Resources
Here is a non-exhaustive list of groups, people, projects, and ideas we admire, think are relevant for creating a better future for Ireland, and recommend you check out.
Focused on Ireland
- Progress Ireland is a new think tank doing excellent work on housing and infrastructure policy.
- PolySee is a great YouTube channel exploring interesting policy ideas that could help move society forward, and explains them simply.
- Scale Ireland is a group advocating on behalf of indigenous tech start-ups.
- Patch is a 7 week Summer programme raising the ambition of young people in Ireland. Apply if you fit the bill, or share it with someone who does.
- 18for0 is an organisation advocating for nuclear power in Ireland as a crucial component of a sustainable and secure energy system.
- The Fitzwilliam is an online publication covering interesting ideas in Ireland and Europe.
Broader
- Machines of Loving Grace is a very important article by Dario Amodei (the founder of Anthropic) about how AI could transform the world for the better.
- Works in Progress is an online magazine dedicated to sharing new and underrated ideas to improve the world. In particular worth checking out are The Housing Theory of Everything and Why Housing Shortages Cause Homelessness.
- The Humanise Movement (and book) is a movement by acclaimed designer Thomas Heatherwick pushing back against the “blandemic” of boring buildings.
- Conflict theory vs Mistake theory A very good explanation of two ways people tend to think about politics.