Adam Scheuring

Founder @variablehq | Technologist, humanist, idealist | Climate, complex systems, risk & sustainability | Investor @nurxapp @sanity_io @_noisolation @breytahq

[Adam Scheuring @admsch]

The good thing about being from a half Catholic, half Protestant family is that I work hard and play hard and feel guilty about both

[Adam Scheuring @admsch]

@adelwu_ @SubframeApp @claudeai @storybookjs keep us posted

[Adam Scheuring @admsch]

@JJEnglert GTM Guide

[Kyle Chan @kyleichan]

A group of Western VCs goes to China, not to invest but to see what the competition is like. They realize that China is too far ahead on clean tech and decide the only way forward is to work with Chinese companies.

One VC describing a visit to Chinese battery giant CATL:

[Adam Scheuring @admsch]

@moetkacik @iamjourjean you'd love this

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Donald Trump is so obviously going to annex Greenland.

And European leaders will respond with unparalleled levels of "monitoring the situation".

[Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno]

Moving a EU joint battalion to Greenland and instruct it to fight to the death would be neither feasible nor humane. It wouldn’t work as a deterrent either as Trump would have no problem killing 500 EU troops. So we need more practical and reasonable ideas:

[Adam Scheuring @admsch]

@klarnaseb what have you shipped this week?

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

$100m of solar panels saves a country 30 years of gas imports at 2024 prices for the same 1.5TWh of electricity generated

That's a $3b saving in gas imports for each $100m of solar deployed

Another one of my charts of the year

[Felix Hamer • electricfelix @electricfelix]

"This in China isn’t just “demand destruction”
Structural shift w/ far deeper implications for global energy market

Numbers almost unfair
🇨🇳#fleet running these mixers pocketing 3× diesel-level savings—& that’s only the teaser trailer for horror movie now playing in oil-market"

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Because Maduro is so unpopular in Venezuela, he has long relied on Cuban security forces and intelligence agents to maintain power and suppress any potential revolt including from Venezuelan forces. He pays for these repressive services with oil. https://t.co/r9bW12l1Gp

[Adam Scheuring @admsch]

@steveruizok @_chenglou Sounds about right. The trackpad raises interrupts in the peripheral manager which gets a high priority thread assigned to it

[Adam Scheuring @admsch]

@tszzl @dieworkwear he's tired

[Andy Boenau @Boenau]

I'm told that since 5% of people ride bicycles, we can't do anything for them. 🤷‍♂️

...and...

I'm told 5% of people drive electric cars, so we should plan a national charging network. 🤔

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Paris pollution after they added bike lanes and restricted cars

[Assaad Razzouk @AssaadRazzouk]

Stunning EV progress in so many countries. October 2025 share of new car sales, selected countries:

1 Norway 97.4%
2 Nepal 76% (trend)
3 Denmark 73.4% (September)
4 Ethiopia 60% (trend)
5 China 58.7% (NEVs)
6 Albania 57%
7 Netherlands 40.2%
8 Belgium 36.4%
9 Sweden 36.2% (65.7% including PHEVs)
10 Costa Rica 25.6%
11 UK 25.4%
12 Thailand 24.6% (September)
13 France 24.4%
14 Germany 21%

Notes:
>So many said (and continue to say) it's not going to happen
>EV share was pretty close to zero 6 years ago

[jairme @jairmearrependi]

Lindo isso

[Jason, @jasonc_nc]

Perspective

[Adam Scheuring @admsch]

@AlfieJCarter system

[bubble boi @bubbleboi]

Google getting to AGI first because you actually need to know linear algebra as a prerequisite to get a job @ DeepMind instead of being an anime pfp account posting on TPOT was in hindsight —
very obvious.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

The notion that AGI would have infinite returns has been used to justify investment far above expected returns (by 10x-100x) for technology that is neither AGI nor on the path to AGI