Peak Salvation

I'm launching a new podcast, Hidden Track, which is all about the lesser-known side interests of famous people. Please share and subscribe! 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 00:23 Early Facebook, Sun Microsystems, and Firefox 05:20 Facebook's change to mobile and Sun's innovator's dilemma 07:42 Going from Firefox/Mozilla to Facebook 11:48 Founding Gigascale Capital 15:45 Reason for optimism about our future 20:38 Exciting projects at Gigascale 24:40 People need to see things to believe 27:25 Biggest levers to positively impact climate 30:50 Cow burps — 6% of carbon emissions 35:55 Political involvement vs. high-impact career choices 37:37 Offshore datacenters in the ocean 39:52 What is Gigascale's value-add? 43:25 Is it lonely at the top? 48:06 Advice for college students 51:06 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. If you'd like to try The Program (audio series) podcast, a high-quality fiction production exploring future technical dystopias, please check it out. My favorite episode is this one: https://programaudioseries.com/11-motherboard/. Thank you all for your continued support! Please write me at [email protected], and rate Peak Salvation on iTunes and Spotify. I'd love to hear from you.

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