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Yesterday, sitting in a car with a friend, we drifted somehow onto Wang Xiaobo.
I first came across the name Cho-yun Hsu (许倬云) in other people's essays on Chinese history.
A CITIC Bank VIP customer redeems Starbucks through about ten app screens—a window into China’s dense bank-app UX.
September 13, 2026
Shopify and Notion are moving back to native. A former SwiftUI engineer: all bugs are bridging bugs.
September 10, 2026
After Jacob Coxon's resignation post neared 150M views, Anthropic Alignment Science Lead Evan Hubinger replied that Coxon is correct — extinction risk over 10% this decade, and no clear plan yet for superintelligence alignment.
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic. A former OpenAI researcher and GPT-4o contributor says OpenAI and Anthropic are racing toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with everyone’s lives.
It’s easy to measure the whole world with the one ruler we already know. A short reflection sparked by Grok Bot.
August 23, 2026
A Shanghai brunch with the founder of XMind on how AI is changing product trade-offs, education, and organizations.
July 25, 2026
China's GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) market grew 12x in one year, with service providers exploding from dozens to over a thousand. Behind the frenzy: commoditized offerings, grey-hat tactics, and unverifiable ROI. An insider's view for Western AI practitioners.
July 25, 2026
An anonymized, real-world look at how a European connected-fitness brand scoped its first WeChat Mini Program: the brief, the QR-to-session flow, the thin-front-end architecture, the 40-question information request, and the discovery process that replaces guesswork estimates.