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Packy McCormick

Packy McCormick

@packyM

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“Another guy that has a newsletter, the name escapes me.” — Ben Thompson ||| Writing Not Boring: notboring.co

39290 followers

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#69 0.001982 Village Global
#260 0.000649 Homebrew
#417 0.000342 A16Z
#649 0.000194 Khosla Ventures
#721 0.000076 Bessemer
#721 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#793 0.000003 Founders Fund
#1037 0.000044 Y Combinator
#1041 0.000143 Initialized Capital
#1242 0.000003 Accel
#1390 0.000103 Benchmark Capital
#1645 0.000003 Sequioa
#2639 0.000002 My Climate Journey
#2714 0.000002 Index Ventures
#2845 0.000002 Sutter Hill Ventures

Journalism

#95 0.001394 Techcrunch
#901 0.000110 Palladium Magazine
#1109 0.000003 The Information
#1412 0.000002 Newsmax
#1419 0.000002 OANN
#1646 0.000003 Stat News
#2019 0.000003 The Verge
#2595 0.000003 The Economist
#3201 0.000003 CNBC
#3364 0.000003 The Daily Beast
#4246 0.000003 Wired
#4464 0.000002 The Intercept
#4482 0.000003 Financial Times
#5184 0.000003 BuzzFeed
#5195 0.000002 Reuters
#5788 0.000003 The Los Angeles Times
#6581 0.000002 Foreign Policy
#6690 0.000003 VICE
#7041 0.000005 The New York Post
#7788 0.000009 Ars Technica
#8584 0.000002 Recode
#8629 0.000002 The Dispatch
#8679 0.000003 Washington Post
#8922 0.000003 Wall Street Journal

Culture and Political Economy

#478 0.000297 RadicalxChange
#689 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#697 0.000257 Heterodox Academy
#738 0.000003 Fair Vote
#864 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#886 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#923 0.000003 Existential Risks
#980 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#1000 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#1028 0.000003 Sierra Clib
#1144 0.000139 Social Epistemology
#1245 0.000003 350.org
#1432 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1736 0.000084 Progress Studies
#1833 0.000058 The Long Now Foundation
#1878 0.000009 Bismark Analysis
#2149 0.000002 Environmental Journalists
#2205 0.000044 Rationality
#2522 0.000002 Climate Solutions
#3499 0.000002 Populist Libertarians
#3908 0.000002 Works in Progress
#4328 0.000002 Effective Altruism
#4342 0.000002 Black Lives Matter
#5006 0.000011 Persuasion Community
#5046 0.000002 EFF
#5376 0.000002 Anarachists
#6937 0.000002 Moderate Conservatism
#7062 0.000002 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#7451 0.000002 Degrowth
#9623 0.000004 Harper's Open Letter

Crypto

#680 0.000191 IDEO Founder Collective
#735 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#874 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#925 0.000003 Polkadot
#1320 0.000069 Crypto Infrastructure
#1440 0.000080 Crypto Journalists
#1669 0.000027 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#1752 0.000002 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1811 0.000034 Decentralized Web
#2127 0.000053 Crypto VC
#2499 0.000004 Public Goods Funding
#2750 0.000002 Crypto Angels
#2918 0.000002 Cosmos
#3870 0.000003 Ethereum
#5759 0.000002 Crypto Investing

Informal Community

#3872 0.000033 Founders

Think Tanks

#1165 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#1224 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1418 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1655 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#2117 0.000003 Cato Institute
#2211 0.000002 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3162 0.000003 Atlantic Council
#3234 0.000011 Hudson Institute
#3996 0.000002 Berggruen Institute
#4678 0.000002 Earth Institute
#4978 0.000004 Adam Smith Institute
#5916 0.000002 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6581 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#6607 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#7671 0.000002 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#9077 0.000002 Hoover Institution

Science

#1297 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1651 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#3475 0.000003 Epidimiology Twitter
#5056 0.000002 Epidemiology Journalism
#7527 0.000005 Biotech

Software Engineering

#867 0.000003 Rust
#1582 0.000002 Zig

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