Chris Ordal

Imagine a world where Bill & Ted travelled back in time and added "Be excellent to each other" to the constitution

@codysimms @mcjpod @KipPastor @PiqueAction 🎯

Just finished an @mcjpod recording with @KipPastor of @PiqueAction which is striving to advance climate storytelling. I remain convinced that storytelling is the least invested in category of climate action relative to potential impact. Changing ❤️s and 🧠s = Priceless.

A friend just texted this to me, and how true it is. Building any company is hard. To the founders tackling businesses in insanely big but insanely entrenched spaces like chemicals, cold chain, cement, heavy industrial facilities, agricultural inputs, shipping: thank you.

How Back to the Future helps me understand climate change and the road ahead. A thread. 1/x

When you think about it, if the first Columbo episode was aired in 1971 and the last in 2003, and they made no secret of the famous detective ageing, that means in the fictional world he got 32 years out of his car. That’s extraordinary. It was on its last legs in 1971!

Check out our newsletter this week. @Ordal writes about the recent climate allegory, @dontlookupfilm! myclimatejourney.substack.com/p/the-neapolit…

Who in addition to Adam McKay (@GhostPanther) is using comedy as a climate communication tool? Is there a @jonstewart or Samantha Bee (@iamsambee) or @Trevornoah of climate? Someone shrewdly pointing out the lunacy of the business-as-usual status quo. Laughs > anger

Breakfast and move things.

@KristyPuchko SNEAKERS

'Late Spring' (1949, Yasujirô Ozu)

@SecYellen controls interest rates. @elonmusk controls rates of interest.

@codysimms @jasminecrowe Truth! We need an engine of creative, global empathy to inspire Humanity to solve complicated, climate problems. Sesame Street achieved this - bringing generations together around the globe to educate for the future. It’s not easy bein’ green, but it’s POSSIBLE!

@jasminecrowe How good does this documentary look??? m.youtube.com/watch?v=hQDydU… Btw my friend and fellow Techstars portfolio CEO @Ordal is rightfully obsessed with what the climate movement can learn from Sesame Street in terms of mainstream storytelling / winning hearts & minds.

Watching Sesame Street with Journey and it dawned on me this is a generational show. It’s been on for over 50 years and it used to be my jam. Talk about a successful franchise.

PSA: one of the greatest movies ever made, Sneakers, is streaming on HBO

@DannyTRS Fitzcarraldo

What movie is FIELD OF DREAMS similar to?

@davechensky BitChen’ Back & Forth

Opening shot from the first episode of COLUMBO (1971) Big camera move links the murderer and his victim Director: Steven Spielberg DP: Russell Metty (Touch of Evil, Spartacus) #filmmaking #cinematography

the only reboot we actually need is columbo so people can have the catharsis of watching him arrest silicon valley creeps and pharma execs and investment bankers and the people on house hunters

'Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth' - Pablo Picasso

Whilst trying to avoid real work I ended up doing this…

Hold your loved ones close tonight. Let 'em feel it. Get some sleep. Back at it tomorrow. Love has a longer wick than hate & fear.