Andrei Stoica

It was not simply a desire for revanchism, however, that allowed Deng Xiaoping to reform China successfully. Rather, as a student of contemporary capitalism, Deng closely observed Singapore’s development, which showed that a culturally Chinese society had the prerequisite social technologies to productively use markets. Secondly, he knew that China... See more

Startups, he argues, can be engineered in the same way. “Startups excel when they put all their energy into one main thing ,” he says. “If you want to hit escape velocity, your startup should be designed to focus on that. In other words, it better taste good. But if your startup is designed to have several teams all equal in size, where’s your focu... See more

I generally write about product and technology from a practitioner's point of view. A thread with of some of my most load-bearing perspectives:

Been thinking about architecturally interesting tennis courts recently https://t.co/69Y61DyMO2

wake up babe carhartt x sacai is doing PHTHALO GREEN https://t.co/3QJsNrFTFC

"Table Tennis" Stamp (UK) by Andrew Restall (1977) https://t.co/YGtDGDzqUg

“Words,” John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.” That was always my attitude toward opinion writing. Newspaper columns should be controversial, rubbing some people the wrong way, because the main point is to get people to rethink their assumptions. I used to say, only half... See more