I've long been interested in new ways to organize science and enable curiosity-driven discovery. Today, in partnership with , , and , we're excited to announce Arc Institute, a new undertaking in this vein: arcinstitute.org.
Follow
Patrick Collison
@patrickc
Fallibilist, optimist. Stripe CEO. 
Patrick Collison’s Tweets
Implementing this algorithm on Twitter might be good for civilization.
25
31
824
Show this thread
I clicked on a Trump video to test this. The second comment is literally "I hope everything gets better for everyone".
7
10
355
Show this thread
How did YouTube make all the top-ranked comments wholesome and funny? And are those techniques generalizable?
93
124
1.6K
Show this thread
There's so much we can do here. At , we're looking for computational biologists who are excited to build at the intersection of software and biology! Currently particularly interested in protein language/design/engineering. Contact me or jobs@arcinstitute.org
1
16
59
Show this thread
A little personal news. As of today I'm Professor of Economics at the University of Limerick. I'm not here to humblebrag though. I want to tell you a story involving a friendly tractor, a Hugo Boss suit, and some shoes.
776
1.8K
13.7K
Show this thread
Topics to follow
Sign up to get Tweets about the Topics you follow in your Home timeline.
Carousel
Great interview with , who strikes me an intellectual Forest Gump, having seen and contributes to ~everything over the last ~70 years and still going strong:
2
6
67
Surprised this isn't making more news, but the world is about to hit 10 billion #Covid_19 vaccine doses. Most human beings have now had at least one.
10
71
269
Also very good: amazon.com/Upstart-Friend.
(Quick summary of his accomplishments: irishtimes.com/news/education.)
Quote Tweet
Very much enjoyed "The Future Years", covering history of Analog Devices in Limerick. Touches on industrial policy (Ireland's first semiconductor fab, enabled in part by IDA), long-term university partnerships, and management/organizational philosophies.
omahonys.ie/the-future-yea.
7
10
95
oh ya so i’m an editor for now (and devoting the majority of my time to metamorphosing )!
my goal is to increase human agency — both by sowing more inspiration seeds and foraging new pathways that enable the exchange of capital, connection, and belief
Quote Tweet
4/ Molly is the creator of @mothminds and a magical designer/writer. She’ll be focused on sourcing books about technology.
Saloni is a PhD student at King’s College London and the University of Hong Kong, and founding editor @WorksInProgMag. She’ll source books about science.
Show this thread
19
11
377
Show this thread
Stripe Press editors now the incredible dream team of , , and . 🤩 Please reach out to them with your proposals.
Quote Tweet
1/ 2.5 yrs ago I visited @stripe’s library (TY, @pioneerdotapp!).
I walked away with more books than I could carry (TY, @sashadem!) and an instant love for @stripepress—so it’s a bit surreal to announce today that I’m switching gears @stripe to become its commissioning editor.
Show this thread
24
49
776
What are examples of books you wish existed? Asking for...some friends :)
130
56
283
Show this thread
Spotify + Stripe = creator economy goodness! 🎙💸
23
144
961
. with predictions for 2050 (including links to those of several others): slimemoldtimemold.com/2022/01/01/pre.
13
56
309
Good piece about , whose healthcare investments are still under-appreciated: newcomer.co/p/general-cata.
7
27
224
PSA: $('video')[0].playbackRate = 2.5
30
44
817
🚨 NEW 🎉 WORKS 🥳 IN 🎉 PROGRESS🚨
Issue 06 of Works In Progress has landed.
With essays on the positive externalities of parenthood; the limits to skyscraper height; Ireland's housing bubble; whether plagiarism is so bad after all; and more.
5
43
166
Show this thread
Good piece!
[One caveat: I'd prefer the framing of "can young scientists, supported in part by Silicon Valley, fix things?" I, , , etc., are mostly just capital providers. The scientists are doing the fixing...]
Quote Tweet
Abundance requires innovation.
Innovation begins with science.
But scientific funding in the U.S. is broken—it's too slow, risk-averse, and old.
I wrote about a surprising coalition of tech founders and star scientists who are trying to fix it.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/
Show this thread
5
17
220
Quote Tweet
1/ For the last 6 months, @calebwatney & I have been building a think tank
It’s called the Institute for Progress (@IFP) & we’re so excited to share it with you
Our mission is to accelerate scientific, technological, and industrial progress while safeguarding humanity’s future
Show this thread
1
11
113
Quote Tweet
Is old music killing new music?
tedgioia.substack.com/p/is-old-music I take an in-depth look at some ominous trends in the music world.
Show this thread
20
14
147
Shopify Balance is a very cool and innovative product: shopify.com/balance.
Also a good example of what you can build with Stripe Treasury (stripe.com/treasury) & Issuing (stripe.com/issuing).
We're building financial infrastructure for a lot more than payments. 💸
11
77
726
9
57
395
43
219
2.6K
Yes, and much of San Francisco. We used to just casually extend cities as needed.
Quote Tweet
Replying to @winstonsoh and @patrickc
Boston’s entire Back Bay is the product of a similar undertaking in the 1800s if I’m not mistaken.
22
19
344
Bold idea to manage climate change impact, increase housing, and add to the vibrancy of NYC. Not impossible -- Singapore grew its land mass by ~25% through land reclamation.
Quote Tweet
On growing Manhattan by building New Manhattana, a 1,760-acre extension: nytimes.com/2022/01/14/opi 
8
12
115
On growing Manhattan by building New Manhattana, a 1,760-acre extension: nytimes.com/2022/01/14/opi 🤩
179
477
3K
Incredible. What an important result.
Quote Tweet
Phenomenal paper just published in Science persuasively demonstrating that EBV causes most if not all multiple sclerosis.
Phenomenal epidemiological design and technical achievement. 
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc
science.org/doi/10.1126/scShow this thread
11
78
773
Stripe support team is also hiring if you want a full-time job helping businesses around the world solve their problems.
Quote Tweet
Replying to @patio11 and @stripe
As a new user of Stripe, I was blown away by customer support earlier this week. I woke up at 3am & started working through a "hairy" problem, used the website to contact support, & a knowledgeable human being called me in less than two minutes to walk me through API docs.
10
13
250
An excellent exhortation for abundance and against scarcity. "America has too much venting and not enough inventing."
2
32
159
Very much enjoyed "The Future Years", covering history of Analog Devices in Limerick. Touches on industrial policy (Ireland's first semiconductor fab, enabled in part by IDA), long-term university partnerships, and management/organizational philosophies.
omahonys.ie/the-future-yea.
8
38
233
The NRC was created in 1975. Since then, zero new nuclear power plants in the US have ever reached operation.
[New = entities whose initial application for a construction permit / operating license (or a combined license) was filed with the NRC.]
H/t for this.
Quote Tweet
#NRCNews: We’ve denied, without prejudice, Oklo’s application to build and operate the company’s #AdvancedReactor. The company can resubmit an application in the future. nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc
Show this thread
92
728
2.5K
Replying to
100%. It will make economic outcomes in places like LatAm and Eastern Europe more balanced.
6
6
122
In Q1 2019, 39% of Stripe's hiring was outside Bay Area and Seattle. Last quarter, it was 74%. I think the rate at which tech industry is going global is still under-appreciated, and that this will be a big tailwind for the world over the next decade.
262
1.8K
12.4K
Germany electric vehicle sales:
2019: 3.1% of total
2020: 13.6% of total
2021: 25% of total
Quote Tweet
Statistics for Germany 
released today:
- 2.6 million new cars registered (-10% vs. 2020)
- 13.6% battery-#ElectricVehicles (+83%)
- 12.4% plug-in hybrid vehicles (+62%)
- 119 g/km type-approval CO2 (-15%)
More details to follow, see @TheICCT: theicct.org/series/market-…
released today:
- 2.6 million new cars registered (-10% vs. 2020)
- 13.6% battery-#ElectricVehicles (+83%)
- 12.4% plug-in hybrid vehicles (+62%)
- 119 g/km type-approval CO2 (-15%)
More details to follow, see @TheICCT: theicct.org/series/market-…Show this thread
19
93
338
Interesting interview with Paul Janssen: vimeo.com/195216394.
(If you haven't come across him, journals.lww.com/anesthesia-ana.)
7
13
87
The book does a very good job making clear the vaccine program wasn't a case of august mechanisms working neatly as designed. It was a case of stubborn iconoclasts persevering in the face of opprobrium, doubt, and endless setbacks... and saving the world.
20
43
504
Show this thread
In late 2019, Novavax had a market cap of ~$100M and was Seeking Alpha penny stock fodder. BioNTech was struggling with a smaller-than-planned IPO. Moderna was, famously, "the next Theranos".
seekingalpha.com/article/431224
reuters.com/article/us-bio
17
35
275
Show this thread