We can live in an Age of Miracles, but it’s going to take a lot of work. Energy abundance is the most important thing we can work towards as a species. More than simply surviving climate change, we have the opportunity to unlock a new level o

Fusion Founders

Dec 15th, 2023 1h 14m

In the bizarro relay marathon that is the fusion race, the baton is firmly in the hands of the startups. The outcome, to be sure, is still uncertain, but the question isn’t whether humanity will achieve commercial fusion, but which companies wi

The Fusion Marathon

Dec 8th, 2023 55m 7s

There’s this joke that fusion is always 30 years away. 50 years ago, it was 30 years away. 20 years ago, it was still thirty years away. Today, though… we might be within a decade. We spent the first half of the season on nuclear fission, and

The Case For All the Other Energy Sources

Dec 1st, 2023 1h 52m

Packy and Julia have spent the first five episodes of Age of Miracles diving into the past and present of nuclear fission—before jumping from the yin to the yang and covering nuclear fusion in the second half of this season, today we wanted to

Nuclear Mailbag

Nov 24th, 2023 58m 28s

This week, Packy and Julia take a break from our regularly scheduled narrative programming to look back on the past five episodes we've published focused on nuclear fission—and address news stories, feedback, and listener questions collected th

Fission Founders, Part 2: Designing Advanced Nuclear Reactor Startups

Nov 17th, 2023 2h 4m

Let's dive into the world of advanced nuclear startups—where founders are playing entrepreneurship on hard-mode, and navigating how to build new reactor designs, sell to new markets, and forge new regulatory pathways.This episode is the secon

Fission Founders, Part 1: Manufacturing Nuclear

Nov 10th, 2023 56m 8s

What if we treated building nuclear more like a manufacturing challenge than a construction challenge? How could nuclear benefit from the tried-and-true methodologies of other large industrial industries like ship-building and oil and gas to ma

Nuclear Economics

Nov 3rd, 2023 1h 22m

If we just tried to implement and scale the technology we have today for large scale nuclear reactors, with no innovation on reactor designs or business models, could we do it? How hard (or expensive) could it really be?Turns out, this questi

The Untold History of Nuclear Energy

Oct 27th, 2023 59m 44s

“Nuclear fission is a miracle technology, and we've had it for 80 years. But we don't live in an energy abundant world. Because progress takes more than miracles.” Almost exactly 50 years ago, nuclear fission and large scale reactors were on tr

Let’s Get Nuke-Pilled

Oct 27th, 2023 50m 20s

Welcome to the first episode of the first season of “Age of Miracles”. This new show from Packy McCormick, investor and writer of the Not Boring newsletter, asks the question: how do we create a future of abundance?This season, we’re explorin

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Introducing: Age of Miracles

Oct 13th, 2023 1m 58s

Age of Miracles is a narrative show that explores the complex industries that will play an important role in creating an abundant future for humanity. Episodes 1 and 2 drop October 27th. Every season, host Packy McCormick – a venture investor

Not Boring Founders: Crusoe Energy (Chase Lochmiller and Cully Cavness)

Sep 7th, 2023 57m 40s

Crusoe is on a mission to align the future of computing with the future of the climate. It has pioneered infrastructure that taps into stranded energy — methane being flared or excess production from clean and renewable sources — to power the c

Not Boring Founders: Emi Gal, Ezra

Jul 19th, 2023 33m 46s

Emi Gal is the founder and CEO of Ezra.Ezra is on a mission to detect cancer early for everyone in the world. The company offers full-body MRI scans in order to catch cancer earlier to increase the odds of beating it. I recently did an Ezr

Not Boring Founders: Dylan Beynon, Mindbloom

Jun 15th, 2023 41m 57s

Dylan Beynon is the founder and CEO of Mindbloom. Minbloom's mission is to transform lives today, to transform the world tomorrow through psychedelic medicine. It's starting with Ketamine therapy serving patients with depression and anxiety. 89

Not Boring Founders: Brandon Arvanaghi, Meow (pt. 3)

May 31st, 2023 21m 48s

Brandon Arvanaghi⁠⁠ is the co-founder and CEO of ⁠⁠Meow⁠⁠. Meow is Costco meets financial services. It offers low-cost, high-value cash and treasury management products for high-growth businesses. This is Brandon's third time on the podcast, an

Not Boring Founders: Zach Marks, Jia

May 17th, 2023 34m 53s

Zach Marks is the co-founder and CEO of Jia. Jia connects capital to small businesses in every corner of the world. Here's how Jia works: When business owners repay a loan, they drive value to lenders and the economy. They deserve to be compens

The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Positioned

Apr 24th, 2023 37m 28s

LINK TO ESSAY: Google isn’t facing the Innovator’s Dilemma; it’s just so deeply Positioned in search that it’s been a sitting duck for the first superior technology or business model strong enough to take it on. Positioning is the flip si

Intelligence Superabundance

Apr 17th, 2023 14m 30s

LINK TO ESSAY Will AI steal our jobs, let us work less, or force us to do more, better? Induced demand, Jevons Paradox, the Marchetti constant, and consumer psychology 101 suggest that the increased supply of intelligence will create more d

Not Boring Founders: Trevor Bacon, Kellan Grenier, Jason Lewris (Parcl)

Mar 9th, 2023 54m 7s

Trevor Bacon, Kellan Grenier and Jason Lewris are the founders of Parcl.Parcl bridges traditional real estate investments with cutting-edge blockchain technology to provide data-driven solutions for modern investors. Parcl was built to revolu

Not Boring Founders: Andrew Herr, Fount

Mar 2nd, 2023 40m 21s

Andrew Herr is the founder and CEO of Fount. Fount is crafting the operating system for the human body. To start, it provides extremely high-touch personal health services to clients: blood tests, fitness plans, meal prep, supplements, and mu

Not Boring Founders: Ryan Glasgow, Sprig

Feb 16th, 2023 34m 38s

Ryan Glasgow is the founder and CEO of Sprig. Sprig is the easiest way to collect product feedback, inform product decisions, and increase your speed of innovation. The world’s best product teams including the teams at Notion, Loom, and Robinho

Anton Teaches Packy AI | E6 | Stable Attribution

Feb 10th, 2023 49m 29s

Packy an Anton discuss Chroma's (Anton's company) launch of Stable Attribution. Stable Attribution is a tool that let's anyone find the humans behind AI generated images. Given any image generated by Stable Diffusion, Stable Attribution is ab

Not Boring Founders: Sam Levin, Melonfrost

Feb 2nd, 2023 48m 6s

Sam Levin is the co-founder and CEO of Melonfrost. Melonfrost is using the power of evolution and machine learning to launch the next generation of microbes that will revolutionize the fields of therapeutics, biomaterials, food, and agriculture

Not Boring Founders: Andy Chatham, Dimo

Jan 26th, 2023 52m 10s

Andy Chatham is the CEO and co-founder of Dimo. Dimo's mission is to be the driving force behind the future of mobility: a future where data shapes infrastructure, emissions are lower, roads are safer, and life behind the wheel is—well, better.

Not Boring Founders: Michael Kelly, Open Forest Protocol.

Jan 19th, 2023 53m 7s

Michael Kelly is the co-founder of Open Forest Protocol. Open Forest Protocol (OFP) is a scalable open platform that allows forest projects of any size, from around world, to Measure, Report, and Verify (MRV) their forestation data. Throug