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Henry Williams

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  • Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business. The subject that interests him, he’s read newspapers, biographies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
    Curius / Onboarding
  • The Privileged School Aura This is a complex issue, and it would take me a long time to write an essay about it. Instead I’ll paint an incomplete portrait through some unsavory stories that I broadly attribute to the “privileged school aura” in Harvard’s admissions process. Every day, there are students who loudly argue about philosophy in the dining hall. Last year, there were many people who loudly mansplain about cryptocurrencies in the dining hall. There is no one who talks about writing open-source software in the dining hall. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra overwhelmingly consists of stu…
    School, Home
  • The deep structures of family systems are so important because they are highly persistent. The reason for their persistence is paradoxical. Despite being at the core of folkways, family structures persist because they are subconsciously and weakly held. So, migration does not erode them because migrants find it easy to abandon their traditional family structures and adopt those of the situated community.
    The Church's crusade against cousin-marriage did not create the Western nuclear family
  • So what should be done? DOE and other federal agencies should consider a simpler approach — have interested applicants submit a two-page letter of interest, outlining an idea for the funding opportunity and the steps they would take to bring it to fruition. The most promising or interesting ideas will receive a preliminary promise of a minimum amount of funding, pending successful completion of necessary community engagement and project development activities. Funding above the promised minimum could then be allocated to finalists according to whatever rubric DOE chooses.
    An open letter to the Department of Energy: Enough with the technical assistance | Utility Dive
  • New study finds that climate finance for Africa needs to grow 9x from USD 30 billion to USD 277 billion to meet 2030 climate goal
    New study finds that climate finance for Africa needs to grow 9x from USD 30 billion to USD 277 billion to meet 2030 climate goal - CPI
  • A further argument for taxing away much of the rental value of land is that the credit system now mainly finances land ownership. In this way, rents on land are converted into interest on unproductive debt. Speculative bubbles in land also drive the credit cycle, to devastating macroeconomic effect.
    The case for a land value tax is overwhelming | Financial Times