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Jordan Weissmann 🗽

Jordan Weissmann 🗽

@JHWeissmann

Rootless cosmopolitan writing about economics and public policy for Slate. Atrocious grammar. Typo prone. Emails welcome: jordan.weissmann@slate.com

38302 followers

Lens Rankings

Think Tanks

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#9223 0.000001 Hudson Institute

Journalism

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#1488 0.000096 The Intercept
#1914 0.000058 Ars Technica
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Crypto

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#2850 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
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#3257 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3667 0.000009 Crypto Investing
#3788 0.000002 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#3889 0.000022 Crypto VC
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#4262 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#4311 0.000001 Cosmos
#7180 0.000001 Decentralized Web
#9459 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective

Venture Capital

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#1976 0.000056 Khosla Ventures
#2291 0.000032 Village Global
#2436 0.000051 A16Z
#2725 0.000001 Standard Crypto
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#3578 0.000001 Sequioa
#3672 0.000001 Bessemer
#4026 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#4041 0.000001 Y Combinator
#4216 0.000001 Index Ventures
#4261 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4627 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4851 0.000001 Homebrew

Culture and Political Economy

#544 0.000297 Social Epistemology
#633 0.000187 Rationality
#796 0.000201 Progress Studies
#1046 0.000118 The Long Now Foundation
#1299 0.000101 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2704 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2751 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2856 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2888 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
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#2959 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#2960 0.000001 Ecosocialism
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#3236 0.000001 350.org
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#3552 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
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#4073 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#4201 0.000015 Harper's Open Letter
#4279 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4670 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4832 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4965 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#5099 0.000002 Anarachists
#5224 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5661 0.000001 Effective Altruism
#5683 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#6190 0.000004 Degrowth
#6330 0.000001 EFF
#7693 0.000006 Persuasion Community
#8200 0.000001 Moderate Conservatism
#8435 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#9260 0.000003 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism

Science

#1346 0.000130 Epidemiology Journalism
#3048 0.000031 EconTwitter
#3269 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3677 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#5336 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#9179 0.000001 Biotech

system

#6812 0.000019 Think Tanks
#7779 0.000018 Baseline

Software Engineering

#2859 0.000001 Rust
#3136 0.000001 Zig

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