William Powers





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William Powers hails from Long Island, NY and has worked for over a decade in development aid and conservation in Latin America, Africa, Washington, D.C., and Native North America. From 2002 to 2004 he managed the community components of a project in the Bolivian Amazon that won a 2003 prize for environmental innovation from Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. His essays and commentaries on global issues have appeared in the New York Times and the International Herald Tribune, and on National Public Radio. He was a 2004-2005 recipient of the Open Door Foundation for non-fiction and is currently based in New York City as a freelance writer, speaker, and senior fellow at the the World Policy Institute.

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Average rating: 3.60 · 1,024 ratings · 303 reviews · 7 distinct works
Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Prac...
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Twelve by Twelve: A One-Roo...
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Blue Clay People: Seasons o...
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Whispering in the Giant's E...
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Twelve by Twelve
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“The difference between actually very serious and actually very funny is actually very thin.”
William Powers

“In a multi-tasking world where pure focus is harder and harder to come by, paper’s seclusion from the Web is an emerging strength. There’s nothing like holding a sheaf of beautifully designed pages in your hands. The whole world slows down, and your mind with it.”
William Powers, Hamlet's BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age

“Think how nature makes things compared to how we humans make things." We talked about how animals don't just preserve the next generation; they typically preserve the environment for the ten-thousandth generation. While human industrial processes can produce Kevlar, it takes a temperature of thousands of degrees to do it, and the fiber is pulled through sulfuric acid. In contrast, a spider makes its silk - which per gram is several times stronger than steel - at room temperature in water.”
William Powers, Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream

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