2024-01-24 04:36:31
My annual letter:
https://danwang.co/2023-letter/
This year I discuss a walk-and-talk; Crumb; running and tangping; Knausgaard; Elon as Palmer Eldritch; quantity has a quality all its own; Chicago as a megacity; memelords; Norton; food as physical pleasure; hunching; and a pause.
2023-12-13 21:32:51
RT Conversations with Tyler
New episode! In her third appearance on the show, Chinese food expert @fuchsiadunlop joins @tylercowen and a group of special guests to celebrate the release of her new book exploring the history, philosophy, and techniques of Chinese culinary culture: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/fuchsia-dunlop-3/
2023-11-25 03:52:03
Surprised and not surprised that Knausgaard’s novel The Morning Star concludes with a 54 page essay entitled “On Death and the Dead”
2023-11-18 01:56:05
RT Brian Graham
frederick douglass’s “composite nation” is a parade of bangers but in a speech advocating for mass chinese immigration and saying america needs the gifts of all nations, he takes a second to say “except the french”
2023-11-15 01:48:16
China’s growth is faltering, but its technological momentum is still going strong. In case of conflict, is it better to have a large and adaptive manufacturing base (China) or AI, biotech, and the Metaverse (US)?
I chatted about that with @greg_ip:
https://www.wsj.com/economy/why-xi-can-no-longer-brag-about-the-chinese-economy-3397e6f4
2023-11-13 22:22:53
Unnerving to find that I’m allowed to accuse the UK of being over-specialized in “sounding-clever industries” in the pages of the FT
Whatever next, the BBC?
