Not Boring, the newsletter with 256,316 subscribers, launched a paid tier today called 'not boring world.' The model is direct: practitioners, founders, researchers, and investors bring ideas, author Packy McCormick helps write them. The format is a co-authored essay, somewhere between a ghostwrite and a joint byline. The explicit bet is that people doing things generate ideas that large language models cannot reproduce.
The core argument buried in the launch post is worth reading in full. McCormick frames practitioner-written essays against the current glut of on-demand AI output, arguing the most reliable narrator is the one with money on the line. The paid section is positioned not as bonus content but as a quality filter: high-signal inputs from people with skin in the game, in a format that demands more rigor than a podcast appearance.
What happens next is undefined by design. McCormick calls the project 'biological' and admits he does not know how it evolves. That uncertainty is the reason to read the original. The structural logic of why he built this now, and what differentiation means when AI commoditizes mediocre output, is spelled out in the full post and connects to a broader thread he has been developing across multiple prior essays.
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