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Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan

@sullydish

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#4 0.017792 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#6 0.010000 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#109 0.001229 Heterodox Academy
#367 0.000253 Populist Libertarians
#376 0.000309 Rationality
#408 0.000177 Harper's Open Letter
#434 0.000369 Progress Studies
#599 0.000194 Ecomodernists
#727 0.000156 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#896 0.000139 Persuasion Community
#1004 0.000135 Bismark Analysis
#1022 0.000151 Moderate Conservatism
#1177 0.000100 The Long Now Foundation
#1206 0.000069 Effective Altruism
#1217 0.000002 Schumacher Circle
#1264 0.000002 Fair Vote
#1381 0.000002 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#1409 0.000002 Extinction Rebellion
#1448 0.000002 Existential Risks
#1494 0.000002 Claremont Institute
#1510 0.000002 Ecosocialism
#1533 0.000002 Sierra Clib
#1758 0.000002 350.org
#1769 0.000072 Social Epistemology
#1812 0.000061 Works in Progress
#1945 0.000002 Environmental Defense Fund
#2957 0.000001 Environmental Journalists
#3536 0.000001 Climate Solutions
#4008 0.000001 RadicalxChange
#5119 0.000001 Black Lives Matter
#5231 0.000002 Anarachists
#5776 0.000001 EFF
#8621 0.000001 Degrowth

Think Tanks

#49 0.001423 Hoover Institution
#112 0.000916 American Enterprise Institute
#112 0.000916 National Bureau of Economic Research
#270 0.000569 Mercatus Center
#310 0.000292 Hudson Institute
#606 0.000130 Cato Institute
#856 0.000174 Niskanen Center
#1030 0.000061 Berggruen Institute
#1677 0.000002 RAND Corporation
#1733 0.000002 Belfer Center
#1930 0.000002 Urban Institute
#2162 0.000002 Heritage Foundation
#2219 0.000057 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#2245 0.000064 Brookings
#3125 0.000039 Council on Foreign Relations
#3361 0.000001 Asia Society Policy Institute
#3641 0.000002 Atlantic Council
#4835 0.000004 Adam Smith Institute
#5779 0.000001 Earth Institute
#6121 0.000002 Eurasia Group
#6634 0.000001 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy

Journalism

#109 0.000821 Bloomberg Opinion
#150 0.000912 The Intercept
#169 0.000788 The Dispatch
#306 0.000537 Wall Street Journal
#515 0.000184 The New York Post
#856 0.000174 Foreign Policy
#1018 0.000183 The New York Times
#1613 0.000002 The Information
#1679 0.000079 The Atlantic
#2147 0.000002 Stat News
#2323 0.000001 OANN
#2327 0.000001 Newsmax
#2495 0.000002 The Verge
#3093 0.000002 The Economist
#3511 0.000008 Palladium Magazine
#3708 0.000002 CNBC
#3808 0.000002 The Daily Beast
#3853 0.000016 The Los Angeles Times
#4659 0.000002 Wired
#4669 0.000003 Reuters
#4991 0.000002 Financial Times
#5633 0.000002 BuzzFeed
#6979 0.000004 Washington Post
#7132 0.000002 VICE
#9445 0.000001 Recode
#9993 0.000001 Techcrunch

Venture Capital

#194 0.000514 Bessemer
#364 0.000413 Village Global
#809 0.000187 Initialized Capital
#1246 0.000002 Standard Crypto
#1309 0.000002 Founders Fund
#1352 0.000094 Khosla Ventures
#1417 0.000014 Y Combinator
#1747 0.000002 Accel
#1853 0.000071 A16Z
#2144 0.000002 Sequioa
#3437 0.000001 My Climate Journey
#3584 0.000001 Index Ventures
#3657 0.000001 Sutter Hill Ventures
#4044 0.000001 Benchmark Capital
#4315 0.000001 Homebrew

system

#1168 0.000139 Think Tanks
#4381 0.000067 Baseline
#8762 0.000037 Reality-Based Community

Crypto

#1263 0.000002 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#1388 0.000002 Crypto Political Economy
#1445 0.000002 Polkadot
#2101 0.000054 Crypto VC
#2626 0.000001 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#3360 0.000019 Crypto Infrastructure
#3596 0.000001 Crypto Angels
#3673 0.000001 Crypto Journalists
#3718 0.000001 Cosmos
#3912 0.000008 Crypto Investing
#4280 0.000017 IDEO Founder Collective
#4578 0.000001 Public Goods Funding
#4665 0.000001 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#5209 0.000002 Decentralized Web
#6168 0.000001 Ethereum

Science

#836 0.000018 Philosophy Twitter
#1806 0.000002 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3988 0.000002 Epidimiology Twitter
#4341 0.000003 Epidemiology Journalism
#4931 0.000015 Biotech
#5861 0.000010 EconTwitter

Informal Community

#9901 0.000010 Founders

Software Engineering

#1386 0.000002 Rust
#2490 0.000001 Zig

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