Commerce
While consumer marketplaces get most of the attention, B2B marketplaces are quietly rebuilding how businesses buy and sell. The scale of B2B commerce is roughly ten times larger than consumer commerce...
Culture
Over the past year working from cafés in a dozen cities across three continents, I have developed an informal anthropology of café working culture. The unwritten rules vary enormously, and getting the...
Startups
Product-market fit gets the most attention in startup advice, but founder-market fit — the match between founders and the problem they are solving — often determines whether product-market fit can be ...
Technology
Regional streaming services in India, Indonesia, and Brazil reported subscriber growth outpacing global platforms. Localized content investment is widely credited as the differentiator....
Economics
This analysis examines digital payment adoption patterns across 24 emerging economies from 2019 to 2025, using transaction volume data, central bank reports, and consumer surveys. We model adoption cu...
Culture
For most of the past decade, the dominant narrative about reading was decline. Attention spans shrinking, articles shortening, video replacing text. The data mostly supported this narrative. But in th...
Platform Strategy
The platform landscape is consolidating into bundled offerings across virtually every digital services category. Standalone products that were once viable are increasingly being absorbed into broader ...
Travel
Digital nomadism looks wonderful on Instagram. A laptop on a beach, video calls from a co-working space in Bali, weekends exploring ancient temples or urban markets. The reality, after the first few m...