I'm also launching a podcast network for polymathic technologists who understand history, geopolitics and grand strategy beyond product cycles.
Three hypotheses run underneath the work. First, a geoeconomy era is emerging where speculative and productive capital compete on a redrawn global map. Global reindustrialization is inevitable, and tech builders and venture capitalists become the new industrialists, with a young generation of tech-native political leaders rising worldwide.
Second, in a dollar-pivoting world, technologists join central banks as monetary architects. The choice ahead is real economies versus digital casinos; civilizational finance versus financial theater.
Third, a global realignment of beliefs is underway amid narrative collapse. Philosophy returns, enabling a potential new renaissance.
What that means in practice
In practice, that means writing about energy, where abundance is more achievable than assumed; computing, and the post-AI full stack; monetary architecture, from a paradollar-era perspective; and consumer behavior and entertainment, as they're reshaped by narrative shifts.
I'm after third realities rather than binary thinking. The US-China rivalry dominates attention, but concurrent American reindustrialization and China's commercialization waves remain unexplored territory.
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I spearheaded the Asian division of Red Herring, a Silicon Valley tech magazine, covering 16 Asia-Pacific markets during the early venture capital expansion. I've since worked as a media entrepreneur, cross-border operator, venture scout and global summit builder.
I co-founded a media company with Richard Saul Wurman, the founder of TED, in post-Beijing-Olympic China, studying how intellectual culture forms among artists, architects, scientists and philosophers.
Postwar America built something unprecedented: a cultural and intellectual beacon the rest of the world consumed as gospel. Davos, Bilderberg, TED, none were merely designed, but summoned by their moment.
I grew up in Chengdu, studied in Halifax and Boston, and am currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area.