Progress Studies

how do we make progress?

(1) New Working Paper: the fundamental driver of growth in modern economies, Total Factor Productivity (TFP), is linear, not exponential. This is a paper I did not expect to write...

Thomas Philippon twitter.com

Johanna

I Ask Seven Heretical Questions About Progress

Ted Gioia open.substack.com

andrea

Idea Machines

Nadia Asparouhova nadia.xyz

sari

"Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing." -David L. Cooperrider

rob hardy

Contra Hoel On Aristocratic Tutoring

Scott Alexander (slatestarcodex)astralcodexten.substack.com

Johanna

Optimism

Packy McCormick notboring.co

Stuart Evans

NFTs 101 — Why NFTs Are a Generational Innovation

medium.com medium.com

Mike Tannenbaum

Research Questions That Could Have a Big Social Impact, Organised by Discipline

80000hours.org 80000hours.org

sari

What is Technology? — Letters to a Young Technologist

Saffron Huang letterstoayoungtechnologist.com

Tanuj