Jason Crawford

2 months ago | newsletter.rootsofprogress.org | Jason Crawford |Ethan Mollick |Tomas Pueyo |Noah Smith

2024 was a big year for me, and an even bigger year for the Roots of Progress Institute (RPI). For one, we became the Roots of Progress Institute (with a nice new logo and website). Here's what the org and I were up to this year. (My annual “highlights from what I read this year” are towards the end, if you're looking for that.)Progress Conference 2024, hosted by RPI together with several great co-presenters, was the highlight of my year, and I think some other people's too.

Sep 27, 2024 | newsletter.rootsofprogress.org | Jason Crawford

Previously: The Present Crisis; Fish in Water; The Surrender of the Gods, part 1 and part 2; Ode to Man. The per-capita GDP of Canada has increased about thirty-fold over the last two centuries, from $1,441 in 1820 to $45,530 in 2022 (adjusted for inflation). This is an enormous increase. Are Canadians enormously better off? That is, we’ve been assuming so far that material benefits improve human well-being. Do they? And if not, what’s the point of material progress?

Jul 23, 2024 | newsletter.rootsofprogress.org | Jason Crawford

Previously: The Present Crisis, Fish in Water. So far we have told the story of progress as one of humanity climbing out of poverty, isolation, disease and death into abundance, connectedness, health and safety. More fundamentally, it is a story of the expansion of human agency. Our primitive ancestors lived at the mercy of nature. They ate what food they found: what edible plants happened to be growing nearby, what game they could catch.

Jan 31, 2024 | blogs.cisco.com | Jason Crawford |Patricia Lopez

Cisco’s goal is to enable simplified operations with a platform aligned to domains that over time will converge into a unified solution delivered via our Cisco Networking Cloud vision.

Jan 15, 2024 | meraki.cisco.com | Jason Crawford

A Cisco Meraki leader chats with Forbes about the value of a cloud-first approach Reduced costs, increased scalability, and faster innovation are just some of the reasons why companies around the world are rapidly adopting a cloud-first strategy for their IT operations. However, with the rate of technological change today, businesses must be extremely strategic with their investments, and cloud-first is not a one-size-fits-all solution.