Essays and observations on the digital economy
Tech coverage tends to focus on Silicon Valley and a handful of other major hubs. Spending time in smaller tech ecosystems — Lisbon, Taipei, Medellín, Bangalore, Tbilisi — revea...
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 →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...
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 →We tested six leading budgeting apps over three months of real usage, tracking actual income, expenses, savings goals, and investment accounts. The goal was to assess not just f...
Continue reading →Cloud spending across Asia-Pacific exceeded $200 billion in 2026, with India and China leading growth rates while Japan and Australia maintained the largest absolute spend.
Continue reading →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 th...
Continue reading →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...
Continue reading →Industry context sourced from the IndieAppWatch blog.