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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.
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 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.
Bioengineer and writer. Previously: Founding Editor, Asimov Press.
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.
Editor at Works in Progress. Interested in biology, policy, and culture. My website with more writing and info is here: https://ellenpasternack.weebly.com/
Working in global health & development at Coefficient Giving (FKA Open Philanthropy)
Entrepreneur, former VC, author & speaker
Technology, finance, policy.
Founder & editor, worksinprogress.co @stripe.
Occasionally writing.
Maya Rosen is a writer interested in the governance of bio and digital technology in the US and China.
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