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Thomas Chatterton Williams 🌍 🎧

Thomas Chatterton Williams 🌍 🎧

@thomaschattwill

thomaschattertonwilliams.com

Words: @NYTMag, @Harpers. Boards: @AmericanAcademy, @JoinPersuasion. Fellowship: @AEI. Speaking: @APBspeakers. Next Book: NOTHING WAS THE SAME: @AAKnopf

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Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#4 0.013296 Heterodox Academy
#5 0.010702 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#15 0.006887 Persuasion Community
#22 0.003642 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#26 0.003726 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#29 0.003149 Harper's Open Letter
#57 0.000008 Schumacher Circle
#96 0.001405 Social Epistemology
#107 0.000008 Fair Vote
#115 0.001106 Progress Studies
#137 0.000767 The Long Now Foundation
#142 0.000821 Moderate Conservatism
#190 0.000559 Populist Libertarians
#198 0.000539 Rationality
#230 0.000546 Works in Progress
#242 0.000008 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#259 0.000008 Extinction Rebellion
#285 0.000421 Ecomodernists
#295 0.000008 Existential Risks
#371 0.000008 Claremont Institute
#391 0.000008 Ecosocialism
#412 0.000008 Sierra Clib
#529 0.000286 Bismark Analysis
#628 0.000008 350.org
#822 0.000008 Environmental Defense Fund
#906 0.000099 Effective Altruism
#1132 0.000117 RadicalxChange
#1713 0.000005 Environmental Journalists
#1843 0.000005 Climate Solutions
#3565 0.000005 Anarachists
#3913 0.000005 Black Lives Matter
#4623 0.000005 EFF
#5528 0.000007 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#21 0.003093 American Enterprise Institute
#21 0.003093 National Bureau of Economic Research
#39 0.001731 Hoover Institution
#52 0.001544 Council on Foreign Relations
#109 0.000857 Brookings
#132 0.000636 Hudson Institute
#250 0.000589 Mercatus Center
#340 0.000404 Cato Institute
#362 0.000507 Atlantic Council
#459 0.000329 Niskanen Center
#481 0.000201 Berggruen Institute
#560 0.000008 RAND Corporation
#623 0.000008 Belfer Center
#792 0.000168 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#832 0.000008 Urban Institute
#1014 0.000008 Heritage Foundation
#1381 0.000005 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2006 0.000017 Adam Smith Institute
#2585 0.000020 Earth Institute
#2719 0.000020 Eurasia Group
#4197 0.000020 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6128 0.000014 Center for American Progress

Journalism

#33 0.002556 The Intercept
#43 0.002478 The Dispatch
#48 0.002429 Wall Street Journal
#82 0.001060 The Atlantic
#112 0.000798 Bloomberg Opinion
#147 0.000913 The New York Times
#233 0.000415 The New York Post
#303 0.000385 Palladium Magazine
#366 0.000323 New Yorker
#459 0.000329 Foreign Policy
#524 0.000008 The Information
#846 0.000216 Financial Times
#865 0.000109 The Daily Beast
#867 0.000005 OANN
#869 0.000005 Newsmax
#1012 0.000008 Stat News
#1226 0.000093 Ars Technica
#1482 0.000036 The Economist
#1485 0.000008 The Verge
#1676 0.000046 Washington Post
#1777 0.000011 Reuters
#1865 0.000012 Techcrunch
#2128 0.000055 VICE
#2162 0.000055 Wired
#2421 0.000008 CNBC
#2493 0.000041 The Los Angeles Times
#4354 0.000008 BuzzFeed
#6995 0.000005 Recode

Venture Capital

#91 0.000910 Bessemer
#102 0.000008 Standard Crypto
#207 0.000641 A16Z
#207 0.000008 Founders Fund
#586 0.000278 Village Global
#658 0.000008 Accel
#1048 0.000008 Sequioa
#1446 0.000088 Khosla Ventures
#1580 0.000008 Y Combinator
#1932 0.000005 Index Ventures
#1964 0.000064 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2214 0.000005 My Climate Journey
#2839 0.000037 Initialized Capital
#2843 0.000005 Benchmark Capital
#3260 0.000005 Homebrew

Crypto

#104 0.000008 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#276 0.000008 Crypto Political Economy
#306 0.000616 Public Goods Funding
#306 0.000008 Polkadot
#428 0.000354 Ethereum
#650 0.000136 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#763 0.000092 Cosmos
#929 0.000145 Crypto VC
#1053 0.000092 Crypto Infrastructure
#1261 0.000005 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1360 0.000056 Crypto Investing
#2285 0.000005 Crypto Angels
#2472 0.000005 Crypto Journalists
#2716 0.000013 Decentralized Web
#4130 0.000018 IDEO Founder Collective

system

#182 0.000264 Baseline
#247 0.000158 Reality-Based Community
#724 0.000581 Think Tanks

Science

#688 0.000008 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#702 0.000173 Biotech
#820 0.000021 Philosophy Twitter
#1835 0.000062 EconTwitter
#2537 0.000008 Epidimiology Twitter
#3887 0.000007 Epidemiology Journalism
#7318 0.000008 ClimateTwitter

Informal Community

#2379 0.000056 Founders

Software Engineering

#241 0.000008 Rust
#1045 0.000005 Zig

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