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John Scalzi

John Scalzi

@scalzi

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#659 0.000234 Moderate Conservatism
#1196 0.000105 Ecomodernists
#1339 0.000112 Social Epistemology
#1548 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1595 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1708 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1736 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1778 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1820 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1830 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1861 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1873 0.000037 Effective Altruism
#2084 0.000002 350.org
#2272 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2660 0.000033 Rationality
#2860 0.000041 EFF
#3105 0.000021 Degrowth
#3204 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3424 0.000021 The Long Now Foundation
#3611 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#3695 0.000032 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#3721 0.000001 Bismark Analysis
#3828 0.000016 Harper's Open Letter
#4297 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#4494 0.000001 Heterodox Academy
#4599 0.000001 Populist Libertarians
#4887 0.000001 Works in Progress
#5353 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5427 0.000006 Progress Studies
#6249 0.000008 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#6995 0.000001 Anarachists
#8132 0.000001 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)

Think Tanks

#629 0.000233 Center for American Progress
#882 0.000166 Niskanen Center
#993 0.000184 Earth Institute
#2003 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#2057 0.000002 Belfer Center
#2252 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2482 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2927 0.000002 Cato Institute
#2941 0.000006 Berggruen Institute
#3699 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3952 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#6858 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#8668 0.000001 Eurasia Group
#8741 0.000001 Hudson Institute
#8966 0.000001 Peterson Institute for International Economics

Journalism

#732 0.000194 The Economist
#882 0.000166 Foreign Policy
#1017 0.000100 The New York Post
#1770 0.000075 The Atlantic
#1938 0.000002 The Information
#2325 0.000047 Ars Technica
#2422 0.000043 Wired
#2464 0.000002 Stat News
#2596 0.000001 OANN
#2599 0.000001 Newsmax
#2802 0.000002 The Verge
#4016 0.000002 CNBC
#4092 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#4169 0.000030 The New York Times
#4755 0.000008 The Los Angeles Times
#5302 0.000002 Financial Times
#5323 0.000001 The Intercept
#5902 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6417 0.000001 Palladium Magazine
#7411 0.000002 VICE
#7981 0.000001 Techcrunch
#9626 0.000001 Recode
#9770 0.000002 Wall Street Journal

Venture Capital

#1116 0.000174 My Climate Journey
#1301 0.000021 Index Ventures
#1575 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1633 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1965 0.000057 Khosla Ventures
#2070 0.000002 Accel
#2462 0.000002 Sequioa
#2949 0.000002 Y Combinator
#3302 0.000001 Bessemer
#3901 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4278 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4523 0.000001 Homebrew
#5420 0.000001 Village Global
#5629 0.000001 Initialized Capital

Crypto

#945 0.000143 Crypto Journalists
#1594 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1707 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1772 0.000002 Polkadot
#2828 0.000003 Public Goods Funding
#2843 0.000011 Decentralized Web
#2894 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3857 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3963 0.000001 Cosmos
#4063 0.000003 Ethereum
#4960 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#7373 0.000001 Crypto Investing
#9130 0.000001 IDEO Founder Collective
#9826 0.000001 Crypto Infrastructure

Software Engineering

#840 0.000079 Zig
#1715 0.000002 Rust

Science

#2130 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#2526 0.000002 Philosophy Twitter
#3109 0.000046 Epidemiology Journalism
#4290 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#8887 0.000001 Biotech

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