ChrisZach.com

About Chris

My name is Chris Zach. (This shouldn’t be surprising if you found my website.) This is me:

I live in Washington, DC. I work as an energy analyst at Energetics Incorporated. I play as a curious, adventure-seeking, knowledge-thirsting, life-loving human.

I have diverse interests, which means the subjects of my writings (ramblings?) on this blog will be fairly unpredictable, even to me.

Here are a few subjects you might find on the business and intellectual side, in no particular order:

• Renewable energy and energy efficiency: This is the subject of my career, where I apply my professional experience and mechanical engineering education to research, analyze, and solve challenging energy issues.
• Science: I love science. It just makes sense. Understanding science helps me understand the world. I’m a rational person. (And yes, I’ve heard about the scientific studies that show us humans aren’t as rational as we think we are.)
• Strategy: How should we compete? Where do we invest our resources?
• Startups: If it doesn’t exist, build it yourself! How do we make something from nothing?
• Collaboration technologies: With today’s tools lowering obstacles to collaboration and sharing, how will group-forming change? How will productivity be increased and what new outputs will be created?
• Mobile, social networking, and other rapidly evolving consumer and enterprise technologies.
• Marketing: How do we translate customer desires into new products and businesses?
• Innovation and product development: How do we sharpen the fuzzy front end of innovation?
• Automobiles: Despite the inability of American automakers to produce a profit, cars are still cool. Motorcycles, too. (I sold mine, sadly, but hope to get another some day.)

And on the play side, some of my hobbies and interests:

• Outside activities: snow skiing, hiking, camping, sunsets
• Photography: Breaking in my new Canon (but hopefully no breaking involved)
• Food and drink: cooking, discovering hidden local restaurant treasures, homebrewing, microbreweries, pubs, wineries
• Travel: whether on the other side of the world or on the other side of town, travel is a mindset and a way of seeing things with open eyes; I enjoy new experiences wherever they occur.
• Conversation: intriguing conversations with smart people, talking about stuff I’ve read, reading things people told me about

If you’d like to connect, my address is chris {at} chriszach {dot} com. I Twitter (occasionally) @chriszach.

If we’ve already met, let’s connect on Facebook and/or LinkedIn.