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The Independent Delivery Network: The Missing Link in Local Economies

In economic discourse, we often hear the simplified maxim that demand drives supply. While this intuitive principle captures many market dynamics, classical economics has long recognized the inverse relationship as well. Jean-Baptiste Say, the influential 19th-century economist, articulated what became known as Say's Law: "Supply creates its own demand." Though sometimes overlooked in popular economic discussions, this principle remains an important part of classical economic canon. This bidirectional relationship between supply and demand becomes particularly relevant when examining how delivery networks could transform local economies.  The prescience of Say's insight becomes apparent when we consider how an independent, organized delivery network could stimulate entirely new economic activities at the local level—creating demand through the very availability of its supply. From Two-Sided to Four-Sided: The Evolution of Digital Marketplaces To understand the potenti...

Digital Brahmins: AI's New Knowledge Priesthood

Last week an interesting tweet came from Aravind Srinivas, the much-celebrated CEO of the AI search engine Perplexity. He claimed that he had modified the Chinese open-source AI Deepseek R1 to "remove the China censorship and provide unbiased, accurate responses." That set me thinking about how the "Western" media behaved over the recent two geopolitical events that happened in Ukraine and Gaza. Very badly to say the least. Anyway, back to the issue of AI. The promise of the internet was that it would democratize knowledge. Those early days of search engines and then Google felt revolutionary -- anyone could search, compare sources, and form their own opinions. We were breaking free from traditional gatekeepers of wisdom. Or so we thought. Throughout history, priestly classes -- whether Brahmins in India, Catholic clergy in medieval Europe -- shared a common trait: they aligned themselves with centres of power. They spoke the language of the elite (Sanskrit, La...