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Comfortably Smug

Comfortably Smug

@ComfortablySmug

Lens Rankings

Venture Capital

#12 0.010160 Founders Fund
#114 0.000007 Standard Crypto
#178 0.000845 Khosla Ventures
#236 0.000584 Village Global
#313 0.000450 Initialized Capital
#389 0.000488 Sutter Hill Ventures
#404 0.000355 A16Z
#671 0.000007 Accel
#691 0.000231 Benchmark Capital
#1064 0.000007 Sequioa
#1617 0.000007 Y Combinator
#1687 0.000005 Bessemer
#1828 0.000005 Index Ventures
#2200 0.000005 My Climate Journey
#3252 0.000005 Homebrew

Culture and Political Economy

#26 0.002227 Populist Libertarians
#70 0.000007 Schumacher Circle
#92 0.000890 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#108 0.001205 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#110 0.001780 Claremont Institute
#120 0.000007 Fair Vote
#162 0.000979 Bismark Analysis
#255 0.000007 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#271 0.000007 Extinction Rebellion
#308 0.000007 Existential Risks
#315 0.000446 Moderate Conservatism
#403 0.000007 Ecosocialism
#424 0.000007 Sierra Clib
#508 0.000252 The Long Now Foundation
#602 0.000264 Progress Studies
#617 0.000302 Heterodox Academy
#640 0.000007 350.org
#834 0.000007 Environmental Defense Fund
#874 0.000136 Rationality
#905 0.000122 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#1334 0.000085 Persuasion Community
#1421 0.000058 Harper's Open Letter
#1701 0.000005 Environmental Journalists
#1712 0.000066 Works in Progress
#1823 0.000005 Climate Solutions
#2688 0.000005 RadicalxChange
#3206 0.000005 Social Epistemology
#3226 0.000033 Ecomodernists
#3501 0.000005 Anarachists
#3855 0.000005 Effective Altruism
#3902 0.000005 Black Lives Matter
#4614 0.000005 EFF
#5929 0.000005 Degrowth

Journalism

#50 0.001888 OANN
#105 0.000918 The New York Post
#114 0.001208 The Dispatch
#141 0.001089 Foreign Policy
#213 0.000469 Newsmax
#385 0.000304 Washington Post
#506 0.000236 Bloomberg Opinion
#518 0.000265 Recode
#537 0.000007 The Information
#552 0.000217 New Yorker
#652 0.000261 Wall Street Journal
#674 0.000191 The Atlantic
#854 0.000140 Ars Technica
#1026 0.000007 Stat News
#1492 0.000007 The Verge
#1562 0.000053 Palladium Magazine
#1601 0.000088 The Intercept
#1629 0.000026 CNBC
#1677 0.000012 Reuters
#1703 0.000014 Techcrunch
#1962 0.000007 The Economist
#2656 0.000007 The Daily Beast
#2732 0.000055 The New York Times
#3727 0.000007 Wired
#3789 0.000007 Financial Times
#4426 0.000007 BuzzFeed
#4774 0.000007 The Los Angeles Times
#5671 0.000007 VICE

Think Tanks

#106 0.000942 American Enterprise Institute
#106 0.000942 National Bureau of Economic Research
#129 0.000640 Hudson Institute
#141 0.001089 Niskanen Center
#233 0.000485 Hoover Institution
#242 0.000203 Eurasia Group
#413 0.000348 Center for American Progress
#573 0.000007 RAND Corporation
#635 0.000007 Belfer Center
#690 0.000077 Heritage Foundation
#844 0.000007 Urban Institute
#1361 0.000005 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1473 0.000007 Cato Institute
#1621 0.000093 Brookings
#1897 0.000081 Mercatus Center
#2163 0.000057 Council on Foreign Relations
#2468 0.000011 Adam Smith Institute
#2530 0.000007 Atlantic Council
#3048 0.000005 Berggruen Institute
#3388 0.000005 Earth Institute
#5524 0.000005 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#6483 0.000005 Peterson Institute for International Economics

Crypto

#117 0.000007 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#289 0.000007 Crypto Political Economy
#318 0.000007 Polkadot
#364 0.000412 Crypto VC
#497 0.000237 Crypto Infrastructure
#540 0.000266 Crypto Journalists
#540 0.000198 Crypto Investing
#1246 0.000005 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#1405 0.000038 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#2271 0.000005 Crypto Angels
#2312 0.000005 Public Goods Funding
#2478 0.000005 Cosmos
#2671 0.000013 Decentralized Web
#3260 0.000005 Ethereum
#6209 0.000005 IDEO Founder Collective

system

#1145 0.000144 Think Tanks
#4405 0.000066 Baseline
#8539 0.000046 Reality-Based Community

Informal Community

#1215 0.000109 Founders

Science

#699 0.000007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#981 0.000007 Philosophy Twitter
#1091 0.000100 Biotech
#2597 0.000007 Epidimiology Twitter
#4004 0.000005 Epidemiology Journalism
#6711 0.000008 EconTwitter
#7611 0.000007 ClimateTwitter

Software Engineering

#254 0.000007 Rust
#1028 0.000005 Zig

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