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015. Season one wrap up!
Kaileen and Jonathan reflect on that past 10+ months of this Path and Focus journey in the last episode of season one! Join us as we explore some of the struggles and ...
014. Guest interview with Bruce Morrow, Registered Professional Forester
Jonathan sits down for a candid conversation with Bruce Morrow, a professional forester with 40 years of experience in wildfire suppression and fuel management. They t...
013. Guest interview with Avvai Ketheeswaran, fellow Beacon developer!
Another very special guest is joining Jonathan on the podcast today, and this time it's Avvai, one of the wonderful developers who's helped bring Beacon to life! Avvai...
012. The perils of wildfire risk on home insurance
Kaileen bought a tiny home! And is now experiencing herself what so many other home buyers in BC have this summer... being unable to purchase house insurance because o...
011. Air quality conversions & Beacon premium features
Jonathan shares a project he worked on over the weekend that involved converting the Canadian Air Quality Health Index & the Air Quality Index that Purple Air sensors ...
010. Minor app bugs & biogeoclimatic zones
Kaileen and Jonathan explore some fire danger rating edge case bugs that were accidentally stumbled upon, and how using something called biogeoclimatic zones could cha...
009. Machine Learning with Chris Foster, our CTO!
We've got Chris Foster, Two Story Robot's own Chief Technology Officer and resident machine learning expert in the studio to set some things straight. Why can't we jus...
008. Initial feedback & product validation
Jonathan shares some early feedback we've received on Beacon, then he and Kaileen dive into the last few question marks they have yet to figure out before officially l...
007. Navigating wildfire lingo & ableist language
Kaileen and Jonathan do their best to explain why machine learning is evidently far more difficult than they'd hoped, and what this means for our pursuit of up-to-date...
006. Getting weather data is tricky
Today, we start off by clarifying what the relationship is between the two companies, Path and Focus & Two Story Robot, then we get right into the heart of today's epi...
005. Guest interview with Leum Elvins, BC wildland firefighter
This week, we're joined by Leum Elvins, wildland firefighter for rapattack. We get to peak behind the curtain of a day in the life of a deployed firefighter who rappel...
004. The what, why, and how of fire indices
Today we're diving right into the crux of our Beacon app- the fire weather index! Kaileen and Jonathan give an update on the status of the app, explain how the fire in...
003. Why can danger ratings be so complicated?
We ponder danger ratings, wildfire liability, and why it can be so complicated for industry workers to decipher whether they can safely work out in the field (...oh, a...
002. Branding
Kaileen and Jonathan share their experience with the branding process so far, where the name Path and Focus comes from, and what the next steps are for connecting P&F ...
001. What is Path and Focus?
What the heck is Path and Focus and why do we think it's worthy of its own podcast? Jonathan and Kaileen explore the motivation behind starting the company Path and Fo...
Path and Focus: Teaser
We'll be exploring the fascinating, sometimes terrifying, and often misunderstood world of wildfires as we embark on our mission to develop technology to improve our r...