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Reading Breakneck from China
How diaspora readers debate China as “engineering state,” America decline, civil society’s collapse, rule of law vs. rule by man, and what it means to…
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Story of A Beijing Vibe Coder
From burning through $50,000 in Claude Code tokens per month to building global software products from Beijing apartments—how resource scarcity is…
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The China Tech Canon
How does the paideía of the Chinese tech elite differ from their counterparts in Silicon Valley?
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The Room Where AI Happens
A weekend at the Curve conference—an AI insider gathering in Berkeley revealed how people think about AGI timelines, China, creativity, and writing
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AI Prophecy from Hangzhou
China's first ASI evangelist, Alibaba's Yunqi Conference, more vibe shift
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The China Tech Canon
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Story of A Beijing Vibe Coder
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Reading Abundance from China
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Topology of "China AI"
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Topology of "China AI"
On circles, misconceptions, deep infrastructure, founder archetypes, state's role, memes, AGI. A conversation about the topology of China’s AI world for…
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Acceleration, Conspiracies, Caricatures
Notes from a month of movies and essays: Silicon Valley archetypes, America’s paranoia, China’s retro-nationalistic fantasy, and the stubborn need for…
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China OS vs. America OS
I had an unfiltered conversation with two tech investor friends who operate in both Silicon Valley and China
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Progress in Chinese Urbanism
A conversation about Datong, urban renewal, and finding the future in the past
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Reading Abundance from China
I organized a Chinese-language reading group for Abundance and we examined Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's ideals through the lens of China
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UK's Progress Ambivalence
I entered the Britain's quiet revolution against technological pessimism
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The Clock and the Rocket
Qian Xuesen's America, My Grandmother's China, Wright's California: a story about many forms of technological time travel
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The Wink from Tech Billboards
From Elizabeth Holmes's haunting return to AI-jargon and vice-signaling, Bay Area billboards have become a coded language for a tech world in flux.
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Dance with AI
my experiences of using AI as an augmented self
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Concurrent
Concurrent
Understand the parallel and colliding tech and cultural currents shaping Silicon Valley, China, and beyond.
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