# What I'm up to - January 2023

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*Published: 2023-01-03*

  
✨ **Highlights of last month**

- At QuantAQ, [we shipped out our largest-ever order](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7010974625903878145/), had our biggest month and quarter in top-line revenue, and completed our best year.
- I spent some time planning out personal OKRs as an alternative approach to my typical New Years' Resolution - I'm hoping this will lead to results that are more easily trackable.

**🤔 Things to share**

- An [article in the MIT Tech Review](https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/12/24/1066041/a-startup-says-its-begun-releasing-particles-into-the-atmosphere-in-an-effort-to-tweak-the-climate/) about [Make Sunsets](https://makesunsets.com/), a company that intends to cool the planet by pumping Sulfate particles into the stratosphere (a very, very bad and stupid idea in my opinion). I may write more about this at some point, but the tldr is that (1) this is an incredibly unethical thing to do and (2) VCs have a responsibility to do due diligence with respect to ethics and impact on unintended parties. While there isn't much I can do personally, I will certainly not ever take a meeting from VCs who lack basic ethics like [boost.vc](https://www.boost.vc/) and [Pioneer Fund](https://www.pioneerfund.vc/) have shown here and will encourage other climate entrepreneurs to perform their own due diligence on firms they may take money from.

  

📫 **What I'm up to this month**

- Working hard at QuantAQ to ensure 2023 is off to a hot start. If you're looking for a job in sales, software, or electro/mechanical engineering, reach out or check out our [careers page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/quant-aq).
- We have at least 1 new employee starting this month - an opportunity to revisit our onboarding docs and processes
- I was recently introduced to [Retool](https://retool.com), so will likely spend some time playing around to see if it can help reduce a lot of custom internal tooling and spreadsheets
- The early part of the year is always hard for me in Boston (I'm not a cold-weather person), so I'm hoping to find some opportunities to spend time outside

**📍 Where I'll be** _(Let me know if we overlap!)_

- I have no planned trips in January as of now!

# 📖 What I'm reading

- [Measure What Matters](https://www.amazon.com/Measure-What-Matters-Google-Foundation/dp/0525536221) by John Doerr