Packy McCormick

Master Plan

In short, PARPA's master plan is:

1. Create and stress-test unintuitive research programs in a systematic (and therefore repeatable) way.


2. Use that credibility to run a handful of research programs and produce results that wouldn't happen otherwise.


3. Use that credibility to run more research programs and help them "graduate" to effective

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To start, simply write down what unique thing you do, why it matters, and why you’re the only team who could get it done. It needs to be human (no corpo jargon), assertive (no hedging or waffling), and specific (no hand-waving abstractions).

Comms teams are important and necessary, but not sufficient. Mission-driven startups need founder-led comms. Only a founder can be the chief evangelist for their company. By assuming that responsibility and using that power, you can change narratives, change minds, and change the course of history.

But to Eric Drexler, the author of Nanosystems, nanotechnology doesn't look like carbon nanotubes or killer robots but rather a super-fast 3D printer that could make many non-edible physical products atom by atom.