Sam Bowman
@sambowman.co
Editor of www.worksinprogress.co and head of publishing at Stripe. Just here to have fun.
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· Sep 17
Print - Works in Progress Magazine
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Works in Progress is now available as a print magazine. I think it's the most beautiful and readable magazine I've ever seen.
Subscribe today for $100/£75 to receive six beautiful, 120-page issues a year.
worksinprogress.co/print
Subscribe today for $100/£75 to receive six beautiful, 120-page issues a year.
worksinprogress.co/print
Works in Progress is now available as a print magazine. I think it's the most beautiful and readable magazine I've ever seen.
Subscribe today for $100/£75 to receive six beautiful, 120-page issues a year.
worksinprogress.co/print
Subscribe today for $100/£75 to receive six beautiful, 120-page issues a year.
worksinprogress.co/print
Print - Works in Progress Magazine
worksinprogress.co
September 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Works in Progress is now available as a print magazine. I think it's the most beautiful and readable magazine I've ever seen.
Subscribe today for $100/£75 to receive six beautiful, 120-page issues a year.
worksinprogress.co/print
Subscribe today for $100/£75 to receive six beautiful, 120-page issues a year.
worksinprogress.co/print
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The latest issue of Works in Progress is out today!
- One weird trick to build a metro
- The FDA's secret liberalisation of animal drugs
- How Japan builds infrastructure through cities
- Brain-computer interfaces
- How NZ invented inflation targeting
And more! worksinprogress.co
- One weird trick to build a metro
- The FDA's secret liberalisation of animal drugs
- How Japan builds infrastructure through cities
- Brain-computer interfaces
- How NZ invented inflation targeting
And more! worksinprogress.co
June 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The latest issue of Works in Progress is out today!
- One weird trick to build a metro
- The FDA's secret liberalisation of animal drugs
- How Japan builds infrastructure through cities
- Brain-computer interfaces
- How NZ invented inflation targeting
And more! worksinprogress.co
- One weird trick to build a metro
- The FDA's secret liberalisation of animal drugs
- How Japan builds infrastructure through cities
- Brain-computer interfaces
- How NZ invented inflation targeting
And more! worksinprogress.co
Works in Progress has (finally) come to podcasting. Our new series launched today, Hard Drugs, focuses on medical innovation – episode one is about a new drug that might allow us to eradicate HIV worldwide. It’s presented by Saloni Dattani and Jacob Trefethen.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
Works in Progress Podcast
Technology Podcast · Works in Progress is an online magazine devoted to new and underrated ideas about economic growth, scientific progress, and technology. Subscribe to listen to the Works in Progres...
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June 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Works in Progress has (finally) come to podcasting. Our new series launched today, Hard Drugs, focuses on medical innovation – episode one is about a new drug that might allow us to eradicate HIV worldwide. It’s presented by Saloni Dattani and Jacob Trefethen.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
I’ve found Claude’s “Projects” to be quite helpful for writing, since they allow you to keep research and writing help all in the same place. I hope they add some kind of notepad function as well and it could end up replacing Google Docs / Obsidian for my early drafts.
March 16, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I’ve found Claude’s “Projects” to be quite helpful for writing, since they allow you to keep research and writing help all in the same place. I hope they add some kind of notepad function as well and it could end up replacing Google Docs / Obsidian for my early drafts.
Posting this here because it seems like a great job people should see, working for @stuartjritchie.bsky.social at Anthropic. If you’re a brilliant writer on economics and society and want to help the world understand AI better, consider applying.
boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jo...
boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jo...
March 1, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Posting this here because it seems like a great job people should see, working for @stuartjritchie.bsky.social at Anthropic. If you’re a brilliant writer on economics and society and want to help the world understand AI better, consider applying.
boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jo...
boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jo...
I am no longer monitoring this website. Please follow me on x.com/s8mb for all the latest news and views from me!
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February 3, 2025 at 7:52 AM
I am no longer monitoring this website. Please follow me on x.com/s8mb for all the latest news and views from me!
Great post!
America should offer to buy Greenland from Greenlanders, not Denmark. And it would probably be a good deal to make every one a multimillionaire in exchange for the territory. Trump should rescind all threats and instead name a price--my column
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
An American purchase of Greenland could be the deal of the century
Donald Trump’s threat of force is unwise. Instead, he should come up with a price
www.economist.com
January 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Great post!
Great to have @jessesingal.com on the platform!
December 16, 2024 at 7:42 AM
Great to have @jessesingal.com on the platform!
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It’s widely accepted *that* less expensive housing markets see less homelessness, but this important piece shows *why*: family & friends have more space to spare worksinprogress.co/issue/why-ho...
Why housing shortages cause homelessness - Works in Progress
Why do high-cost cities have more homelessness? It's not just about rents — it’s also about the rooms friends and family can’t afford to share.
worksinprogress.co
December 5, 2024 at 6:18 PM
It’s widely accepted *that* less expensive housing markets see less homelessness, but this important piece shows *why*: family & friends have more space to spare worksinprogress.co/issue/why-ho...
What’s wrong with Britain’s economy? I appeared on the FT’s Economics Show with @soumayakeynes.bsky.social to talk about why banning investment in housing and infrastructure might be at the root of our problems. on.ft.com/3ZcCgwp
What’s wrong with Britain’s economy? With Sam Bowman
Is the UK failing to build for its future?
on.ft.com
November 28, 2024 at 6:20 PM
What’s wrong with Britain’s economy? I appeared on the FT’s Economics Show with @soumayakeynes.bsky.social to talk about why banning investment in housing and infrastructure might be at the root of our problems. on.ft.com/3ZcCgwp
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If you’re looking for a podcast today, make it this one! @sambowman.co discusses his coauthored lengthy “manifesto” ukfoundations.co
Lots of British problems are also Irish problems, especially regarding infrastructure and housing
Lots of British problems are also Irish problems, especially regarding infrastructure and housing
What’s wrong with Britain’s economy? With Sam Bowman
The Economics Show with Soumaya Keynes · Episode
open.spotify.com
November 28, 2024 at 10:20 AM
If you’re looking for a podcast today, make it this one! @sambowman.co discusses his coauthored lengthy “manifesto” ukfoundations.co
Lots of British problems are also Irish problems, especially regarding infrastructure and housing
Lots of British problems are also Irish problems, especially regarding infrastructure and housing
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OK, this is now Information I Can Discuss In Public, so: new project!
For the next ~year, I will be writing a living literature review on migration, a la @mattsclancy.bsky.social’s New Things Under the Sun and funded by Open Philanthropy
First post coming Tuesday on the Mariel Boatlift!
For the next ~year, I will be writing a living literature review on migration, a la @mattsclancy.bsky.social’s New Things Under the Sun and funded by Open Philanthropy
First post coming Tuesday on the Mariel Boatlift!
November 21, 2024 at 11:09 PM
OK, this is now Information I Can Discuss In Public, so: new project!
For the next ~year, I will be writing a living literature review on migration, a la @mattsclancy.bsky.social’s New Things Under the Sun and funded by Open Philanthropy
First post coming Tuesday on the Mariel Boatlift!
For the next ~year, I will be writing a living literature review on migration, a la @mattsclancy.bsky.social’s New Things Under the Sun and funded by Open Philanthropy
First post coming Tuesday on the Mariel Boatlift!
Good piece by Fred De Fossard (I presume a pseudonym) on the four laws that lead to people being jailed for unpleasant tweets and harassed by police for signs saying “Love Muslims, hate Islam”. Any future Conservative govt should plan to repeal these ASAP.
thecritic.co.uk/how-to-end-t...
thecritic.co.uk/how-to-end-t...
How to end the free speech crisis | Fred de Fossard | The Critic Magazine
The free speech crisis in Britain has become an international news story. To many — particularly American — observers, the defining image of modern Britain is the fact that the British state…
thecritic.co.uk
November 22, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Good piece by Fred De Fossard (I presume a pseudonym) on the four laws that lead to people being jailed for unpleasant tweets and harassed by police for signs saying “Love Muslims, hate Islam”. Any future Conservative govt should plan to repeal these ASAP.
thecritic.co.uk/how-to-end-t...
thecritic.co.uk/how-to-end-t...
The best thing about Bluesky is the restoration of high follower accounts to their rightful place as the most important accounts on the platform. Twitter’s egalitarianism under Musk, where a tweet by someone with 30 followers could go viral with enough engagement, was a Jacobinist disaster.
November 22, 2024 at 9:42 AM
The best thing about Bluesky is the restoration of high follower accounts to their rightful place as the most important accounts on the platform. Twitter’s egalitarianism under Musk, where a tweet by someone with 30 followers could go viral with enough engagement, was a Jacobinist disaster.
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Urbanists often look to places like zoning-free Houston, the private places of St Louis, and privately-developed exurban communities like Irvine. There we see rules about land use emerge between residents and via developers.
I wrote about another example.
theceme.substack.com/p/private-pl...
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I wrote about another example.
theceme.substack.com/p/private-pl...
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November 20, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Urbanists often look to places like zoning-free Houston, the private places of St Louis, and privately-developed exurban communities like Irvine. There we see rules about land use emerge between residents and via developers.
I wrote about another example.
theceme.substack.com/p/private-pl...
🧵
I wrote about another example.
theceme.substack.com/p/private-pl...
🧵
I'm amazed that inheritance tax is so popular with UK elites. It strikes me as being really appalling – distortionary, anti-investment, invasive, and undermining of one of the most basic motivations humans have, which is to provide for our children.
November 20, 2024 at 11:03 AM
I'm amazed that inheritance tax is so popular with UK elites. It strikes me as being really appalling – distortionary, anti-investment, invasive, and undermining of one of the most basic motivations humans have, which is to provide for our children.
Works in Progress is doing 'links posts' rounding up stuff that's new and interesting in various domains like urbanism, architecture, nuclear power, and infrastructure.
You can subscribe below and read our latest update on news in the world of "natalism".
www.worksinprogress.news/p/links-in-p...
You can subscribe below and read our latest update on news in the world of "natalism".
www.worksinprogress.news/p/links-in-p...
Links in Progress: What are children for?
And how the UN’s birth rate forecasts keep getting it wrong
www.worksinprogress.news
November 20, 2024 at 9:40 AM
Works in Progress is doing 'links posts' rounding up stuff that's new and interesting in various domains like urbanism, architecture, nuclear power, and infrastructure.
You can subscribe below and read our latest update on news in the world of "natalism".
www.worksinprogress.news/p/links-in-p...
You can subscribe below and read our latest update on news in the world of "natalism".
www.worksinprogress.news/p/links-in-p...
In the spirit of giving this app the old "college try", I've made a Progress Studies starter pack. I'm sure I've missed a lot of people.
go.bsky.app/R34NKJv
go.bsky.app/R34NKJv
November 20, 2024 at 8:26 AM
In the spirit of giving this app the old "college try", I've made a Progress Studies starter pack. I'm sure I've missed a lot of people.
go.bsky.app/R34NKJv
go.bsky.app/R34NKJv
I had a great time speaking with @ionaitalia.bsky.social about the simple tricks we need to do to restore British prosperity. Listen now!
quillette.com/2024/11/20/p...
quillette.com/2024/11/20/p...
Podcast #260: Making Britain Great Again
Iona Italia talks to Sam Bowman about how to combat the economic stagnation and excess bureaucracy that are currently preventing the UK from reaching its full potential.
quillette.com
November 20, 2024 at 7:49 AM
I had a great time speaking with @ionaitalia.bsky.social about the simple tricks we need to do to restore British prosperity. Listen now!
quillette.com/2024/11/20/p...
quillette.com/2024/11/20/p...
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We've revamped our page on the COVID-19 pandemic at Our World in Data!
Today, we published 2 new articles (below), updated our page & added new charts.
• 17 key charts to understand the COVID-19 pandemic
• How our team at Our World in Data became a global data source on COVID-19
Check it out:
Today, we published 2 new articles (below), updated our page & added new charts.
• 17 key charts to understand the COVID-19 pandemic
• How our team at Our World in Data became a global data source on COVID-19
Check it out:
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the world. Explore global data and research to understand its impact, spread, and global response.
ourworldindata.org
November 18, 2024 at 11:46 AM
We've revamped our page on the COVID-19 pandemic at Our World in Data!
Today, we published 2 new articles (below), updated our page & added new charts.
• 17 key charts to understand the COVID-19 pandemic
• How our team at Our World in Data became a global data source on COVID-19
Check it out:
Today, we published 2 new articles (below), updated our page & added new charts.
• 17 key charts to understand the COVID-19 pandemic
• How our team at Our World in Data became a global data source on COVID-19
Check it out:
Baby and dog at the pub.
November 15, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Baby and dog at the pub.
