China also operates with continuous cycles of innovation and optimisation that are like the "industrial olympics" taking place a few times a year across SEZs (special economic zones).
The Xiaomi SU7 Ultra Car is a good example of the product of this strategy. At $70k in China, it costs a modest fraction of the price of super cars it will beat on a track. It goes from 0 to 60 in less than 2 seconds, has 1550 Hp and a top speed of 350kmh with a 600km range and 80% charging in 11 minutes. This kind of marvel of engineering cannot be achieved using subsidies alone. It is the result of optimisation across supply chains at different levels of abstraction.
Similarly, all you need to do is compare an iPhone Pro 512gb with an Honor Magic v5, which is the same form factor, yet has an OLED 120hz iPad mini size screen inside, and it is very clear that Chinese engineering is outpacing the West.
These are visible triumphs yet they hint at the quality of process design, robotics, infrastructure and materials across complex supply chains.
A different way of explaining Chinese progress is collective intelligence, harnessed, with BRICS+ orchestration. This is very different to Western extractive profit models that mix offshore production and onshore marketing to sell high markup products for consumers with tricks galore to get away with the money. This can be anything from customer service friction points (to inhibit service) to addictive low nutrient high toxin foods that prime people to need subscription medicines where there is no incentive for cheap cures. In the long run, the Western model cannot beat the Chinese model because "team work makes the dream work" at a national level.
This man destroyed hustle culture:
Naval Ravikant.
For the last 5 years, I’ve studied every
interview he’s done.
It’s how I built a $204k/year business
working just 3h/day.
Here are the 7 laws to follow: 🧵👇
I am unable to accept the absence of Ratan Tata.
India’s economy stands on the cusp of a historic leap forward.
And Ratan’s life and work have had much to do with our being in this position.
Hence, his mentorship and guidance at this point in time would have been invaluable.
With him gone, all we can do is to commit to emulating his example. Because he was a businessman for whom financial wealth and success was most useful when it was put to the service of the global community.
Goodbye and Godspeed, Mr. T
You will not be forgotten.
Because Legends never die…
Om Shanti
🙏🏽
Even if your parents have nothing to give you. What you inherit is their music. Their songs.
On a cold winter morning, riding pillion, with your hands wrapped around your dad, as he rides his scooter to drop you school, coz you missed the bus, in that moment, the song he hums, stays with you for life.
“Hai apna dil to awaara”
That becomes your favourite song. Subconsciously. The movie came in 1958. Well before you were born. A song your father inherited from his father, probably.
There can never be any tax on this inheritance :)
@heyabhishek Thanks, Abhishek. I recently started using mind map tools & found that creating own map is quite helpful. Though I believe using ChatGPT can further aid in better & faster creation of maps than just doing it on your own, especially when there are predefined structures in place.
Probably the best thing you'll see today.
In 2017, a group of developers hilariously competed for who could create worst volume control interface in the world.
The results 🧵
1/22
The only decisions that I truly regret are the ones where I ignored first principles thinking and intuition.
There will be times when you’ll want to act out of FOMO, when you’ll want to react to what your competitor is doing. Resist the urge and focus on the long game.
How can my generation explain what Milkha Singh meant to us?
He wasn’t just an athlete. To a society still suffering the insecurities of post-colonialism he was a sign that we could be the best in the world. Thank you, Milkha Singhji, for giving us that confidence. Om Shanti 🙏🏽