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Tim Urban

Tim Urban

@waitbutwhy

waitbutwhy.com

Writer, infant

358409 followers

Lens Rankings

Culture and Political Economy

#128 0.000808 Effective Altruism
#405 0.000446 Environmental Journalists
#491 0.000239 Rationality
#514 0.000358 Heterodox Academy
#554 0.000272 Bismark Analysis
#722 0.000221 Progress Studies
#761 0.000149 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#795 0.000158 The Long Now Foundation
#1441 0.000083 Works in Progress
#2808 0.000001 Schumacher Circle
#2829 0.000045 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#2855 0.000001 Fair Vote
#2874 0.000020 Social Epistemology
#2958 0.000001 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#2992 0.000001 Extinction Rebellion
#3031 0.000001 Existential Risks
#3059 0.000001 Claremont Institute
#3062 0.000001 Ecosocialism
#3110 0.000001 Sierra Clib
#3338 0.000001 350.org
#3516 0.000001 Environmental Defense Fund
#3655 0.000021 Persuasion Community
#4304 0.000016 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#5396 0.000010 Harper's Open Letter
#6319 0.000000 Climate Solutions
#6427 0.000000 RadicalxChange
#6722 0.000000 Populist Libertarians
#7375 0.000000 Black Lives Matter
#7990 0.000000 EFF
#9054 0.000000 Anarachists
#9665 0.000000 Moderate Conservatism

Venture Capital

#518 0.000308 Village Global
#570 0.000254 Initialized Capital
#1029 0.000127 Khosla Ventures
#1274 0.000111 A16Z
#2829 0.000001 Standard Crypto
#2873 0.000001 Founders Fund
#3305 0.000001 Accel
#3681 0.000001 Sequioa
#4140 0.000001 Y Combinator
#5476 0.000000 Bessemer
#5767 0.000000 My Climate Journey
#5984 0.000000 Sutter Hill Ventures
#6019 0.000000 Index Ventures
#6351 0.000000 Benchmark Capital
#6504 0.000000 Homebrew

Crypto

#491 0.000247 Crypto Angels
#1017 0.000066 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#1491 0.000082 Crypto VC
#1531 0.000063 Public Goods Funding
#2072 0.000034 Ethereum
#2437 0.000017 Decentralized Web
#2853 0.000001 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#2952 0.000001 Crypto Political Economy
#3022 0.000001 Polkadot
#3401 0.000026 IDEO Founder Collective
#3596 0.000010 Crypto Investing
#5082 0.000000 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)
#5986 0.000000 Crypto Journalists
#6029 0.000000 Cosmos
#7174 0.000003 Crypto Infrastructure

Think Tanks

#979 0.000166 Mercatus Center
#1664 0.000075 Niskanen Center
#3235 0.000001 RAND Corporation
#3289 0.000001 Belfer Center
#3478 0.000001 Urban Institute
#3700 0.000001 Heritage Foundation
#3761 0.000035 American Enterprise Institute
#3761 0.000035 National Bureau of Economic Research
#4128 0.000001 Cato Institute
#5109 0.000001 Atlantic Council
#6469 0.000000 Asia Society Policy Institute
#7063 0.000000 Berggruen Institute
#8118 0.000000 Earth Institute
#8816 0.000000 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#9112 0.000001 Adam Smith Institute

Journalism

#1664 0.000075 Foreign Policy
#3161 0.000001 The Information
#3204 0.000010 Palladium Magazine
#3676 0.000001 Stat News
#3996 0.000001 The Verge
#4607 0.000001 The Economist
#4817 0.000000 OANN
#4835 0.000000 Newsmax
#5206 0.000001 The Daily Beast
#5210 0.000001 CNBC
#6012 0.000001 Wired
#6467 0.000001 Financial Times
#6555 0.000013 Ars Technica
#6899 0.000013 New Yorker
#7009 0.000001 BuzzFeed
#7161 0.000000 The Intercept
#7342 0.000015 Bloomberg Opinion
#7618 0.000001 The Los Angeles Times
#8102 0.000002 The Dispatch
#8487 0.000001 VICE
#8740 0.000001 Techcrunch

Informal Community

#3216 0.000040 Founders

Science

#3371 0.000001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#3780 0.000001 Philosophy Twitter
#4394 0.000017 EconTwitter
#5435 0.000001 Epidimiology Twitter
#7918 0.000000 Epidemiology Journalism
#8298 0.000006 ClimateTwitter

Software Engineering

#2961 0.000001 Rust
#4978 0.000000 Zig

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