[NAME 3] — "🔥 KEY TAKEAWAYS ✅ ✅ ✅ ... 💼 BUSINESS IMPLICATIONS... ⚖️ LEGAL GAME CHANGER... hashtag#ESG hashtag#Sustainability..." — textbook AI post: emoji headers, checkbox bullets, multiple section headers, hashtag dump. Removing her now.
Claude output:
[NAME 1] — "key takeaways from a paper literally years in the making" — genuine academic publication. Keep.
[NAME 2] — Columbia CBS fellow, personal career reflection. Keep.
"remove any connection who writes AI-generated LinkedIn posts"
Claude Cowork is bliss
🎓 6 lessons I learned on spring break.
Actually, it's 20 pictures of one of the more amazing, educational weeks: www.linkedin.com/posts/gwagne...
Let's just say spring break doesn't typically involve tours through steel plants, nor meeting @thyssenkruppsteel.bsky.social & Etex CEO before the tours
@bencollins.bsky.social will happily explain for the cost of an annual print subscription. 😉
Green Pledge: "By 2030, Global Tetrahedron will hire a vegetarian cleaning lady."
Green Pledge: "By 2030, Global Tetrahedron will hire a vegetarian cleaning lady."
Ouch.
WSJ: Detroit Automakers Take $50 Billion Hit as EV Bubble Bursts
FT: China battery trio gains $70bn during conflict
Trump subtracts $50 billion from Big 3 in Detroit, adds $70 billion to Big 3 in China.
Heat pumps FTW, German nationalism edition
bsky.app/profile/cl-a...
FAZ: "Für Fachleute die erste Wahl: Doch Hausbesitzer haben wieder Zweifel an der Wärmepumpe"
"Experts prefer heat pumps, but homeowners have doubts"
I wonder who sows those doubts, contrary to any evidence.
"We had a good run — some eight decades or so — but it is clear by now that the United States has ceased to be the leader of the free world." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/o...
We are sending our kids to school to memorize facts that AI can retrieve in 0.3 seconds. We're grading them on essays that AI writes better than their teachers. Worst of all, gym classes are making them run miles an Uber could cover in less than aminute.
Fun with AI
gwagner.com/AI
Counter-proposal:
Don't send another $150b to Putin (or $450b to the US for LNG).
Instead, take $150b out of the ground. Use $1b to make residents in Groningen whole, use the rest to defeat Putin + build wind & solar & batteries & cut gas lines + move Tata Steel Nederland off coal + + +
Nothing moral about burning fossil fuels, I'm afraid.
Nothing moral about financing autocrats either.
They should, and they are (not fast enough).
Bike garage at Amsterdam Central under a canal, with former Shell HQ peaking through the morning fog
Wealth = a society that invests in public(!) infrastructure for the benefit of all.
Yes, that building in the back is the former Shell HQ. Yes, the Netherlands chose to leave >€400 billion of gas underground in Groningen, and yes, that meant handing €150b to Putin. Yes, that was a mistake.
Swedish gov't report had to be withdrawn due to non-existent references: "We don't know what happened." Meanwhile, literally everybody knows what happened. #AIslop
WSJ: "Clean-Power Advocates Say More Renewables Will Boost Energy Security, But it’s Complicated" By Perry Cleveland-Peck"
Hm, not particularly.
I realize saying "it's complicated" is the erudite thing to say, but yeah, the more solar PV on your roof, the lower your exposure to geopolitical price volatility and #fossilflation.
Of course, only going fully off grid will shield you from all oil & gas price volatility.
Idly wondering if this time, the media will clearly identify "fossilflation" as the reason for higher prices for everything as we discussed with @gwagner.com back in Ep. 221 in 2024 xenetwork.org/ets/episodes... or if the talking heads on CNBC will blithely carry on as if it's all about Fed policy.
What a paragraph.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Climate risk briefing at ECB
View of ECB from Commerzbank
Commerzbank Tower Lobby
Day 1: climate risk briefing at @ecb.europa.eu, followed by a view from Commerzbank, the morning of the UniCredit takeover bid no less.
Climate risk management and transition finance are both well underway, with plenty more to do, of course.
Me, too.
Only real noise in Lower Manhattan is from oversized 'burbanite podcast players 😎
You had me at Cafe.
Andrej Karpathy discovering that there's a better way to live
Almost as if there's indeed a better way to live
NYT: Germany at Risk as Price of Oil Rises
Hardly a more interesting week to explore climate and competitiveness, while visiting ECB, Commerzbank, thyssenkrupp, Etex, and 3(!) European Commissions, among others.
12-year-old fixing my hair
Off to Frankfurt (and Düsseldorf and Duisburg and Brussels and Amsterdam) for a week exploring Green Industrial Policy in Europe with 24 @columbiauniversity.bsky.social MBAs: gwagner.com/cbs-gip
12-year-old: "You're meeting your students. Fix your hair."
Business school case study saying as much: gwagner.com/orsted @columbiabusiness.bsky.social
Shorter @financialtimes.com version pointing out the massive current (policy) challenges: gwagner.com/ft-orsted
The current U.S. policy pendulum notwithstanding, offshore wind is here to stay — and Ørsted on the winning side of history
Turns out both can be true at the same time
Saturday morning soccer
Kickoff ⚽
12-year-old first one to arrive at soccer field
The Loneliness of Sonja and Soccer.