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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.
I'm the co-founder and editor of worksinprogress.co
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Economic Historian
Writer at Works in Progress and co-founder of Clinical Trial Abundance. Scientist by training.
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.
Scientist + Writer. Microbiology, genomics, evolution.
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)
Policy Lead at YIMBY Alliance
I research economics, history, and cities
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