# Progress links and tweets, 2022-06-08

Best of my Twitter, May 31–June 6 (a few days behind, still ironing out the process… For the latest, [follow me on Twitter: @jasoncrawford](https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=jasoncrawford).)

After [last time](https://rootsofprogress.org/links-and-tweets-2022-05-30) someone suggested embedding the tweets instead of linking to them, but I don't think I can post embeds here, and for my main blog I don't like the format as much. I’m sticking with links for now, but let me know if you’d rather scroll through a list of embeds ([like this](https://bestoftwitter.substack.com/p/best-of-twitter-week-of-may-23-2022?s=r)).

**Links**
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*   [A Reddit thread appreciating the engineering of everyday items](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/v35pc0/which_cheap_and_massproduced_item_is_stupendously/)
*   [Jim Pethokoukis’s “Up Wing” agenda](https://fasterplease.substack.com/p/-imagine-a-us-political-party-built?s=r)
*   [Arcadia Science is experimenting with a new way of publishing scientific work](https://research.arcadiascience.com/)
*   [Michael Nielsen on vision papers](https://scienceplusplus.org/visions/index.html)
*   [Ryan Petersen of Flexport talks to Tamara Winter about supply chains](https://share.transistor.fm/s/fc5ff1f8)
*   [Californians Against Pandemics is running a ballot initiative to invest in pandemic preparedness](https://www.californiansagainstpandemics.com/) (h/t [@NathanpmYoung](https://twitter.com/NathanpmYoung/status/1531563899945996288))
*   [High housing prices are driving low-skilled workers from high-productivity to low-productivity areas](https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/06/the-disconnet-between-wages-and-house-prices.html) (Alex Tabarrok)
*   [The B612 Foundation discovered more than 100 asteroids by analyzing years-old images](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/31/science/asteroids-algorithm-planetary-defense.html) (NYT)
*   [“Subsidiarity is a principle of social organization that holds that social and political issues should be dealt with at the most immediate (or local) level that is consistent with their resolution.”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsidiarity) (h/t [Stewart Brand](https://twitter.com/stewartbrand/status/1532180256064274432))

**Tweets**
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*   [The original NYC subway was completed faster than the average environmental impact statement](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1533268754150440962)
*   [How many of WIRED’s “boom spoiler” scenarios from 1997 came true?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1533675866982858754) (thread)
*   [Some reasons I am skeptical of “harmony with nature”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1532071179095224320) (thread)
*   [But for the US Army Corps of Engineers, the Mississippi would no longer flow through New Orleans](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1532430930207461376)
*   [Why we can’t have electric planes (yet)](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1533269703371767809)
*   [One standard deviation in rule of law is associated with a 6.4-fold difference in per capita income](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1533234279232118785)

![](https://rootsofprogress.org/img/koyama-rubin-rule-of-law-vs-gdp.jpg)

*   [McCloskey on “the idea that ideas about ideas are unscientific”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1531681435572109312)
*   [19th-century medicine would unabashedly rely on anecdotal evidence](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1532047819800035329)
*   [Vannevar Bush on the proper lab atmosphere](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1531340491886940162)
*   [Who are the real revolutionaries?](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1533659064617639936)
*   [In 1901 the market cap of the largest company was greater than the US national debt](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1533268413501546496)
*   [Bacon on how to do a proper case-control study](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1532797240590336001)
*   [Pixar founder Ed Catmull on how to see randomness as part of the beauty of life](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1533658884224737281)

**Retweets**
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*   [Suraj Patel has an abundance agenda](https://twitter.com/surajpatelnyc/status/1532004850862641154) (@SurajPatel)
*   [“It seemed to be more a criticism of everything bad phrased as a prediction of doom”](https://twitter.com/anderssandberg/status/1495388640238780418) (@anderssandberg)
*   [Productivity is the path to equity](https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/1533075236790337539) (@DKThomp)
*   [To learn from mistakes, you have to build at the right pace](https://twitter.com/stewartbrand/status/1532156374351638530) (@stewartbrand)