new from me for @WorksInProgMag: how France achieved the world’s fastest nuclear buildout
I tell the story of how France defied the global backlash against nuclear power by aligning local incentives, embracing standardisation and abandoning a failed domestic design. 🧵
40K Followers 3K FollowingFounder, @rootsofprogress. Working to build the progress community and movement. On book-writing sabbatical, trying not to check Twitter including DMs
80K Followers 1K FollowingDeputy Editor @OurWorldinData / Researcher at @UniofOxford / Honorary Fellow at @EdinburghUni @EdCentreCC / Not the End of the World: https://t.co/FoINhggvoR
109K Followers 6K FollowingSearching for the numinous
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Research @AsteraInstitute
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10K Followers 2K FollowingHousing affordability wonk & number cruncher. Formerly director @pricedoutuk. Also Arnie films, mysterious polls, & pictures of my dinner
98K Followers 2K FollowingWall Street editor @TheEconomist. Money Talks pod co-host, Buttonwood column co-author. Just a lad from Leeds with a lust for markets, economics and history.
60K Followers 3K FollowingDirector of @CPSThinkTank, EIC of @CapX, Sunday columnist for @thetimes, author of 'The Great Acceleration'. Politics, policy and parenting.
24K Followers 3K FollowingGeopolitics, prediction markets. If you think I'm wrong, community note me. Capital case tweets are literal, others less. I like most people when I meet them.
89K Followers 892 FollowingChief economist at @InnovateEconomy. Host of the EconTwitter Water Cooler, live on twitter spaces and downloadable here: https://t.co/toyjfDruRu
90 Followers 951 FollowingPhD student at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @cmmid_lshtm
Using mathematical models to understand the spread of infectious diseases.
51 Followers 317 FollowingHeuristics over Principles. Practitioners over Intellectuals. Skeptics over Ideologues. Luck over Skill. Carrots over Sticks.
1K Followers 1K FollowingComms Manager at @ImpUrbanHealth, focusing on air pollution and making cities better places to live. Views are my own. Bluesky: @patrickjalee.bsky.social
203 Followers 1K FollowingTweeting and retweeting things I find interesting.
Descripivist not prescriptivist.
Authorial Intent Matters.
Form follows function.
377 Followers 3K FollowingKali Akuno and Cooperation Jackson is great. So is Gar Alperovitz and the Cleveland Model. Chicago DSA is nice. Trade Unionist.
102 Followers 480 FollowingConnoisseur of poetry, philosophy and parody accounts. Life or imitation, which one is better? Many Elons follow me. I like prime numbers #IStandWithGlinner
79 Followers 622 Followingit is time to do what we have been doing, and that time is every day
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769 Followers 983 FollowingЗаранее извиняюсь перед всеми кого чем нибудь оскорбил.
Узнаю интересное, безумствую, пишу программы, уже почти что не ненавижу себя.
Имею ADHD/GAD.
2K Followers 807 FollowingIncoming Political Economy PhD at @UChicago. Studying urban economics, public goods and housing, as always. Eternal LVT Hater.
51K Followers 490 FollowingCo-founder of The Long Now Foundation--which takes no sides. In this forum, as a private person, I do take sides occasionally.
16K Followers 3K FollowingL.A. writer @WorksinProgMag THE FABRIC OF CIVILIZATION @BasicBooks. POWER OF GLAMOUR, SUBSTANCE OF STYLE, FUTURE & ITS ENEMIES https://t.co/lO0ECC3o1W