The Geographic Revolution Remote Work Made Possible
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 eff...
observations from near and far
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 eff...
Travel
Great train stations are more than transportation infrastructure. They are daily theaters of urban life, symbolic statements about civic ambition, and reliable ...
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...
Business Skills
Being data literate does not require becoming a data scientist. It does require enough understanding to interpret what data people show you, ask useful question...
Platform Economics
We develop a framework for analyzing platform trust as an economic asset with measurable contributions to transaction volume, unit economics, and competitive po...
Business
Over the past decade, the way consumers pay for digital services has undergone a fundamental transformation. Subscription models have moved from being a niche o...
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 unwritte...
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 ...
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