Michael Reibel Boesen

Mission: Make the world a better place with technology 🤖.

But I'm also dad 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦, CEO of 🚗Elby, 💌 Weekly Climate, 🥃 distiller (Gefjun), 🎸guitarist, 🎹pianist, 🍷winenerd (WSET3), 🏃‍♂️runner, 🚁📸photographer, 🎧vinyl record collector and reseller, and 🤓engineer/PhD.

Pinned post from July 10, 2022

🤖🍷WELCOME! 🏃‍♂️🌍🎸

Hi! If you just found this welcome! My name is Michael, I’m a dad (two boys, 2 and 6y), entrepreneur, engineer, PhD, distiller, runner, vinyl collector, wine nerd, climate writer etc. I’ve worked with a bunch of cool people from NASA to my wonderful founder team in Elby.co, Corti.ai and Gefjun and a bunch of other projects. See more st...

December 2, 2024

😤 The opposite side of success

I have a speech impediment. I stutter. Not just the occasional, nervous stutter, but fulltime always. You may not see it when you speak to me. But there are certain words and sounds in particular that I know to avoid. Because of that I'm probably world champion in using weird synonyms to work around those sounds and I'm pretty fast at ...

December 8, 2023

🌍 An ode to infrastructure

Almost done with 2023. And it sure is something right? No new pandemics (maybe?), a pointless war in Europe, a fossil fueled COP28, and endless climate warnings, protests etc that the media has stopped caring about. Billions of dollars raised in funding for climate startups though. It feels like everyone and their mother/father has a c...

November 29, 2023

🥶-8C and the power of framing

I'm 40 years old, male and I love cold exposures. STOP! I know it's a cliché but hear me out. You HAVE to do them too. It's -8C outside and I've just stripped naked except for my underpants. I open the door and walk out into the snowy outside behind my house. I set the timer for 15mins and take a few long deep breaths and sit down on o...

November 21, 2023

🤖🚁Drone photogrammetry on a budget

In this quick post I’m going to go over ways to get started with photogrammetry if you’re on a budget. I’m going to present in detail one open source solution that I personally believe so far as it all except that it can be a bit daunting to install. But contrary to all other tools it’s actually free. The past year I've been working on...

March 9, 2023

😴Confessions of a polyphasic sleeper

TL;DR Just don’t. Read on for why. — Back in 2015 I was working actively as a software freelancer, on a startup (which later became Corti) and running a small incubator at the Technical University of Denmark. At that time I had no kids, just myself and my girlfriend to answer to so after reading a couple of blogposts about it I decided...

January 13, 2023

❄️A cold bath a day…

Back in November I wrote a post on the Wim Hof Method and I’ve been following the method until about mid-December, then I decided to try and do without the breathing exercises. The reason was simply that apart from the obvious benefits in terms of the number of pushups I could do that I wasn’t really sure that was where the benefits wa...

December 14, 2022

🍷The wine way to experience the world

Or how to train your sensory organs to experience the world more closely When was the last time you sat down and fully experienced experience? Meditation and wine does that for me every time, but at times a glass of wine can be more fun. As humans in the 21st century we’re not really used to using our sensory organs very much. We hide ...

November 25, 2022

🏃‍♂️ A magic 15K

As you can already see on this very short blog I seem to have a love-hate relationship with running. At times I love it, and at times I really hate it and can’t get out. Today was the latter. The plan according to my half marathon plan was to run 15K. I had slept about 4h on average the past week and lazy Michael was fast trying to con...

November 24, 2022

🍷🌍 Tasting climate change

Let’s face it I’m deep into the bottle. That came out wrong. I have a quite deep interest in wine. It was a bottle of Domaine Bachey-Legros Vielles Vignes Chassagne-Montrachet 1er Cru ‘Les Petit Clos’ 2013 or in other words a bottle of fermented Chardonnay grapes from old vines harvested in 2013 from a premier cru (2nd best tier) viney...

November 24, 2022

🙃 30 days of Wim Hof

I don’t believe in miracles. And I don’t know anything about all the claims and science behind Wim Hofs method. All I can say is that it is working for what I’m looking for. In a busy family life with a new baby arrived in May and a busy entrepreneurial work life I have felt close to burned out many times in the past year. Really low e...

July 11, 2022

🏃‍♂️80/20 running: The beginning

Currently about 80% done with Matt Fitzgeralds book “Run like a pro (even if you’re slow)” and it’s really convincing. It advocates a lot of (to some extent) counter intuitive practices that the pros are using and that recreational runners should use too but very often fail to do. One of the most interesting and counterintuitive of the...

July 8, 2022

🏃‍♂️ Why I run

I don’t know who needs to hear this. Quite possibly most likely myself in 6-9 months time when I’m questioning running again. Or deciding to down prioritize it. Maybe you’re reading this because you’re procrastinating about going on that run and need to read some random dudes thoughts on why run. So here goes. 😃 I run because it makes ...

March 7, 2021

📕 Book Review: Bill Gates — How to avoid a climate disaster

I recently finished Bill Gates’ new book — How to avoid a climate disaster. The one-liner review is that it’s tech-centric (with weird blindspots), a kind of one-sided look at decarbonizing electricity and an extremely useful mental model for thinking about the climate crisis. Here’s the deeper review. Tech-centric (with weird blindspo...