Project Lens is an alpha-level demo. The data sets are incomplete and imbalanced and algorithm parameters are being tuned. Results should thus be considered directional. Want to provide feedback, request features, or collaborate?

Morgan Housel

Morgan Housel

@morganhousel

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#175 0.000777 Benchmark Capital
#405 0.000326 Khosla Ventures
#633 0.000230 Initialized Capital
#635 0.000254 Village Global
#851 0.000172 A16Z
#1056 0.000183 My Climate Journey
#1067 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1134 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1572 0.000002 Accel
#1976 0.000002 Sequioa
#2479 0.000002 Y Combinator
#2835 0.000001 Bessemer
#3376 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3455 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4132 0.000001 Homebrew

Journalism

#336 0.000497 Wall Street Journal
#387 0.000290 Bloomberg Opinion
#1205 0.000117 Foreign Policy
#1441 0.000002 The Information
#1500 0.000091 Recode
#1856 0.000012 Techcrunch
#1976 0.000002 Stat News
#2026 0.000065 The Atlantic
#2107 0.000001 OANN
#2109 0.000001 Newsmax
#2329 0.000002 The Verge
#2491 0.000020 Palladium Magazine
#2925 0.000002 The Economist
#2952 0.000036 Ars Technica
#3537 0.000002 CNBC
#3656 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4505 0.000003 Reuters
#4517 0.000002 Wired
#4828 0.000002 Financial Times
#4941 0.000001 The Intercept
#5497 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6087 0.000002 The Los Angeles Times
#6981 0.000002 VICE
#9389 0.000008 New Yorker
#9553 0.000002 Washington Post
#9583 0.000001 The Dispatch

Culture and Political Economy

#443 0.000342 Bismark Analysis
#483 0.000295 RadicalxChange
#494 0.000320 Progress Studies
#511 0.000316 Social Epistemology
#833 0.000152 The Long Now Foundation
#890 0.000195 Heterodox Academy
#1037 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1085 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1202 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1230 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1240 0.000091 Rationality
#1269 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1321 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1335 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1359 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1583 0.000002 350.org
#1767 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2207 0.000060 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2757 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3172 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3469 0.000023 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#4134 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4471 0.000001 Works in Progress
#4475 0.000021 Ecomodernists
#4898 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#4932 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5598 0.000001 EFF
#5913 0.000008 Persuasion Community
#6088 0.000009 Harper's Open Letter
#6418 0.000001 Anarachists
#7512 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#7530 0.000005 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#8368 0.000001 Degrowth

Crypto

#429 0.000266 Crypto Investing
#478 0.000261 Crypto Angels
#622 0.000118 Cosmos
#720 0.000200 Crypto VC
#1083 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1171 0.000102 IDEO Founder Collective
#1210 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1269 0.000002 Polkadot
#1650 0.000062 Crypto Journalists
#2355 0.000033 Crypto Infrastructure
#2377 0.000012 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2413 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3151 0.000007 Decentralized Web
#4376 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#5840 0.000001 Ethereum

Think Tanks

#820 0.000200 Mercatus Center
#1205 0.000117 Niskanen Center
#1506 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1560 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1752 0.000002 Urban Institute
#1990 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2442 0.000002 Cato Institute
#3111 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3469 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#3561 0.000037 Brookings
#4012 0.000024 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#4642 0.000001 Berggruen Institute
#5541 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6454 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#7842 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#8062 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#9117 0.000008 American Enterprise Institute
#9117 0.000008 National Bureau of Economic Research
#9729 0.000001 Adam Smith Institute
#9852 0.000001 Hoover Institution
#9905 0.000008 Council on Foreign Relations

Science

#1628 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1908 0.000051 Biotech
#2024 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#2052 0.000085 Epidemiology Journalism
#3808 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter

system

#8331 0.000016 Baseline

Informal Community

#8170 0.000013 Founders

Software Engineering

#1210 0.000002 Rust
#2272 0.000001 Zig

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