Fernando Yanez

[Fernando Yanez @fernandoyt]

“Optimism is true moral courage”.

- Ernest Shackleton

[Fernando Yanez @fernandoyt]

FIFA has NFLized soccer with the VAR.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If you want something from someone, make it clear what. It's not imposing to ask explicitly for something; it's imposing to be vague and make the recipient work to figure out what you want.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The most important component of writing clearly is simply to have high standards for clarity. Then if you write something unclear, you notice, and ask: what did I mean to say? You can just keep doing this over and over. And if you have high standards for clarity, you will.

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

At this U.S. visit to China dinner banquet, the most eye-catching figure in the prime center seat between Musk and Cook was Lansi Technology founder Zhou Qunfei—from a rural factory girl to China's richest woman, with absolutely no background to rely on, building everything from scratch through her own grit. She was born in a small village in Hunan Province. At age 5, her mother passed away, and her father became disabled and blind from a work injury, leaving the family in dire poverty with nothing to their name. At 16, unable to afford school fees, she was forced to drop out and head to Guangdong to work in a factory, grinding glass on the assembly line—working days away during the day and furiously self-studying at night, earning certifications in accounting, computer operations, and other skills. That's how she spent a few years, until she scraped together 20,000 yuan from her wages, rallied eight relatives including her brother, sister, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law, and started a small workshop in Shenzhen doing watch glass processing. She handled machine repairs and sales runs single-handedly, grinding away like that for another four years.

By the 2000s, the mobile phone industry began booming on a massive scale. By a stroke of luck, her watch glass factory landed an order for TCL phone screens. She spotted the huge potential in the phone glass market and quickly founded Lansi Technology, specializing in the production, R&D, and sales of phone glass. At first, they only handled domestic phones and knockoffs, but everything changed when she went after a Motorola order—foreign companies had insanely strict quality standards. She bet nearly all her resources to meet Motorola's demands and snagged the V3 order, which sold over 100 million units worldwide, catapulting Lansi Technology straight to industry leadership. From there, she smoothly secured deals with Nokia, Samsung, and other foreign giants.

The pivotal turning point hit again in 2007, when Jobs unveiled the first iPhone, revolutionizing phones toward full-glass touchscreens. Jobs' obsessive craftsmanship demands left the whole world scrambling for a supplier that could meet them. Zhou Qunfei keenly sensed this was another massive opportunity, so she led her team in a three-month joint push with Apple engineers, breaking through key processes to mass-produce the first-generation iPhone glass panels. That locked in a long-term Apple contract, and soon after, nearly all Apple gear—from iPads to MacBooks—went to Lansi Technology for production. It also propelled Lansi to become the world's top player in touch glass panels.

That's why she got to sit next to Cook. But why was Musk right there beside her too?

After dominating global glass panels, Lansi Technology branched into more diverse smart devices, including car cockpits and robots. In autos, they've already locked in deals with 30 carmakers like Tesla, BMW, Mercedes, and Li Auto for windows, center consoles, and more. In robotics, they handle joints, sensors, and other components—areas with deep overlap in Musk's businesses.

A girl who dropped out at 15 with just a junior high diploma, emerging from rural Hunan to build an empire from nothing and become China's richest woman—forty years later, stepping into U.S.-China talks, seated between Musk and Cook. That's Zhou Qunfei's story.

- @hihongjie

[Fernando Yanez @fernandoyt]

@Camp4 @mbrown_co People of all ages that have lots of friends have this in common: They truly enjoy socializing (it never feels like work or a struggle to them) and more importantly, they get authentically interested in whatever you talk about. Few people can do this.

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

Anthropic CEO:

Software engineering will be completely obsolete in 6-12 months…

[Fernando Yanez @fernandoyt]

Emmitt Smith

[Dov Kleiman @NFL_DovKleiman]

Age yourself by naming an NFL running back you grew up watching.

I'll start, Brian Westbrook.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Miamiposting might be a phenomenon whose time has passed, but having just spent a few days visiting, it really does feel like a boomtown in a way that no other American city that I've spent time in over the past few years does. In some ways, it reminds me of Chinese cities.

[Fernando Yanez @fernandoyt]

@realEstateTrent Vending machines

[Fernando Yanez @fernandoyt]

Quiero tener la paz interior de alguien que va en medio en el avión, el pasillo vacío… y no se cambia.

[Fernando Yanez @fernandoyt]

@SMB_Attorney 2. By far. Option 1 seller can afford an expensive therapist and lots of vacations.

[Fernando Yanez @fernandoyt]

Been there, done that.

[Aaron Rubin @aaronrubin]

I once hired someone that I hated so much that I wanted to quit my own company.

[Alexis Ohanian 🗽 @alexisohanian]

Being a founder is eating stress & pain for breakfast, doubt for lunch, and risk for dinner. But the payoff—seeing your work echo through people’s lives—is worth every bite.

[Fernando Yanez @fernandoyt]

@realEstateTrent Plus 20% tip

[scott belsky @scottbelsky]

thinking: friction will remain in so many parts of our lives, but not the web.

what started as disparate websites with inconsistent interfaces and redundant workflows to do things is becoming an action machine that knows us, meets us where we are, and does every task on our behalf.

interacting with the digital world is quickly becoming frictionless.

[alain servais @aservais1]

🎯 and essential-‘No timewasters please’: is setting boundaries necessary or plain rude? Rejecting ditherers can seem abrupt. But in our overloaded age, taking up valuable time is also an affront. https://t.co/sAMAl8PrLD

[Fernando Yanez @fernandoyt]

@RayDalio How did demographics look in each empire? Speed of population growth from rise to decline?

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

In order to understand the full picture of how the world order is changing, I would urge you to watch this five-minute clip, or the complete 40-minute animated video called "Principles for Dealing with Changing World Order." And if you want an even more complete explanation, you can check out my book of the same title.

#principles #politics #economics

[alain servais @aservais1]

Complex but beautifully said and🎯#MustRead-The winter of civilisation. Byung-Chul Han’s relentless critiques of digital capitalism reveal how this suffocating system creates hollowed-out live. By Josh Cohen https://t.co/WWzsvMzd5S

[Fernando Yanez @fernandoyt]

@moseskagan Very early, we fall into these chronic self-serving routines.