Essays and observations on the digital economy
Corporate venture capital has moved from the periphery of corporate innovation to its center. CVC funds now participate in roughly 26% of all venture deals globally, up from 15%...
Continue reading →The platform landscape is consolidating into bundled offerings across virtually every digital services category. Standalone products that were once viable are increasingly being...
Continue reading →We spent four weeks with six productivity apps that have gained significant traction among remote teams in 2026. Our testing involved real workflows — project management, async ...
Continue reading →Most of the regulatory attention and public concern about consumer technology currently focuses on AI. I want to argue that a much more immediate problem — subscription fatigue ...
Continue reading →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 pro...
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 →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 d...
Continue reading →The web that emerged from the 2000s was genuinely open. Independent blogs, forums, and personal sites carried substantial traffic. RSS readers aggregated content without platfor...
Continue reading →Industry context sourced from a UGC gaming community.
Research and data referenced from Earn7's color trading app.