The Annual Letter That CEOs Read Before Their Morning Briefings
Dan Wang spent seven years watching China from the inside, then turned his notes into a letter that a small, influential audience now waits for every year. Here is how one writer built a document that serious people take seriously.
A Letter That Takes Three Weeks to Write Every January 1st, Dan Wang publishes a letter. Not a newsletter, not a brief, not a thread. A letter. It arrives without fanfare on his website , runs roughly 25,000 words, and contains his observations on the year just ended: China, technology, culture, geopolitics, and whatever else has lodged itself in his mind over the preceding twelve months. There is no paywall. There is no push notification campaign. There is just the text, posted on the first day of the new year,...
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