Written by Packy McCormick, the Not Boring newsletter sends in-depth analyses of the tech and startup landscape to over 200k subscribers every week. We tell the stories of the most ambitious and complex startups as clearly as possible to give readers a glimpse into the future they’re working to build. We dive into technology, business models, and markets. || www.notboring.co
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Written by Packy McCormick, the Not Boring newsletter sends in-depth analyses of the tech and startup landscape to over 200k subscribers every week. We tell the stories of the most ambitious and complex startups as clearly as possible to give readers a glimpse into the future they’re working to build. We dive into technology, business models, and markets. || www.notboring.co
Episodes
Packy McCormick
Weekly Dose of Optimism #175
New Food Pyramid, Chinese Peptides, Boltz Lab, HALEU $$$, and Rintamaki on Robots
12 mins
Packy McCormick
a16z: The Power Brokers
a16k word essay on a16z on the day of a15b fundraise
1 hrs 44 mins
Packy McCormick
welcome to not boring world
introducing not boring's first paid product
14 mins
Packy McCormick
My 5 Favorite Not Boring Essays of 2025
Electric Slide, Means & Meaning, Cable Caballero, Most Human Wins, Great Differentiatio
9 mins
Packy McCormick
Weekly Dose of Optimism #174
Swappable organs, longevity shrooms, 3D printed terahertz helixes, frontier 2025, Tacit + Voices from 2099
13 mins
Packy McCormick
Weekly Dose of Optimism #173
Space Solar, Astera Neuro, Levin on Coherence, Boom Turbines, Axiom Math AI + Solo Founders ++ Cuby +++ World x XMTP
10 mins
Packy McCormick
Hardware is a Fruit
A Conversational Essay with Daylight's Anjan Katta
20 mins
Packy McCormick
Weekly Dose of Optimism #172
Childhood nutrition, Dell Invests America, Amazon Leo, NASA finds life's building blocks, Levin on Lex Round 2 + The Thinking Game + Dose Fuel + Hearing Aids
11 mins
Packy McCormick
Cable Caballero
Forrest Heath III’s Joyride to Rebuild the Internet (Then Everything Else)
Episteme, Terranova, Valar Atomics, Elon's Factories, Blue Origin + Solar Two Ways
13 mins
Packy McCormick
The Company as a Machine for Doing Stuff
You have the right to work only but never to its fruits.
9 mins
Packy McCormick
Weekly Dose of Optimism #169
BIG WEEK IN SPACE, Poseidon, Vulcan's $1.4B, Antibody Design, Chinese TMSR, Aquarius Economy, Space DJ, and Three Things I enjoyed
16 mins
Packy McCormick
Weekly Dose of Optimism #168
Substrate, Extropic, Super Hot Geothermal, Compact Nuclear, NEO House Robot + J. Storrs Hall and Skunk Works' X-59
14 mins
Packy McCormick
Take Weird Ideas Seriously
Weird Ideas as Individual Alpha and Societal Necessity
19 mins
Packy McCormick
Weekly Dose of Optimism #167
Science v Blindness, Google Quantum, Nucleus & Anthrogen Models, Apex Interceptors, Recoding America + Composer AI & Guardian of Liberty
15 mins
Packy McCormick
Weekly Dose of Optimism #166
American Banking, Google DeepMind takes on Cancer and Fusion, Levin on Aging, California Forever, Nuclear, Stern on Kushner, Telephathy Tapes S2, Potter x Stripe
14 mins
Packy McCormick
Weekly Dose of Optimism #165
Dan's Last Dose, Peace, Nobel, Brain Model, Figure 03, Base Power Company, David Lynch
14 mins
Packy McCormick
Weekly Dose of Optimism #164
Planet, space deliveries, delivery robots, AI scientists, bioelectricity, and bone glue
12 mins
Packy McCormick
Thatch
Curing American healthcare through incentives and choice
