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Casey Handmer is the founder of Terraform Industries, a company that is turning CO2 into natural gas through solar electricity. He's an astrophysicist with a PhD from Caltech who has worked on frontier technologies at NASA and Hyperloop. He's also a husband and the father of three kids. Including a newborn! In today's conversation we discussed:
* Productivity and priorities
* How to make it work without a support structure
* How to work on having optimism be the default so you can build a better future
* How he and his wife (also an astrophysicist and engineering leader) manage a busy household and three under the age of five
* The importance of long-term projects, both professionally and personally
* The worst parenting advice he's ever given and received