Exploring the challenges and joys of balancing a world-changing startup and a family, the chapter delves into the speaker's admiration for their wife and her exceptional accomplishments. Insights into managing life with a newborn, maintaining a long-distance relationship, and juggling parenting and full-time remote work are shared. Strategies for minimizing the work required for gardening and amusing anecdotes about parenting multiple children are also discussed.
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