# Progress links and tweets, 2022-08-17

**Opportunities**
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*   [Long Now is looking for a Development Director](https://longnow.org/jobs/#development-director) (via [@nicholaspaul26](https://twitter.com/nicholaspaul26/status/1558120994723676161))
*   [Open Phil is hiring global health R&D Program Officers](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/openphilanthropy/57653277-f48d-43a9-89f4-00eec8bc3011) (via [@JacobTref](https://twitter.com/JacobTref/status/1558189285144027141))

**Links**
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*   [“ARIA will be ambitious in everything it does. We will fund nothing incremental or cosmetic”](https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/08/11/the-bosses-of-britains-new-research-agency-explain-its-innovations) (Ilan Gur and Matt Clifford in *The Economist*)
*   [Peter Higgs (of the Higgs boson) believes that in academia today “he would not be considered ‘productive’ enough”](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-boson-academic-system) (*The Guardian*, 2013)
*   [Dietrich Vollrath on the “additive growth” paper](https://growthecon.com/feed/2022/08/09/Additive.html). See also [my take](https://rootsofprogress.org/is-growth-linear-not-exponential)
*   [Gov. Newsom proposes keeping Diablo Canyon open through 2035](https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-08-12/california-could-lend-pg-e-1-4-billion-to-save-the-diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant) (*LA Times*)
*   [“For why should we stand reverent before waterfalls and mountain tops, or a summer moon on a quiet sea, and not before the highest miracle of all—a man who is both great and good?”](https://www.will-durant.com/heroes.htm) (Will Durant)

**Queries**
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*   [Has anybody compiled a timeline of greatest global concerns?](https://twitter.com/Ben_Reinhardt/status/1557005070213971974) (@Ben_Reinhardt)
*   [What’s the best way to reduce operations and maintenance costs for nuclear reactors?](https://twitter.com/GovNuclear/status/1558084489091375104) (@GovNuclear)

**Quotes**
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*   [Is the decline of the independent inventor part of “ideas getting harder to find?”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1558477915691548673)
*   [The reactionary or “stasist” mindset according to Virginia Postrel](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1558484198117330945)
*   [To produce a single book in the middle ages took a whole team of specialist craftsmen](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1558478749921853440)
*   [By horse and carriage, the ~100 miles between London and Birmingham took almost 8 hours](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1558482430813786114). (In a reply, [@timleunig says the greater speed of trains was worth more than 10% of GDP by 1914](https://twitter.com/timleunig/status/1558502525988442115))
*   [People were ecstatic upon the completion of the transatlantic telegraph cable](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1558481329444061185)
*   [Elevators, conveyors, chutes and tubes—Amazon in 2022? Nope, Sears in 1906](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1558481009099898881)
*   [Heny Ford explains how electricity revolutionized manufacturing](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1558486305272741889)
*   [The importance of research freedom to Alexander Graham Bell](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1558486068181307392)
*   [God gave us Maxwell’s equations. Edison made the light bulb](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1558961657841422342)
*   [China adopted elements of German civil law to create a market economy](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1558479404203909122)
*   [Exports as an “unfortunate sacrifice”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1558484753510277128)
*   [Women’s suffrage in the US was a very close vote](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1558483678652776451)
*   [Physics envy](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1558939121246081024)

**Tweets and retweets**
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*   [This Venn diagram may be the best way to understand the FRO concept](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1557066145668034560)
*   [There isn’t a modern world without mining](https://twitter.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1557788493769687041) (@Leigh_Phillips)
*   [RIP David McCullough](https://twitter.com/curiouswavefn/status/1556785510827192326) (@curiouswavefn)
*   [“When am I ever going to need history?”](https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1556710735471955970) (@BretDevereaux)
*   [NEPA reform is not mainly about Environmental Impact Statements](https://twitter.com/elidourado/status/1558150611929022465) (@elidourado)
*   [Environmentalism is the main obstacle to infill housing in CA](https://twitter.com/CSElmendorf/status/1558261164378767362) (@CSElmendorf)
*   [Mistakes become very hard to fix once they’re embodied in jobs](https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1558550786182770688) (@paulg)
*   [How do you decide what to build? It’s about what are you best in the world at & can’t tolerate not building](https://twitter.com/celinehalioua/status/1557735749453094918) (@celinehalioua)
*   [My advice on the “train to crazy town”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1557535108525002754)

**Charts**
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*   [Federal environmental laws and executive orders affecting transportation over time](https://twitter.com/_brianpotter/status/1557693350765019138) (@_brianpotter)

[![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZ4FfCCXkAAJAZC.jpg)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZ4FfCCXkAAJAZC.jpg)

*   [Pictures of molecules taken on an ordinary light microscope using expansion microscopy](https://twitter.com/eboyden3/status/1555930772443262978) (@eboyden3)

[![](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZfGF8BUsAAViqK.jpg)](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZfGF8BUsAAViqK.jpg)