Calvin French-Owen
Heat Pumps are one of our best tools to fight climate change, but the process of getting one is broken at every step. Here's why. Why did it take us 50 years to figure out better tools for thought? And how do we shortcut that next time around? Quaise is a new startup aiming to make widespread geothermal energy a reality. They utilize a high-powered mm-wave energy beam to vaporize rock 10km beneath the earth's surface. I got to tour their facilities, and watch them pulverize rock before my eyes. Recently I've talked to a bunch of different founders about how they should think about the CTO role as they scale. They aren't sure what they should be doing. Here's the framework I wish I'd had in Segment's early years. As a founder, you want to strive for what I call 'high bit-rate' communication. For every minute of speaking, is your listener getting a lot of information? In Segment’s early days, we hit countless problems as a founding team. And at the time, I thought those problems were uni