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Charlie Warzel

Charlie Warzel

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Lens Rankings

Journalism

#17 0.004210 Recode
#21 0.003095 The New York Times
#101 0.001636 BuzzFeed
#162 0.000605 The Atlantic
#190 0.000800 Foreign Policy
#195 0.000519 Ars Technica
#215 0.000685 The Information
#336 0.000213 Reuters
#373 0.000300 Bloomberg Opinion
#394 0.000421 Wall Street Journal
#454 0.000261 New Yorker
#565 0.000348 Wired
#578 0.000188 Techcrunch
#639 0.000217 The Dispatch
#656 0.000181 The Daily Beast
#753 0.000187 The Verge
#1056 0.000139 The Intercept
#1114 0.000081 Washington Post
#1115 0.000003 Newsmax
#1128 0.000003 OANN
#1390 0.000003 Stat News
#1529 0.000029 CNBC
#1931 0.000062 VICE
#2340 0.000003 The Economist
#2564 0.000030 The New York Post
#2869 0.000032 The Los Angeles Times
#3754 0.000007 Palladium Magazine
#4227 0.000003 Financial Times

Culture and Political Economy

#44 0.002371 Sierra Clib
#225 0.000535 EFF
#397 0.000276 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#409 0.000003 Schumacher Circle
#458 0.000003 Fair Vote
#590 0.000161 Anarachists
#590 0.000003 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#607 0.000003 Extinction Rebellion
#645 0.000003 Existential Risks
#651 0.000179 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#686 0.000250 Environmental Journalists
#709 0.000003 Claremont Institute
#729 0.000003 Ecosocialism
#972 0.000003 350.org
#1132 0.000106 Ecomodernists
#1160 0.000003 Environmental Defense Fund
#1169 0.000101 The Long Now Foundation
#1259 0.000121 Progress Studies
#1940 0.000041 Harper's Open Letter
#2124 0.000003 Climate Solutions
#2442 0.000003 Bismark Analysis
#2649 0.000036 Persuasion Community
#2943 0.000003 RadicalxChange
#3004 0.000031 Moderate Conservatism
#3209 0.000003 Populist Libertarians
#3227 0.000003 Heterodox Academy
#3335 0.000003 Social Epistemology
#3556 0.000024 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#3679 0.000003 Works in Progress
#4099 0.000003 Effective Altruism
#4102 0.000003 Black Lives Matter
#6637 0.000004 Rationality
#6926 0.000003 Degrowth

Venture Capital

#55 0.001952 Homebrew
#309 0.000586 Y Combinator
#446 0.000003 Standard Crypto
#527 0.000003 Founders Fund
#977 0.000003 Accel
#1397 0.000003 Sequioa
#1697 0.000105 My Climate Journey
#1911 0.000003 Bessemer
#2380 0.000003 Index Ventures
#2592 0.000003 Sutter Hill Ventures
#3010 0.000003 Benchmark Capital
#3133 0.000025 Khosla Ventures
#3416 0.000033 A16Z
#4013 0.000003 Village Global
#4375 0.000003 Initialized Capital

Think Tanks

#57 0.001948 Earth Institute
#190 0.000800 Niskanen Center
#816 0.000179 Brookings
#879 0.000141 Council on Foreign Relations
#895 0.000003 RAND Corporation
#938 0.000122 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#955 0.000003 Belfer Center
#1154 0.000003 Urban Institute
#1365 0.000003 Heritage Foundation
#1387 0.000095 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#1513 0.000004 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1851 0.000003 Cato Institute
#1983 0.000031 Atlantic Council
#2353 0.000045 Hoover Institution
#3164 0.000043 Center for American Progress
#3226 0.000037 Mercatus Center
#3691 0.000003 Berggruen Institute
#4238 0.000007 Hudson Institute
#4369 0.000006 Eurasia Group
#6112 0.000003 Adam Smith Institute
#9256 0.000008 American Enterprise Institute
#9256 0.000008 National Bureau of Economic Research

Science

#212 0.000663 Epidemiology Journalism
#1025 0.000003 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#1369 0.000003 Philosophy Twitter
#1562 0.000053 Epidimiology Twitter
#3625 0.000023 Biotech
#8686 0.000005 ClimateTwitter
#9397 0.000003 EconTwitter

system

#43 0.000428 Baseline
#74 0.000242 Reality-Based Community
#3740 0.000035 Think Tanks

Crypto

#456 0.000003 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#608 0.000003 Crypto Political Economy
#652 0.000003 Polkadot
#1484 0.000003 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#2492 0.000003 Crypto Angels
#2602 0.000038 IDEO Founder Collective
#2638 0.000003 Crypto Journalists
#2682 0.000003 Cosmos
#2965 0.000003 Public Goods Funding
#3260 0.000003 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#4186 0.000003 Ethereum
#4551 0.000003 Decentralized Web
#5170 0.000003 Crypto Investing
#6805 0.000004 Crypto Infrastructure
#9627 0.000003 Crypto VC

Informal Community

#6262 0.000018 Founders

Software Engineering

#590 0.000003 Rust
#1281 0.000003 Zig

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