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View MoreChristopher Altman saw it in the same way that most small business owners do: in the quiet of an inbox that used to fill up on its own, rather than all at once. His Oakland tree-trimming crew scheduled three weeks off for years without his involvement. Then, the reservations simply…
The atmosphere changed somewhere between a half-empty diesel station outside Hamburg and the screens of a London trading floor. Like these things often do, it happened quietly. In January, Brent crude was trading at about sixty dollars. It was close to 120 by the second week of March. Ten weeks.…
A picture of an Amazon Web Services data center in Manassas, Virginia, taken from above, with its rows of identical gray buildings sitting on flat land like a small city that exists only to think, has been making the rounds in financial and tech circles lately. The incredibly long, delicate,…
There’s a certain kind of helplessness that comes over you when you stand at any gas station in America right now and watch the numbers on the pump tick upward. It’s not quite panic, but it’s more subdued and persistent. Midway through March, the price of regular gasoline surpassed $3.96…
The classroom, if you could call it that, doesn’t make an announcement. It is located somewhere in Nairobi’s Westlands neighborhood, which smells like rain on hot pavement in the afternoons and hums with the unique energy of a city that knows it’s becoming something. It is tucked between a juice…