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It is far easier to collaborate on a first principle model. At this level, all discussions are at the level of data structures, key operations, sources of complexity, and so on. It is good to separate this from at the database, programming language, or library you may use to execute those operations, which elegantly avoids those minefields.
The Napkin Math Methodology for System Design
sirupsen.com
Just like regular investment funds can either be actively managed or “closet indexers” who mostly track the index, ESG funds can either have active idiosyncratic views about what companies are good for ESG, or can just track published benchmarks. If you just track the benchmarks then you will, in a certain light, have better ESG performance, because *the benchmarks are the ESG performance* . But that might not be quite what one wants in an ESG manager.
Money Stuff: AMC Has Some Clever APEs
Matt Levine
For inspiration on ways to think about building new structures for infrastructural provision that better reflect these intertwined goals of sustainability, resilience, and equitable access, I look to and learn from activists for social change. Prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba, for example, describes the need to act in the short, medium, and long term, and at the individual community, institutional, and societal levels.
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
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