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James Surowiecki

James Surowiecki

@JamesSurowiecki

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#42 0.002036 Recode
#159 0.000610 Ars Technica
#248 0.000442 The Atlantic
#307 0.000506 Foreign Policy
#816 0.000168 The Dispatch
#862 0.000151 Bloomberg Opinion
#928 0.000201 The New York Times
#1517 0.000084 New Yorker
#2087 0.000001 The Information
#2275 0.000001 OANN
#2277 0.000001 Newsmax
#2612 0.000001 Stat News
#2946 0.000001 The Verge
#3255 0.000010 Palladium Magazine
#3562 0.000001 The Economist
#3822 0.000003 Reuters
#4142 0.000012 Washington Post
#4153 0.000001 CNBC
#4229 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#4266 0.000023 Wall Street Journal
#5063 0.000001 Wired
#5069 0.000001 The Intercept
#5182 0.000009 The New York Post
#5441 0.000001 Financial Times
#6050 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#6662 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#7527 0.000001 VICE
#7960 0.000001 Techcrunch

Think Tanks

#77 0.001357 Mercatus Center
#307 0.000506 Niskanen Center
#617 0.000218 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#771 0.000192 American Enterprise Institute
#771 0.000192 National Bureau of Economic Research
#1241 0.000115 Brookings
#2151 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#2206 0.000001 Belfer Center
#2257 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#2397 0.000001 Urban Institute
#2553 0.000055 Center for American Progress
#2623 0.000016 Hudson Institute
#2624 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#3074 0.000001 Cato Institute
#4097 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#4273 0.000006 Eurasia Group
#4470 0.000018 Hoover Institution
#4777 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5046 0.000022 Council on Foreign Relations
#5733 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6591 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Culture and Political Economy

#155 0.000743 Rationality
#322 0.000326 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#548 0.000286 Progress Studies
#583 0.000167 Effective Altruism
#797 0.000208 Social Epistemology
#914 0.000144 Works in Progress
#1239 0.000100 Ecomodernists
#1407 0.000100 Moderate Conservatism
#1477 0.000077 The Long Now Foundation
#1701 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#1748 0.000001 Fair Vote
#1860 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1871 0.000009 Bismark Analysis
#1889 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#1931 0.000001 Existential Risks
#1969 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#1977 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#2010 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#2236 0.000001 350.org
#2408 0.000027 Heterodox Academy
#2422 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#2706 0.000026 Harper's Open Letter
#2910 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3225 0.000028 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#3323 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3963 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4293 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5072 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5735 0.000001 EFF
#6624 0.000001 Anarachists
#6799 0.000007 Persuasion Community
#7872 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#8575 0.000001 Degrowth

Venture Capital

#207 0.000688 Village Global
#1370 0.000093 Khosla Ventures
#1726 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#1782 0.000001 Founders Fund
#2218 0.000001 Accel
#2608 0.000001 Sequioa
#2998 0.000001 Bessemer
#3092 0.000001 Y Combinator
#3389 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3536 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3613 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3996 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4273 0.000001 Homebrew
#5348 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#6214 0.000013 A16Z

Science

#261 0.000480 EconTwitter
#323 0.000448 Epidemiology Journalism
#1018 0.000112 Biotech
#2280 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2677 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#4429 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter

Crypto

#343 0.000431 Crypto Journalists
#525 0.000347 Public Goods Funding
#748 0.000189 Ethereum
#1747 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1858 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#1923 0.000001 Polkadot
#2555 0.000039 IDEO Founder Collective
#2579 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3341 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3552 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3678 0.000001 Cosmos
#6381 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#6990 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#9431 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

system

#1363 0.000112 Think Tanks
#5120 0.000039 Baseline
#8656 0.000041 Reality-Based Community

Informal Community

#3571 0.000036 Founders

Software Engineering

#1867 0.000001 Rust
#2442 0.000001 Zig

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