Abhishek Nagaraj ✓

@abhishekn · San Francisco, CA · joined 29 May 2008

Associate Prof @berkeleyhaas, NBER RA. Dad to 2 girls. he/him/his. Interested in using tech, AI and data to drive progress. Using ideas as my maps.

12 567Followers

6 385Following

8 564Posts total

164.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.

Median views3 611this account1 328median for 10K–100K

Reach, %28.73%this account4.18%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %0.81%this account1.94%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 611	1 328	2.72×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	28.73%	4.18%	6.87×
Engagement rate	0.81%	1.94%	0.42×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

14.1K26 Aug

1.9K2 Sep

1.3K

105.7K

9.3K3 Sep

3.6K

1.4K4 Sep

26.2K

1.1K

Last 9 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.14%26 Aug

0.67%2 Sep

0.62%

1.85%

0.80%3 Sep

0.58%

0.91%4 Sep

0.81%

0.94%

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.94%.

What the audience does

Likes85.1%2 188 in total

Reposts5.4%140 in total

Replies3.7%94 in total

Quotes1.7%43 in total

Bookmarks4.2%107 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

. @SuproteemSarkar is doing some of the coolest AI+Econ work out there! 1.1K views · 7 likes · 3 reposts · 0 replies 04 Sep 2026 suppose you ask a language model the probability it will rain tomorrow. then you ask the probability it will not rain tomorrow whatever happens tomorrow, those two probabilities should sum to one but suppose the model generates P(rain) = 0.7 and P(no rain) = 0.2 https://t.co/Qa 26.2K views · 182 likes · 21 reposts · 6 replies 04 Sep 2026 Can’t wait for the world to discover all the Mahabharata stories, 1.4K views · 12 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 04 Sep 2026 so jealous!! forward thinking of @OppInsights to have @aniketapanjwani engage with them. Every research org big or small needs a deep rethink of every step in how they produce research and how they collaborate. this involves both doing existing workflows differently, but also 3.6K views · 19 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 03 Sep 2026 In July, I spent a week at Harvard training researchers at Opportunity Insights on agentic coding and helping them develop a comprehensive AI strategy. Part of what made this tricky is that OI's research production function is much different from the average economist: > Larg 9.3K views · 63 likes · 6 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 in the mahabharata, duryodhana bets on karna when karna is a nobody. karna spends the rest of his life treating that belief above everything else. even when krishna offers him legitimacy, family, status, even a kingdom he still refuses. ultimately that costs him his life but 105.7K views · 1.8K likes · 77 reposts · 75 replies 02 Sep 2026 this, a hundred times, this. 1.3K views · 6 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies 02 Sep 2026 Our policy is to be in charge of technical terms. Recent agents love introducing technical-seeming terms, but strong communication involves developing a small number of precisely defined terms and applying them consistently. 1.9K views · 11 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 🚨🚨 NEW RESEARCH ALERT! 🚨🚨 Excited to release new WP with lab colleagues @kennywongchamch @krisgulati and #MinMinFong. This paper asks a simple question: how do we rank models on real work tasks when they are coaching rather than when they're playing? Answer: the best https://t 14.1K views · 119 likes · 29 reposts · 8 replies 26 Aug 2026