JP Morgan is seeing changes in consumer behavior across Asia post COVID19, that will benefit the region's tech companies. "The technology trends that existed prior to the coronavirus have been accelerated,” analysts say. Big beneficiaries from this would be Alibaba, Samsung, Tencent. Link

Is nostalgia our new normal? The word 'nostalgia' means 'pain associated with home'. Over time, it has come to define a time that is impossible to return to, except in our memory. Whether it is for the taste of a grandmother's cooking, an old Walkman music player, or time spent with childhood friends, the feeling intensifies when 'one is no longer at home anywhere'. Link

The Indian Netflix show Four More Shot Please! resembles the HBO 90s hit show Sex and the City in many ways - four female friends, with frank discussions of sex, love lives, and ambitions. While reviews have been mixed, slamming the hammy acting and predictable plot, it was one of the top three Indian Amazon original series in 2019. All four stars say that people are calling them by their character’s names in public Link 

The 'Information Overload' of today's economy may be accelerating. The computer engineer Nathan Zeldes was once asked by Intel to help reduce the burden employees were facing with email. He admitted defeat. “I’d love to give you a magic potion that would restore your attention span to that of your grandparents,” he wrote, “but I can’t. After over a decade of smartphone use and social media, the harm is probably irreversible.” Link