Hello, I will not get into my credentials and will jump straight into the sauce. You will learn about me as we go.

There are many industries in this world. The global economy is around $126 trillion. What are the top sectors by size, you think? We have:

1. Finance ($39 trillion)
2. Healthcare ($9.3 trillion)
3. Insurance ($6.1 trillion)
4. Real Estate...
5. Oil and Gas...
6. Technology somewhere there...

You get the idea. Unfortunately, not all of them interconnect. Sometimes you have to help people connect between industries. Perhaps one may be representing one market and be curious about another, but there is no trustworthy pathway. It would be nice to make the job easier.

Today I will be talking primarily to the representatives of the E-Commerce and Fashion markets. How is it going, you guys? Looks like you have a combined sector and $44 trillion to play with.

Key contributors: China ($3.4 trillion), United States ($1.5 trillion), some lovely emerging markets, smartphones selling better than clothes - a lot to unpack. Reports like this are available to many, many corporate professionals and they look at them all day. But what about the regular people? What do they know - or must learn?

Or, perhaps, who should they know? It's 2026 and we are in the '"digital observer economy" , where everyone is watching each other. Believe it or not, I've lived in the times when this did not exist.

The main point of this intro post is that we will be helping you meet new people. A new connection is always a portal to a different world, you choose whether you want it to be part of your life. Life is not stagnant - it's moving. A lot of people may not be catching up though. Same thing with the markets - they move daily, sometimes too fast and become worthless too soon. One way or another, we are all participants.