Bravo on an interesting area and a disciplined approach.<p>I feel like I can relate to this effort.<p>In 1999 was really curious about the question what is progress? I own and used to write at <a href="https://whatisprogress.com/" rel="nofollow">https://whatisprogress.com/</a> (most recent stuff focuses on AI, but writing and academia not my strength). I spend my time at startups on in "social impact". It's an easy story to tell about why mental health, ed tech and climate can contribute to humanity's progress.<p>I've been looking for a definition that's outside capitalism, but more rigorous and quantitative than social science's. Generally, I like Musks' and others definition of progress around maximizing the size and distribution of consciousness and survivable outcomes for humanity.<p>A lot of startups that "simply" improve transaction efficiency at scale contribute to abundance but get trapped straddling the world of capital and separately social impact efforts. A more wholistic set of principles than a B-Corp or foundation would be good. I like social impact investing as a lever, but the framework for evaluating success much harder than capitalism.