Patrick Collison Wednesday; video of Tyler Cowen

Upcoming: Patrick Collison, Max Roser, Deirdre McCloskey, Joel Mokyr

Upcoming schedule for “The Torch of Progress”, the speaker series of Progress Studies For Young Scholars (all times Pacific):

• Patrick Collison: Wed, Jun 17, 5pm

• Max Roser: Wed, Jun 24, 10am

• Deirdre McCloskey: Thu, Jul 2, 10am

• Joel Mokyr: Wed, July 8, 10am (NEW! mark your calendar, registration link coming soon)

Live events open to the public, please register! Many more to come.

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Video: Tyler Cowen on progress, stagnation and complacency

The Torch of Progress, Episode 2

In the second episode of The Torch of Progress, I talked to Tyler Cowen, “the godfather of progress studies”, to ask him about progress, stagnation, complacency, progress studies itself, and his experiences with Emergent Ventures and Fast Grants.

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Teasing apart the S-curves

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

Is progress slowing down? If so, what’s causing it? Both of these questions can get confused if we don’t tease apart the S-curves:

https://rootsofprogress.org/teasing-apart-the-s-curves

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Interview: Neoliberal Podcast

Jeremiah Johnson interviewed me for the Neoliberal Podcast. In addition to the usual topics we got a bit into my evolving views on the major drivers of progress and where we might be falling short today. Find it on Apple Podcasts.

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Interview: Mr. Bright Side

Matthew Boulton interviewed me for his podcast Mr. Bright Side. Watch the video above or find the audio on Apple Podcast. Or see these bite-sized video excerpts:

• Overview of Progress Studies for Young Scholars

• Funding models

• What is progress?

• Safety as a technology

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Stripe Press to provide science & engineering books to Progress Studies for Young Schola

I’m pleased to announce that Stripe Press has offered to give two classic books on science and engineering to the first one hundred students who enroll in Progress Studies for Young Scholars:

• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, by Richard Hamming, a Turing award winner who worked at Bell Labs and on the Manhattan Project

• The Dream Machine, a biography of computing pioneer J. C. R. Licklider, by M. Mitchell Waldrop

These books will help inspire our students to their own great achievements in science and engineering. We’re grateful to Stripe for donating them.

Apply to the program, or share this link with teens you know: progressstudies.school