Maru worked in architecture for 5 years and taught me to look differently at a city’s skyline.
She taught me to look out for cranes.
The cranes are a proxy for construction and infrastructure investment. Since both are closely and positively correlated with a growing economy, seeing many cranes along the skyline is a simple but reliable heuristic to know if an economy is doing well or poorly.
In your field of work, what are your cranes on the horizon?