Jason Badeaux
@jasonbadeaux
Cofounder of Anode Labs. Bringing energy independence to every home.
Jason Badeaux
Tesla has an in-house construction unit building out its factories. This enables a radically new and optimized manufacturing process. Historical analogy: Amazon built its own distribution centers to reinvent e -commerce logistics.
Worm Capital • The Tesla Decade — Worm Capital
evanjconrad.com • Where Are All the Crypto Use Cases? | Evan Conrad
evanjconrad.com • Where Are All the Crypto Use Cases? | Evan Conrad
Tokenomics and
In order to build efficient, combustion-based generators, we needed to build them at economies of scale and extensive transmission and distribution networks to transport power along with them. Those wires are vulnerable to being knocked out by storms (or even squirrels), leading to blackouts, or supply shortages leading to cascading failure. That... See more
James McGinniss • AOE Part II: DERs and Local Resilience
A LiO² battery is also known as a lithium-air battery (Li for lithium, O² for oxygen). Unlike the Li-ion or LFP batteries in EVs today, a lithium-air battery uses oxygen ions to store energy, not lithium ions. This difference means their internal structure and chemistry needs to be entirely different from established battery technology.... See more
Will Lockett • Tesla’s Four Million Mile Battery
Blockchains are an alternative system for promise enforcement, fundamentally different from any system human history has seen before. Promises in blockchain systems are enforced by miners, who — in reasonably competitive mining markets — have limited ability, and weak incentives, to do anything other than execute others' promises roughly according... See more
Not Investing Advice • The Market for Promises
Slide decks hide can shallow thinking. Narratively structured memos are harder to write because they require better thinking. It’s worth it.
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