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Mar 19, 2022

Where is the Best Solar?

It might not be a surprise to learn that solar energy capacity is not distributed evenly across the world. The top values of solar/PV power potential are found in northwest Argentina, Bolivia, northern Chile, and southern Peru, This had me pondering: Are there places being overlooked from global decarbonization perspective? …

Solar Energy

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Where is the Best Solar?
Where is the Best Solar?
Solar Energy

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Feb 8, 2022

2040 Carbon Zero: How we did it.

I recently enrolled in Terra.do’s Climate School. Our First Assignment was imagining how we might get to Carbon Zero by 2040. As you will see I’m optimistic. Carbon Zero: How we did it. Eighteen years ago it was far from assured we would keep greenhouse gases under the level to keep warming below 1.5deg C. The…

Climate Change

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Climate Change

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May 6, 2021

Handling Disruptive Discomfort

How to Move People through Turbulent Transitions and Uncertainty The key to success is adaptability. Transitions, however, can be brutal. If something goes wrong this will be where. As they say in the monastery, “All practice is for the next phrase transition”. A smooth transition requires shepherding. Here is how. …

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Handling Disruptive Discomfort
Handling Disruptive Discomfort

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Apr 25, 2021

Undervalued

Things I believe have been undervalued or devalued by our society. Resiliency Resilient systems have slack. They continue to function when circumstances change drastically. A resilient economy has safety nets and extra capacity. A resilient system adapts to change. Instead our economic systems have been optimized for hyper efficiency. They are…

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Undervalued
Undervalued

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Apr 11, 2021

On Speaking Up

Recently I’ve been getting feedback that I always say what’s on my mind and ask for what I need. …

Empowerment

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On Speaking Up
On Speaking Up
Empowerment

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Sep 15, 2020

Thoughts on communication in remote, growing companies

company growing x 100% wfh x cross-functional people === communications gridlock — TENSION As the number of people we work with grows the number of communications between them greatly increases. …

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Aug 9, 2019

How to set an ID in react-native-web

(in hindsight obvious, while trying not so) So a few months ago, I wanted to set an `id` on a react-native-web (RNW) View component <View id="newsletter"/> But that doesnt work. Turns out in order to maintain compatibility with ReactNative, RNW uses `nativeID` This is in the docs, but I somehow missed it, until i found this issue https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web/issues/1116 So to set an ID on a view in react native web, which will be mapped to the elements dom node do this

React Native

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React Native

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Feb 4, 2019

Idiosyncrasies of My Developer Career

Inspired by Dan Abramov’s Things I don’t know 1. Never have I worked at a place which used an RDBMS as its primary persistent data store. Mongo, Redis, API’s pumping out to external providers, and blockchains, have been the backbone of the Apps I have helped to create. Therefore I am not much of an SQL genius. A certain company which used Mongo as its primary store did…

Programming

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Programming

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Jan 17, 2019

Untitled Mind

I had a phone interview for a new job a few weeks ago. As the call went on I found myself willfully going out of my way to basically disqualify myself from the position; explaining quite gleefully how didn’t know this and only had some limited experience in that. All…

Life Lessons

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Life Lessons

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Jan 10, 2019

Triggers, Morality, and Modern Culture

This is a piece on offense. It’s about fear and sex. It’s about the culture war. It’s about identity, and marginalization, and victimization. It’s paradox and power. And mostly it’s about shame. There is a article in my Medium Drafts, written by me just 4 years ago entitled “Nerds are…

Shame

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Triggers, Morality, and Modern America
Triggers, Morality, and Modern America
Shame

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