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Likes Not Boring.

3 Dec 2021 Acquired Not Boring (with Packy McCormick)

“What I love Not Boring to be a big and lasting thing that builds actual products and does things that outlive me, 100% I would love that.”

— Packy McCormick

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Packy McCormick
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recommendation
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3 Dec 2021
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Acquired

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…All right. Speaking of Web 3.0, you wrote in your Power to the Person piece another sort of crazy-sounding prognostication that you predicted that within a decade or two, there would be multiple trillion-dollar market cap organizations that were run "by just one person" that you called solo corporations. Your point was, hey, it already exists. It's called Bitcoin. Nobody works for Bitcoin and it's a trillion-dollar market cap. Back to Not Boring itself, it's so awesome. It's incredible. Ben and I are 100% in the camp that is cheering for you, that you made it to your goal of making a million dollars in revenue this year. A kind of old-school way of thinking about that would be like, Packy is the head of the distribution in the creator economy. One of the few people that have really broken out, you're going to be like an NBA player level, a professional player in the creator economy. Another way to think about where this could go though is no, you're building a solo corporation. It's not just that you're going to make a few million dollars a year writing a newsletter. Not Boring can be something a lot more. What do you think about that? This is, I guess, one of the hypocritical things about Not Boring maybe is that I've analyzed everybody else's strategy, plans, and all these things. There really isn't one for Not Boring. What I love Not Boring to be a big and lasting thing that builds actual products and does things that outlive me, 100% I would love that. I'm right now worried about what I'm going to write about on Monday. That's both a blessing and a curse so far. I think maybe the good thing about Not Boring has been that I'm fully focused on the content and making sure that's as good as possible. The downside is that I'm not planning ahead by any stretch. I'm like one of the worst planners you've ever met. Clearly, if you've been listening to this story.…

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