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We Are All Wall Dancers Now
A conversation with Yi-Ling Liu about "The Wall Dancers," her new book on the Chinese internet. We discussed freedom, control, living within truth, and…
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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…
Nov 19, 2025
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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…
Nov 7, 2025
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The China Tech Canon
How does the paideía of the Chinese tech elite differ from their counterparts in Silicon Valley?
Oct 22, 2025
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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
Oct 10, 2025
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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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AI Prophecy from Hangzhou
China's first ASI evangelist, Alibaba's Yunqi Conference, more vibe shift
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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…
Aug 27, 2025
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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
Aug 1, 2025
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Progress in Chinese Urbanism
A conversation about Datong, urban renewal, and finding the future in the past
Jul 17, 2025
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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
Jun 19, 2025
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UK's Progress Ambivalence
I entered the Britain's quiet revolution against technological pessimism
Jun 16, 2025
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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
May 21, 2025
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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.
May 14, 2025
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