About

I grew up in Fenghua, just outside Ningbo. Merchant country. People there have always left, built something somewhere else, and carried it back. Nobody framed it as ambition. It was just what you did.

I studied in Nanjing for four years. Thermal energy and power engineering, at an aeronautics university. Turbines and combustion.

Then I came to Germany and did a master's in robotics and AI at KIT in Karlsruhe. Which is why I have been watching this field from the inside for years, long before it became the only thing anyone talks about.

Germany was supposed to be the answer. Stability, healthcare, paid vacation, no overtime culture. For a few years I believed it.

What I actually learned is that the system rewards you for optimizing around safety and quietly punishes you for having ambition. You can be useful here your whole life and never be respected. That is not a complaint. It is a description. Once you see it clearly, you have to decide what to do about it.

I decided to build something.

On June 2nd, 2026, I left my job. I did not know what came next. I still do not, not completely. I left anyway.

Now I build Entrohub, a community of immigrant builders in Berlin and Munich.

I did not build it because I am lonely. I solved that for myself. I came out the other side and then went back to build the road. Not a victim. Not a savior. Someone who knows the way and is making the conditions for other people to find it.

The one thing I am actually good at is sensing pain. What someone is carrying underneath the version of themselves they are showing you. Real pain and performed pain look identical from the outside and feel nothing alike.

That is what I look for in people, and it is why I write. Most of what I publish started as something I noticed and could not name yet.

If you are building something and the hard part is the part nobody sees, write to me.