Today's Census Bureau report confirms that America's middle class is "disappearing," but it's because they have been moving up into higher-income groups. The share of US households making $100K+ (real $$$) has increased ~3X since 1967 census.gov/library/public… Michael R. Strain

E-bikes could be transformational. In OC, I'd guess maybe 10% of high school kids now ride e-bikes to school. They ride on the sidewalk to be safe--and police don't fine them. Let's change the laws to make this legal--especially along "stroads" too dangerous, with 55+ mph cars

My first piece as a Roots of Progress Institute fellow: Superstar cities come and go. Given that, you should spend more time cultivating superstardom in your own backyard. regions.substack.com/p/todays-backw…

If you work in communications and you want to have real impact, it's hard to think of a job where you'd have more. To make things better, we have to know how things are, and no one does that better than Our World in Data.

100%! I use Strava all the time to find new trails to run and routes to hike. And with more users it keeps getting better!

Today we’re opening applications for the 2024 cohort of The Roots of Progress Institute Blog-Building Intensive, an 8-week program for aspiring progress writers to start or grow a blog. Get into a regular writing habit, improve your writing, and build your audience fellowship.rootsofprogress.org/programs/

Announcing the 2024 Roots of Progress Institute Blog-Building Intensive, the second cohort of our 8-week program for aspiring progress writers to start or grow a blog. Learn about progress studies, get into a regular writing habit, improve your writing, and build your audience

Apply for this writing fellowship from our friends at Roots of Progress! We've greatly enjoyed working with Alex Telford, a fellow in the first cohort, on a piece that will be published in our second book.

Announcing Progress Conference 2024: Toward Abundant Futures Hosted by Roots of Progress Institute together with Foresight Institute Human Progress Institute for Humane Studies Institute for Progress Works in Progress Keynotes from Patrick Collison tylercowen Jason Crawford Steven Pinker Berkeley, Oct 18–19

Announcing The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, a book by me laying out my philosophy of progress. “Techno-humanism” is what I am calling that philosophy, a worldview founded on humanism and agency. To read it, follow me here or subscribe to my newsletter (link below).

We’re thrilled to introduce our 2024 Blog-Build Intensive Fellows! This year’s fellows are a group of 25 progress writers selected from a pool of over 350 applicants. They are founders, researchers, academics, policy-makers, capital allocators, and journalists from across the

The hypocrisy is glaring: the same regime that intentionally blinded peaceful ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ protesters in Iran is now offering medical care to Hezbollah operatives who lost their eyesight to pager explosions. Two years ago, when people took to the streets to peacefully

So inspiring!

The negative butterfly effect of EU regulations on tech is probably even worse than Joe Lonsdale makes it seem 🦋🔮 If PayPal was shut down, we would have never gotten companies like $TSLA, SpaceX, YouTube or $PLTR. But… we’d also never get the companies that grew out of those,

This is a prescription for re-enslaving women to domestic service, and ensuring that only the wealthy can live with the basic dignity of cleanliness. What is described here is exactly how we used to do laundry, and it was terrible. Laundry was difficult manual labor that took up

Yep-agency is empowering!