Short and sweet: I’ve missed doing public writing that is not meant for LinkedIn, and, lest it seem like what follows was a reaction to tomorrow’s US election – whatever may happen – I’m briefly noting that I plan to significantly shift some of my habits/workflows in 2025 with an eye towards freeing up more of my time for two sorts of pursuits that, at least for me, nicely complement and bookend my current core focus on early-stage climate tech investing.
Namely, on the one hand, I’d like to have more leisurely time for reading and writing again, and not to feel – at least to the same extent – that I’m constantly sifting through unmanageably large volumes of content at the expense of duration/depth/attention. I see this as a more personal and foundational desire for myself.
And on the other hand, I’m feeling compelled to set aside time beyond my invigorating, largely very encouraging, but often all-consuming engagement with climate tech to take a step back and do some bigger picture thinking about the future of New York City, in particular, with an eye towards what a climate realist, tech realist, political realist, and yet still humane/humanist vision/politics for the city might look like in the coming decades, and with the hope that some of this thinking might have relevance beyond New York, both here in the US and in India.
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