Software
As AI coding assistants have improved, some have declared that software craftsmanship is becoming irrelevant. If the AI can write the code, what does it matter if humans understand the principles of g...
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...
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...
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 ...
Business Skills
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 do. Even intelligent, ca...
Technology
Regional streaming services in India, Indonesia, and Brazil reported subscriber growth outpacing global platforms. Localized content investment is widely credited as the differentiator....
Technology
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, commerce, and financial serv...
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 ...