What's hard, slow, expensive, or "impossible" in my country — already works in China.
I'm Dr. Dom. German doctor in Shenzhen. I sit with the operators, hardware-makers and methods that already work here — and decode them so you can use them.
I'm a builder. Learning from them for my next project.
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Ground truth
The people behind the stories
Every dispatch starts with someone I sat with on the ground. Tap a face to read theirs.
She overheard me say "one-person company" and four days later interviewed me for two hours.
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Raising a round. We met mid-air.
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Ex-Sequoia Capital China CTO walks me through the stack — in Mandarin.
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11pm. Ingrown toenail, ten days bad across three cities. He fixed it. The chain has 9,000 stores.
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Walked in to get my watch repaired. Walked out with a friend. His watch played a full video on the face.
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A walk through the zone where the visa-free experiments actually run.
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Not from a feed — from the rooms. Here’s the ground it comes from.
Bangkok · Chiang Mai · Hong Kong · Shenzhen · Guangzhou · Macau · Hangzhou · Shanghai · Beijing · Suzhou · Singapore · Bali · Taipei
How this happened
I came to look for a few days. I ended up helping run a month-long founder gathering inside Alibaba's space, running health & longevity meetups in Shenzhen and Chiang Mai — and being told I was the first foreigner they'd ever spoken to. That's the name.
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