Future of Work · Geoeconomics · Global Risk
Ricky Li
World Economic Forum
I study how geopolitical uncertainty, technological disruption, and social change reshape labor markets and organizational strategy.
We operate in an era where noise compounds faster than signal. Clarity is a form of competitive advantage — and interpretation is what converts evidence into action.
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Arguments grounded in data. Written for people who want the interpretation, not just the summary.
Artificial Intelligence · 8 min
Who Paid the Humans Who Fed the Machine?
The most valuable economic transaction of the AI era is happening inside every company, every day. Nobody priced it. Nobody paid for it. And nobody has worked out what that costs yet.
Artificial Intelligence · 7 min
Your Firm Does Not Employ People Anymore. It Holds Assets.
Why firms should start thinking about the economics of AI Agents
China · 7 min
The Jobs China Is Manufacturing
A text analysis of the 14th and 15th Five-Year Plans shows a country is changing what work means
Signal All entries →
Data worth paying attention to — and what I think it actually means.
Blank, Schubert, and Zhang (Stanford/UCLA/USC) · Mar 2026
The Household Digital Divide AI Is Building
Julius Schulte / Artificial Analysis data · March 2026
The price collapse that proves the split
Boston Consulting Group · Q4 2025
When a risk becomes ambient, it exits the language of strategy and enters the language of assumption