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Shannon Mattern

Shannon Mattern

@shannonmattern

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

#287 0.000565 Earth Institute
#900 0.000127 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#1033 0.000061 Berggruen Institute
#1914 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1970 0.000002 Belfer Center
#2165 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2394 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2845 0.000002 Cato Institute
#3411 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3869 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#6511 0.000002 Niskanen Center
#7287 0.000014 Council on Foreign Relations
#8272 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#8419 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#8718 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics

Culture and Political Economy

#312 0.000369 EFF
#887 0.000142 The Long Now Foundation
#1458 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1505 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1619 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1646 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1689 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1730 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1742 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1771 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1909 0.000039 Degrowth
#1994 0.000002 350.org
#2182 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2992 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3517 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3580 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4045 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4206 0.000001 Social Epistemology
#4274 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4376 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4605 0.000009 Progress Studies
#4686 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5121 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5152 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6725 0.000001 Anarachists
#7717 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#7943 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#8592 0.000001 Rationality

Journalism

#560 0.000224 The Atlantic
#975 0.000182 Wired
#1195 0.000122 The Los Angeles Times
#1848 0.000002 The Information
#2080 0.000054 Ars Technica
#2359 0.000001 OANN
#2364 0.000001 Newsmax
#2379 0.000002 Stat News
#2575 0.000046 New Yorker
#2716 0.000002 The Verge
#2855 0.000052 The New York Times
#3018 0.000038 The Dispatch
#3334 0.000002 The Economist
#3807 0.000014 Washington Post
#3863 0.000027 Recode
#3934 0.000002 CNBC
#4016 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#5139 0.000001 The Intercept
#5217 0.000002 Financial Times
#5832 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6228 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#6511 0.000002 Foreign Policy
#7024 0.000005 The New York Post
#7334 0.000002 VICE
#7611 0.000001 Reuters
#8069 0.000001 Techcrunch
#9683 0.000002 Wall Street Journal

Crypto

#1014 0.000068 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1504 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1620 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1684 0.000002 Polkadot
#3630 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3709 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3748 0.000001 Cosmos
#4616 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4702 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#6059 0.000006 Crypto Infrastructure
#6213 0.000001 Ethereum
#6491 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#7107 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#8901 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective

Informal Community

#3048 0.000042 Founders

system

#5008 0.000041 Baseline
#9747 0.000022 Reality-Based Community

Venture Capital

#1485 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1545 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1982 0.000002 Accel
#2376 0.000002 Sequioa
#2865 0.000002 Y Combinator
#3081 0.000001 Bessemer
#3470 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3620 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3692 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3856 0.000029 A16Z
#4080 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4345 0.000001 Homebrew
#5228 0.000001 Village Global
#5423 0.000001 Initialized Capital
#6479 0.000001 Khosla Ventures

Science

#2041 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2437 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3749 0.000009 Epidemiology Journalism
#4207 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#6215 0.000009 Biotech

Software Engineering

#1625 0.000002 Rust
#2527 0.000001 Zig

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