Zines
Solow Residual vs. Xi's Residual; What Tech the Pentagon is Buying; China Cancer Drug Breakthrough; Browser as an OS; 1st Chinese Published in Nature
Noteworthy in tech and capital
Culture & History
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China’s New Cyber Purge; Starlink’s China Counterpart; Future of Dual-use Tech; Index Controversy; Virus Prophecies…
Notes for generalists
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Dilemma in China’s Quantum Communication, TikTok Led Splinternet?, Canton Fair, 2025, Analog, Chasing Non-performing, First NFL in China
Notes for tech generalists
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Kiss and Fly; MSCI Debate, Continued; Ken Liu; Insurance FinTech; Deal, No Deal...
Notes for tech generalists
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Hong Kong, STAR Market, U.S.-China Controversy, MSCI, Guizhou-Cloud, How to Sound like China Expert
A digest on recent noteworthy events in tech advancement and global capital flow
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Hong Kong, Python Threat, Plant-Based, AI in Drug Disc, EdTech, UFO, LoveFrom
A digest on recent noteworthy events in tech advancement and global capital flow
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Offshore Investment, Apollo Lite, Water, Rare Earth, BRI, Liu Cixin, a Wanderlust in China
A digest on recent noteworthy events in tech advancement and global capital flow
Venture Capital IPO Stock Market
Economists Never Considered Human Creativity?
You may be surprised to discover that in the past 10 years, overall venture capital return is zero, according to a conversation between Clayton Christensen (Innovator’s Dilemma) and Marc Andreessen (a16z) (a must see video here from StartUp Grind Conference in 2017 Redwood City). It may be even more
Education
Meritocracy Caused College Admissions Scandal?
On the recent college admission scandal, author Michael Locke McLendon (The Psychology of Inequality) argues “the idea that some have climbed to the top through their own merit is an aristocratic ideology, not a democratic one, therefore meritocracy caused the college admissions scandal.” In his article, Mr. McLendon referenced French
Book
Hunting Water vs. Capitalism
Our bodies are built to run but not to find water. Therefore our need to exchange information about the location of water have evolved us to become more successful than apes. In his book The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making
AI
Gene and Meme, a Revisit in the AI Era
In today’s AI era, I revisited the once-hyped concept Gene and Meme, the idea that we are vehicles driven by these two replicators, who care less about the vehicle’s (ours) own well-being (meaning) but thrive for mere replication. A book called “The Robot’s Rebellion: Finding Meaning in
Book
The New Gilded Age: Curse of Bigness
Tim Wu’s new book, The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age, has stirred up heated debates on corporate’s bigness in today’s digital economy. Here are two different point of views based on his recent op-ed on the New York Times in this subject. Nicole