I’ll be in Ghana in mid-August! Email me (reply to this email) if there are people I should meet
Kurtis Lockhart makes the case for an African YIMBY movement in
.Someday, I will finish a companion piece on car-centric development in sub-Saharan Africa and the lack of investment in transit
Tempsford is a town in England that could see more development. Some of current residents of Tempsford are unhappy about this.
Amazing quotes from Samuel Hughes:
“The two big questions are over land value capture and scale,” Hughes said. ‘Is it 10,000 or 100,000 dwellings?’ After visiting the village, he still favours the latter.‘The residents were remarkably polite to me, all things considered,’ he said. ‘Unfortunately, there is an overwhelming case for building at Tempsford.’”
Despite the many reports to the contrary, AI does not appear to have affected hiring rates for new tech grads. They are actually getting jobs at ~roughly the same rate as they did in 2023.
Couples that get married now are quite a bit less likely to get divorced than couples that married in previous decades.
About three-quarters of the women that came of age after Bangladesh’s independence were married before they turned 18.
One BTU (British Trade Unit) of energy is equal to 3412 Btu (British thermal units).