Jordan Wick

Hi, I’m Jordan. I’m an engineer and an optimist. I’ve spent time in big tech, startups, and government, and these days I’m mostly thinking about:

• metascience and AI for science
• state capacity and institutional legibility - especially permitting, procurement, and government data accessibility
• tech commercialization
• hackathons and prize competitions as engines of innovation

Other interests include:

• open-endedness and complexity science (evolution, self-organizing systems)
• making social dynamics legible - the emotional dynamics that make groups creative or draining, improv as a way to generate ideas, and how coordinated confidence turns ambitious ideas into self-fulfilling prophecies
• translating technical research for wider audiences
• CPG manufacturing and distribution

Some things that have shaped how I think:

• Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
• Antifragile
• Recoding America
• The Computational Beauty of Nature
• The Pathless Path
• 6 Days to Air
• “Quit Your Job”
• “Hard Startups”

If we share an interest, that’s reason enough to reach out - DM me on X or email JordManWick [at] gmail [dot] com.