Packy McCormick
Writes Not Boring, a newsletter on technology, business and startup strategy; general partner at Not Boring Capital.
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Their wordsDeveloping new technology is the key way America will catch up to China.
↗Weekly Dose of Optimism #212notboring.co 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsAutonomy is one of the things that will help reshape how things and people move around the world, and in so doing, reshape the world itself.
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Their wordsThere is no safe career path today, let alone one that will remain safe for twenty years, which means that there is no set of schools and degrees that can guarantee a safe career into the 2040s and 2050s.
↗Would We Send Our Kids to HAA?notboring.co 1st of 3 in this piece
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Esprit de corps is best forged in non-ideal physical environments, not in luxury accommodations.
Their wordsEsprit de corps is best forged in non-ideal physical environments, not in luxury accommodations.
↗Would We Send Our Kids to HAA?notboring.co 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThere has never been a better time to be a kid who wants to figure something out.
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Their wordsUsing models to better understand our planet so that we can intervene, like we do with our own bodies, is an ambitious goal, and I think a worthy one.
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Their wordsThe tools keep getting better! As it gets cheaper and more efficient, we'll use more of it.
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Their wordsAnd if someone can keep their insurer when they change jobs, the insurer has more reason to invest in keeping them healthy over time.
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AI systems will eventually do all human work, freeing people to spend time on more human pursuits.
Their wordsWhatever happened, this is a glimpse into the future: AIs doing all of our work for us while we spend time doing more human things, like arguing for credit.
↗Weekly Dose of Optimism #210notboring.co 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsI think Michael Levin will go down as the most important scientist of this era, and this may be his most important paper.
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Their wordsAnd with a medical system that's focused on fixing things once they're broken, a delightful, accessible network of preventative health locations will help catch things before they break, when it's easier and cheaper to fix.
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Their wordsthe more an incumbent has invested in building out its infrastructure, the less able it is to adapt.
↗An Ode to Counter-Positioningnotboring.co 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBetter is a benefit; Power requires a barrier. Counter-positioning exists when the incumbent sees that you're better but cannot copy what makes you better without damaging the business it already has.
↗An Ode to Counter-Positioningnotboring.co 2nd of 3 in this piece
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A company with no moats will eventually get copied by competitors no matter how good its product is.
Their wordswithout moats, any good company will get copied, even if the humans have to do it themselves.
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Their wordsThe internet fragmented the media landscape into a billion pieces, like cable TV smashed it into hundreds before it.
↗Everyone is Reading Lonesome Dovenotboring.co 1st of 2 in this piece
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Large language models could become a new distribution channel that revives older works of culture.
Their wordsLLMs may be a new distribution channel for the back catalog of human culture.
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Their wordsand there certainly are some, but there's also never been a better time to be alive in human history.
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Their wordsit does seem as if humans are going to be able to use these new models to do a lot of things for us that we shouldn't be doing ourselves, and that it will let us be creative in entirely new ways.
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Their wordsThere may be tens of millions of these robocars on the streets one day.
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Their wordsOpen source makes sense for Nvidia - commoditize your complements!