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Old money is entering the “life extension” industry. When money has become so abundant that it loses its marginal meaning, the only three things they are truly willing to spend money on are: time, which determines how long you can live. Health, which determines the quality of that time. And cognition, which determines how you use the time you have left. In the end, wealth does not buy more things, but a longer, clearer, freer life.

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In crypto, some people are truly stupid. Some got rich by exploiting retail investors, while many others worked hard to earn their money and then moved it into the space. Some of the smartest people in the world are here, along with people who consider themselves smart. Everyone studies cycles, macroeconomics, projects, and returns, yet they often underestimate the most fundamental thing: in crypto, security matters more than returns.
True security does not mean choosing an exchange you trust, buying the hardware wallet you consider the safest, or trusting a particular person, because as long

Why is $30 million considered the minimum threshold for being a wealthy elite? Because the true dividing line in wealth is not spending power, but whether capital can operate independently of personal labor. Several million dollars provides security, $10 million provides freedom, and once you reach $30 million, your assets are sufficient to simultaneously cover liquidity, global allocation, risk isolation, tax structuring, cross-cycle investing, and intergenerational wealth transfer, while living expenses begin to shrink into a minor variable in capital returns. From that point on, you are no

Some women are very foolish. If you marry someone who earns over 1 million a year, don’t make overly excessive demands. If you ask for nothing, in a sense, it means you earn an extra 500k a year. If you genuinely and wholeheartedly support your partner, helping him earn more money and go further, then part of the money this family continues to earn belongs to you. Marriage is also an equity investment. What you should truly focus on is helping your partner earn more money, rather than studying power and control every day. That is the true compounding effect of marriage.

Some women are incredibly foolish. If you marry someone who earns at least 1 million a year, don’t make overly unreasonable demands. Asking for nothing, in a sense, means you earn an extra 500k a year. If you genuinely support your partner, helping him earn more money and go further, then part of the money this family continues to earn belongs to you. Marriage is also an equity investment. What you should truly focus on is helping your partner earn more money, rather than studying power and control every day. This is the compound-interest effect of marriage.

Many people’s mindset issues are essentially not that they “can’t let go,” but that long-term pressure has no outlet: external pressure continues to increase → emotions and the body remain tense over an extended period → the pressure has no outlet → attention is constantly consumed by real-life problems → there is no time or space to observe oneself → one can only continue reacting based on past inertia → choices do not change → real-life outcomes do not change → new pressure continues to arise. As a result, people gradually enter a negative cycle: the more pressure they face, the less room th

Poor people are often lacking in exchangeable value, so their favorite tactic is to first verbally put others down, create pressure through intimidation, then display tolerance to cash in on their so-called “value.”

Marriage may be the most difficult relationship in the world to maintain, because it is not companionship for a particular phase of life, but a long-term, deeply binding relationship that extends from meeting, getting to know each other, and falling in love, to living together, and even all the way to death. The two people share not only emotions, but also time, finances, children, family responsibilities, and the consequences of each other’s major choices. Friends may naturally grow apart as circumstances and stages of life change; although parent-child and parental relationships are connecte

After getting rich overnight, if someone still cannot break free from the habits formed when they were poor, they will most likely lose the money they made all over again. The so-called habits of poverty include being eager to double one’s money, fearing missing out, going all in, excessive leverage, chasing hot trends, conspicuous consumption, mistaking luck for ability, focusing only on returns while ignoring risk, having no cash reserves, not understanding asset segregation, and lacking the patience for long-term compounding. Their wealth has changed, but their behavioral system has not, so

Some people say, “If you treat your child well, they’ll treat you badly in the future.” This is a very typical cognitive error: seeing a phenomenon and mistaking it for the cause. In reality, many parents do devote their entire lives to their children, only to end up with a poor parent-child relationship. But the problem is never that they were “too good” to their children; it is that their kindness was mixed with control, expectations, and an implicit exchange: I’ve done so much for you, so you should listen to me, live according to my arrangements, and repay me in the future. Truly healthy l

In the future, much of what is supposedly “hot” will only be hot within a particular circle. Algorithms, interests, professions, and social connections are dividing the world into countless isolated information spaces. Seeing everyone discuss something does not mean everyone knows about it; having the people around you agree does not mean society has reached a consensus. The most dangerous misconception is treating your own information feed as the entire world and mistaking the popularity within your circle for a trend of the times. Truly perceptive people will ask: Where exactly is it hot? Wh

In the world of politicians, attitude is attitude, and interests are interests. I give you respect today, and tomorrow I take your leverage. This is the separation of tasks.

10 variables that change your fate: Pain forces you to move, exposure makes you want to leave, understanding tells you where to go, resources enable you to truly get out, your environment determines how many opportunities you can see, relationships connect you to a bigger world, responsibility forces you to become stronger, opportunities allow long-term accumulation to suddenly pay off, time lets advantages compound continuously, and chance may completely rewrite your path at a certain moment. What we call fate is essentially the result of these variables accumulating over the long term.

Yesterday, I saw that the 2014 iPhone 6 series sold more than 200 million units worldwide, while the 2021 iPhone 13 series also came close to 200 million. The point is not that Apple is impressive. Behind the two sales peaks were two different sentiments of the times. The former reflected people’s belief that the future would keep getting better; the latter came after the pandemic, when people briefly believed the worst was over. So many consumption peaks are, in essence, not about buying products, but about buying expectations for the future. In many ways, individuals are incredibly small in

In fact, many successes come from “not trying too hard.”

The trap ordinary people are most likely to fall into is not a lack of effort, but constantly waiting: waiting for the world to become fairer, waiting for the rules to favor them, waiting for someone, some policy, or some opportunity to suddenly change their fate. But reality will never tilt in your favor automatically just because you expect fairness. It is precisely this mentality that “someone will come and save me” that gives those who prey on others the greatest opportunity. Anyone who promises an easy turnaround, to solve your life for you, or to help you make a leap without paying a pri

Why does people’s understanding of the world differ so greatly at different ages? At 24, Du Fu wrote, “I shall ascend the highest peak and see all other mountains dwarfed beneath me,” seeing possibility; at 56, in his later years, he wrote, “In autumn, sorrowing, I am often a guest in distant lands; in old age and illness, I climb the tower alone,” seeing limits. When young, people tend to believe that effort can change their destiny; only after experiencing more do they realize that the times, their origins, illness, wealth, relationships, and luck all shape their lives. When young, people se

Conflicts among poor people often begin with pride and the desire to take advantage, but end with them trapped by ignorance of the rules and fear of the costs of conflict.