Data science & product @paces_ai. Energy, epistemology & political economy
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So we're all eagerly awaiting the results of Batch Zero, ERCOT's maiden voyage into system-wide cluster study processes for large loads paused by Abbott
Knowing exactly where these new load pockets will show up and how they'll impact the transmission network will drive interconnection feasibility and system impact for years to come
I'm currently working with a team supplementing ERCOT's official (and egregiously outdated) transmission planning cases with faster-moving, off-cycle projects and new upgrades revealed through utility planning documents and working groups
This has allowed us to develop a synthetic Batch 0 case months before ERCOT officially releases their updated version and begins producing study results...
If you're interested in chatting about this or collaborating, DM me. Would love to talk !
I’ve known this for a long time due to firsthand experiences from my father (orthopedic surgeon)
Healthcare system profit motive incentivizes interventionism at the expense of long term well being for patients
More surgery = more revenue, so everyone recommends the knife instead of PT and preventative care
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The story of how the LOTR movies got made is an under-rated miracle. Peter Jackson was a schlock horror indie dork with 1 serious movie on his resume (Heavenly Creatures) when he pitched the Lord of the Rings trilogy
He pulled in insanely talented VFX artists by basically saying "hey, want to work on Lord of the Rings?" He made the trilogy on a comparative shoe-string budget (less than $100 million per movie).
He was absolutely terrified of the movies crashing and burning so he kept close to the book (especially for the first movie). He thought "we need the existing fans to come, we have no hope of success without the fans".
Everything came together for the LOTR movies, from tech advances to financing to the perfect actors. It was a project of love from the perfect director who was in love with his island home which just so happened to be the best spot on Earth to stand in for Middle Earth.
If you believe in miracles, the LOTR movies were a miracle. Every perfect thing came together at the right moment with the right people.
Good product management resembles a good writing process
In both cases, your job is to relentlessly cut scope only to what is essential
There is a riddle at the heart of energy markets that has been troubling me lately: the grid is so short on capacity that VPP customers are disenrolling from demand response programs because they're getting dispatched too often...
And yet battery developers can't get projects financed
How is that possible?
When market design suppresses volatility, it leaks out in unexpected and inconvenient places
Cap energy prices, and scarcity leaks into the capacity market
Administer the capacity market, and scarcity leaks into state subsidy programs
And when none of it produces prices high enough to justify participation, existing resources start walking away
The people dying of thirst aren't buying water because we've made it illegal to charge what it's worth
Full post: grandprismatic.substack.com/…
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Important to distinguish btwn non-firm interconnection (for bypassing grid constraints) vs. non-firm RA (for bypassing zonal or BA-wide gen constraints). The latter is what most deals have addressed to date and is what's most relevant for VPPs/distributed capacity, lots to come there. The former is what the USDOE/FERC ANOPR seeks to unlock at larger stage and represents significant white space.
It’s so cheap to generate docs and tickets and meeting agendas these days but completely counterproductive if the person behind it isn’t actually putting thought into the content
Don’t make me read your AI slop if you won’t read and edit your own slop first
The true value of a liberal arts education all comes back to its algorithm for “learning how to learn” not remembering useless facts
Most class structures have you read the great texts with a critical lens, write papers to formulate a strong perspective, then participate in seminar style discussions to debate the various perspectives
Tried and true recipe for truly unpacking an idea
It also helps for building strong perspectives in professional life
My advice to new folks breaking into the industry is always to…
1. Do the readings (consume the highest signal blogs and pods)
2. Generate content (force yourself to create and put stuff out there), and
3. Debate ideas and learn from others (discuss the salient trends at happy hours and social media)
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If you’re not following Utah, you haven’t been paying attention. Every conversation worth having about American innovation is happening here.
It’s possible recursive self-improvement is actually already here…
It’s just materializing as the customized harness and context management system within vertical AI workflows rather than a technical breakthrough of the foundation models
