The 2025 Roots of Progress: Blog-Building Intensive

The 2025 Roots of Progress Blog-Building Intensive

10 - week cohort. July 28 - October 10

A 10-week online program (plus 1 week of onboarding) for writers eager to write more and better, to a larger audience, about progress studies topics

Join our third fellowship cohort. Write essays about progress. Make progress real.

Now in its third year, the Blog-Building Intensive is an opportunity for writers to sharpen their ideas by discussing them with each other, learn new writing skills and processes, grow by receiving feedback from professional editors and peers alike, and increase their impact by growing their audiences.

Previous BBI fellows have leveraged their writing success to help lower rents in Austin (Ryan Puzycki), join the White House as an advisor (Dean Ball), co-found an AI not-for-profit (Rosie Campbell and Robert Long), initiate high-impact blogs at their company (Madeline Zimmermann), and, of course, build significant followings for their blogs (Max Tabarrok, Andrew Miller, and many more).

We need a new philosophy of progress.

The progress of the last few centuries—in science, technology, industry, and the economy—is one of the greatest achievements of humanity. But to keep this upward trend going, we must believe that continued progress is both possible and desirable. The 19th century believed in the power of technology and industry to better humanity, but in the 20th century, this belief gave way to skepticism and distrust. It’s time for a new generation of intellectuals to help the world understand and appreciate progress so we can build an abundant, techno-humanist future.

The Roots of Progress Fellowship exists to empower intellectual entrepreneurs for progress.

You’re excited about progress studies. You love to write and have published a few posts or essays on a variety of topics. Now you wonder: what’s next?

Maybe you’d like to explore a career in writing about progress studies and abundance policy for a general (non-academic) audience, but you’re not quite sure how to get going. Or maybe you’re already blogging and publishing on Substack but would like to get to the next level—find your own topic area, increase your productivity, get more plugged into the community, and grow your audience.

Through this program you will zero in on a topic area to go deep on, improve your writing, increase your productivity, more fully understand and apply progress ideas, get plugged into the progress movement, and grow your audience.

For whom?

Executive
Freelance
In retraining

Funding

Free

Duration

Less than 3 months