Hi, I’m Louis. Feel free to say hi!
I’m the CEO and cofounder (with Ning Jeng) of Recoolit. We are making cooling sustainable, with an emphasis on the management of superpotent refrigerant gas.
In the past I:
- worked at early-stage startups applying machine learning to challenges in healthcare and financial inclusion.
- used behavioral economics to improve government and NGO policies and programs.
- studied economics at the University of Chicago.
This site contains:
- What I’m up to now
- Questions I’ve been thinking about
- My blog, 10 years and counting.
- An unauthorized mirror of the NAEB database
- My thoughts on Eternal Websites
- The colophon for this site
Bugs?
If you spot typos, broken links, etc, please let me know! In particular, some of the content is migrated from an older Wordpress version of this blog, so older posts may have formatting errors or worse.
Disclosure
Some of the links on my site are through Amazon’s Affiliates Program. If you make a purchase on Amazon through a link on this site, I receive a small commission. (The book does not cost you any extra.) I set this up in 2013 because I thought it would be cool, but I’ve made about $15 lifetime from the program.
Recent Posts
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Indonesian Census 1971
I was pleasantly surprised to discover the Indonesian National Bureau of Statistics has a decent website with a pretty good open data portal.
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Bubbi
I started Recoolit a few months before my bubbi died. My mom’s mom, she was 96 when she died and was lucid until the very end. I told her about my plans a few times. She was never concerned about the details of the business and she had infinite faith that I would be successful. What she came back to instead, again and again, were my responsibilities as an employer.
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Phased verification requirements for carbon credits
The voluntary carbon market has a problem with supporting innovation. Here's one idea to fix it.
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Early notes on Spring '83
A new protocol for social media has been proposed; some quick technical feedback.
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Reading List, August 2021
What I’ve been reading and watching lately. A pretty good haul these last few months.