Archive - Christopher Wan’s Newsletter

Book Review: Ours Was the Shining Future

The story of the American Dream

Dec 31, 2023 •

Christopher Wan

December 2021

The failure of the American '70s

Where did we go so wrong?

Dec 30, 2021 •

Christopher Wan

August 2021

#51 - Book Review: Work

Summary and commentary on "Work: A Deep History, from the Stone Age to the Age of Robots" by James Suzman

Aug 29, 2021 •

Christopher Wan

July 2021

#50 - Space rush

A quick look at space SPACs

Jul 25, 2021 •

Christopher Wan

June 2021

#49 - Prestige and YCombinator

How do we think about YC's increasing batch size?

Jun 27, 2021 •

Christopher Wan

#48 - Fictions (pt. 1)

We live in a world of fictions

Jun 6, 2021 •

Christopher Wan

March 2021

#47 - The iconoclastic VC

Does she exist?

Mar 21, 2021 •

Christopher Wan

#46 - SPACs, VC, and The Prestige

Deep tech magic

Mar 14, 2021 •

Christopher Wan

#45 - BigLaw in the 21st century

Disrupting the billable hour

Mar 7, 2021 •

Christopher Wan

February 2021

#44 - Twitter's Birdwatch, decentralized truth, and kangaroo courts

Feb 28, 2021 •

Christopher Wan

#43 - Welcome, __________. Seriously.

Feb 21, 2021 •

Christopher Wan

#42 - Why government software sucks

The government's laughable vaccine portal

Feb 14, 2021 •

Christopher Wan

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