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Road-tripping with the Amazon nomads To stock Amazon’s shelves, merchants travel the backroads of America in search of rare soap and coveted toys. Maps Reveal Where the Creative Class Is Growing Which metros have the largest concentrations of the creative class today? And where has the creative class grown in the past 12 years or…

Hong Kong’s Property Bubble Is Protest-Proof Chronic undersupply and the prospect of lower interest rates are the steel bars that reinforce the city’s sky-high prices. A brief history—and future—of credit scores They can transform an economy. But they are only as robust as the data underlying them. Could You Turn A Joke Into Millions Like…

Japan Is Cool But Has No Clue About Selling Itself The country struggles to make money off of its worldwide cultural cachet. From seed to Series A: Scaling a startup in Latin America today Latin America’s Series A success stories outline a list of investors that are interested in this stage, as well as how much they…

Memes Are the New Pop Stars: How TikTok Became the Future of the Music Industry Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ is both a chart-topping phenomenon and a turning point for the music business. Here’s what happens when a social media platform becomes a label. Bitcoin’s Department of Defense: The Case For A Global Reserve…

The rise of the new crypto “mafias” ince 2009, there have been 186 spinout companies originating from those four categories (33% from Academia, 28% from Crypto, 24% from Tech, and 15% from Wall Street). Drug Cop Worth $400 Million After Bets on Brooklyn Real Estate Greg O’Connell acquired his first Red Hook building in 1967 for $22,000.…

COST OF LIVING CITY RANKING Claiming eight of the top 10 spots, Asian cities continue to dominate the list of most expensive locations for working abroad, in our 2019 ranking. Why We Eat Too Much, Move Too Little & Feel Stressed All the Time—And What We Can Do to Feel Better If we treated our…

Read: Mapping Innovation Geographies In our latest research, we cover over 100 cities globally to quantify their Innovation and Talent strengths. Based on our analysis, cities with similar characteristics have been grouped into 6 categories. IEOs have raised more money than ICOs in 2019 — Ushering in a new era? In the hey-days of ICOs viz late-2017 to…

The improbable careers of Vladimir Putin’s bodyguards Since 2016, four fso officers from his personal guard have been appointed regional governors, making the unusual leap from the shadows into public life. Instant Feedback Hurts Our Performance How can I use feedback to make my performance better, not worse? Where jobs are concentrating and why it matters to…

Top Freelancers Are Doing Just Fine: A New Upwork Study The study describes a particular segment of the freelance community, what I’d call top freelancers. NBA Free Agents Cluster in Superstar Cities, Too Pro basketball follows the winner-take-all geography of America as a whole, with free agents gravitating to New York, L.A., and other big cities.…

The Greenland ice sheet is melting unusually fast It is losing so much water that it may raise global sea levels by a millimetre this year The World Is Choking on Digital Pollution Society figured out how to manage the waste produced by the Industrial Revolution. We must do the same thing with the Internet…