A May 2025 analysis of Harvard's SEVP lawsuit, its constitutional arguments, and a plan to de-risk higher education beyond U.S. borders.

A blunt look at international and public education in China, the financial risks families take, and why parents matter more than the school label.

Why I started writing, what twenty years in engineering, sales and procurement taught me, and why this blog ranges across money, technology and the times.

Investing and trading use different clocks, skills and risk controls. Here is why most non-professionals need a long-term plan first.

Wealth is not the same as cash. A useful framework separates liquidity from assets, then asks whether you can earn, keep and actually use what you own.

A mathematical thought experiment on information bottlenecks, neural networks, human cognition and the limits of using Gödel as an AI analogy.

A readable thought experiment on information loss in neural networks, what makes brains different, and where Gödel's theorem does and does not apply.

A speculative model of intelligence built around four variables: available neurons, established connections, learning rate and transmission speed.

Thinking across a time axis can sharpen judgment, but it also makes truth feel temporary and turns foresight into a source of anxiety.

A forecast of China opening further to manufacturing and exports while tightening institutional control, and why that bargain may not last.

A sharp, affectionate review of Blossoms Shanghai, from its social-scroll plot and tangled romances to Wong Kar-wai's sound and images.

A December 2023 argument that China's economic malaise is tied to a culture of satisfaction, stability and weak appetite for abstract exploration.

A personal framework for measuring wealth as a share of an economy rather than a nominal amount in fiat currency.

After three and a half years away, a sudden trip back to Tianjin and Shanghai turns airports, streets and old places into a collision of memory and the present.

Why restart a personal blog in 2023? For play, freedom, and a place to write whatever comes to mind.