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Making things cheap is the best way to get climate solutions to scale. Mike Schroepfer shares the reason for his optimism behind solving key climate challenges through enabling technology that scales in the physical economy.

00:00 Intro

01:58 Early Facebook, Sun Microsystems, and Firefox

06:45 Facebook's change to mobile and Sun's innovator's dilemma

08:07 Going from Firefox/Mozilla to Facebook

12:13 Founding Gigascale Capital

16:10 Reason for optimism about our future

22:03 Exciting projects at Gigascale

26:05 People need to see things to believe

28:50 Biggest levers to positively impact climate

32:15 Cow burps — 6% of carbon emissions

37:20 Political involvement vs. high-impact career choices

39:02 Offshore datacenters in the ocean

41:17 What is Gigascale's value-add?

44:50 Is it lonely at the top?

49:31 Advice for college students

52:31 How Schrep changed Philip's life

Learn more about Gigascale Capital: https://gigascale.com/

On his first anniversary of working peak season at Amazon, Philip reflects on life after Peak, and on the career decisions he's made in the months hence. Full transcript at https://peaksalvation.com/where-are-they-now.

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It's the end of Philip's time at Amazon. The warehouse, BFI4, celebrates Christmas with a free lunch, and Philip gets, at last, to enter Bezos's Balls.

Philip is encouraged when meeting an associate who also joined Amazon in order to combat depression. He reflects on the benefits of his journey thus far, and encounters an incredibly rare event that's full of wonder.

Full transcript: https://peaksalvation.com/the-major-lift

The tendinitis plaguing Philip reaches fever pitch, forcing him to navigate the labyrinthine process of getting a medical accommodation from Amazon. The whole process proves farcical, calling into question whether the system works at all. Full transcript: https://peaksalvation.com/gonna-make-you-sweat

Philip is invited to a private event at the Space Needle where only multimillionaires are allowed. Such things apparently do exist — and they're as surreal as they sound. Full transcript: https://peaksalvation.com/socioeconomic-bends

The tide of basal talent required to participate in our winner-take-all economy is rising beyond the capabilities of many. Computers used to serve our needs; we now increasingly serve robot overlords. What will happen to skilled labor in this future?

Full transcript: https://peaksalvation.com/thank-you-very-much-mr-roboto.

Philip spends all the money he makes in a day during that same day, and finds it doesn't last long at all. Turns out there are tons of surprising ways to make money once you already have some. It's not a zero sum game; we can all be better off. Full transcript at https://peaksalvation.com/chasing-that-paper.