Mandate of AI
Silicon Valley believes its founders are carrying the future of AI into being. In China, who carries it?
Concurrent
writing, thinking, and interpreting technological modernity through a humanistic lens across china, silicon valley, and the global ai age.
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The Center and The Periphery
I wrote a piece about jailbreaking iPhones as a teenager, LLM distillation, Huaqiangbei, Charles Dickens, Henry Ford, and the spirit that lives between copying and creating
China OS vs. America OS (2026 version)
Another unfiltered conversation: the bloodline politics of AI talent; open source as strategy? token-maxxing; why OpenClaw hit China harder than Silicon Valley; future predictions
First, Dig the Latrines
The Morning Star of Lingao is China's cult industrial time-travel novel. Its main author has some thoughts on AGI, power, China's media landscape, and the end of most jobs
An AI-Maxi New Year
China's Spring Festival was drenched in AI—from Jia Zhangke's short film to robots on the gala stage; Notes from a society embracing the same technology America meets with dread
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 what happens when the walls rise everywhere.
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 leave China but never let go, with remarks by Dan
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 creating a new breed of super-individuals in China
The China Tech Canon
How does the paideía of the Chinese tech elite differ from their counterparts in Silicon Valley?
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
AI Prophecy from Hangzhou
China's first ASI evangelist, Alibaba's Yunqi Conference, more vibe shift
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 you.
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 optimism
China OS vs. America OS
I had an unfiltered conversation with two tech investor friends who operate in both Silicon Valley and China
Progress in Chinese Urbanism
A conversation about Datong, urban renewal, and finding the future in the past
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
UK's Progress Ambivalence
I entered the Britain's quiet revolution against technological pessimism
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
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.
Dance with AI
my experiences of using AI as an augmented self