Belated thanks and thoughts on permanence Oof, it's been a while. To be fair, I had intended to post on Thanksgiving week, but then opted not to take my laptop with me on my family visit across the country. This seemed like a perfectly logical decision until I realized that I hadn't queued up a post, and there was no way I was typing the whole thing on my phone. Then we got back, moved into our long-delayed new condo and... well, nothing has gotten done work-wise as I tackle the box city that...

Capitalism is the answer, obviously Last week, I went to another sustainability conference. Look, I should know better by now. These things tend to frustrate the hell out of me, although each has its own special personality and experience. This one's personality was capitalism. It had it all. Allow me to pull out my Snoopy notebook and check my notes: An expo that included a company exhibiting its "sustainable" recycled fabrics for (*checks notes*) the upholstery in your private jet Sessions...

This is where things get weird TL;DR: Last month at New York Climate Week I leaned heavily into sessions from financial and consulting organizations. In the process, I got a lot of insights into macroeconomic trends, power (in every sense of the word), and of course, AI. I've been covering one topic each week, because hitting all at once could easily be the length of a new book. (If you need a brief recap of the strange way that Climate Week operates, you can find that in the newsletter from...