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Clint Smith

Clint Smith

@ClintSmithIII

clintsmithiii.com

Writer, @TheAtlantic. Author of Counting Descent and How the Word Is Passed (June 1, 2021). Preorder here: bitly.com/preorderclints…

404462 followers

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#4 0.014906 The Atlantic
#921 0.000157 Foreign Policy
#972 0.000129 New Yorker
#974 0.000189 The New York Times
#1317 0.000002 The Information
#1420 0.000119 Wall Street Journal
#1606 0.000075 VICE
#1857 0.000002 Stat News
#1884 0.000001 OANN
#1885 0.000001 Newsmax
#1969 0.000066 The Dispatch
#2006 0.000037 Washington Post
#2126 0.000057 Wired
#2214 0.000002 The Verge
#2329 0.000007 Reuters
#2608 0.000041 Ars Technica
#2806 0.000002 The Economist
#3012 0.000038 The Intercept
#3422 0.000002 CNBC
#3502 0.000020 The Los Angeles Times
#3548 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4685 0.000002 Financial Times
#5383 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#5845 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6019 0.000007 The New York Post
#6192 0.000009 Recode
#6964 0.000002 Techcrunch

Science

#339 0.000429 Epidemiology Journalism
#1506 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1867 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3693 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#4448 0.000016 EconTwitter
#4827 0.000015 Biotech

Informal Community

#219 0.000423 Founders

Culture and Political Economy

#468 0.000318 Black Lives Matter
#907 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#955 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1073 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1102 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1139 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1194 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1212 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1235 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1457 0.000002 350.org
#1583 0.000049 Degrowth
#1642 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#1879 0.000052 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#2555 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#2937 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#2977 0.000042 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3101 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3378 0.000019 Harper's Open Letter
#3597 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#3840 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#3858 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#3931 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4281 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4685 0.000003 Anarachists
#4710 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4889 0.000012 Moderate Conservatism
#5231 0.000009 The Long Now Foundation
#5411 0.000001 EFF
#5576 0.000009 Persuasion Community
#7302 0.000002 Rationality
#7982 0.000001 Progress Studies
#9034 0.000004 Ecomodernists

system

#450 0.000200 Baseline
#757 0.000109 Reality-Based Community
#6089 0.000021 Think Tanks

Venture Capital

#937 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#941 0.000167 Benchmark Capital
#1008 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1342 0.000095 Khosla Ventures
#1449 0.000002 Accel
#1645 0.000109 My Climate Journey
#1851 0.000002 Sequioa
#2358 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2616 0.000001 Bessemer
#3158 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3256 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3948 0.000001 Homebrew
#4809 0.000001 Village Global
#4966 0.000001 Initialized Capital

Think Tanks

#921 0.000157 Niskanen Center
#1130 0.000099 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1224 0.000127 Center for American Progress
#1378 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1434 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1631 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1707 0.000087 Brookings
#1863 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2278 0.000056 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#2322 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2820 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2823 0.000013 Earth Institute
#3351 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#3420 0.000034 Council on Foreign Relations
#4443 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5167 0.000013 Hoover Institution
#5919 0.000003 Hudson Institute
#7455 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#7727 0.000007 Mercatus Center
#8979 0.000009 American Enterprise Institute
#8979 0.000009 National Bureau of Economic Research
#9674 0.000001 Adam Smith Institute

Crypto

#953 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1084 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1140 0.000002 Polkadot
#2195 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3183 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3279 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3322 0.000001 Cosmos
#4103 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4145 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4696 0.000014 IDEO Founder Collective
#5474 0.000001 Ethereum
#5823 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6469 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8946 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#1081 0.000002 Rust
#2047 0.000001 Zig

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