Detroit is a useful contradiction because it was not a peripheral city trying to become relevant. It was relevant—technologically, industrially, and culturally—at a scale that reshaped the global imagination of production.
I was casually scrolling on Twitter [now X], and I came across a tweet, expressing shock at the fact that there are no Apple Stores on the African continent.
Africa continues to be framed as the “final frontier”: a vast, youthful market whose growth is preordained by demography and digitization. And yet – the facts are incomplete.
For the past few months, I’ve been thinking about economics a lot — not just in the theoretical sense, but in the way it shapes how people perceive and participate in the world around them. I’ve been reading ‘The Econocracy’, but between you and I, I am struggling to make progress in the midst of my MBA, and running my businesses.