·Indonesia
Indonesia e-commerce landscape: key players and trends (updated Jun 2020)
Despite COVID-19 headwinds, Indonesia's e-commerce market is set to quadruple by 2025, yet penetration remains under 10%—here's what's driving growth.
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514 posts about AI, learning, and building products
·Book review
I almost made the wrong conclusion about "the Epidemic of Despair" by Anne Case and Angus Deaton
I nearly dismissed Case and Deaton's "Deaths of Despair" research as incomplete—until I verified the data myself and discovered their alarming conclusions were actually understated.
·Geopolitics
Thoughts on "The big cycles over the last 500 years" by Ray Dalio
Ray Dalio's 500-year analysis of empire cycles reveals why today's confluence of debt, inequality, and US-China tensions creates unprecedented danger.
·Leadership
The forgotten crisis
COVID-19 will nearly double acute hunger to 265 million people in six months, yet this crisis remains invisible because it's happening far from view.
·Geopolitics
COVID 19 - A looming public health and humanitarian crisis in developing countries
COVID-19 won't end until the poorest countries are protected—closed borders and self-sufficiency won't save us when 7 billion people need vaccination.
·Geopolitics
"The changing world order" Ray Dalio's insights about what to come in the next 5 - 30 or 50 years
Ray Dalio's historical analysis reveals today's "unprecedented" events are actually predictable patterns—empires rise and fall in cycles, and understanding these helps us prepare for the shifting US-China power dynamic ahead.
·Greater China
COVID 19 learnings from Vietnam - a developing country
Vietnam—a developing country with 100M people, $3k GDP per capita, and 900 miles bordering China—had <300 COVID cases and zero deaths by April. Here's what worked.
·Geopolitics
Covid 19 - The lesson from China from Bruce Aylward, leader of the W.H.O. team that visited China
I listened to the WHO team leader who witnessed China's COVID response firsthand, and his lessons on speed, free testing, and isolating mild cases could have saved us months.
·Geopolitics
Covid 19 - currently it takes about 7 days for the total confirmed cases to double
I've found the most critical COVID-19 data sources you need: cases are doubling every 7 days globally, and these charts reveal which countries are in the most danger right now.
·Geopolitics
The economic impact of Covid 19 on China and the rest of the world
Kevin Rudd and a leading China economist cut through the noise to explain what Covid-19 really means for China's economy and reform agenda—with insights you won't find elsewhere.
·Other countries
8 Key Facts about Singapore Digital and Media Landscape 2020
Despite Singapore's world-leading smartphone adoption and GDP per capita 60% above the US, its e-commerce lags far behind China and South Korea—here's why.
·Paid Media
8 key facts about South Korea e-commerce (updated Feb 2020)
South Korea ranks 3rd globally in e-commerce penetration despite being 28th in population—with growth rates 5x Japan's and mobile sales second only to China.