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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.
Author of The Future and Its Enemies, The Substance of Style, The Power of Glamour, and, most recently, The Fabric of Civilization. Contributing editor to WorksinProgress.co.
Editor at Works in Progress. Interested in biology, policy, and culture. My website with more writing and info is here: https://ellenpasternack.weebly.com/
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.
Executive Director at YIMBY Law www.yimbylaw.org \ud83c\udfd9 The day is short, the work is great, the workers are lazy, the reward is great and the Master of the house presses. \ud83c\udf03
Technology, finance, policy.
Bioengineer and writer. Previously: Founding Editor, Asimov Press.
Working in global health & development at Coefficient Giving (FKA Open Philanthropy)
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 @ blog.jacobtrefethen.com (you can subscribe there)
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