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Wesley Yang

Wesley Yang

@wesyang

paypal.me/wesyang74

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Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#34 0.002850 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#35 0.003018 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#57 0.002034 Heterodox Academy
#76 0.000007 Schumacher Circle
#84 0.001471 Progress Studies
#86 0.001565 Social Epistemology
#115 0.000937 The Long Now Foundation
#126 0.000913 Rationality
#126 0.000007 Fair Vote
#141 0.000585 Harper's Open Letter
#148 0.000840 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#150 0.001071 Bismark Analysis
#157 0.000577 Persuasion Community
#192 0.000650 Works in Progress
#261 0.000007 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#268 0.000458 Ecomodernists
#277 0.000007 Extinction Rebellion
#314 0.000007 Existential Risks
#387 0.000007 Claremont Institute
#409 0.000007 Ecosocialism
#430 0.000007 Sierra Clib
#466 0.000205 Effective Altruism
#542 0.000170 Populist Libertarians
#646 0.000007 350.org
#840 0.000007 Environmental Defense Fund
#1081 0.000141 Moderate Conservatism
#1727 0.000004 Environmental Journalists
#1883 0.000004 Climate Solutions
#2220 0.000018 Anarachists
#2725 0.000004 RadicalxChange
#3928 0.000004 Black Lives Matter
#4650 0.000004 EFF
#4737 0.000010 Degrowth

Journalism

#25 0.002986 The Intercept
#45 0.002624 Foreign Policy
#81 0.001148 Bloomberg Opinion
#82 0.001458 Palladium Magazine
#154 0.000944 Wall Street Journal
#238 0.000451 The Atlantic
#247 0.000571 The Dispatch
#424 0.000424 The New York Times
#429 0.000277 Ars Technica
#543 0.000007 The Information
#650 0.000151 The New York Post
#761 0.000163 New Yorker
#890 0.000004 Newsmax
#906 0.000004 OANN
#1039 0.000007 Stat News
#1496 0.000007 The Verge
#1642 0.000015 Techcrunch
#1971 0.000007 The Economist
#2301 0.000007 Reuters
#2377 0.000048 VICE
#2471 0.000007 CNBC
#2520 0.000026 Washington Post
#2622 0.000034 Wired
#2671 0.000007 The Daily Beast
#3820 0.000007 Financial Times
#3934 0.000015 The Los Angeles Times
#4457 0.000007 BuzzFeed
#6694 0.000006 Recode

Think Tanks

#36 0.002002 American Enterprise Institute
#36 0.002002 National Bureau of Economic Research
#45 0.002624 Niskanen Center
#65 0.001255 Hoover Institution
#132 0.000699 Council on Foreign Relations
#197 0.000695 Mercatus Center
#247 0.000470 Brookings
#502 0.000164 Hudson Institute
#551 0.000161 Cato Institute
#579 0.000007 RAND Corporation
#600 0.000149 Berggruen Institute
#641 0.000007 Belfer Center
#789 0.000169 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#850 0.000007 Urban Institute
#894 0.000174 Center for American Progress
#976 0.000058 Eurasia Group
#1034 0.000007 Heritage Foundation
#1267 0.000095 Atlantic Council
#1428 0.000004 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1827 0.000021 Adam Smith Institute
#1856 0.000091 Earth Institute
#5552 0.000004 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Crypto

#123 0.000007 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#147 0.001099 Public Goods Funding
#228 0.000597 Ethereum
#294 0.000007 Crypto Political Economy
#323 0.000007 Polkadot
#535 0.000144 Cosmos
#678 0.000212 Crypto VC
#682 0.000161 Crypto Infrastructure
#1279 0.000004 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1296 0.000060 Crypto Investing
#2305 0.000004 Crypto Angels
#2397 0.000017 Decentralized Web
#2487 0.000004 Crypto Journalists
#2933 0.000004 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3407 0.000026 IDEO Founder Collective

Venture Capital

#120 0.000007 Standard Crypto
#206 0.000606 Initialized Capital
#223 0.000007 Founders Fund
#268 0.000529 Village Global
#327 0.000429 A16Z
#428 0.000309 Khosla Ventures
#674 0.000007 Accel
#1070 0.000007 Sequioa
#1620 0.000007 Y Combinator
#1719 0.000004 Bessemer
#2003 0.000004 Index Ventures
#2228 0.000004 My Climate Journey
#2421 0.000004 Sutter Hill Ventures
#2853 0.000004 Benchmark Capital
#3269 0.000004 Homebrew

system

#560 0.000188 Baseline
#824 0.000279 Think Tanks
#1202 0.000096 Reality-Based Community

Science

#686 0.000175 Biotech
#705 0.000007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1010 0.000007 Philosophy Twitter
#2625 0.000007 Epidimiology Twitter
#4134 0.000004 Epidemiology Journalism
#6944 0.000007 EconTwitter
#7725 0.000007 ClimateTwitter

Informal Community

#7532 0.000014 Founders

Software Engineering

#259 0.000007 Rust
#1066 0.000004 Zig

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