Larry's Weekly Newsletter - August 16, 2026
Hi friends!
I spent the past week in Shenzhen with family that are in town. Shenzhen is incredibly livable these days...especially Nanshan District. I particularly enjoyed exploring the seemingly never-ending bike paths in lush, green, interconnected parks along rivers and the waterfront!
Please find this past week's writing below. Have a great week!
Yours,
Larry
The future of memories is here and it’s spatial
“The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.”
-William Gibson I have an infant son and have been taking spatial photos and video of him since his birth (and previously during the pregnancy) so that I can view them on Apple Vision Pro. It’s really hard
Larry Salibra
Shenzhen scale is so much bigger than Hong Kong
Officially, Hong Kong’s nominal GDP was US$424 billion in 2025 versus Shenzhen’s US$557 billion. I assert that these numbers severally understate the relative value produced by Shenzhen vs Hong Kong in the same way comparing the USA’s nominal GDP to China’s GDP severely understates
Larry Salibra
Amazon US is 8x more expensive than Costco China
Amazon US prices used to be among the cheapest in the world. Leading up to and during the pandemic, I would do much of my shopping on Amazon US, which ships to Hong Kong for free without Prime and is 100% tax-free. Slowly over the past decade, though, their
Larry Salibra
The entire city should be your backyard
Chinese cities aren’t making the same mistakes American cities made.
Larry Salibra
Hong Kong public healthcare’s strange quality incentives
A strange incentive of the Hong Kong public healthcare system is that for some things it’s actually faster and more convenient than the private system while still also being incredibly cheap. A few years ago, I fell between the stairs and pontoon in the Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter and
Larry Salibra
The world’s largest App Clip deployment
The world’s largest deployment of App Clips is in China.
Larry Salibra
Babies are fun!
If I knew how much fun babies were, I’d have started having them much earlier. Sure they cry a lot but watching them grow up and develop their own personalities so quickly is the ride of a lifetime. I recently learned from my parents that their generation (baby boomers)
Larry Salibra