Packy McCormick: belief

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…I feel like you live three to six months in the possible future, and we live one month into the probably future. I don't know if you think about it that way at all. Whenever I'm reading your pieces, I'm like, oh, I'm not there yet, but I bet this will help me get there by reading it. The fun thing for me has been that I'm writing this very tech optimistic newsletter in the greatest bull run ever, that somehow instead of getting hitting its own S-curve point, it keeps getting wilder. If that keeps happening, then I'm in really good shape, but it could also slow down. Not Boring is still, I think, even if there's a two-year bear market, we come out the other side, reload, continue to grow, things continue to get better, and all of that. Those two years are going to be a really interesting time in Not Boring, where I'm like, all right, everybody, here's another piece talking about why we should hang on and not lose hope. That will get old pretty quickly. So that's probably actually the biggest risk to the business in the short term, both on the venture side and the newsletter side. People are like, enough with this optimism, things are kind of tough right now. Okay. Just to highlight before we finish history and facts here and move into power is the insane last month. Speaking of compounding, all this somehow happened in one month. I'm just, again, looking at your Twitter. You went from 78,000 followers to 106,500 followers. You made your first and then a second appearance on CNBC. You, with Chris Dixon, wrote a piece that was published in The Economist and proved to the world that you can write in The Economist's voice, not just in the unique Packy voice that I love that brings me three to six months of the future today, it is a very different voice. You read that Economist piece and you're like, wow, this is written by the Economist, not by Packy and Chris. Of course, speaking of Chris Dixon, you're working with Andreessen Horowitz now. The whole world, including Packy, they've hired. I want to point out all the results of this crazy compounding that unbelievably happened to you in mid-October to mid-November of 2021, and a) what does that feel like, and b) what are you doing with a16z?…

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