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Adam Serwer 🍝

Adam Serwer 🍝

@AdamSerwer

Staff Writer, @TheAtlantic Ideas. adam@theatlantic.com Preorder THE CRUELTY IS THE POINT out June 29, 2021 here: bit.ly/3psRSrr

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Lens Rankings

Journalism

#5 0.014529 The Atlantic
#29 0.005663 The Daily Beast
#31 0.003215 Foreign Policy
#56 0.002036 Financial Times
#57 0.001177 Ars Technica
#120 0.001613 The Verge
#127 0.001058 The Intercept
#130 0.001026 The Dispatch
#132 0.001261 BuzzFeed
#147 0.000643 New Yorker
#176 0.000838 The New York Times
#249 0.000585 VICE
#306 0.000406 Washington Post
#356 0.000551 Wired
#385 0.000183 Reuters
#403 0.000341 Recode
#422 0.000273 Bloomberg Opinion
#533 0.000008 The Information
#829 0.000006 OANN
#835 0.000006 Newsmax
#973 0.000104 The New York Post
#1021 0.000008 Stat News
#1436 0.000043 The Economist
#1736 0.000014 Techcrunch
#2446 0.000008 CNBC
#3203 0.000025 The Los Angeles Times
#3821 0.000006 Palladium Magazine
#5439 0.000014 Wall Street Journal

Think Tanks

#31 0.003215 Niskanen Center
#47 0.004053 Belfer Center
#87 0.001035 Brookings
#106 0.000960 Center for American Progress
#219 0.000225 Eurasia Group
#359 0.000335 Council on Foreign Relations
#569 0.000008 RAND Corporation
#631 0.000230 American Enterprise Institute
#631 0.000230 National Bureau of Economic Research
#840 0.000008 Urban Institute
#968 0.000067 Berggruen Institute
#971 0.000136 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#1023 0.000008 Heritage Foundation
#1299 0.000008 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1459 0.000008 Cato Institute
#1463 0.000125 Earth Institute
#2114 0.000023 Hudson Institute
#2310 0.000045 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#2511 0.000008 Atlantic Council
#3647 0.000006 Adam Smith Institute
#4181 0.000024 Mercatus Center
#4510 0.000018 Hoover Institution

Culture and Political Economy

#66 0.000008 Schumacher Circle
#109 0.000760 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#116 0.000008 Fair Vote
#121 0.000983 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#172 0.000711 Moderate Conservatism
#199 0.000705 Social Epistemology
#251 0.000008 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#267 0.000008 Extinction Rebellion
#283 0.000269 Harper's Open Letter
#304 0.000008 Existential Risks
#379 0.000008 Claremont Institute
#399 0.000008 Ecosocialism
#420 0.000008 Sierra Clib
#463 0.000321 Black Lives Matter
#623 0.000193 Rationality
#636 0.000008 350.org
#652 0.000229 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#657 0.000179 Ecomodernists
#659 0.000187 Persuasion Community
#830 0.000008 Environmental Defense Fund
#866 0.000190 Environmental Journalists
#1290 0.000100 EFF
#1800 0.000006 Climate Solutions
#1994 0.000052 The Long Now Foundation
#2005 0.000006 Bismark Analysis
#2036 0.000036 Degrowth
#2189 0.000019 Anarachists
#2669 0.000006 RadicalxChange
#2671 0.000006 Populist Libertarians
#3043 0.000006 Heterodox Academy
#3416 0.000006 Works in Progress
#3820 0.000006 Effective Altruism
#5324 0.000006 Progress Studies

Venture Capital

#110 0.000008 Standard Crypto
#173 0.000859 Homebrew
#215 0.000008 Founders Fund
#667 0.000008 Accel
#1060 0.000008 Sequioa
#1134 0.000130 Initialized Capital
#1379 0.000104 Benchmark Capital
#1603 0.000008 Y Combinator
#1647 0.000072 Khosla Ventures
#1670 0.000006 Bessemer
#1752 0.000006 Index Ventures
#2187 0.000006 My Climate Journey
#2384 0.000006 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3432 0.000006 Village Global
#7796 0.000008 A16Z

system

#19 0.000553 Baseline
#40 0.000289 Reality-Based Community
#1590 0.000093 Think Tanks

Science

#373 0.000407 Epidemiology Journalism
#695 0.000008 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#976 0.000008 Philosophy Twitter
#1156 0.000092 Biotech
#2569 0.000008 Epidimiology Twitter
#6248 0.000009 EconTwitter
#7508 0.000008 ClimateTwitter

Informal Community

#508 0.000228 Founders

Crypto

#113 0.000008 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#285 0.000008 Crypto Political Economy
#314 0.000008 Polkadot
#1231 0.000006 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1609 0.000064 Crypto Journalists
#1980 0.000030 Crypto Investing
#2205 0.000006 Public Goods Funding
#2254 0.000006 Crypto Angels
#2455 0.000006 Cosmos
#2767 0.000006 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3150 0.000006 Ethereum
#3352 0.000006 Decentralized Web
#5847 0.000006 Crypto Infrastructure
#6041 0.000006 IDEO Founder Collective
#6734 0.000007 Crypto VC

Software Engineering

#250 0.000008 Rust
#1010 0.000006 Zig

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