Enrique Quevedo

  • We don’t need to save the planet

    “Save the planet!”, it’s a catchy phrase, but does it really need to be saved?

    The Earth is a huge ball of rocks with an iron-nickel alloy at its core. With a volume of 1,086 trillion cubic kilometers, the only space where life exists is the Biosphere, which only represents 0.0007% of the volume of the planet.

    This huge ball was formed 4.5 billion years ago and even if we completely destroy everything we know about it, the Earth will keep going around the Sun for 7 billion to 8 billion years more.

    Maybe what we need to save is life on Earth?

    Life arose on Earth about 4 billion years ago. Complex multicellular animals did not appear until about 600 million years ago. That’s only 15% of the history of life on the planet. Since then, it has endured 5 mass extinctions that have wiped between 75% and 96% of the world’s species (in every single event). Even if we destroy all forms of life that we can see today, it is very likely that unicellular or microbial life will prevail. Some fun facts about microscopic forms of life:

    • An average adult human body has more bacteria cells (38 trillion) than actual human cells (30 trillion).
    • Some types of bacteria can survive years in extremely unwelcoming conditions, like outter space.
    Who do we need to save then?

    Let’s stop fooling ourselves. We don’t need to save the planet, and we don’t need to save life on Earth. Let’s be real, we need to save ourselves.

    How do we do it?

    Fortunately, we have a plan:

    1. Electrify Transportation
    2. Decarbonize the Grid
    3. Fix Food
    4. Protect Nature
    5. Clean Up Industry
    6. Remove Carbon

  • How to manage frustration by Michael Kaplan

    Everything that causes you frustration can be brought into one of 3 buckets:

    1. A problem you have to solve
    2. A dilema you have to manage, you might not be able to solve it, you just have to make sure it doesn’t disrupt you
    3. A distraction you just need to avoid

    When you’re feeling frustration, if you can figure out which bucket that thing is in, then you can very quickly figure out which action you need to take.

    The full podcast with Michel Kaplan, Director, Agency Business Development at Google, can be found here:

  • A Plan Is Not a Strategy by Roger Martin

    A comprehensive plan—with goals, initiatives, and budgets–is comforting. But starting with a plan is a terrible way to make strategy. Developing strategy means going outside an organization’s comfort zone and escaping the common traps of strategic planning.

    Roger Martin, is the former dean of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and one of the world’s leading thinkers on strategy.

    The main concepts Roger Martin touches on the video are:

    • Most strategic planning has nothing to do with strategy
    • So what is a strategy?
    • Why do leaders so often focus on planning?
    • A real-world example of strategy beating planning
    • How do I avoid the “planning trap”?

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