for November](https://danshipper.com/my-goals-for-november)
- 2011-10-31 — [What Makes Life Worth Living: A List of Beautiful Things](https://danshipper.com/what-makes-life-worth-living-a-list-of-beauti)
- 2011-09-26 — [DomainPolish 2 Months Later: $3,000 in Revenue](https://danshipper.com/domainpolish-2-months-later-3000-in-revenue)
- 2011-09-12 — [Interviewing At Y Combinator Part 1](https://danshipper.com/interviewing-at-y-combinator-part-1)
- 2011-08-26 — [How To Get Covered In a Major Tech Blog](https://danshipper.com/how-to-get-covered-in-a-major-tech-blog)
- 2011-08-06 — [Why Social Proof Matters To Your Startup](https://danshipper.com/why-social-proof-matters-to-your-startup)
- 2011-08-03 — [How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code](https://danshipper.com/how-i-made-350-in-two-days-with-three-pages-a)
- 2011-07-01 — [How Is Chess Like The Socratic Method?](https://danshipper.com/how-is-chess-like-the-socratic-method)
- 2011-06-23 — [The Theory of Constraints (Or Why Bottlenecks Matter)](https://danshipper.com/58226479)
- 2011-06-20 — [My New Side-Project: DomainPolish](https://danshipper.com/my-new-side-project-domainpolish)
- 2011-06-03 — [Battle In The Boardroom: Why Groupon Probably Paid Off Its Early Employees](https://danshipper.com/battle-in-the-boardroom-why-groupon-probably)
- 2011-04-20 — [#1 On HN: Our Traffic Stats](https://danshipper.com/1-on-hn-our-traffic-stats)
- 2011-04-19 — [Readstream: Our newest app](https://danshipper.com/readstream-our-newest-app)
- 2011-04-07 — [Grim Tweeper – The easy way to clean out your follow list](https://danshipper.com/grim-tweeper-the-easy-way-to-clean-out-your-f)
- 2011-04-04 — [One Month Two New Projects](https://danshipper.com/one-month-two-new-projects)
- 2011-03-18 — [The Daily Pennsylvanian](https://danshipper.com/the-daily-pennsylvanian)
- 2011-03-17 — [What do you want to do least today? Do that first.](https://danshipper.com/what-do-you-want-to-do-least-today-do-that-fi)
- 2011-03-16 — [Goal Setting and Time Management](https://danshipper.com/goal-setting-and-time-management)
- 2011-03-15 — [Nerd Culture](https://danshipper.com/nerd-culture)
- 2011-03-14 — [Twitter’s Beginnings](https://danshipper.com/twitters-beginnings)
- 2011-03-13 — [Difference between doing it first and doing it right.](https://danshipper.com/difference-between-doing-it-first-and-doing-i)
- 2011-03-12 — [Good artists copy, great artists steal](https://danshipper.com/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal)
- 2011-03-11 — [The Book of Five Rings](https://danshipper.com/the-book-of-five-rings)
- 2011-03-09 — [Why Credibility Matters](https://danshipper.com/45460668)
- 2011-03-09 — [More on Limits](https://danshipper.com/more-on-limits)
- 2011-03-08 — [On How to Live Your Life](https://danshipper.com/on-how-to-live-your-life)
- 2011-03-07 — [If you’re not failing you’re not trying](https://danshipper.com/if-youre-not-failing-youre-not-trying)
- 2011-03-06 — [Sebastian Marshall and Public Accountability](https://danshipper.com/sebastian-marshall-and-public-accountability)
- 2011-03-04 — [Be a Blogger Second](https://danshipper.com/be-a-blogger-second)
- 2011-03-04 — [How We Went From Being Virtually Unknown to 3k Signups a Day in 5 Weeks Part 3 of 3](https://danshipper.com/how-we-went-from-being-virtually-unknown-to-3-2)
- 2011-03-03 — [How We Went From Being Virtually Unknown to 3k Signups a Day in 5 Weeks Part 2 of 3](https://danshipper.com/how-we-went-from-being-virtually-unknown-to-3-0)
- 2011-03-01 — [How We Went From Being Virtually Unknown to 3k Signups a Day in 5 Weeks Part 1 of 3](https://danshipper.com/how-we-went-from-being-virtually-unknown-to-3)
- 2011-03-01 — [Why I Don’t Develop iPhone Apps Anymore](https://danshipper.com/why-i-dont-develop-iphone-apps-anymore)
- 2011-02-28 — [Pivoting vs. Creating Something New](https://danshipper.com/pivoting-vs-creating-something-new)
- 2011-02-27 — [Our site was Featured on CNN and Mashable this week. Here’s what I learned.](https://danshipper.com/44286486)