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Works in Progress is a new online magazine featuring original writing from some of the most interesting thinkers in the world.
Founder & editor, worksinprogress.co @stripe.
I write the newsletter Scientific Discovery. I'm a co-founder of Works in Progress, host the podcast Hard Drugs, and advise Coefficient Giving on clinical trial reform.
Occasionally writing.
Maxwell Tabarrok is an economics PhD student at Harvard University. Maximum Progress is a blog on economics, science, philosophy, and progress.
I'm the co-founder and editor of worksinprogress.co
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Editor at Works in Progress, a magazine of new and underrated ideas to improve the world.
Technology, finance, policy.
Bioengineer and writer. Previously: Founding Editor, Asimov Press.
I am an Editor at Works in Progress, where I focus on architecture, urbanism, urban history, and housing policy. I am also a fellow of the Centre for Policy Studies and Create Streets. Previously I worked in think tanking, academia and government.
I work on the birth rate challenge at the Boom Campaign and as Head of the New Deal for Parents at Onward. Find me on X at @pmarslanagic.
Science blog at blog.jacobtrefethen.com (you can subscribe there)
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