Links and tweets, 2022-07-27
by Jason Crawford · July 27, 2022 · 1 min read
Opportunities
- Arcadia Science launches an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) program (thread from @ArcadiaScience)
- The Longevity Prize goes to “outstanding progress in longevity research” (announcement from @allisondman)
- Nicole Ruiz is making a list of opportunities in frontier tech (@nwilliams030)
- And don’t forget that The Roots of Progress is seeking a CEO! Thanks to Max Roser and Virginia Postrel, among others, for signal-boosting
Announcements
- UK’s new Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) adds Matt Clifford as chairman and Ilan Gur as CEO. Gur will step down as CEO of Activate. See also threads from @matthewclifford and @ilangur. Congrats to all!
- Boom announces the new design for its supersonic airplane, Overture
Articles and talks
- Works in Progress Issue #8 with articles from Stewart Brand, Jason Collins, and more
- “Large changes in productivity are always widely shared” (Bryan Caplan)
- Can exponential growth occur if productivity is the best draw from a probability distribution? A talk by Chad Jones (fairly technical)
- A DNA origami rotary ratchet motor (Nature, h/t @s_r_constantin)
Quotes
- Maps were originally created through the blood, sweat and tears of field agents
- “Raise the social status of scientists”
- The importance of skilled mechanics to early locomotives
- Modern facilities added ~3x to the consumer value of housing
- Childhood in the 19th century
Queries
- What’s the best CO2 monitor? (@_brianpotter)
Threads
- Charles Mann calls for industrial literacy in high school (@CharlesCMann). See my take on “industrial literacy” and the high school progress course I created
- Some potential use-cases for crypto (@SBF_FTX)
- Software + web tech recapitulating the institutions and ideals of the Enlightenment (@arbesman)
- It turns out, nobody ever wanted to work (@paulisci)
Tweets & retweets
- RIP Dee Hock, creator of Visa (@patrickc)
- “The Roman Empire was not run out of offices” (Marc Andreessen on Conversations with Tyler)
- The reason we don’t have fusion is we never decided it was a priority (@tobi)
