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Governance = dynamic equilibrium

Engineering vs lawyerly societies

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Mahdi Assan
Nov 07, 2025
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I recently started reading Dan Wang’s book Breakneck and it got me thinking about the role that data rights professionals play in the current tech eco-system.

Th first chapter is titled ‘Engineers vs. Lawyers’ and Wang uses this frame to convey the contrast between progress in China and progress in the US. China is an engineering society, while the US is…

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