Will Hines

Wherever you go, there you are

In the fall of 2023, the restaurant and bar Cowgirl decided to convert one of its margarita machines into one for frozen espresso martinis, “the new cocaine,” the owner joked to me.

“You forget your brain is a muscle,” says my friend Lars, who works in what remains of the country’s public-health sector. The brain is not, in fact, a muscle, but the point stands.

Leap had evidence that its bet on the neighborhood would pay off: Several of its brands were already shipping often to apartments in the neighborhood. It was a strategy Brookfield Properties had already been pursuing pre-pandemic, buying up seven storefronts. (It sold them last year for $20.25 million.) “We merchandised to support the market,” said... See more

A new generation of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) offers Britain an opportunity to reinvent nuclear power with standardised designs, factory-based assembly, lower capital costs, and rapid deployment. British firms are well placed to lead. Simultaneously, surging energy demands from AI infrastructure providers ensures a ready market. The opportunity... See more

His ideal employee for a sales role at the startup is a “PhD,” Kausas said—poor, hungry and desperate.

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