jasoncrawford(Jason Crawford)

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Founder, The Roots of Progress (rootsofprogress.org). Part-time tech consultant, Our World in Data. Former software engineering manager and tech startup founder.

Reflections on six months of fatherhood

jasoncrawford31 Jan 2022 5:28 UTC

385 points

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Industrial literacy

jasoncrawford30 Sep 2020 16:39 UTC

294 points

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Precognition

jasoncrawford14 Jun 2021 0:38 UTC

229 points

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Why haven’t we celebrated any major achievements lately?

jasoncrawford17 Aug 2020 20:34 UTC

194 points

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Technological stagnation: Why I came around

jasoncrawford23 Jan 2021 22:05 UTC

192 points

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How factories were made safe

jasoncrawford12 Sep 2021 19:58 UTC

181 points

46 comments18 min readLW link 1 review

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Things that can kill you quickly: What everyone should know about first aid

jasoncrawford27 Dec 2022 16:23 UTC

166 points

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Making every researcher seek grants is a broken model

jasoncrawford26 Jan 2024 16:06 UTC

150 points

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The bonds of family and community: Poverty and cruelty among Russian peasants in the late 19th century

jasoncrawford28 Nov 2021 17:22 UTC

149 points

36 comments15 min readLW link 1 review

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Why has nuclear power been a flop?

jasoncrawford16 Apr 2021 16:49 UTC

144 points

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Why didn’t we get the four-hour workday?

jasoncrawford6 Jan 2023 21:29 UTC

137 points

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How to slow down scientific progress, according to Leo Szilard

jasoncrawford5 Jan 2023 18:26 UTC

134 points

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The 300-year journey to the covid vaccine

jasoncrawford9 Nov 2020 23:06 UTC

122 points

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Who regulates the regulators? We need to go beyond the review-and-approval paradigm

jasoncrawford4 May 2023 22:11 UTC

122 points

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The lessons of Xanadu

jasoncrawford7 Aug 2022 17:59 UTC

109 points

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Why did we wait so long for the threshing machine?

jasoncrawford29 Jun 2021 19:55 UTC

104 points

20 comments12 min readLW link 1 review

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A review of Where Is My Flying Car? by J. Storrs Hall

jasoncrawford6 Nov 2020 20:01 UTC

103 points

23 comments11 min readLW link

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Turning air into bread

jasoncrawford21 Oct 2019 17:50 UTC

103 points

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How counting neutrons explains nuclear waste

jasoncrawford30 May 2021 18:10 UTC

100 points

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Instant stone (just add water!)

jasoncrawford13 Nov 2019 22:33 UTC

99 points

27 comments4 min readLW link 3 reviews

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