• Checkin to Starbucks

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    in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
    Cinnamon roll and letter practice with Leo.

  • Seeing the future

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    When I was considering joining Kraken my major motivation was wanting to actively work in an organization that's combating climate change. Especially with a young son, it felt irresponsible to be so worried about something and yet not actively doing anything about it.

    One of the unique things about Kraken, besides the people, is that it's not just a software company. It's part of a larger group of companies that are all addressing different aspects of the energy transition.

    Parts of the group are working on grid flexibility. Others are working on electrifying households with solar panels, heatpumps (installation and manufacturing), and EVs. And others are building and managing wind farms and solar farms.

    And on the inside you can see the work of the entire group, the work of the energy transition, all happening  at pace. All deploying their part of the solution. It's so very clear that all of this is the future.

    When you can see the future like this, a future with clean air generated with an abundance of clean electricity used intelligently, you can't help but be motivated to show up and do your part to make it a reality everywhere.

    It's like being part of a solarpunk story, but it's not fiction. If this sounds interesting to you, we're hiring worldwide. I'm happy to answer questions as well, so email or @ me on Mastodon.

  • Checkin to Single O Hamacho

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    in Chuo, Tokyo, Japan
    Coffee and a jaffle. Muffins weren’t baked yet ☹️
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    I'm really liking ooh.directory. Yes it's full circle for how we used to discover things on the web, but it's kinda nice? Having a human curate the sites allows them to surface sites that'd get lost in the noise of SEO spam.

  • The Week #125

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    • I signed out of Twitter for probably the first time since I opened the account 2007. Regular readers of my blog can probably guess, but the straw that broke the camels back was letting 45 back on the platform. Life's too short to spend it in proximity to self-important fascists. If you're interested in my Twitter-like microblogging, I'm on Mastodon. 
    • After getting my flu shot the previous week, this week I got my omnicron booster, shot #4. I went with what was readily available and switched back to team Pfizer. Beyond my arm being incredibly sore for a day, I didn't have any real side effects this round.
    • Leo is taking more and more interest in letters and realizing that there's information encoded about the world all around him. When walking to school today he saw where stop (Tomaere) was written on the street – and he read "re" and asked what the middle character "ma" was. Though he kept insisting it said "rema" on the street because that's the order they're written in 🤣.
    • Next to our house is a field. Part of it had a huge vegetable patch where one of our neighbors would grow everything under the sun. The owner of the land sold it recently and it will be turned into houses. After my neighbors harvested all their veg and grass and weeds took over the patch at an incredible rate. You'd hardly realize it used to be cultivated land, unless you look closely.

      I'll miss living at the end of the street and not having any through traffic, but it was bound to happen. I'm glad we got over 3 years, especially while Leo was little, so he could play out front without needing to worry about cars.
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