Last week, I spent two weeks in China.
I visited Beijing, Chengdu, Amisham, Chongqing, Qinghai, and Hangzhou.
I went because, look, the big thing I tried to figure out on this podcast is what's happening in AI.
And the biggest unknown variable there is what's gonna happen in China.
I don't yet have the answer to this question.
This trip was a beginning of my curiosity about the country and not the capstone.
But as I learn more about China over the coming months, I hope to share what I learn with you.
Scale.
It's funny how China has basically the inverse problem as America.
We subsidize demand and restrict supply.
They subsidize supply and restrict demand.
We can't rebuild fallen bridges.
They build bridges to nowhere.
In the most desirable cities in this country,
every random Victorian house and park bench is a historic site that can't be disturbed.
There,
though bulldozed a 500-year-old temple to build an endless skyscraper complex that nobody wants to live in.
My overwhelming first impression was, wow, everything is so fucking big.
The cities themselves, the train stations,
the airports, the towering and endless apartment complexes.