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Nat Friedman

Nat Friedman

@natfriedman

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#59 0.002097 Progress Studies
#69 0.001646 The Long Now Foundation
#230 0.000619 Social Epistemology
#600 0.000198 Rationality
#1414 0.000092 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2131 0.000005 Bismark Analysis
#2522 0.000033 Works in Progress
#4516 0.000020 Ecomodernists
#7406 0.000000 Schumacher Circle
#7450 0.000000 Fair Vote
#7534 0.000000 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#7586 0.000000 Extinction Rebellion
#7603 0.000000 Claremont Institute
#7614 0.000000 Ecosocialism
#7622 0.000000 Existential Risks
#7673 0.000000 Sierra Clib
#7906 0.000000 350.org
#8078 0.000000 Environmental Defense Fund

Venture Capital

#103 0.001907 Y Combinator
#799 0.000237 Sutter Hill Ventures
#997 0.000130 Khosla Ventures
#1127 0.000044 Index Ventures
#1452 0.000094 A16Z
#3407 0.000007 Village Global
#7422 0.000000 Standard Crypto
#7447 0.000000 Founders Fund
#7840 0.000000 Accel
#8200 0.000000 Sequioa

Think Tanks

#315 0.000491 Mercatus Center
#5386 0.000003 Niskanen Center
#7770 0.000000 RAND Corporation
#7831 0.000000 Belfer Center
#8018 0.000000 Urban Institute
#8198 0.000000 Heritage Foundation
#8569 0.000000 Cato Institute
#9466 0.000000 Atlantic Council

Crypto

#945 0.000141 Crypto VC
#2475 0.000030 Crypto Infrastructure
#5277 0.000001 Ethereum
#7447 0.000000 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#7528 0.000000 Crypto Political Economy
#7606 0.000000 Polkadot

Software Engineering

#617 0.000141 Zig
#7523 0.000000 Rust

Journalism

#1690 0.000077 Bloomberg Opinion
#5386 0.000003 Foreign Policy
#7692 0.000000 The Information
#8170 0.000000 Stat News
#8428 0.000000 The Verge
#9015 0.000000 The Economist
#9476 0.000000 The Daily Beast
#9585 0.000000 CNBC

Informal Community

#3493 0.000036 Founders

Science

#7930 0.000000 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#8338 0.000000 Philosophy Twitter
#9781 0.000000 Epidimiology Twitter

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