YouTube — Week of 2026-06-06 to 2026-06-12#

Watch First#

If you have time for one deep dive this week, make it Zhang Xiaojun’s fascinating four-hour interview with Anker CEO Steven Yang in 144. 对阳萌的4小时访谈. It is an absolute masterclass on surviving the brutal “consumer electronics death cycle” and what it actually takes to build a sustainable tech platform rather than just chasing industry hype.

Week in Review#

The dominant themes this week revolved around the sobering realities of massive, unprecedented scale. AI discussions shifted abruptly from chatbot hype to the physical constraints of data centers, water usage, and hardware limits, while the broader financial world was completely consumed by SpaceX’s dizzying tech-monopoly IPO. Meanwhile, across both English and Chinese channels, there was a refreshing wave of grounded historical and geopolitical retrospectives attempting to contextualize these modern anxieties.

YouTube — 2026-06-12#

Watch First#

If you watch nothing else today, sink into 王晶×罗永浩！谁还记得大导演张彻楚原？我死了什么都不需要留下｜罗永浩的十字路口 for a delightfully blunt, unfiltered look back at the chaotic, mob-infested golden era of Hong Kong cinema. Director Wong Jing freely admits he only ever cared about making money, offering a highly entertaining and pragmatic counter-narrative to traditional artistic pretension.

Highlights by Theme#

News & Business#

The financial world is completely consumed by SpaceX’s historic IPO, which just vaulted Elon Musk to trillionaire status as retail investors clamor for a piece of the aggressive $1.75 trillion valuation pie. For an excellent breakdown of the capital mechanics behind this offering—including the extreme voting rights structure Musk engineered to maintain control—Chinese finance channel Xiao Lin Shuo’s SpaceX上市，背后在玩什么资本游戏? is an absolute must-watch. Meanwhile, Bloomberg Originals highlights a sobering economic reality in Inside Indonesia’s Market Meltdown, exploring how manipulated “deep-fried stocks” and costly populist state spending are spooking foreign investors.