Archive - Not Boring by Packy McCormick

Weekly Dose of Optimism #190

Pancreatic cancer, SpaceX x Cursor, Fervo S-1, Autonomous Truck, Autonomous Bio Lan + Science Breakthroughs and Extra Doses

23 hrs ago

The Great Blue Frontier

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

Apr 23

Weekly Dose of Optimism #189

Superhot Geothermal, Panthalassa, Vital Lyfe, Mind-Reading Hat, Lucid Dreams, Sonogenetics + Science Breakthroughs + Friedberg

Apr 17

Weekly Dose of Optimism #188

AI vs. Alzheimer's, Substrate x GDM, Robot Lamp, Artemis II, Primer + Extra Doses

Apr 10

Weekly Dose of Optimism #187

Artemis, TBPN, Gemma 4, Solar, Somos + Science Breakthroughs + Extra Doses

Apr 3

Not Every Money-Burning Company is Amazon

Apr 2

March 2026

Weekly Dose of Optimism #186

NASA Goes Nuclear, Terraform, Arbor Turbines, Flu Vaccine, Chicken Egg Drugs + Science Breakthroughs + Extra Doses

Mar 27

Electromagnetism Secretly Runs the World

A Co-Written Essay with Arena Physica CEO Pratap Ranade

Mar 24

Weekly Dose of Optimism #185

Kalanick, Bezos, Copper One, Cancer Drugs, Shinzen + Scientific Breakthroughs + My Favorite Essay of the Week

Mar 20

World Models: Computing the Uncomputable

A Co-Written Essay with General Intuition's Pim DeWitte

Mar 19

Weekly Dose of Optimism #184

Solar and Brains' Big Week, Zero Point Energy, Replit Agent 4 + Funding News + Nietzsche

Mar 13

Weekly Dose of Optimism #183

a16z AD Summit, Pi memory, Evo 2, Injectable Livers, Ginkgo Cloud Lab + 5 fundraising stories and my favorite sci-fi series.

Mar 6

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