Below is a list of links to progress-related content on the Internet. Check them out!
Websites
- Our World in Data (fabulous source of graphics and quantitative data related to progress)
- Human Progress (videos, news and essays related to progress)
- Gapminder (focuses on developing nations)
- The Progress Network (essays by a wide variety of authors)
- Warp News (news that avoids the negativity bias of traditional media)
- Reasons to Be Cheerful
- FreeThink
- Works in Progress
- Future
Blogs/Substack/Medium etc.
- From Poverty to Progress (this site)
- Risk + Progress
- Progress Studies
- FutureCrunch
- Bill Gates
- Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley (politics, science and progress)
- Marginal Revolution by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok (economics and progress)
- Roots of Progress by Jason Crawford
- New Things Under the Sun (technological innovation)
- Matt Clancy (technological innovation)
- Cold Takes
- Tony Morley
- Applied Divinity Studies (more focused on philosophical issues)
- Erik Torenberg
- Ben Reinhardt
- Anton Howes (focuses on British history and industrialization)
- Kris Gulati
- Dominic Cummings
- Michael Goff (focusing on energy and urban design)
- Nintil
- LessWrong
- Eli Dourado
- Where is my Flying Car?
- High Modernism
- New Savanna by Bill Benzon
- Rachel Laudan (food and progress)
- Reaction Wheel by Jerry Neumann (business/investing and progress)
Book Summaries of key books on progress
- “From Poverty to Progress: How Humans Invented Progress, and How We Can Keep It Going” by Michael Magoon (me!)
- “Factfulness: Why Things are Better Than You Think” by Hans Rosling
- “Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know” by Bailey and Tupy
- “Enlightenment Now” by Steven Pinker
- “The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves” by Matt Ridley
- “Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future” by Johan Norberg
- “Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals” by Tyler Cowen
- “Future Perfect: The Case for Progress In a Networked Age” by Steven Johnson
- “Abundance: The Future Is Better than You Think” by Diamandis and Kotler
- “More From Less” by Andrew McAfee
- “The Progress Paradox” by Gregg Easterbrook
Key books on progress
- “From Poverty to Progress: How Humans Invented Progress, and How We Can Keep It Going” by Michael Magoon (me!)
- “Factfulness: Why Things are Better Than You Think” by Hans Rosling
- “Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know” by Bailey and Tupy
- “Enlightenment Now” by Steven Pinker
- “The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves” by Matt Ridley
- “Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future” by Johan Norberg
- “Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals” by Tyler Cowen
- “Future Perfect: The Case for Progress In a Networked Age” by Steven Johnson
- “Abundance: The Future Is Better than You Think” by Diamandis and Kotler
- “More From Less” by Andrew McAfee
- “The Progress Paradox” by Gregg Easterbrook
Communities
- Progress Studies Slack channel