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jasoncrawford

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Author, The Roots of Progress (rootsofprogress.org). Part-time tech consultant, Our World in Data. Former software engineering manager and tech startup founder. Home: jasoncrawford.org, Twitter: @jasoncrawford
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Progress: Fluke or Trend?

rootsofprogress.org·1 pts·jasoncrawford·
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Progress studies: many hard questions

worksinprogress.co·1 pts·jasoncrawford·
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Indignation in Response to the 1890 Census

rootsofprogress.org·2 pts·jasoncrawford·
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19th-Century Progress Studies

rootsofprogress.org·2 pts·jasoncrawford·
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Why haven't we celebrated any major achievements lately?

rootsofprogress.org·12 pts·jasoncrawford·
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Crowdfunding a Transcontinental Railroad in 1857

rootsofprogress.org·34 pts·jasoncrawford·
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How to analyze progress, stagnation, and low-hanging fruit

rootsofprogress.org·1 pts·jasoncrawford·
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Pasteur's Quadrant

rootsofprogress.org·1 pts·jasoncrawford·
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Shuttling between science and invention: What we can learn from the transistor

rootsofprogress.org·1 pts·jasoncrawford·
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Progress Studies for Young Scholars, an online high school summer program

progressstudies.school·2 pts·jasoncrawford·
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My current obsession: funding for research

rootsofprogress.org·2 pts·jasoncrawford·
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How can nonprofits gain the advantages of the for-profit model? Five ideas

rootsofprogress.org·1 pts·jasoncrawford·
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Why anything that can be for-profit, should be

rootsofprogress.org·1 pts·jasoncrawford·
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Questions to ask about funding models for research and development

rootsofprogress.org·2 pts·jasoncrawford·
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Funding Models for Science and Invention

rootsofprogress.org·1 pts·jasoncrawford·
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Before Nobels: Gifts to & from rich patrons were early science’s currency (2016)

theconversation.com·1 pts·jasoncrawford·
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Funding Models and Progress

rootsofprogress.org·49 pts·jasoncrawford·
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A Builder Manifesto

rootsofprogress.org·4 pts·jasoncrawford·
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More Progress, Faster, Is Our Best Defense Against This Pandemic and Future Ones

leapsmag.com·1 pts·jasoncrawford·
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Invite people to ascend PG's hierarchy of disagreement

jasoncrawford.org·5 pts·jasoncrawford·
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“Definite” vs. “indefinite” optimism as a false dichotomy

letter.wiki·1 pts·jasoncrawford·
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Leadership and Progress

rootsofprogress.org·1 pts·jasoncrawford·
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Ossified funding models in medicine throttling our response to Covid-19

rootsofprogress.org·1 pts·jasoncrawford·
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Our best weapons against disease don't work on Covid-19

rootsofprogress.org·2 pts·jasoncrawford·
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How Early American Inventors Funded Their Ventures

rootsofprogress.org·3 pts·jasoncrawford·
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Epistemic standards for “Why did it take so long to invent X?”

rootsofprogress.org·326 pts·jasoncrawford·
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Why Did It Take So Long to Invent X?

rootsofprogress.org·4 pts·jasoncrawford·
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The Plight of the Poor

rootsofprogress.org·2 pts·jasoncrawford·
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Sanitation conquered disease long before vaccines or antibiotics

rootsofprogress.org·134 pts·jasoncrawford·
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Why Jonas Salk was ethically opposed to a randomized trial of the polio vaccine

rootsofprogress.org·1 pts·jasoncrawford·
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