Thinking On Paper Most Human Wins │ Packy McCormick's Not Boring Essay On AI
AI makes outputs cheap. Prompts are everywhere. Execution is instant. So where does that leave you? If your work can be replicated by a $20 model and a few macros, what exactly are you bringing to the table?
Packy McCormick thinks the answer isn’t faster—it’s weirder. More specific. More human. In Most Human Wins, he lays out a framework for staying relevant in an AI-saturated world by doing what machines can’t: being unpredictable, funny, embodied, emotionally intelligent—and building from first principles, not templates.
Mark and Jeremy sit down with Packy to unpack:
Why "prompt engineering" won’t save you
What jobs are already gone (and which ones are next)
The real reason abstraction is now a survival skill
How to raise kids in a world of infinite content and zero truth
Why founders need to think like comedians, not consultants
Forget resisting AI. This is about what’s left when the dust settles—and who still gets hired, followed, listened to, and paid.
Watch it. Think with it. Then figure out if what you do is still yours.
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Timestamps
(00:00) Disruptors And Curious Minds
(00:43) Not Boring Newsletter
(02:00) Is AI Really Taking Our Jobs?
(03:07) Commoditization Of Human Skills
(05:12) The Ingredients Of Outputs Are Changing
(07:39) Abstraction: Aim Higher
(09:29) Be A Business, Man
(10:24) Advice For Parents
(11:00) AI Collateral Damage
(12:52) The Value Of Ideas
(13:54) Know Yourself
(14:38) Differentiation And Michael Porter's Competitive Strategy
(17:00) Will We Be More Human?
(18:10) Hot Buttons
(20:13) When Resources Are Scarce: Move Up The Stack
(21:22) Who Turned Off The Funny Button?
(23:10) How Do You Find Scarce?
(27:19) Creativity For Everyone
(29:15) I Hate Perfect
(32:55) The US V UK AI Comparison
(35:24) The Energy Cost--
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