New York — In the darkest moments of the past year, Stephanie Dua, co-founder and president of Homer, a New York City-based online learning programme, turned to early lessons on hard work and optimism she learnt on her father’s almond and walnut farm.

From about age four, Dua worked as a “nutter” on the farm in Waterford, California, collecting nuts after a machine had shaken them from the trees...

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