#30DayMapChallenge Day 5: Analog map Had to buy so many different size of tomatoes to make this work!

For anyone at Yale next Monday, I’ll be giving a short talk at the law school on China and tech: law.yale.edu/yls-today/yale…

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?

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: wsj.com/economy/why-xi…

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”

Surprised and not surprised that Knausgaard’s novel The Morning Star concludes with a 54 page essay entitled “On Death and the Dead”

New episode! In her third appearance on the show, Chinese food expert Fuchsia Dunlop 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: conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/fuchs…

My annual letter: 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.

Recorded a podcast on “what historians do” with Stephen Kotkin in his Hoover office, which feels like a floating library in the sky

Bloomberg profile of Dan Wang and his new book on China and America, bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Just a reminder that Bernhard Lang's 'Stahlwerk' series is one of the most astounding aerial photography projects I have ever seen