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Recommended by Matt Clancy

Construction Physics

By Brian Potter

Essays about buildings, infrastructure, and industrial technology.

Why is progress in construction hard; but more broadly, how does X work?

- Matt Clancy

The Great Gender Divergence

By Alice Evans

Why has the world become more gender equal? Why are some societies more gender equal than others?

Statecraft

By Santi Ruiz

How policymakers get things done

Phenomenal interviews on how contemporary government works from IFP's senior editor

- Matt Clancy

Age of Invention, by Anton Howes

Tales from the history of innovation.

FreakTakes

By Eric Gilliam

I want to help people start historically great labs. Operational histories on history's best R&D orgs.

Deep dives into the organization of R&D through history

- Matt Clancy

Maximum Progress

By Maxwell Tabarrok

Maximum Progress is a blog by Max Tabarrok on economics, science, philosophy, and progress.

Metascience (and more) from one of IFP's non-resident fellows

- Matt Clancy

IFP

Accelerating scientific, technological, and industrial progress

Keep up to date with what the Institute for Progress is up to

- Matt Clancy

Noahpinion

By Noah Smith

Economics and other interesting stuff

Never Met a Science

By Kevin Munger

literally how can we understand what the internet is doing to us

A non-economist perspective on metascience and more

- Matt Clancy

Scaling in Human Societies

By Michael Goff

How Cities and Societies Change as they Grow

Contains a living literature review on scaling in human societies!

- Matt Clancy

Bridging Boundaries: On Interdisciplinarity

By Rachel George

Home to Rachel George's Living Literature Review on Interdisciplinarity.

A living literature review on interdisciplinarity!

- Matt Clancy

Macroscience

By Andrew Gerard

A better science is possible

Thinking big about making science better, from IFP senior technology fellow Tim Hwang

- Matt Clancy

The Roots of Progress

By Jason Crawford

The history of technology and the philosophy of progress, plus announcements from the Roots of Progress Institute

Foundational progress studies blog

- Matt Clancy

Existential Crunch

By Florian U. Jehn

Thoughts about existential risk, history, climate, food security and societal collapse.

A living literature review on social collapse!

- Matt Clancy

Best of Econtwitter

By An Economist

The best of #econtwitter: paper summaries, public goods, and more

(Almost) everything great about twitter

- Matt Clancy

Lauren Policy

By Lauren Gilbert

Lauren Gilbert on migration, progress, innovation, growth and development. Lauren Policy is pronounced to rhyme with foreign policy.

A living literature on academic research related to immigration!

- Matt Clancy

The Care Gap

A Living Literature Review at the intersection of gender and health in less-developed settings.

Governing with AI

By Justin Bullock

A living literature review on the impacts of AI on governance.

A living literature review on the impact of AI on governance!

- Matt Clancy

The Reveal

By Scott Tobias

Deeper into movies (and a little TV). Essays, reviews, conversation. Past and present. From the editors of The Dissolve.

Some Are Useful

By Tom Gebhart

A living literature review on how ideas from machine learning and artificial intelligence are influencing scientific and technological progress.

A living literature review on how AI is used in science!

- Matt Clancy