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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Well.. It’s been a month now and I haven’t run very much. I’ve been on vacation and couldn’t really find the time to get out. Normally I used to run 30 mins during the work day which worked quite well with my schedule, because I would then just work more in the evening. But while on vacation I did manage to achieve one goal which I had...

One year ago I started making some DJ-style mixes because I thought running playlists really suck. I stopped doing them because it took too long and nobody really cared. But they still suck so I got to change that. If you don’t like dance or techno or pop you have no where to go. At least I haven’t found any. So here are my take for a ...

Yes so was my astonishment when my parents served me this South African Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon blend. My mom prefaced it by saying that she didn’t really like it that much and usually we align quite a bit on white wine. So I was a bit skeptical going into it. But man was I in for a surprise! 👁 Medium lemon 👃👅 On first whiff I was...

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...

I have a bit of a love hate relationship with Southern Rhône whites. 50% of the time I find them dead boring and 50% they’re amazing. I tried this one’s sibling and it was definitely in the former category but this one definitely in the latter 🤩. Ventoux is area wise one of the larger appellations in Southern Rhône starting just east o...

Hi! If you just found this welcome! My name is Michael, I’m a dad (two boys, 3y and 0y), 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 Corti.ai and Gefjun to most recently a lot of different climate projec...

Following a great run earlier today and the almost autumn like temperatures outside I thought it best to open a good bottle of red wine. I recently started exploring Argentinian wine and this Cab Franc is my first Argentinian Cab Franc and being a big fan of Loire Cab Franc it was a quite interesting comparison. 👁 Deep red with some pu...

After recently restarting my runs I thought it be a good idea to do a 5K reference run something I can happily beat some weeks later. So I did this 5K where I was trying to keep the pace close-ish to my VT1 (more on that in a later post). But I added a small pace game where the last km have to be the fastest. The idea is to train being...

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 ...

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...