Studies in digital economy and platform research
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 ...
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....
Technology
The web that emerged from the 2000s was genuinely open. Independent blogs, forums, and personal sites carried substantial traffic. RSS readers aggregated content without platform intermediation. Searc...
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...
Commerce
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 than consumer commerce...
Culture
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 this narrative. But in th...
AI Tools
We evaluated AI writing tools across five task categories — technical documentation, marketing copy, long-form editing, translation, and summarization — using standardized prompts and measuring output...
Work
After five years of large-scale remote-first company experimentation, clear patterns have emerged about what separates successful remote organizations from those that struggle. The differences are les...