100ish Lessons From Six Weeks in China: There Is No Right of Way—Only Your Way (Part 1)

What Beijing’s Streets Taught Me About Competition, Culture, and Building in a World Split in Two

Hi Founders,

Coming back to San Francisco after six weeks in China felt like walking into a dream I’d half-written and left running.

My stuff was here, sure—but I wasn’t.

Not yet.

That’s the thing about leaving a place you built after five years of roaming the planet: the person who returns is never the one who locked the door.

And the city feels it.

It looks…