Jason Crawford (jasoncrawford.eth)

Jason Crawford

Founder, The Roots of Progress (rootsofprogress.org). On book-writing sabbatical, trying not to check social media including DMs

1883 Followers

Recent casts

Instead of debating whether a technology is inherently good or bad, let’s discuss how to navigate new landscapes—and recognize the responsibility we all have to do so. A dynamic, agentic view of our relationship to technology, not a static, passive one https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/a-healthy-relationship-with-technology

  • 1 reply
  • 6 recasts
  • 51 reactions

The Techno-Humanist Manifesto, Chapter 10: The Grand Project Progress is a grand project for humanity: one with an illustrious past and a glorious future. And its heroes are the scientist, the inventor, and the founder https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/the-grand-project

  • 0 replies
  • 1 recast
  • 4 reactions

Flush with the grand success of reason and science to improve human life, the 20th century stumbled into some critical errors. The resulting crisis of optimism posed a mortal challenge to the idea of progress: https://newsletter.rootsofprogress.org/p/the-spirit-we-lost-part-2

  • 0 replies
  • 1 recast
  • 8 reactions

Top casts

A lot of success in life comes down to: • Cultivate the taste/judgment to recognize an excellent opportunity when it comes along • Bounce around a lot; increase your surface area to luck & serendipity • Have the confidence and initiative to seize the moment when it arrives

  • 8 replies
  • 89 recasts
  • 153 reactions

Was in Mojave today for the first Boom supersonic flight test! Amazing accomplishment, after over a decade of work. Congrats to the entire team!

  • 7 replies
  • 29 recasts
  • 183 reactions

Join me in /books tomorrow for an AMA about progress in science and technology, the moral imperative of economic growth, and anything else you wanted to know about industrial civilization!

  • 0 replies
  • 27 recasts
  • 47 reactions

Onchain profile

Ethereum addresses