Submissions by jasoncrawford

Exponential Growth Is the Baseline

Who is Scott Alexander and what is he about?

Technological stagnation: Why I came around

When life was literally full of crap

What is protein folding? A brief explanation

The 300-year journey to the Covid vaccine

A Review of Where Is My Flying Car?, By J. Storrs Hall

Technology and Its Side Effects

Some Elements of Industrial Literacy

The Rise and Fall of American Growth: A Summary

Industrial Literacy

Progress: Fluke or Trend?

Progress studies: many hard questions

Indignation in Response to the 1890 Census

19th-Century Progress Studies

Why haven't we celebrated any major achievements lately?

Crowdfunding a Transcontinental Railroad in 1857

How to analyze progress, stagnation, and low-hanging fruit

Pasteur's Quadrant

Shuttling between science and invention: What we can learn from the transistor

Progress Studies for Young Scholars, an online high school summer program

My current obsession: funding for research

How can nonprofits gain the advantages of the for-profit model? Five ideas

Why anything that can be for-profit, should be