Progress Studies

how do we make progress?

sari and

Is America Really Running Out of Original Ideas?

Derek Thompson theatlantic.com

Johanna

We Should Be Measuring Well-Being Catalysis, Not (trying and largely failing to measure) Economic Productivity

Ben Goertzel bengoertzel.substack.com

sari

Optimism

Packy McCormick notboring.co

Stuart Evans

My current favorite theory about what's gone wrong since the 1970s is that we stopped innovating to maximize performance and started optimizing for energy (and resource) efficiency. Imagine all the cool shit we're gonna build once we have abundant sources of clean energy...

Alec Stapp

twitter.com

Johanna

Malthus was wrong. We make MORE food than ever with LESS land than ever. Because we have one inexhaustible resource— Human ingenuity.

Josh Wolfe

twitter.com

andrea

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

rob hardy

"Futurism tells us more about the present than the future" --@mattwridley nails it

Ben Reinhardt twitter.com

Tanuj

Why We Stopped Making Einsteins

Erik Hoel erikhoel.substack.com

Lillian Sheng

I Ask Seven Heretical Questions About Progress

Ted Gioia open.substack.com

andrea