Thanks for sharing this, Kevin. I first started reading you a few years back, through Jordan Schneider’s recommendation.
My favorite of your writings is probably “Solutions to TikTok's American Credibility Problem”, which explained technical issues and potential solutions better than anything I’ve read to date, w/out the partisan bias or “red scare” hype around TikTok. Your TikTok posts should be required reading for US elected officials whose understanding of the technical side/solutions seems to be lacking.
I also really appreciate your bilingual information symmetry approach, which aside from all the excellent reasons you provide for doing so, and being good reading practice for me, makes it easy for me to share your writing with non-English speaking Chinese friends.
While not attempting to assign you writing topics, I’d be curious to hear your views on deficiencies in USG and private enterprise capacity-building around Chinese language learning. Appears to me that the US (inc. CIA, FBI, State) has nowhere near the needed amounts of culturally competent Mandarin speakers to interpret and understand what’s happening in Chinese Govt, business and social/cultural domains, which IMO should be a core feature of various US initiatives to counter/compete/cooperate w/ China.
Fascinating story. As someone currently building a cloud infrastructure startup in Singapore I’d love to connect and hear more about your journey. I share the same impatience with analysts and professional back-seat drivers!
Thanks for sharing this, Kevin. I first started reading you a few years back, through Jordan Schneider’s recommendation.
My favorite of your writings is probably “Solutions to TikTok's American Credibility Problem”, which explained technical issues and potential solutions better than anything I’ve read to date, w/out the partisan bias or “red scare” hype around TikTok. Your TikTok posts should be required reading for US elected officials whose understanding of the technical side/solutions seems to be lacking.
I also really appreciate your bilingual information symmetry approach, which aside from all the excellent reasons you provide for doing so, and being good reading practice for me, makes it easy for me to share your writing with non-English speaking Chinese friends.
While not attempting to assign you writing topics, I’d be curious to hear your views on deficiencies in USG and private enterprise capacity-building around Chinese language learning. Appears to me that the US (inc. CIA, FBI, State) has nowhere near the needed amounts of culturally competent Mandarin speakers to interpret and understand what’s happening in Chinese Govt, business and social/cultural domains, which IMO should be a core feature of various US initiatives to counter/compete/cooperate w/ China.
Thank you for your support, and thank you for reading!
As for your topic suggestion, it has been a topic that's on my mind. I'll definitely chew on it more and maybe writing something at some point.
Fascinating story. As someone currently building a cloud infrastructure startup in Singapore I’d love to connect and hear more about your journey. I share the same impatience with analysts and professional back-seat drivers!
Happy to anytime! Just email me.