adamwerbach
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media/TV showrunner, tech startups, Amazon, TROVE(yerdle), former president, Sierra Club. Opinions are my own.G
San Francisco, CA
Joined January 2009
The data from San Francisco’s comeback is in. This is fully a trend not just a blip. More at
transparentsf.com
What's actually changing in San Francisco? We scan 170,000 civic data streams monthly to find out. Crime, housing, business, and more. Citywide reports and district-level deep dives. Click to read...
Notably crime is dropping in SF *faster* than any other major city in the US. This isn’t just a macro trend, we made changes and they are working.
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I’m hearing that @brown shooting is at Barus & Holley — physics and engineering building.
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I am in favor of progress. It has made life immeasurably better. With that said, a sustainable economy requires that everyone have a stake in the future. More work needs to be done. I don't want to slow down change. I want to speed up our planning so everyone has a stake.
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“What has remained unchanged is an abiding faith in the power of the human spirit, technology, and modernization to remake our worlds and a determination to remain intellectually honest, epistemically open, and politically unclassifiable.” https://t.co/JwW2E13XQh
breakthroughjournal.org
A few weeks ago, I was reminiscing about the Death of Environmentalism controversy with Adam Werbach.
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Congratulations to @atrembath and @TedNordhaus for this next evolutionary step for @TheBTI - few organizations have had such an outsize impact on the transformation of conventional wisdom.
10 years ago this month, we announced that Michael Shellenberger was leaving @TheBTI. Breakthrough has transformed significantly since then. Today I'm pleased to announce the next step in that evolution. On Jan. 1, @atrembath will become the executive director and I will move
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Rent is up. Groceries are up. Now Mount Sinai wants to raise health care costs by over $1B, forcing higher premiums and medical bills on New York families.
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10 years ago this month, we announced that Michael Shellenberger was leaving @TheBTI. Breakthrough has transformed significantly since then. Today I'm pleased to announce the next step in that evolution. On Jan. 1, @atrembath will become the executive director and I will move
breakthroughjournal.org
A few weeks ago, I was reminiscing about the Death of Environmentalism controversy with Adam Werbach.
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Latest rundown on the state of San Francisco -- check it out --
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Here's the latest edition of a data-centric look at SF that we've been building. September 2025: The Mission Miracle? Crime Falls Sharply in the Mission and the Rest of the City @robjective
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Check out the latest TransparentSF monthly newsletter that delves into San Francisco data. August 2025: Traffic Enforcement Surges as Speed Cameras Go Live
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We can’t achieve “abundance” without the doers in the room. Policy goals are great, but if the engineers, builders, and operators aren’t in the room while we are having these conversations, we’ll be stuck with ideas that never leave the page.
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This type of fear-mongering does not help point the public towards solutions @BezosEarthFund
DO NOT, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, DISCUSS GOOD TIMES WHEN TALKING ABOUT SUMMER
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Any game devs or designers excited about AI and want to do a game jam? We’re offering $7K in prizes for the most delightful combination-based AI games. Sign-ups are open now, jam kicks off August 8th. 👾 https://t.co/eMIoEbYSNr
itch.io
A game jam from 2025-08-09 to 2025-08-19 hosted by Playful AI. Seven days. Infinite possibilities. Real rewards. Turn simple combinations into endless discovery. -----------------------------------...
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For those of you on Substack -- check out our new project Transparent SF. TL;DR: CRIME IS WAY DOWN IN SF!
transparentsf.com
Crime has been dropping sharply all year, and June pushed both property and violent crime to multi-year (or even multi-decade) lows. Is crime in SF finally under control?
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Crime is down in SF! We're just about to publish the rundown of June data for SF -- here's a little preview that focuses on SF's remarkable drop in 911 calls for drug overdoses in June.
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Yes! Give cities the tools they need. Proud of SF @DanielLurie
Today we officially gave AI technology to 30,000 city employees, giving them tools to better serve the people of San Francisco. San Francisco is the global home of AI, and now, we’re putting that innovation to work for the people of this city. Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat is
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Why are people so scared of innovation in political parties? We’ve already experienced the downside.
Another dumb story by political insiders talking to themselves. ‘Tech guys should leave it to the professionals’. The same ones who gave us Biden and Kamala? Or do they mean the professionals got Trump elected? Confused!
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Full Self Driving Supervised drives like the best chauffeur imaginable Try it yourself at a nearby Tesla location
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ChatGPT eating the web.
ChatGPT is now a global top 5 website by traffic Also the only one in the top 10 still on the rise (via @Similarweb)
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This is quite amazing. In a period when venture has struggled @ycombinator has found a way to pick and grow winners. H/t @garrytan
Of startups worth $5B+ started since 2012, Y Combinator was seed investor 20% of them (I'm also quite proud of @Initialized as seed co-lead for 3 of those too!)
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Congrats @reidhoffman — such a positive read. Get your copy.
My new book, Superagency, is out today! The book makes a case for how AI will amplify our human abilities and help us build a brighter future. Amidst all the AI doomerism, I hope Superagency gets you excited about where we're headed.
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