By the time I came around 4 years later, all of this was old hat, but my sister was one of the first kids of a transplant recipient and the doctors had no idea how well that was going to work out.

As I understand it, she spent the last month on bedrest just in case when she was pregnant with my older sister. And they had her do that at the same hospital where they did her transplant, also just in case.

"Get one from her mom" was the approach she took. And then decades of anti-rejection medication, and lots extra care for her first pregnancy. Nobody knew how any of this was going to work out.

Not sure if it would be helpful, or if she'd be interested, but my mom is the longest surviving kidney transplant recipient as far as we can tell. And she's had three kids. Would it be worth making an introduction?

(Her kidney hit 100yo a couple years ago, and her transplant was in '63, I think.)

Nice!

Congratulations!

I had a bad bout of vertigo several years ago. It was awful. Hopefully yours chills out like mine did.

If you know of similar programs in other areas, I'd love to hear about them. Particularly if they're in the general vicinity of climate tech, but for anything else too.

The need to read/watch/listen to the material in time for the next meeting served as a forcing function for me to actually do the reading. The meetings served as a way to cement that information in my mind. This format worked pretty well for me, and I would certainly do it again on other topics.

Part of that might have been the diversity of the groups. Ours had four people in the US, 5 in Europe, and 1 in India. We had a few finance/business people, a few programmers, a chemist, a mechanical engineer, and a few others. We'd worked in all sorts of industries.

I thought the quality of the discussions was pretty high, given the fact that none of us were working in the CDR space. These were all smart, motivated people who were there to learn. I haven't taken a "class" since college, and this was much more productive than any 10 hours of college class I had.

I tried to read the "High Flyer" content each week, and usually delved into most of the "Climate Student" content. The other folks in my group seemed to do the same. Attendance is more or less what you would expect from a free study group like this. 10 people eventually fell to 3 by the end.

This is a medium-sized initial investment for them to collect the content, but there's no "Air Miners person" in the groups themselves, so it's fairly cheap for them to run on an ongoing basis. The content itself is a collection of links to follow. Here's the reading for the soil carbon module:

I'm going to post some "sky storms" about several of the topics, but I wanted to start with a meta post about the format itself. Air Miners is an organization that hosts a community and associated events on CDR (that's Carbon Dioxide Removal.) They build a curriculum and organize the study groups.

It kinda does. Let me know what you think of it!

That right around the time that The Room Demo debuted at Steam Dev Days. And then half our VR team jumped ship to Oculus. And then Facebook bought Oculus. And then I got appendicitis and pneumonia on one of the Valve trips to Hawaii. And then we kicked off the Vive with HTC. It was a busy spring.