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Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦

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Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦

@amcafee

Author of "The Geek Way" and "More from Less;" coauthor of "The Second Machine Age;" proponent of human and planetary flourishing.

Cambridge, MA

Joined June 2008

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Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦
@amcafee
Mar 20, 2024
My most recent book is "The Geek Way" geekway.substack.com (Nobel Prize-winner) Bengt Holmstrom's Amazon review: "McAfee’s book is a breath of fresh air that brings several original perspectives on today’s start-up organizations and beyond. Highly recommended!"
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Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦
@amcafee
Mar 2, 2020
OK, apparently ML can now track individual fish in real time underwater: blog.x.company/introducing-ti…
GIF
Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦
@amcafee
Mar 30, 2018
This is my new favorite correction. vox.com/policy-and-pol…
Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦
@amcafee
Aug 12, 2016
Graphs like this make it REALLY hard to argue that the US healthcare system is relatively successful...
Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦
@amcafee
Jun 3, 2020
“We Must All Hang Together, or Most Assuredly, We Will All Hang Separately” - attributed to Ben Franklin at the signing of the Declaration of Independence
philip lewis
@Phil_Lewis_
Jun 2, 2020
To give you a sense of how many protesters are outside of the White House right now, 20 minutes after curfew:
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Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦
@amcafee
Oct 24, 2019
Terrible news. This increase in US air pollution —> ~10k extra early deaths since 2016. For comparison, that’s probably more than Chernobyl (see ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-d… ) nytimes.com/interactive/20…
What was the death toll from Chernobyl and Fukushima?
From ourworldindata.org
Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦
@amcafee
Jun 25, 2022
Further evidence that the world has flat stopped making sense
Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦
@amcafee
Apr 2, 2016
Bad news: events in politics are outpacing satire. Good news: events in science and technology are outpacing science fiction.
Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦
@amcafee
Mar 8, 2023
I love this example because it's so resistant to the standard doomer / degrowther arguments: The US didn't outsource any aspect of growing wheat, and yet we deeply decoupled growth in output from growth in inputs: not just land, but also...
Luke Smith
@luke_smith23
Mar 8, 2023
A hugely under-acknowledged development: “The 1.1 billion bushels of wheat the US harvested in 1950 required 84 million acres for cultivation. The 2 billion acres harvested in 2015 required 55 million acres—nearly twice as much yield from one-third fewer acres.” @EasterbrookG
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Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦
@amcafee
Nov 27, 2016
Current academic research = "busywork on a vast, almost incomprehensible scale"? wapo.st/1XrIODG
Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦
@amcafee
Apr 21, 2016
Wow. Most common surnames of Italian entrepreneurs: bit.ly/1PFUNp9
Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦
@amcafee
Apr 20, 2021
Amazingly enough, most of these jobs would be classified as “low-skilled”
Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦
@amcafee
Nov 20, 2020
I’ll speak for @erikbryn here. We’re thrilled to be chosen, and very flattered that alpha geeks @AndrewYang and @alexisohanian found our book valuable. Thanks!
Yang Gang Book Club
@YGBookClub
Nov 20, 2020
Are we enjoying this week's latest @YangSpeaks episode? @alexisohanian mentions what book turned him on to the affects of the 4th industrial revolution....@AndrewYang agrees. It's called The Second Machine Age by @erikbryn and @amcafee. Get your copy here! bookshop.org/a/14702/978039…
Andrew McAfee 🇺🇦
@amcafee
Sep 11, 2018
In class today, a solid majority of my MIT MBA students said they'd prefer to get a medical diagnosis from a human instead of a machine, even if they knew the human's diagnosis was going to be less accurate.