Tech, at geopolitical fault lineshttps://maggiexiao.com/https://maggiexiao.com/token/https://maggiexiao.com/token/The token economy is a transitional phase, not a destination. The next map is being drawn by chokepoints, inference and the economics of efficiency.Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/token-cn/https://maggiexiao.com/token-cn/最新的大国AI博弈策略或许正在揭示下一个真正的主战场：推理经济。Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/between/https://maggiexiao.com/between/The source code that defined today's civilization is changing; the future belongs to the amphibious.Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/catl/https://maggiexiao.com/catl/When Software Ate the World, Manufacturing Built It. Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/catl-cn/https://maggiexiao.com/catl-cn/当软件吞噬世界，制造业构筑了它。Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/twindeficits/https://maggiexiao.com/twindeficits/Trump’s economic team has hinted at a correction bear—grim, but not baseless. The trillion-dollar question is: can the U.S. steer clear from a fiscal cliff? Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/twindeficits-cn/https://maggiexiao.com/twindeficits-cn/特朗普经济团队的一些表态显示，政府可能愿意承受短期市场调整，以换取财政与贸易结构的再平衡。真正的问题是：在债务和赤字持续攀升之际，美国能否避免财政风险失控？Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/sketchbook/https://maggiexiao.com/sketchbook/Global economy and geopolitics are complicated. I drew them down to size.Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/cpu/https://maggiexiao.com/cpu/All that jazz in GPUs, but CPUs quietly stir for their golden age. Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/islander/https://maggiexiao.com/islander/And why it foretells a tipping point in information theory in the wake of LLMs. Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/islander-cn/https://maggiexiao.com/islander-cn/以及它为何预示着：大语言模型出现之后，我们理解和传播真相的方式正在逼近一个临界点。Thu, 07 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/hydrogen/https://maggiexiao.com/hydrogen/In 2019, Musk dubbed hydrogen "dumbest thing," yet some see it nearing a "hydrogen economy," akin to 2015's lithium era.Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/japanification/https://maggiexiao.com/japanification/"Japanification" means a long slump like Japan's Lost Decade. Is China next? Reasons suggest otherwise.Fri, 08 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/next-clusters/https://maggiexiao.com/next-clusters/Global cities rise as new tech hubs, challenging Silicon Valley from Sweden's Sustainability Valley to the City of Hefei in China.Sat, 03 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/russia-china-stablecoin/https://maggiexiao.com/russia-china-stablecoin/Can this synthetic global digital currency be dollar's real threat?Wed, 03 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/dugin/https://maggiexiao.com/dugin/China has a void in its ideology framework that Duginism might fill in?Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/dugin-cn/https://maggiexiao.com/dugin-cn/中国的意识形态框架存在一处空白，而杜金主义或许会填补它？Wed, 27 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/shein/https://maggiexiao.com/shein/SheIn, an e-Commerce hectorcorn, thrives on supply chain involution, not revolution, posing challenges for global e-commerce replication. 电商巨头希音的“内卷”革命Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/residual/https://maggiexiao.com/residual/Noteworthy in tech and capitalWed, 03 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/silicon-valley/https://maggiexiao.com/silicon-valley/Answers from Silicon Valley insidersThu, 07 May 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/starlinks-china/https://maggiexiao.com/starlinks-china/Notes for generalistsMon, 09 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/china-quantum-communication/https://maggiexiao.com/china-quantum-communication/Notes for tech generalistsSat, 08 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/china-cdbc/https://maggiexiao.com/china-cdbc/Notes for tech generalistsSun, 12 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/temp-slug-33/https://maggiexiao.com/temp-slug-33/Notes for tech generalistsSat, 28 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/star-market/https://maggiexiao.com/star-market/A digest on recent noteworthy events in tech advancement and global capital flowFri, 26 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/satoshi/https://maggiexiao.com/satoshi/A digest on recent noteworthy events in tech advancement and global capital flowThu, 18 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/plant-based/https://maggiexiao.com/plant-based/A digest on recent noteworthy events in tech advancement and global capital flowTue, 09 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/china-investment/https://maggiexiao.com/china-investment/A digest on recent noteworthy events in tech advancement and global capital flowTue, 25 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/libra/https://maggiexiao.com/libra/[Social Media] Will WeChat be the next?Thu, 20 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/quantum/https://maggiexiao.com/quantum/If a cat is either black or white, we receive online ads 80% of the chance we won’t click.Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/human-creativity/https://maggiexiao.com/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…Fri, 22 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/meritocracy/https://maggiexiao.com/meritocracy/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…Mon, 18 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/aibo/https://maggiexiao.com/aibo/Jibo, the world’s first family robot who promised us nearly everything, now left us with its last dance.Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/hunting-water-vs-capitalism/https://maggiexiao.com/hunting-water-vs-capitalism/Our bodies are built to run but not to find water.Wed, 06 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/glass-steagall/https://maggiexiao.com/glass-steagall/On March 4, Financial Times reported that David Cicilline, the head of the House antitrust subcommittee, suggested separating social media platforms from selling…Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/senescent-cells/https://maggiexiao.com/senescent-cells/Anti-aging is one of the fastest growing fields in today’s biotech advancement.Fri, 01 Feb 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/china-gdp/https://maggiexiao.com/china-gdp/To answer this question, Michael Pettis, professor of finance at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management argues GDP, the statistics supposedly able to measure…Sat, 19 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/meme/https://maggiexiao.com/meme/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…Thu, 20 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/gilded-age/https://maggiexiao.com/gilded-age/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.Sat, 17 Nov 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/ocean/https://maggiexiao.com/ocean/[Update] This interview was conducted in August in 2018.Sun, 12 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/lidar/https://maggiexiao.com/lidar/When it comes to the sensor technology for autonomous driving, there always seems two schools of thoughts: beliefs in Lidar/Radar OR beliefs in Vision.Thu, 24 May 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/uber/https://maggiexiao.com/uber/On recent Uber’s driverless car kill, I asked two experts for comments: – Vivek Wadhwa: Author of Driver in the Driverless Car, a distinguished fellow at Carnegie Mellon…Tue, 03 Apr 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://maggiexiao.com/wurman/https://maggiexiao.com/wurman/My interview on Richard Saul Wurman, creator of TEDThu, 13 Feb 2014 00:00:00 GMT