Really feel like founders-investors are the future of VC. Just seems more efficient — VCs have to do 3 things: 1. Build deal flow / meet founders 2. Educate themselves on the market 3. Convince founders that they'll be useful Founders get all 3 as an exhaust of their day to day

NYC is failing. 68% of buildings in New York over 25K Sq. Ft have building energy efficiency grades that are a C or worse. Many believe that local law 97 is going to change that. Here's how:

TSMC...should have been TEXAS Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp We cannot make the mistake again where brilliant diverse talent feels more comfortable OUTSIDE the US than INSIDE 🇺🇸 The movement of a single brilliant scientist––can and has lead to movement of militaries...

Had no idea underground fungi play such an important role collaborating with plants to take carbon from the atmosphere and bury it safely underground. Eye-popping new study credits fungi with helping capture one-third of the carbon humans emit each year: latimes.com/environment/st…

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Yes, Apple is a broken company and should have just told its users to use accessibility to invert their colors. Shame on them.

Want to upgrade your old wood-framed windows with a new, climate-friendly alternative? Not in San Francisco. That's because of SF's 14-page 5,000-word Window Replacement Standards document. It's one of SF's most petty, condescending policies. I wrote sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

Net-zero targets are all well and good. But how countries get there matters a lot. It's the area under the curve that matters for warming. Delay emissions cuts and you not only make net-zero less likely, you also make climate change worse along the way.

People asking what taste is, or is there a framework –– It's knowing what good looks like. Person who has taste in certain things, can find good things, create good things and point out how something needs to change to make it good. Jiro from Jiro Dreams of Sushi:

Only works in a buyers market, most platforms still even leave out floor area and compass

Great graph by PwC in their State of Climate Tech 2023 report. Which industries are underfunded relative to their share of emissions? - Food & Ag - Built Environment - Industrials pwc.com/gx/en/issues/e…

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Frank Slootman SnowflakeDB reminding us: You can't sell platforms from day 1, need to start with super narrow, well understood use cases before expanding to now $2.8B run rate fool.com/earnings/call-…

165 affordable and family housing units, built from mass timber in Amsterdam. It will be called… Robin Wood ubm-development.com/magazin/en/aff…

“The cost of running a city is the linear feet of everything - sewers, roads and when you get more of that, you need more fire stations.” THIS is why suburbs are actually very bad for a city's finances and it's carbon footprint, as seen in this CO2 emissions map (green is low)

Today in "Weird open source stuff": I got a strangely passive aggressive email from NASA. I mean, I love you NASA, and it's a real honour that you're using Pydantic, but why on earth are you (presumably) paying KPMG lots of money to ask unimaginably dumb and uninformative

We’re thrilled to back Scaler on their mission to empower the global real estate industry to scale positive impact through an actionable #ESG data platform cc Zlatan Luc van de Boom tech.eu/2024/07/09/sca…

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