Roots of Progress Institute
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Building a culture of progress for the 21st century. Subscribe: https://t.co/72IjFgVdVk Support: https://t.co/xM6IPiohiz
Joined April 2017
Announcing a career exploration summer program for high school students: *Progress in Medicine* Learn from experts and be inspired by heroic work from the past to build an even better future. Now accepting applications
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Previously shared but related to American Dynamism and worth watching (again): Blake Scholl in conversation with Tyler Cowen | @bscholl & @tylercowen
https://t.co/Zhq4rxhJRx
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Future-Proof: How Regulators Can (And Must) Avoid Overfitting to Today's New Tech | @pronounced_kyle
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New industrial paradigms, anti-fragile and future-proof regulation, the case for hardtech, the grid as the bottleneck, and a call for US innovation in shipbuilding: the American Dynamism batch of talks from Progress Conference 2025, and some of the writing published afterwards.
newsletter.rootsofprogress.org
Talks and writing from Progress Conference 2025
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The links digest is back! Claude’s soul, industrial leapfrogging, slop from the 1700s, the genius of Jeff Dean, and much more Links and short notes, 2025-12-19:
newsletter.rootsofprogress.org
Claude’s soul, industrial leapfrogging, slop from the 1700s, the genius of Jeff Dean, and much more
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Great opportunity to help young people shape the future of global health and medicine! This summer program gives high school students a peek behind the scenes of how we made life longer and healthier, and how they might help drive the next wave of progress. Share with parents
Announcing a career exploration summer program for high school students: *Progress in Medicine* Learn from experts and be inspired by heroic work from the past to build an even better future. Now accepting applications
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When the cost of creation falls, the volume of production greatly expands, but the average quality necessarily falls. This overall process, however, will usher in a golden age of creativity and experimentation https://t.co/AKkB2ufwTI
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@celinehalioua @seehafer @AmeshAA @JacobSwett Share with parents and high school students in your network! Apply now; priority application deadline is February 8th, 2026: https://t.co/I4h8EwKBfI
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@celinehalioua @seehafer @AmeshAA @JacobSwett The central question for the program: “People today live longer, healthier, and less painful lives than ever before. Why? Who made those changes possible? Can we keep this going? And could you play a part?”
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@celinehalioua @seehafer @AmeshAA @JacobSwett 6-week program: 5 weeks online, 2 hours/day via Zoom 4 days in-residency hosted at Stanford dorms, with small-group tours to research labs and biotech companies in the Bay Area.
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@celinehalioua @seehafer @AmeshAA @JacobSwett Case studies explore a wide range of topics in medicine, from public health to infectious disease to research ethics to nutrition and obesity to longevity. Plus, learn practical tools and strategies for building a meaningful life and career.
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@celinehalioua @seehafer @AmeshAA @JacobSwett Meet in small groups with younger near-peer mentors working as doctors, nurses, researchers, health policy experts, and more. Our course instructor, Laura Mazer, is a surgeon-turned-educator and writer on the history of medicine.
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We have a fantastic group of expert advisors, including @celinehalioua (CEO, Loyal), @seehafer (FDA senior advisor), @AmeshAA (Senior Scholar, John Hopkins), and @JacobSwett (Executive Director, Blueprint Biosecurity)
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Indian factories are constrained by a dwindling resource: trust. I wrote in @rootsofprogress about how AI agents could solve this (and other associated problems), if they can navigate the politics.
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