Hope everyone has had an incredible month of July. Mine was packed full of travel, weddings, and love. With all the good vibes in the air, I came across a lot of interesting finds, let’s break it down.

Podcast I’m Listening To

Tim Ferris hosted Maui Nui founder Jake Muise on his podcast. This episode spoke to how Jake founded his company and the values he uses to grow a strong team and maintain a loving relationship with his wife. The business follows the Hungry, Humble, Smart team building structure, and is worth a listen.

Product That Made My Month

I follow the Pomodoro Technique when I work. 25 Minutes of focused, distraction-free work, followed by 5 minutes of chill. In order to do this such I bought this kitchen timer. Completely not necessary, as there are many online timers that work, but having something physical on a desk has always worked well for me.

Topic I’ve Been Pondering

I’ve been talking to a few friends recently surrounding home backup power solutions. If you look at the numbers, the electric grid is trending scarily in a direction towards having grid failures with more and more electric vehicles being added to the system. It is projected in 2030 that 40% of all vehicle sales will be electric.

If we run quick math, 4 million vehicles * 100kWh per vehicle = 400GW of power will be added to the grid per year.

Utilities as well as startups are going to need to find ways to handle the mass load that will be added.

Code Discovery

Through my daily Leetcode exercises, I discovered a fun new Python function that I was unaware of.

This may sound incredibly basic, but Python has a count function.

For example, if you’re attempting to find out how many times “A” appears in the following list [“A”, “b”, “E”, “X”, “jon”, “frank”], originally I would write a seach algorithm to do the such. Python made my life so much easier by the following:

list = ["A", "b", "E", "X", "jon", "frank"]

#The below function would return 1
print(list.count("A"))

Et voila! Python making everyone’s life significantly easier.

That’s all for the newsletter for today! Thank you for reading, until next time!

-Jon