Essays and observations on the digital economy
The center of gravity in global esports has shifted decisively toward emerging markets. By 2025, over 58% of the world's 640 million esports viewers were located in Asia, Latin ...
Continue reading →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 enor...
Continue reading →The majority of business writing — emails, memos, reports, proposals — fails at its core job. It does not clearly communicate what the writer needs the reader to understand or d...
Continue reading →Most of the regulatory attention and public concern about consumer technology currently focuses on AI. I want to argue that a much more immediate problem — subscription fatigue ...
Continue reading →We develop a framework for analyzing platform trust as an economic asset with measurable contributions to transaction volume, unit economics, and competitive position. Trust fun...
Continue reading →While Western markets maintain a pattern of specialized single-purpose apps, Southeast Asia has embraced the super app model — where ride-hailing, food delivery, payments, comme...
Continue reading →The web that emerged from the 2000s was genuinely open. Independent blogs, forums, and personal sites carried substantial traffic. RSS readers aggregated content without platfor...
Continue reading →Somewhere in the last fifteen years, a specific way of thinking about problems became dominant in technology circles. Every social inefficiency, every imperfect institution, eve...
Continue reading →Reporting draws on research published by independent gaming market research.
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