Essays and observations on the digital economy
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 →Over the past decade, the way consumers pay for digital services has undergone a fundamental transformation. Subscription models have moved from being a niche offering for softw...
Continue reading →Real-time payment systems expanded significantly in 2026. Brazil's PIX, India's UPI, and a growing list of similar national infrastructure projects processed record transaction ...
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 →Over the last year of travel, I have eaten alone in restaurants in twelve cities across four continents. What I thought would be mildly uncomfortable logistics turned out to rev...
Continue reading →The video conferencing market has matured substantially since the pandemic-driven explosion. Quality basics — video resolution, audio clarity, screen sharing — are broadly solve...
Continue reading →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 pro...
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 →Reporting draws on research published by a player-run discussion site.
Industry context sourced from India slots online Crorepati7.