# Progress links and tweets, 2022-05-30

*Trying a new experiment: a blog-post digest of my most relevant Twitter content. Let me know any feedback!*

**Links**
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*   [Our World in Data is looking for a Head of Product & Design](https://ourworldindata.org/head-of-product-and-design)
*   [Dan Elton is hosting a “Boston area progress studies roundtable discussion”](https://progressforum.org/events/XyqjQMGJWmYYjDogs/boston-area-progress-studies-roundtable-discussion)
*   [“The FDA has a long, long history of just hating people testing themselves.”](https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/05/testing-freedom.html)
*   [Matthew Dockrey reads the *Philosophical Transactions* and makes a video for each](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGI5C7c1UlXeZGQgkYab7ox_a_7TYRAW0)
*   [Misha Chellam on “broad YIMBYism.”](https://modernpower.substack.com/p/building-the-yimby-faction) And: [“Small-d democratic-citizen participation has led to profoundly regressive outcomes.”](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/san-francisco-bureaucracy-housing-crisis/629719/) (via [@hanlonbt](https://twitter.com/hanlonbt/status/1528178523407429633))

**Tweets**
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*   [A thread on the history of wheels and steering](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1530698408566005760) (I will probably blog this soon)
*   [We could use more blog posts summarizing and explaining academic papers](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1530756595667193858)
*   [Why we can’t have solar-powered cargo ships](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1529504475760578561)
*   [There is a pessimist argument that basically goes: “Yes, in the past, we invented many things. But, we cannot invent those things again.”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1530351505735176192)
*   [Bacon on defeatism vs. progress](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1529610578293100544)
*   [Before the car was a “horseless carriage,” the telephone was a “speaking telegraph”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1530052469652332546)
*   [Telegraph-based stock tickers were the “infinite scroll” of the 19th century](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1529222908521873408)
*   [Norman Borlaug’s gift to the world](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1529222709514850304)
*   [The proper attitude for university students according to Jacob Bronowski](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1531011510495068160)
*   [Vannevar Bush: “any well-conducted laboratory” has an atmosphere that “almost wholly banishes posing, jockeying for position, and evasiveness”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1531340491886940162)
*   [Our health organizations are not set up to deal with pandemics](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1529879673374617600)

**Retweets**
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*   [Examples of graphs like this for other technologies?](https://twitter.com/eric_is_weird/status/1530679501000044545) (@eric\_is\_weird)

![](https://rootsofprogress.org/img/particle-accelerator-progress.jpg)

*   [If we don’t get a New Roaring ’20s, what went wrong?](https://twitter.com/JimPethokoukis/status/1529282303716999168) (@JimPethokoukis)
*   [Adversarial legalism is why we can’t build things anymore in the US](https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1530900027744391168) (@AlecStapp)
*   [“To don a pair of eyeglasses was to cheat old age”](https://twitter.com/krisgulati/status/1529879526603296768) (@krisgulati)
*   [James Watt and Adam Smith met in Glasgow as young men](https://twitter.com/dkedrosky/status/1530206987786412032) (@dkedrosky)
*   [The world is a museum of passion projects](https://twitter.com/collision/status/1529452415346302976) (@collision)
*   [Let’s stop saying “there is no evidence for X” and instead say “we are still gathering evidence to know whether X is true”.](https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1528372356405768194) (@Ayjchan) (@zeynep [agrees](https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1528425117310767110))
*   [One of the motivations for *Nature* was speed of communication. Another was establishing early credit. Today, that sounds like preprints](https://twitter.com/NeuroStats/status/1531010878736171009) (@NeuroStats)
*   [Von Neumann had an interesting style of dealing with people](https://twitter.com/curiouswavefn/status/1529991209174700033) (@curiouswavefn)