Steve Yang

Well worth your time to read through this extraordinarily informative and insightful article, if you’re concerned of how America can come back from behind in terms of manufacturing. Shenzhen, a once poor and sleepy fishery town next to Hong Kong, just less than 50 years ago, now is a Mecca of manufacturing and technology advancements. But don’t ever forget, it’s not the Communism, as CCP would want to you to believe, that made it happen, it’s precisely the opposite of Communism, the Capitalism and free-spirited entrepreneurships, plus Chinese people’s intrinsic high respect for hardworking and educations, that has created and sustained the Shenzhen miracles. America is the biggest house of Capitalism. It’s the broken and shortsighted policies that failed capitalism. Dig deep into this article, you’ll find brilliant solutions and even investment opportunities.

@r0ck3t23 Dan Wang’s new book “Breakneck” essentially was about the contrast of the “engineering state” (China) and “lawyerly state” (America). He see the complimentary of two very different yet very similar people.

Jensen Huang just explained why China is winning the technology race in two sentences. Huang: “Our country’s leaders… they’re mostly lawyers. Most of their leaders are incredible engineers.” One country sends engineers to lead. The other sends lawyers. One builds. The other regulates what was already built. Huang: “They showed up at precisely the time when technology is going through that exponential.” China did not stumble into the AI era. They arrived engineered for it. The education system produces engineers at a scale the West refuses to match. The competition is not tough. It is Darwinian. The culture rewards builders. Not commentators. Not consultants. Builders. Then the accelerant. Open source. When your talent pool runs that deep and that hungry, you do not hoard breakthroughs. You release them. The community multiplies everything. What costs American companies a quarter, Chinese teams finish in weeks. Not because they are smarter. Because the entire system points one direction. Zero friction between idea and execution. No committee. No review board. No eighteen-month compliance process. Then Huang said the part that should terrify Washington. Huang: “Their country was built out of poverty.” Comfort makes nations careful. Poverty makes nations relentless. When you built everything from nothing, you do not slow down to protect it. You accelerate because you still taste what nothing felt like. America built its dominance with engineers. The highways. The moon landing. The semiconductor. The internet. Then it handed the keys to the lawyers. Compliance departments. Regulatory bodies. Oversight committees. Review processes for the review processes. Every layer of protection is a layer of friction. And friction is a luxury you cannot afford when your competitor rides an exponential curve. Fridman: “It’s a builder nation.” Huang: “Yeah, it’s a builder nation.” No pushback. No qualifier. The West is not being outspent. It is being out-structured. Engineers ask how do we build this faster. Lawyers ask how do we build this without getting sued. One of those questions wins the century. The other writes a detailed report about why it lost.

@Persianserene1 I would say he is a bad liar and a brazen “Stock Market Manipulator”.

Trump said we don’t even know who’s in charge in Iran or who to talk to! And now he says we’re having “very good conversations” with them Is he a bad liar or just stupid?

@YashengHuang @JohnZhangSV x.com/yangsteve/stat…

Everyday I wake up stunned by the fact that 77 million Americans voted for this person.

I’ve never voted for Trump and have been struggling with the same question for the last 10 years. But recently I came across a book, “Money, Lies, and God”, and it seemed to have all the answers for your question, albeit the answers are much darker and deeper than you would want to hear. A must read for people who are still struggling to understand as I was before.

I grew up loving and admiring the US. It was to me always a shining city on the hill. It was also a country with people like Robert Mueller who where larger than life. And now? A country that has lost all of it's shine and style. A banana republic. Dear Americans why did you allow this to happen?

The law of Trump’s words: - whomever he attacks, respect them. The more viciously he attacks, the more respectful is that person. No exception. - whomever he praises, despise them. The more he praises, the more should that person be despised. No exception either, but that person in many cases could be himself.

Whether you support the President or not, you know this comment is disgusting. Robert Mueller earned a Bronze Star with valor and a Purple Heart as a Marine fighting for this country. He was a great American. Donald Trump is a horrible human being and an embarrassment to the United States.

There are numerous videos about the Strait of Hormuz on YouTube. I found this one most educational, beautiful, and time friendly (44 minutes) youtu.be/qUoRNpMSHLI?si…

The world needs to protect #Taiwan, proactively, or it would be the end of it. Reactively protecting or protesting this bright and brave outpost of democracy and high technology would already be too late. One small fraction of China’s military power would be enough to take the small island, on superficial level. But once it does that, Xi Jinping would go down the history as the 3rd President who grossly miscalculated and made himself the fool of the day - 1st Putin by invading #Ukraine, 2nd Donald Trump by attacking Iran, and the consequences of this 3rd blunder would be much much more devastating to the entire world economy and civilization.

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@bxieus Two peoples in my mind for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize: 1) President Zelenskyy from #Ukraine 2) Jimmy Lai from Hong Kong

Why the CCP hates Jimmy Lai so much and they want him die in prison? Here is the reason:

The essence of this anime, hubris is the weakest link (“骄兵必败” ) “Sun Tzu teaches that hubris (arrogance/overconfidence) is self-defeating because it destroys strategic awareness and invites exploitation. A truly strong army avoids this internally and uses it against enemies by feigning weakness to inflate their pride, leading them to ruin themselves. This is one of his most repeated strategic principles.” - @grok Remember, Trump skipped classes at Wharton Business School where “The Art of War” is a must-read🫣

Did YOU want to watch CCTV's AI Martial Arts cartoon about the Straits of Hormuz crisis? Complete with fighting Persian Cats? Well I subtitled it for you so you can enjoy it in all its trope-laden glory! Remember kids, the mountains will stay standing while the green water flows, and the true art of war is not figuring out how to fight, but how to stop!🥷😼🦅

You can substitute that “Strait of Hormuz” with “Hubris”. “Sun Tzu teaches that hubris (arrogance/overconfidence) is self-defeating because it destroys strategic awareness and invites exploitation. A truly strong army avoids this internally and uses it against enemies by feigning weakness to inflate their pride, leading them to ruin themselves. This is one of his most repeated strategic principles.” - @grok

You can substitute that “Strait of Hormuz” with “Hubris”. “Sun Tzu teaches that hubris (arrogance/overconfidence) is self-defeating because it destroys strategic awareness and invites exploitation. A truly strong army avoids this internally and uses it against enemies by feigning weakness to inflate their pride, leading them to ruin themselves. This is one of his most repeated strategic principles.” - @grok And Trump and his cronies believe that “Art of Deal” trump “Art of War”. Remember, he skipped classes at Wharton Business School 🫣

Wish I knew who to credit. Sent via a friend. Thank you anon whoever you are. Nailed it.

@stevehou @AngelicaOung Genius!

China’s state media turned the US-Iran conflict into an AI generated cartoon and captured the gist of the conflict pretty perfectly! Cinematically really well done! A+ trolling! Thanks to @AngelicaOung for adding subtitles!

@christinelu It’s amazing that AI translated it so well, because I could read the traditional Chinese words. It even covered the local dialect, same I spoke when I grew up in the area across strait from Taiwan.

🥹 The benefits of AI in helping me understand my mom’s stories about my great grandmothers during post-WWII Taiwan.

Hard for me to understand is why Congress has been complicit with Trump’s obviously treacherous behaviors? And why voters kept falling for this scammer and liar who is just be he was 40 years ago? 🥵 Three books came to my mind: 1) “Russian Roulette” - Russia compromised him and his family 2) “Autocracy Inc” - How Russia and China’s disinformation campaigns influenced American voters to ditch Hillary Clinton and go for Trump 3) “Too Much Never Enough” - How he is viewed from the inside of the family. (Voters are delusional such a man would be out to save them while he betrayed his own family) Conclusion: it’s the voters who are the root cause. Trump hasn’t changed a bit, a man with no soul, no moral, but deals and self-loving (NPD).

Putin is helping our autocratic enemies in Iran and killing our democratic friends in Ukraine. Why Trump is choosing to help Putin right now is hard for me to understand.

September 2009. Jensen Huang walks onto a small stage at the Fairmont hotel in San Jose. About 1,500 people are in the room. He runs a company that makes chips for video games. He spends the next 8 minutes doing math on a whiteboard, explaining why the future of computing won't come from making CPUs faster. He calls it "CEO math" and apologizes in advance to every computer science professor in the audience. Then he lays out an argument that almost nobody took seriously at the time: the way to make computers dramatically faster is to pair a regular CPU with hundreds of tiny parallel processors, the kind that already exist inside graphics cards. One CPU for the sequential stuff. Hundreds of GPU cores for everything else. He calls it "heterogeneous computing." He shows the math. A workload that can be split into many pieces at once gets up to 200x faster on this combined system. A workload that has to run one step at a time loses nothing. "The most important thing in creating a new architecture," he says, "is to make sure it does no harm." This was the first GPU Technology Conference. NVIDIA had launched a software platform called CUDA three years earlier, in 2006, to let developers write programs that run on graphics cards instead of just regular processors. Almost nobody cared. GPUs were for rendering Call of Duty, not for scientific computing. The academic world was polite but skeptical. The enterprise world ignored it entirely. By this point, Huang had been making this argument for years. NVIDIA was a $7 billion company. It competed with AMD and Intel for market share in the graphics market. That was the whole business. Jensen kept saying the GPU wasn't just a gaming chip; it was a computing platform. He kept saying parallel processing would reshape every industry from medicine to finance to physics simulations. People kept nodding, then doing nothing. Then deep learning happened. Around 2012, AI researchers discovered that training a neural network, which means teaching a computer to recognize patterns by running the same calculation millions of times across huge datasets, was exactly the kind of workload Jensen had been describing. GPUs can train AI models 10 to 50 times faster than CPUs. The architecture he outlined in this 2009 talk, with one CPU handling step-by-step tasks while hundreds of GPU cores crunch through massive amounts of parallel data, is now the literal blueprint for every AI data center on earth. ChatGPT runs on NVIDIA GPUs. Claude runs on NVIDIA GPUs. Gemini, Llama, Midjourney, nearly every major AI model you've heard of was trained on NVIDIA hardware using CUDA, the software platform Jensen built for a market that didn't exist yet. NVIDIA was worth about $7 billion when Jensen gave this talk. It is worth over $4.4 trillion today. That's a 600x increase. Jensen Huang, who founded the company at a Denny's in 1993 with two friends, now has a net worth of over $160 billion. He made Forbes' list of the 10 richest people for the first time this year. GTC 2026 is currently ongoing. 17,000 people are packing a hockey arena to watch the same guy explain what comes next. In 2009, 1,500 people showed up at a hotel ballroom, most of them for gaming graphics.

Completely agree. My wife and I visited Taipei two years ago and we loved their transit system and their people always so genuinely happy and friendly. Cleanness everywhere. Though the buildings are not as glamorous as even some mid-size cities in China, but it felt much more humanely developed, natural, and comfortable. #Taiwan, beloved.

I kid you not, Taiwan is the most orderly country that I have seen in my entire travel history. I have been using their public transportation and boy they are the epitome of discipline. I have been to Japan and you would have read about them as well but I feel they beat Japan in here. Stations as crowded as Rajeev chowk but people are in zen mode, not even a single soul is breaking the queue anywhere. 0 bloody push, 0. 🤯 This law and order, keeps your mind cool. Nothing spoils your mood and you can invest your time and brain over things that matter and not pity problems or argument. From escalators to Metros, not a single person is breaking the queue. I will put forward more videos.

@TheVinoMom For almost ten years, @AndrewYang have been calling out for our “Data Dividends”. It was a wacky idea back then. It’s long overdue now.

Without question, this is one of the worst things I’ve read online in a while… I wish I could say don’t read it, but you really need to. I’m so tired of watching our labor be used to create horrifying conditions for humanity for the perverse enrichment of a handful of billionaires.

Humanity's unique intelligence comes with unique delusions; we should keep this in mind when facing the rise of artificial intelligence.  Watch the whole thing here: bit.ly/YNH-IMC

Outsourcing blue collar jobs to China devastated large portion of the America social fabric. Outsourcing white collar jobs to AI will devastate the rest of it. (Yes, plumbers would make good money, but would a household without decent income still call for their services?) When there is no fabric left, everyone loses, including the ultra rich. Must be done, quickly: tax the AI Agents and Robots to give a floor, namely the UBI, to stop the total breakdown of our civil society.

The Fuckening of white-collar workers has arrived. blog.andrewyang.com/p/the-end-of-t…

Elect a moron, and get a moronic war. Elect a corrupt billionaire and get an economy for billionaires, not us. If you voted for Trump, you may not think you voted for this mess, but you did. You trusted someone who lies with every breath. He's a lying conman, and you fell for it.