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Followers
260.3K
Posts
22.6K
Following
2.1K
Account age
17 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
$1.5K – $2.4K / sponsored post
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Known for
5.1M views
2023 study: “Our thesis is that a primary cause of the rise in mental disorders is a decline over decades in opportunities for children and teens to play, roam, and engage in other activities independent of direct oversight and control by adults."
3M views
New paper from Norway: Banning smartphones in school
- significantly decreased doctors visits for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls
- reduced bullying among both genders
- improved girls’ GPA and attendance rates
- largest effect sizes were among the poorest kids
2.6M views
Yes.
Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking.
Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
2.4M views
This is just silly.
If NPR receiving less than 1% of its revenue from federal government programs makes it "state-affiliated media," does Tesla accepting a $465m loan from DOE and benefiting from EV consumer subsidies make it "state-affiliated enterprise"?
📊 Post performance
Recent posts · views
Apr 5latest
2.4M
Avg views / post
1.4M–4M
Typical post (views)
9.3×
Reach vs followers
78/100
Very consistent reach
May 2009
On X since
Half of recent posts land between 1.4M and 4M views (median 2.6M) — a dependable floor a sponsored post can count on.
🔥 Top post: 2023 study: “Our thesis is that a primary cause of the rise in m · 5.1M views
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.06 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 0 video · 8 image · 10 text.
Follower / following
123×
Follows 2.1K back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Verification
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Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
2023 study: “Our thesis is that a primary cause of the rise in mental disorders is a decline over decades in opportunities for children and teens to play, roam, and engage in other activities independent of direct oversight and control by adults."
Yes.
Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking.
Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of w…
Some personal news.
Today, I’m leaving The Atlantic after almost 17 years and moving my writing to Substack.
It would be convenient, for the purposes of crafting an exciting departure announcement, to have a dramatic exit story: a fight,…
We really did it.
We took a growing US manufacturing economy, declared it broken, started a trade war, and ... broke US manufacturing.
In last 48 hours:
- Philly Fed Survey: "New orders fell sharply, from 8.7 in March to -34.2, its lowe…
Imagine trying to manage a supply chain right now.
Every 48 hours, the White House is announcing, or un-announcing, or re-announcing, or creating massive carve outs to, a new trade rule.
Why would anyone anywhere build a new factory un…
Holy crap.
Pancreatic is one of the deadliest cancers.
New paper shows personalized mRNA vaccines can induce durable anticancer T cells that attack pancreatic cancer. 75% of patients cancer free at three years.
Lots of directions to go with this, positive and negative, but I will just point out:
There is a genre of 21st century male “I have perfected the game of life” routine that essentially assumes the absence of other people
New paper from Norway: Banning smartphones in school
- significantly decreased doctors visits for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls
- reduced bullying among both genders
- improved girls’ GPA and attendance rates
- largest e…
It takes less than two seconds to see that Musk’s framework — I’m a free speech absolutist … unless anybody threatens to shut off Twitter access, in which case, I’m for or against whatever they want — is laughably unworkable
This is just silly.
If NPR receiving less than 1% of its revenue from federal government programs makes it "state-affiliated media," does Tesla accepting a $465m loan from DOE and benefiting from EV consumer subsidies make it "state-affi…
What happened is scientists discovered chlorofluorocarbons were bad for the ozone, countries believed them, the Montreal Protocol was signed, and CFC use fell by 99.7%, leading to the stabilization of the ozone layer, perhaps the greatest …
The optics here are exquisite. No notes.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined X in 2009 — 17 years ago.
👁️Averages 2.4M views per post.
📤Posts about 0.1× per week.
💬12.99% engagement rate.
🏅Earned the 100K Followers for passing 100K followers.
🕵️ Fake follower check
Estimated85/100
Excellent
Credibility score
91%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 91% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~9.3× of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (17+ years old).
- 12.99% engagement is implausibly high for a X account this size (typ. ~2.2%) — a red flag for engagement pods or bought likes/comments.
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Substack author. Plain English podcast host. Abundance co-author. Contributing writer at The Atlantic.
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