Co-founder at @blakbear_ ending the billions in waste from fixed expiration dates on food
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The sun has completed just 20 laps around the milky way. On the previous lap (230 million years ago) dinosaurs were just beginning to appear.
How do you feel about that?
We were taught that Earth orbits the Sun in a closed circle. In reality, Earth has never returned to the same point in space once in 4.5 billion years.
​Right now, the Sun is carrying Earth and every planet around the center of the Milky Way at 230 km/s (828,000 km/h), more than 18,000 kilometers every 80 seconds.
​Because the Solar System is tilted 60.2° to the galactic plane and bobs up and down through the galactic disc roughly every 30 million years, the planets trace open 3D corkscrew helices across deep space rather than flat loops.
​The last time the Sun stood where it stands today, one Galactic Year (230 million years) ago, the very first dinosaurs were only beginning to appear on Earth. Since forming 4.6 billion years ago, our Sun has completed only 20 laps.
It’s a real challenge for store workers to check every item on their shelves daily, to ensure none remain past the use-by date.
It’s near impossible for someone to do it 100% correctly every day.
Fortunately many new technologies are coming in that make it possible.
Family made ill by meat from York supermarket that sold food 41 days past use by date ift.tt/OwhP3sg
Brutal, and currently now way to know if that food was truly spoiled
Cyberattack on French supermarkers. Someone remotely took over refrigeration controllers and made them to defrost. Target temperature set to 50°C. Staff opening freezers in the morning were hit by a wave of hot air. Millions of euros lost. France spent years debating food sovereignty to depend on a firmware update? bfmtv.com/economie/consommat…
Max Grell retweeted
Technical moats are mostly over at this point. If you’re building something that is meant to be durable, the only moats now are:
• Proprietary data
• Network effects
• A physical component
Back in San Francisco and enjoying the next transport revolution - driverless.
Hasn't made the rides cheaper yet though. Waymo offered me a $41 journey when Uber was just $9.
And if the car is driverless, what does that mean for design? Cars all look the same these days, I'm keen for a change-up. Looks like that's what we're getting.
Landed in SF and took another Uber
Cost me £32.99/$43.69
Uber driver told me
He gets $23 for the ride, he lives in Sacramento (1.5hr away), works 15 hour days in SF on weekends, earns $300 and sleeps in his car
Does that seem right?
Seems he has it tougher than the London driver from yesterday
Food shelf-life has been determined the same way for 50 years.
Yesterday I spoke alongside @SGS_SA about the future of shelf-life, at the SOFHT AI Conference
To reduce waste, keep food affordable and maintain high quality, the food industry needs richer data to make more precise shelf-life decisions.
Currently shelf-life is determined using annual tests in simulated supply-chain conditions, then occasionally changed reactively (during summer heat waves). The reality is supply-chains are highly varied.
An exciting new chapter is coming, where we surpass human instinct with AI and sensor infrastructure to underpin shelf-life decisions.
Shelf-life today is usually set once a year with bacteria counts in remote laboratories, and sniff/sensory testing packs in the factory.
The same shelf-life is then applied to every pack from the SKU, all year round, and is chosen to cover the worst-case scenario.
We measure most fresh food has days of shelf-life going unused. The way to recover it is to take the annual lab test out of the lab/factory and into the supply chain.
More shelf-life is the biggest lever to cut waste and grow sales in fresh food.
