Common Grounding - by Allison Tielking - Reboot

This piece started as a five-minute-long voice memo Allison sent me about a conversation with an Uber driver, the difficulty of finding an electric vehicle charger in Brooklyn, and the exploitative systems often underwriting lofty visions of technological solutions to climate change. In its final form, Allison has taken in the complexities and paradoxes of the renewable energy transition and written a sort of mission statement for workers in climate tech, one grounded in the material realities of our planet and the people on it. — Jacob Kuppermann, Reboot Editorial Board By Allison Tielking I'm in an Uber to LaGuardia Airport with my driver Jose. This is one of those occasional, magical long rides where we spend the whole time deep in conversation. I tell him that I write software to coordinate charging for fleets of electric vehicles (EVs), e.g. recycling trucks, school buses, and commercial trucks. When I bring up how legislation in California will soon require all trucks entering th

This piece started as a five-minute-long voice memo Allison sent me about a conversation with an Uber driver, the difficulty of finding an electric vehicle charger in Brooklyn, and the exploitative systems often underwriting lofty visions of technological solutions to climate change. In its final form, Allison has taken in the complexities and paradoxes of the renewable energy transition and written a sort of mission statement for workers in climate tech, one grounded in the material realities of our planet and the people on it. — Jacob Kuppermann, Reboot Editorial Board By Allison Tielking I'