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CATL: The Missed Empire and the Playbook for the Next Industrial VC

When Software Ate the World, Manufacturing Built It.

CATL: The Missed Empire and the Playbook for the Next Industrial VC

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Economy

America’s Economic Highway: From Market Bumps to Fiscal Cliffs—How Did We Get Here?
America’s Economic Highway: From Market Bumps to Fiscal Cliffs—How Did We Get Here?

Trump’s economic team has hinted at a correction bear—grim, but not baseless. The trillion-dollar qu...
Semiconductor

Why the CPU’s Golden Age Is Yet to Come
Why the CPU’s Golden Age Is Yet to Come

All that jazz in GPUs, but CPUs quietly stir for their golden age.

Social Media

How a Terence Tao Puzzle Reveals That Math Favors Truth
How a Terence Tao Puzzle Reveals That Math Favors Truth

And why it foretells a tipping point in information theory in the wake of LLMs.

Energy

Is hydrogen car at the dawn like the EV in 2008?
Is hydrogen car at the dawn like the EV in 2008?

In 2019, Musk dubbed hydrogen "dumbest thing," yet some see it nearing a "hydrogen economy," akin to...
China

Is China entering Japanification? Some observations suggest a No
Is China entering Japanification? Some observations suggest a No

"Japanification" means a long slump like Japan's Lost Decade. Is China next? Reasons suggest otherwi...
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A Russia-China-led Stablecoin?
A Russia-China-led Stablecoin?

Can this synthetic global digital currency be dollar's real threat?

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Education

Meritocracy Caused College Admissions Scandal?
Meritocracy Caused College Admissions Scandal?

On the recent college admission scandal, author Michael Locke McLendon (The Psychology of Inequality...
Robots

Aibo vs. Jibo: Inequality at Birth Redefined
Aibo vs. Jibo: Inequality at Birth Redefined

Jibo, the world’s first family robot who promised us nearly everything, now left us with its last da...
Book

Hunting Water vs. Capitalism
Hunting Water vs. Capitalism

Our bodies are built to run but not to find water. Therefore our need to exchange information about ...
Policy

Glass-Steagall for Tech?
Glass-Steagall for Tech?

On March 4, Financial Times reported  that David Cicilline, the head of the House antitrust subcommi...
Biotech Drug Anti-Aging

Removing Senescent Cells, the New North to the Battle on Aging?
Removing Senescent Cells, the New North to the Battle on Aging?

Anti-aging is one of the fastest growing fields in today’s biotech advancement. According to this Gu...
China

What is China's GDP?
What is China's GDP?

To answer this question, Michael Pettis, professor of finance at Peking University’s Guanghua School...

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