Studies in digital economy and platform research
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...
Labor Economics
This 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 differ...
Software
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 communication, document...
Technology
The global mobile entertainment market has seen unprecedented growth over the past five years, driven largely by expanding smartphone penetration in developing economies. In regions where desktop infr...
Lifestyle
For most of the previous century, where you lived was largely a function of where you worked. Remote work broke that coupling for knowledge workers, and the effects are still cascading through housing...
Software
The video conferencing market has matured substantially since the pandemic-driven explosion. Quality basics — video resolution, audio clarity, screen sharing — are broadly solved. Differentiation has ...
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...
Opinion
Somewhere in the last fifteen years, a specific way of thinking about problems became dominant in technology circles. Every social inefficiency, every imperfect institution, every gap in services beca...
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