SaaS: Software as a Sports team
15 Dec 2019“That power and emotion is our game. Because our identity is intensity. That comes back in every drill.” source
“That power and emotion is our game. Because our identity is intensity. That comes back in every drill.” source
Bret Victor has a great article for engineers interested in climate change. Today I (re)found Saul Griffith and have been equally inspired. I’d like to post some links here just to help push him further up google. And if someone reads the quotes here, also good.
They rented a warehouse, adopted the slogan “We’re not a think tank, we’re a do tank,” and acquired much of their laboratory equipment for little or nothing, through Craigslist [source].
When thinking about what I want to work on, I am most inspired by deep tech/hard tech/high tech/whatever-you-call-it tech. I love the ambition of it.
I would be happy if more people and companies working on those inspiring challenges. And I want to help them. But how? How can we do that?
I’ve written about how the data on emissions is hard to find, how the visualisations are too high level, and how the data exploration available should be better. I’d like to see an Atlas of Economic Complexity but for data on which industries and sub-industries are impacting climate change and how. I still think such a tool should exist, it wouldn’t be too hard to build a basic version based on the data we can pull from UNFCCC flexible queries.
However having read much more on climate change I have realised something quite obvious. We need renewables and nuclear as energy sources, we need energy storage (especially if we can’t convince people to accept nuclear), and we need to convert the machinery of our economy to electric power. To do this we need carbon taxes, engineering, and inventors.