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Measuring Digital Payment Adoption Across Emerging Markets
EconomicsThis analysis examines digital payment adoption patterns across 24 emerging economies from 2019 to 2025, using transaction volume data, central bank reports, and consumer surveys. We model adoption...
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Market AnalysisThe Asia-Pacific region accounts for over 55% of global digital entertainment revenue and continues to outpace other regions in growth rate. Driven by a combination of massive populations, increasi...
Read more →Why Southeast Asia Built Super Apps Before the West
TechnologyWhile 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 s...
Read more →The Labor Market Impact of Remote Work: A Five-Year Empirical Study
Labor EconomicsThis analysis examines labor market effects of remote work adoption using administrative employment data from 14 countries between Q1 2020 and Q4 2025. We focus on three outcome variables: wage dif...
Read more →The Unspoken Rules of Working from Cafés Around the World
CultureOver 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 ...
Read more →The Unexpected Renaissance of Long-Form Reading
CultureFor most of the past decade, the dominant narrative about reading was decline. Attention spans shrinking, articles shortening, video replacing text. The data mostly supported this narrative. But in...
Read more →How to Live Well When You Are Always Online
LifestyleMost of us are aware, intellectually, that spending hours on devices each day is not great for us. Yet the design of modern digital life makes healthier patterns genuinely difficult. It is worth th...
Read more →The Cloud Landscape in Asia: Major Milestones and Shifts
CloudCloud 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.
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