Packy McCormick's 5-year-old son Dev made his first $2 sale and produced 16 usable lessons on selling and life. The piece is co-written with a kid who does 90 minutes of Russian Math every Sunday, has been asking his father for harder math problems since age 3, and whose stated career goal is to build actual physical planets. That context matters for what follows.
The lessons themselves are the draw, but the setup earns them. McCormick traces how Dev got to this moment: a three-year-old who heard 'you'll need math, physics, engineering, and business to build worlds' and immediately asked for homework. The piece is structured around Dev's product, a Donut Hat, and the specific decisions he made during the sale. The 16 lessons are grounded in a real transaction, not abstraction.
McCormick submitted this to X's $1 million article prize contest, which launched this week. Whether it wins is irrelevant. What's worth your time is reading how a 5-year-old's first sales experience produces tactical clarity that most adult business writing buries. Read the full piece at Not Boring.
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