Slow Down: From Oil Fields to a Cattle Ranch with Matthew Pardee | EP 287
Geophysicist Matthew Pardee reads the earth with sound waves. He grew up in Gloucester, Massachusetts, studied geoscience and geophysics, and now works the Permian Basin from a small cattle ranch in South Carolina.
Matt walks through how oil was found before modern tools, and how vibroseis trucks map rock layers today without clearing land. Then he shares how jiu-jitsu, which he started in 2023, changed his pace of life. He traded a race toward the C-suite for being present with his wife Kate, their two daughters, and the farm.
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