Climate Papa

Ben urgently calls on Bill Clerico, founder of Convective Capital, to help make sense of the wildfires and smoke pillaging the East Coast. Meanwhile, Bill is out visiting Boston with his one year old and navigating the AQI. After tackling flying with babies, they explore the relationship between wildfires, climate change, and the tools needed to improve our collective resilience. They also talk about the move from fintech into firetech and how more product builders can make similar moves.

Bill’s Tweet of AQI projections

Acquired episode on Berkshire Hathaway Part II

Our Kettle

Wildfires.org

Music

Mellow Kinda Hype (Balkan Bump Remix) 

Get connected: 

Ben - Climate Papa

Bill - Twitter / Convective Capital
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Ben chats with Dan Lindquist, a fellow papa and product leader, about what motivates them to work on climate, how to pick your lane among the many interesting avenues in the space, the role of software as a friction reducer, and the uniquely collaborative and open dynamic in the budding climate tech community. They explore use of generative AI, large language models, and probabilistic and non-probabilistic products in the climate space. 

They also talk about kids as barnacle and the trade off between spending time with your kids vs time working on the problem that matters for their future. 

Referenced in the episode:

Anish’s post on AI to Unlock Probabilistic Products

Explain Paper

Ben Thompson on Bing AI

Speed and Scale

Music

Mellow Kinda Hype (Balkan Bump Remix) 

Get connected: 

Ben Eidelson on LinkedIn and Climate Papa

Dan Lindquist on LinkedIn 

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Welcome to Climate Papa!

Ben and Arthur verbally process the impetus for this podcast and what motivates their work on climate (hint: it’s their kids and it isn’t), and set an intention for the creative act of this project. They also talk about Barbies, getting screamed at by our kids above 93 decibels, throwing pottery, and meditating to Rick Rubin. 

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Arthur

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