# Progress links and tweets, 2022-07-27

**Opportunities**
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*   [Arcadia Science launches an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) program](https://jobs.lever.co/arcadiascience/36090acd-7dfa-4d80-ab21-fdc37d940b9c) (thread from [@ArcadiaScience](https://twitter.com/ArcadiaScience/status/1549439425150537728))
*   [The Longevity Prize goes to “outstanding progress in longevity research”](https://www.longevityprize.com/) (announcement from [@allisondman](https://twitter.com/allisondman/status/1549816317842141184))
*   [Nicole Ruiz is making a list of opportunities in frontier tech](https://twitter.com/nwilliams030/status/1549552454345302016) (@nwilliams030)
*   And don’t forget that [The Roots of Progress is seeking a CEO](https://rootsofprogress.org/seeking-a-ceo)! Thanks to [Max Roser](https://twitter.com/MaxCRoser/status/1549337080769265668) and [Virginia Postrel](https://twitter.com/vpostrel/status/1549132007245893632), among others, for signal-boosting

**Announcements**
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*   [UK’s new Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) adds Matt Clifford as chairman and Ilan Gur as CEO](https://www.gov.uk/government/news/innovation-heavyweights-appointed-to-lead-new-advanced-research-and-invention-agency). Gur will [step down as CEO of Activate](https://www.activate.org/ilan-gur-to-lead-uk-innovation-agency). See also threads from [@matthewclifford](https://twitter.com/matthewclifford/status/1549302134574825472) and [@ilangur](https://twitter.com/ilangur/status/1549287199631216640). Congrats to all!
*   [Boom announces the new design for its supersonic airplane, Overture](https://boomsupersonic.com/flyby/post/its-about-time-for-a-bold-new-era-of-supersonic-flight)

**Articles and talks**
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*   [Works in Progress Issue #8 with articles from Stewart Brand, Jason Collins, and more](https://www.worksinprogress.co/#issue-8)
*   [“Large changes in productivity are always widely shared”](https://betonit.substack.com/p/incidence-not-insanity) (Bryan Caplan)
*   [Can exponential growth occur if productivity is the best draw from a probability distribution?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl2R63atyAE) A talk by Chad Jones (fairly technical)
*   [A DNA origami rotary ratchet motor](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04910-y) (*Nature*, h/t [@s\_r\_constantin](https://twitter.com/s_r_constantin/status/1550219339848159232))

**Quotes**
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*   [Maps were originally created through the blood, sweat and tears of field agents](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1550250947053760514)
*   [“Raise the social status of scientists”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1551375872690634754)
*   [The importance of skilled mechanics to early locomotives](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1550311701333114882)
*   [Modern facilities added ~3x to the consumer value of housing](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1550934690793766918)
*   [Childhood in the 19th century](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1550681636186062849)

**Queries**
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*   [What’s the best CO2 monitor?](https://twitter.com/_brianpotter/status/1551229838735941634) (@_brianpotter)

**Threads**
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*   [Charles Mann calls for industrial literacy in high school](https://twitter.com/CharlesCMann/status/1549441366920273920) (@CharlesCMann). See my take on “[industrial literacy](https://rootsofprogress.org/industrial-literacy)” and the [high school progress course](https://progressstudies.school/) I created
*   [Some potential use-cases for crypto](https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1548292354318036995) (@SBF_FTX)
*   [Software + web tech recapitulating the institutions and ideals of the Enlightenment](https://twitter.com/arbesman/status/1549072817479892992) (@arbesman)
*   [It turns out, nobody ever wanted to work](https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1549527748950892544) (@paulisci)

**Tweets & retweets**
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*   [RIP Dee Hock, creator of Visa](https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1550546772023357441) (@patrickc)
*   [“The Roman Empire was not run out of offices”](https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1550648166361362432) (Marc Andreessen on *Conversations with Tyler*)
*   [The reason we don’t have fusion is we never decided it was a priority](https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1549193273562091520) (@tobi)

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