How a Toothbrush Charger Led to my Fear of Whales
The room goes dark. I can’t see anything. I can’t hear anything. Suddenly, I’m surrounded by a room covered in…
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The Customer as a Product: Making Sense of Retail Execution
An old adage says that if you aren’t paying for a product, you are the product. This business model is…
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Of business and ballet: What a thousand pirouettes taught me
Business and ballet, two things that are unlikely to mingle and associate with one another – but in my experience,…
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How to Pollute with a Tesla
Joe Nguyen is now the first person in Singapore to own a Tesla Model S, which is a fully-electric vehicle….
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Patreon, Crowdfunding goes subscription
What do artists like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, William Shakespeare and Joseph Haydn have in common? They were heavily dependent…
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The Volatility of the Oil Market and its Latent Time Bombs
Low prices and overproduction have become synonymous with the oil industry. Over the past year and a half, the price…
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Negative Interest Rate Policy, the Effective Lower Bound, and Cash
Interest rates are a policy tool, a signal, and, most fundamentally, a price: the price for tomorrow’s money, today. As…
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Vanishing Chutney and Meatless Chicken: A Samosa Introduction to Quantum Computing
Chutney or no chutney. Meat or no meat. Warm or not warm. These are all questions we ponder when purchasing…
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The Path Towards “Fintegration”
FinTech is gaining weight and increasingly cooperating with traditional banks in many countries. However, the adoption in the Canadian banking…
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Uber’s rebranding and its sustainability with traditional taxi services
Millions around the world have been scanning their smartphone screens for the black-and-white Uber icon, only to find it replaced…
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