not boring world

An American Engineer in China

Field Notes #1: The First 11 Days

Aug 25 • Packy McCormick

AI is Oil, Not God

I trust the market over ghost stories

Jul 25 • Packy McCormick

Weekly Dose of Optimism #200

Conception, Synthetic Cell, Brain2Qwerty, Nuclear Updates, America's Next 250 + Extra Doses

Jul 3 • Packy McCormick

Return on Tokens (ROT)

Markie Wagner Co-Writes

Jun 10 • Packy McCormick

Expanding the Radius of Daily Life

How to Make Flying Cars an Everyday Reality

Jun 8 • Packy McCormick

Cowboy Space Corporation

A Great Example of The Great Differentiation

May 16 • Packy McCormick

The Great Blue Frontier

A Co-Written Essay on the Ocean with Will O'Brien

Apr 23 • Packy McCormick

Electromagnetism Secretly Runs the World

A Co-Written Essay with Arena Physica CEO Pratap Ranade

Mar 24 • Packy McCormick

World Models: Computing the Uncomputable

A Co-Written Essay with General Intuition's Pim De Witte

Mar 19 • Packy McCormick

Raising a Special Little AI

The actual lesson from Clawdbot/Moltbook

Feb 3 • Packy McCormick

The Venezuela Opportunity

A Co-Written Essay with Ross Garlick

Jan 22 • Packy McCormick

16 Lessons on Selling (and Life) from My 5-Year-Old

a little Sunday treat to celebrate Dev's first Donut Hat sale

Jan 18 • Packy McCormick

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