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Michael Ashcroft

Michael Ashcroft

@m_ashcroft

michaelashcroft.org

clear intentions, lightly held • Alexander Technique teacher • strangely earnest, playful vibes • cultivating an oasis at expandingawareness.org 👀🏝

6141 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#103 0.001480 Bismark Analysis
#195 0.000718 Social Epistemology
#307 0.000359 Rationality
#655 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#704 0.000003 Fair Vote
#831 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#852 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#889 0.000003 Existential Risks
#900 0.000153 RadicalxChange
#947 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#966 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#994 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1211 0.000003 350.org
#1398 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1790 0.000082 Progress Studies
#1824 0.000039 Effective Altruism
#2036 0.000050 The Long Now Foundation
#2179 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2565 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#2618 0.000012 Anarachists
#3489 0.000034 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3495 0.000002 Heterodox Academy
#3532 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3937 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4312 0.000022 Ecomodernists
#4373 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#5073 0.000002 EFF
#5412 0.000010 Persuasion Community
#6971 0.000002 Moderate Conservatism
#7102 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7502 0.000002 Degrowth

Venture Capital

#520 0.000279 Initialized Capital
#688 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#762 0.000003 Founders Fund
#1211 0.000003 Accel
#1617 0.000003 Sequioa
#2137 0.000003 Y Combinator
#2217 0.000002 Bessemer
#2671 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2748 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2881 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3275 0.000002 Benchmark Capital
#3283 0.000009 Village Global
#3621 0.000002 Homebrew
#5659 0.000016 A16Z
#5825 0.000002 Khosla Ventures

Crypto

#702 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#796 0.000086 Cosmos
#842 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#891 0.000003 Polkadot
#1051 0.000116 IDEO Founder Collective
#1783 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2521 0.000015 Decentralized Web
#2555 0.000041 Crypto VC
#2779 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2879 0.000015 Crypto Investing
#2902 0.000002 Crypto Journalists
#3035 0.000007 Ethereum
#3525 0.000002 Public Goods Funding
#3677 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3801 0.000016 Crypto Infrastructure

Think Tanks

#1132 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1191 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1385 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1463 0.000109 Mercatus Center
#1621 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#2085 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2263 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3129 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#4048 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4738 0.000002 Earth Institute
#5946 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6675 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#6686 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#7006 0.000002 Hudson Institute
#7711 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#8445 0.000002 Adam Smith Institute
#9161 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Informal Community

#5429 0.000021 Founders

Journalism

#1077 0.000003 The Information
#1450 0.000002 Newsmax
#1456 0.000002 OANN
#1613 0.000003 Stat News
#1993 0.000003 The Verge
#2565 0.000003 The Economist
#2612 0.000018 Palladium Magazine
#3166 0.000003 CNBC
#3331 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#4216 0.000003 Wired
#4454 0.000003 Financial Times
#4494 0.000002 The Intercept
#5153 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5742 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6655 0.000003 VICE
#6659 0.000002 Techcrunch
#6675 0.000002 Foreign Policy
#6942 0.000002 Reuters
#7638 0.000014 Bloomberg Opinion
#8562 0.000003 Washington Post
#8634 0.000002 Recode
#8697 0.000002 The Dispatch
#8862 0.000003 Wall Street Journal

Science

#1263 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1618 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3439 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#5088 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#8129 0.000002 Biotech

Software Engineering

#833 0.000003 Rust
#1619 0.000002 Zig

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