China is building the infrastructure for 21st-century economic dominance. As we're financializing everything, they're electrifying everything. We're optimizing for attention while they're optimizing for capacity. We must figure out how to channel the dynamics of the attention economy toward creation rather than extraction .

Treating attention as infrastructure rather than a market to be optimized. Right now, we treat attention like a commodity. It’s something to be mined, optimized, and sold to the highest bidder. But attention is infrastructure! It’s the invisible highway that ideas, identities, and institutions travel on. We have to invest in it like we would a... See more

Beijing has been working relentlessly to build up its resilience. While the US talks itself out of Sputnik Moments, Beijing has dedicated immense resources to patching up its own deficiencies. It’s not a theoretical fear that Chinese companies might lose access to American technologies. So the state is pouring more money than ever before into... See more