Progress Accumulation by Grant Mulligan

Robert Francis: What birds teach us about American history

Watch now | The legal and cultural revolutions that shaped conservation

Feb 19 • Grant Mulligan and Robert Francis

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Why Odysseus Turns Down Immortality

Identity, Endurance, and the Courage to Set Sail

Feb 13 • Grant Mulligan

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The Odyssey, AI Crayons, and other ideas I enjoyed this month

January 2026 recap

Feb 2 • Grant Mulligan

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January 2026

Reflections on the Telemachy, Books 1-4 of The Odyssey

Mythology as delight, Mentor(ship), and Xenia

Jan 8 • Grant Mulligan

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December 2025

Don’t die without reading The Odyssey

Why I’m hosting an Interintellect salon on a nearly 3,000-year old poem

Dec 11, 2025 • Grant Mulligan

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Powering progress: Inside the quest for energy abundance

Barriers to energy abundance — and how to overcome them — were front and center at the Progress Conference

Dec 8, 2025 • Grant Mulligan

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Progress and Abundance are similar, but not the same

A response to Jason Crawford

Dec 3, 2025 • Grant Mulligan

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Abundance is how we deliver on the promise of liberty

Reflections on Abundance 2025 and the American Dream

Dec 1, 2025 • Grant Mulligan

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July 2025

Grant Mulligan on Absurdism, Wildlife Biology, and Positive-Sum Environmentalism

"Zero-sum thinking says if we let anything get built, we've lost nature for good. Positive-sum thinking lets human ingenuity and nature's resilience…

Published on Discern Earth • Jul 15, 2025

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May 2025

Reflections on the Roots of Progress Institute Fellowship

Progress Studies is a meta-discipline for raising humanity’s ambition

May 16, 2025 • Grant Mulligan

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Agricultural Progress

Modern agriculture is one of humanity’s greatest achievements — and where progress is still needed most

May 2, 2025 • Grant Mulligan

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October 2024

Book Review: Not the End of the World

Optimism is warranted

Oct 16, 2024 • Grant Mulligan

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