Studies in digital economy and platform research
Culture
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 reveal surprising amounts ...
Fintech
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 volumes....
Security
We evaluated five password managers across three dimensions that matter for security-focused users: architectural security, audit transparency, and operational usability. Feature counts are intentiona...
Market Economics
We examine the effects of algorithmic pricing on e-commerce markets using transaction data from three major platforms covering consumer electronics, household goods, and apparel categories over 2022-2...
Travel
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 — reveals a richer picture of ...
Finance & Technology
The intersection of financial technology and digital entertainment represents one of the most dynamic shifts in global commerce. As traditional banking infrastructure proves insufficient for the pace ...
Business Skills
The default state of most meetings is dysfunction. They run long, produce unclear decisions, and consume the attention of people who would have been more productive on other work. Complaints about mee...
Travel
Great train stations are more than transportation infrastructure. They are daily theaters of urban life, symbolic statements about civic ambition, and reliable indicators of how a city thinks about it...