10-ish deep thoughts applicable to all businesses, from the Confucius of SaaS ⁦Patrick Mathieson⁩

My fave: What entrepreneurs need is confidence, not advice open.substack.com/pub/thedownrou…

What are some other essential reads that climate people are missing?

Agree on Vaclav Smil book, which our team did a book club on (aka group therapy)

Already read the Daniel Yergin books and Robert Bryce’s Question of Power

What else should go on the list?

This feels spot on, and not just as a climate optimist

-Methane gas has its days numbered
- Wind is $$$ and doesn’t have the same cost curve profile as solar
- Solar technology is improving non incrementally, even as distribution is exploding

If you look at all new deployment…

Next Weds I'll have the honor of hosting Dr Phil Levin, Director of the White House's National Nature Assessment, in a fireside chat to talk all things climate and nature

The event is live/in-person in Seattle, but will also be on Zoom -- and comes with an ask

Specifically, Dr…

I grew up on these... streets

Highly, highly recommend Ada. She not only has the experience but is an exceptionally high quality thinker and human who can give so much more than advice on how to scale (though that too)

Excited for this amazing opportunity for founders and execs out there

Don't underestimate the power of incumbents in any industry

Excited to share Ep.1 of the Climate Money Podcast!

Back in 2020, I started hosting a Clubhouse room called Climate Headlines to highlight important climate news and talk about what it meant

The Climate Money podcast is an updated version of that, with a slight tweak — we’ll…

Outlive is the most important book I read in 2023. Have implemented 10+ changes including:

+increasing Zone 2 training
+starting weekly VO2 max training
+increasing resistance training
+wearing a CGM
+cutting out all sugar for better insulin sensitivity
+upping my protein game…

this is one of the most important graphs that I saw in 2023 that has led to behavior change. This is in Peter Attia's book Outlive

tldr:
if you want to be able to climb stairs when you are 75, you need to be in the top 95th percentile of cardiovascular fitness. With this, you…

What are the best AI image editors / generators out there?

For a climate project -- before vs possible after 🌺🌲

“This summer is likely one of the coolest summers of the rest of our lives,” said Bharat Venkat, an associate professor at UCLA and director of the UCLA Heat Lab. “It's not even that what we're experiencing now is the new normal; it’s probably the best it's going to be.”…

Next time you come across clever / viral VC content (post, essay, deck) remember that every content creator is selling you something

This doesn’t necessarily detract from the idea, but it does explain the hype and hyperbole

Many great things start with a newsletter:

1- being able to write well requires — and inspires — being able to think well

2- publishing on a regular cadence builds the execution muscle

3- sharing deep work publicly is a core act of entrepreneurship

Go Kim Zou…

The ‘flying rivers’ of South America are close to a point of destabilization because of deforestation. New study below.

We must stop Amazon deforestation now.

A wise person once said that you will experience climate change through a series of increasingly wild videos, until you are the one taking the video.

Given the diversity of the field, why aren't there scout programs in climate VC? Or am I missing something