Dan Wang's year-end blog posts are always worth reading. In this year's post, he discusses how China's technological foundations were weaker than he thought. But he's still optimistic that Chinese engineers will "learn by doing" and catch up.
danwang.co/2019-letter/
danwang.co/2019-letter/
Dan's post also has a very interesting discussion of what it's like to live in Beijing:
- "mostly unwalkable, unpleasant weather, generally maddening"
- "emanates a sense of sinister power"
- "the center of so many important stories"
- "feel[s] like the center of the world"
- "mostly unwalkable, unpleasant weather, generally maddening"
- "emanates a sense of sinister power"
- "the center of so many important stories"
- "feel[s] like the center of the world"
Oh, you should follow @danwwang by the way, if you don't already.
