Over the past 20 years, the share of adults who believe they are "thriving" has fallen. In fact, across all age groups, a sense of thriving now correlates with age. The opposite of where it was 20 years ago. This, I believe, explains everything about the current political climate.
What does success at mass scale for agents look like? Will we wind up with a dominant player or a competitive ecosystem? And can we get there without surrendering even more autonomy and privacy to a single player?
The annual FDNY ceremony is a stirring show of purpose and fraternity amidst shared loss.
FRONT is a forecasting model for the 2026 midterms, run every Saturday from October 10 to October 31. It calls each of the 435 House races and 35 Senate races, gives a probability for each, and keeps every earlier run on the page so the calls can be judged after the fact. Read more →
Some of my favorite data visualizations I've seen in my time on the internet have been tracing the popularity of names. Names are personal. But the data shows how culture moves in herds. I couldn't… Read more →
Several years ago I installed WeCroak, an app that pushes five quotes about death and mortality to you each day. It is inspired by a Bhutanese folk saying: to be a happy person one must contemplate… Read more →
I’m Jeff Reid. I live in NYC in awe of the natural and built world around me and capture what I can with my cameras.
Obsessed with the weather and the impact it has on us, I built ForecastMaven to provide personalized, contextual forecasts to help people navigate our ever-friskier climate.
I look to tell stories with data.
By trade I’m a product manager and technology leader. I have spent my career building great products and teams in education and workforce development, most recently as co-founder of SkillCycle, and now work mostly on applied AI. I plan to keep focusing on what I think are the most important challenges of our time: raising healthy and well-informed kids, expanding economic opportunity and confronting the impacts of climate change.
More on what I’ve built, or find me on LinkedIn.
The fence was added to keep people away from the airport after another death. Other Islands 
August 2019 
