Process knowledge

From Programmable Mutter

He like Dan Wang’s book Breakneck

Breakneck is about America nearly as much as it is about China. The book is fascinated with how America and China resemble each other, their sharp differences, and how both help fuel their mutual incomprehension. I imagine that most responses* will focus on two big questions: how America’s misunderstanding of China fuels geopolitical confrontation, and how America’s misunderstanding of itself leads it to miss out on material abundance. 

However, the best reading of the book, in my biased opinion, starts not with these questions, but the alternative perspective that lies behind Dan’s answers. The biggest lesson I took from Breakneck was not about China, or the U.S., but the importance of “process knowledge.”