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One Thing

Issue #95: Life Is Short 🕐

Issue #94: The Perfect City🏙️🏠

Issue #93: The Bubble is Going to Burst 📉

Issue #92: Camping 🏕️

Issue #91: 'The Big Short' Michael Burry's Latest Prediction 🔮

Issue #90: Why GDP Is Actually A Useful Number 📈

Issue #89: The Rise of LinkedInfluencers 🤓

Issue #88: The Amazing Economic Development of Indonesia 🇮🇩

Issue #87: Ergeon - The Startup That Builds Fences 🪚

Issue #86: Lessons From The 2000s: The State of Crypto ⛓️🔮

Issue #85: How Singapore Went From A Financial Hub To A Manufacturing Hub 🇸🇬

Issue #84: The Liquidity Trap 📉

Issue #83: The Business of Review Sites 🧑💻✍️

Issue #82: Sweaty Startups - Badminton Courts 🏸

Issue #81: Curation as a Service 🗃️

Issue #80: Corporate Lunch Box Idea📦🥪

Issue #79: Explain Like I’m Five (ELIF) Newsletter 📬📨

Issue #78: How To Survive The Crypto Cycle 🌕📉

Issue #77: Commodities 🛢️🪙

Issue #76: Deng Xiaoping's Reform That Changed China 🇨🇳 💰

Issue #75: VeeFriends Series 2 👾

Issue #74: The 80s Are Back, Baby 🎲

Issue #73: Sweaty Startups - Laundromats 🧼🩲

Issue #72: The Network State 🌎

Issue #71: The Fertilizer Crisis No One is Talking About 🌾

Issue #70: Bitcoin Billionaire Predicts Bitcoin Will Hit $1 Million 📈💰

Issue #69: Opportunities In The Creator Economy 📹

Issue #68: The Boron Letters ✉

Issue #67: The Sleep Industry 💤

Issue #66: Remote Sweaty Business 🧹

Issue #65: The Economics of Data Businesses 💾

Issue #64: The Rise of Startup Cities 🌆

Issue #63: The Economics of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) 💳

Issue #62: Fractional Ownership 👾

Issue #61: The Business of Self Storage 🧳

Issue #60: Mastercard's Crypto Card Patent 💳

Issue #59: The House Money Effect ♠

Issue #58: The 2021 MD Awards (One Thing) 🏆

Issue #57: How did Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry Get its Start 💾

Issue #56: 3 Viral Products on TikTok 🛒

Issue #55: The Lollapalooza Effect 🎶

Issue #54: Bitcoin City Financed by First-Ever Bitcoin Bond 🌋

Issue #53: One Year Anniversary 🥳

Issue #52: Sweaty Business Opportunity - Car Washes 🚗

Issue #51: Facebook's, Sorry, Meta's Three Patents 👨💻

Issue #50: Free Ross Ulbricht: Founder of Silk Road ✊

Issue #49: How To Build A Compounding Machine ⚙

Issue #48: The Economics of Petrol Stations ⛽️

Issue #47: The Next Asian Tiger: Bangladesh 🇧🇩

Issue #46: The 5 Levels of Wealth 💲

Issue #45: Gifting 🎁

Issue #44: Evergrande - The Next Lehman Brothers? 🇨🇳

Issue #43: How Did The Asia Boom Start And Why Wasn't Malaysia Part Of It? 🐯

Issue #42: How Pantone Became The Global Standard For Colours 🎨

Issue #41: The NFT Social Experiment 🎨

Issue #40: Build Once, Sell Twice With Online Courses 💻

Issue #39: Amazon's Pick Up Patent 🚚

Issue #38: The Skyscraper Effect 🌆

Issue #37: Review of Taleb's Bitcoin Black Paper ⬛

Issue #36: The Pseudonymous Economy 👨💻

Issue #35: Inside The Booming Pet Industry 🐾

Issue #34: Disney's NFT Patent 🌌

Issue #33: 10 Crucial Investment Principles 📈

Issue #32: Bitcoin Beach 🏄

Issue #31: DTC The Drugstore 💊

Issue #30: Economic Moat 🏰

Issue #29: The Economics of Vending Machines 🍫

Issue #28: The Bull Case For Ethereum 🐂

Issue #27: Bitcoin Destroying The Environment? Consider The Petrodollar 💵

Issue #26: Paid Communities 👫

Issue #25: GaryVee's NFT Launch 👾

Issue #24: Subscription Box DTC 📦

Issue #23: Big Mac Index 🍔

Issue #22: Can Bitcoin Achieve Hyperbitcoinization? ₿

Issue #21: Plants Are The New Pets 🌱

Issue #20: From Growth to Value 💵

Issue #19: DAOs 🔵

Issue #18: Drop Culture 🍪

Issue #17: Memo by Howard Marks: Cycles 🚲

Issue #16: Co-Living 🛌

Issue #15: When To Buy Growth Stocks 📈

Issue #14: A Civilized Bitcoin Debate ₿

Issue #13: Mr Beast Burger 🍔

Issue #12: Virtual Meetups 📺

Issue #11: GameStop Short Squeeze 📈

Issue #10: Cohort-Based Course 💻

Issue #9: Keynes's Beauty Contest 👸

Issue #8: Connected Home Fitness 🚴

Issue #7: Getting One Percent Better 💪

Issue #6: Solitude and Leadership 🏃

Issue #5: Why Does Bitcoin Have Value? 💰

Issue #4: Beautiful Bible 📖

Issue #3: OnlyFans 🍑

Issue #2: Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund 📈

Issue #1: Cloud Kitchen 🍳

What's Up Wednesday

Issue #98: Map Mischief 🗺️🗳️

Issue #97: Long Live Hit Songs 🎶💽

Issue #96: OTP Scams 📲🏧

Issue #95: Opium and Opulence 👑🚬

Issue #94: Guinness: Publisher for Pubs 🍻📕

Issue #93: Same Game New Tricks 🎮💲

Issue #92: KFC’s China Playbook 🀄🍗

Issue #91: Rolex: Timekeeping King ⌚👑

Issue #90: Mona Lisa’s Secret to Fame 🖼️👩🏻

Issue #89: Flying Swiftly 🛩️💨

Issue #88: Top 5 Design Secrets 🤫🎨

Issue #87: BMW: The Hot Seat 🪑🔥

Issue #86: Stripes, Not Horns 🦓🦄

Issue #85: Dancing the Pain Away 💃💸

Issue #84: Fighting Your Own Thoughts 🤔💭

Issue #83: Popcorn Profits 🍿💲

Issue #82: Rising Roti Rates 🍞💲

Issue #81: The Influencer Bubble 🤳💲

Issue #80: IKEA: The Theme Park 🪑🎢

Issue #79: Ramly’s Burger Revolution 🍔🍳

Issue #78: Watching Tesla’s Steps 🚗📺

Issue #77: The Japanese McDonald’s Playbook 🍔🎌

Issue #76: Primitive Poultry 🐔🐣

Issue #75: Chill Out, Don’t Burn Out 😩💼

Issue #74: Harry Potter’s Poof in Profits ✨💸

Issue #73: Underwear Economics 💲🩲

Issue #72: The Mouse Market 💲🖱️

Issue #71: The Pirate Economy 💲🏴☠️

Issue #70: Ireland’s Potato and Parasite Problem 🍀🥔

Issue #69: Selling More Than Pens 💲🖋️

Issue #68: When Roads Become Rivers ⛈️🚗

Issue #67: Merchants of Death 💲💣

Issue #66: Worldwide Wordle 🟩🟨

Issue #65: Urban Car-nivores 👹🚗

Issue #64: The Great Green Wall 🌲🟩

Issue #63: The Onion King 🧅👑

Issue #62: IMAX vs 3D: Vision Revolution 👀🎞️

Issue #61: Flying Cars: Pain in the Airs 🚗✈️

Issue #60: The Whisper Economy 🤬💲

Issue #59: Selling Smoke 🏭

Issue #58: The 2021 MD Awards (What’s Up Wednesday) 🏆

Issue #57: Soda Santa 🎅🏻🥤

Issue #56: The Trillion Dollar Loophole 💲⛳

Issue #55: Domino’s Domination 🍕

Issue #54: The Name Economy 🏝️💬

Issue #53: Year One 📅

Issue #52: Taylor Swift: Recreating Classics 🎙️

Issue #51: Minecraft: The Better Metaverse ⛏️

Issue #50: The Modern Mime: Khaby Lame 🤷🏿♂️

Issue #49: Inventing the Kraken 🦑🏴☠️

Issue #48: The Sand Shortage 🏜️

Issue #47: Starbucks: The Bank 🧜☕

Issue #46: Containers: The Box Revolution 🚢

Issue #45: The Chicken Tax: Tariff Engineering 🐔

Issue #44: The Dutch Disease: Too Much of a Good Thing is Bad 🛢️

Issue #43: Wireless Earbuds: The Gadget Gold Rush 👂🏻

Issue #42: “Imagine” by John Lennon, Explained 🎹

Issue #41: The Tooth Fairy Economy 🦷🧚

Issue #40: Coffee & Culture ☕

Issue #39: China’s Education Reform 👩🏫

Issue #38: Scarlett Johansson v. The Walt Disney Co. 🕷

Issue #37: The Jellyfish Economy 🐙

Issue #36: Hubble Trouble 👁️

Issue #35: How to Weaponize Addiction 💉

Issue #34: Billionaire Space Race 👨🚀

Issue #33: Rethinking Education ✏️

Issue #32: Killing Cobras 🐍

Issue #31: A Wrong Turn Started a World War 🚘

Issue #30: The Fabric of Mankind 🧵

Issue #29: Apple’s Walled Garden 🍎

Issue #28: China’s Digital Yuan 🧧

Issue #27: Pad Thai is a Lie 👨🏽🍳

Issue #26: Palestine-Israel 🕊️

Issue #25: Tulip Mania: The First Economic Bubble 🌷

Issue #24: Bull & Bear 🐂

Issue #23: Blockchain Simplified ⛓️

Issue #22: Dollar Stores & The Middle Class ✂

Issue #21: Panama: The Canal Country 🚢

Issue #20: Muskian Future 🕜

Issue #19: Lightbulbs: Designed to Fail 💡

Issue #18: Asian Immigration in America ✊

Issue #17: To Binge or Not to Binge? 😵

Issue #16: Michelin: Meals and Wheels ⭐

Issue #15: Short Round: Indiana Jones Spin-Off 🤠

Issue #14: IKEA: The Theme Park 🪑

Issue #13: Japandi Design 🛋️

Issue #12: The Cuban Missile Crisis 💣

Issue #11: Robinhood’s Restrictions & The Free Market 🏹

Issue #10: Tesla & NIO: Battle of Batteries 🔋

Issue #9: Prison Nation 🚓

Issue #8: Trickle Up/Down Economy 📈

Issue #7: Banana Republic 🍌

Issue #6: Vertical Farms 🌱

Issue #5: Globetrotting Garbage ☢

Issue #4: The Uncertainty of Cinema 🎬

Issue #3: China's Microchip Independence 📱

Issue #2: Spotify's Controversial 'Discovery Mode' 🎵

Issue #1: Dispute Resolution 🖋

Pub Convos

Issue #48: 🍲Hotpot - A Communal Dining Experience

Issue #47: 🍝Does Spaghetti Grow on Trees?🌲 - 3 Hoaxes that Got People Scrambling

Issue #47: I Will Drive 1000 Miles - Toughest Races on Earth - Part 3 🚲🏎️🏃

Issue #46: It's An Uphill Battle - Toughest Races on Earth - Part 2 🚲🏎️🏃

Issue #45: Test of Endurance and Grit - Toughest Races on Earth 🚲🏎️🏃

Issue #44: “I don’t want to speak Russian” - Deep Rooted Imperialism in the Western World 🙊

Issue #43: When the Samurai Slain the Bear 🐻

Issue #42: Failing to Deliver: The Hut Group flies too close to the sun - Part 2 🚴

Issue #41: Failing to Deliver: Deliveroo’s IPO, What went wrong? Part 1 🚴

Issue #40: When Art and Beauty gets too much 🎨

Issue #39: The Origins of Ice Skating ⛸️

Issue #38: The 2021 MD Awards (Pub Convos) 🏆

Issue #37: Neoliberalism and its emphasis on Individualism 🌐

Issue #36: Cool Flags of Native Peoples 🚩

Issue #35: China’s Harshest (Most Controversial) Critic – Ai Wei Wei 🎨

Issue #34: The Online Game using Street View - Geoguessr 🌏

Issue #33: Happy Birthday Micro Digest!!! 🙌

Issue #32: Shang Chi and The Ten Rings : Legends and Folklore 🐉

Issue #31: The Island Country Covered in Poop 🇳🇷

Issue #30: 🧨📜The Four Great Inventions: Chinese Contributions to Modern Technology🧭🖨️

Issue #29: GMT: The Standard Time in Britain ⏰

Issue #28: Relocation: Betrayal or What’s Best? 🏈

Issue #27: Does Prohibition Work? You Decide 🍺

Issue #26: The Largest Folk Festival in the World: Oktoberfest 🍺

Issue #25: Monthly Wrap-up: August/September 2021 🎧 📺 🏛️

Issue #24: Introduction to American Football 🏈

Issue #23: Oxford not Brogues: Types of Men’s Shoes 👞

Issue #22: 🐑 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Phillip K. Dick 📖

Issue #21: Time Keeping Gun: The Jardine Matheson Noonday Gun 午炮 🔫

Issue #20: Controversial Sponsor of the Olympics 🏋️

Issue #19: Three Things Last Month: July 2021 🎵🎬📺

Issue #18: Tea or Friend? Yerba Mate 🍵

Issue #17: The Emu War 🐦

Issue #16: Scottish Whisky Regions: A Brief Guide 🥃

Issue #15: 5 Unique Traditions at Wimbledon 🎾

Issue #14: 🏟️Crypto and Sports: Signs of Maturity?💰

Issue #13: Three Things this Month: June 2021 📚🎬📺

Issue #12: Scousers, Racism and Football : My Relationship with the Beautiful Game ⚽

Issue #11: Euros 2020/2021 ⚽

Issue #10: Quids In 💰

Issue #9: 🍺Beer Street and Gin Lane🍸

Issue #8: Heavy is the Head that Wears the Crown: Jean-Michel Basquiat 🎨

Issue #7: Korfball ⚽

Issue #6: Oscars 2021: Chloe Zhao and Nomadland🎥

Issue #5: Uisge Beatha: The Water of Life 🥃

Issue #4: The Idiot 📚

Issue #3: The Masters 🏌️

Issue #2: Horse Racing and The Grand National 🏇

Issue #1: Beer vs Ale vs Lager 🍺