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The biggest dilemma for rational creators on X is: they make a valid point, and the content hits home, but I dislike that rational conclusion, so I choose to block them. The algorithm then takes over that block, interpreting one person’s “unwillingness to face it” as the content being “not worth recommending.”

Your anxiety often comes from wanting too much while your abilities temporarily fall short—and being eager to see results immediately. So, alleviating anxiety is not necessarily about controlling your emotions, but adjusting three variables: lower your desires, improve your abilities, and be more patient.

Ordinary people follow the rules, smart people understand the rules, and exceptional people leverage the rules. Rules exist to maintain order, but breaking through them does not necessarily mean disrupting order. People with true agency know which rules must be followed, which can be circumvented, and which are not worth becoming their own shackles.

People often say that life has lost its meaning, and that at worst they could find a temple and become a monk. In reality, becoming a monk has never been something one could simply choose. Temples in China today are highly commercialized, while in ancient times, becoming a monk was far more than simply shaving one’s head and putting on a monk’s robe—it was not a simple change of social identity.
The reason was actually very practical. The foundation on which ancient states maintained their operation was essentially: population → household registration → land → taxation → corvée labor and milit

If you truly want to understand a society, you must think from an institutional perspective. Most ordinary people do exactly the opposite: they prefer to judge things from the perspective of individual behavior and morality.

Someone messaged me privately and said: Things have really been too hard for him lately. He feels like he doesn’t want to do anything, can’t see much hope for the future, and even feels like he doesn’t want to live anymore. Actually, when people are going through a very difficult time, it’s easy to make one mistake: using their current state to judge their entire life. When you have no energy today, you assume you’ll never have energy again; when you can’t see hope today, you assume there will never be any hope in the future. But a person’s state is not a straight line, and the world will not

Did you know? A single meal, three cups of coffee, or even one foot bath could cost more than an AI subscription for a month. Life certainly calls for enjoyment, but the spending truly worth sustaining over the long term is on things that continuously improve you and ultimately amplify your own value.

Lower-level thinking seeks the correct answer within established premises; higher-level thinking places even the question, the premises, and one’s own way of thinking within the scope of doubt.

The poor often use debt to buy today, satisfying current consumption with future income; the rich often use debt to buy the future, using leverage to expand already-validated productive capacity. The former causes future cash flow to shrink, while the latter seeks to make future cash flow grow. What truly determines wealth or poverty is not whether you have debt, but whether, after taking on debt, you acquire consumer goods or assets capable of continuously generating cash flow.

Some people say that during the Republic of China period, the county with the largest authorized staffing had 77 personnel. Today, however, a county in China can have dozens of Party and government departments and hundreds of government agencies and public institutions, extending further down to townships, subdistricts, and various grassroots organizations. The entire system financed by public funds may even reach tens of thousands of people. In fact, modern society is far more complex than it was a century ago, so simply comparing headcounts is incomplete. What is truly worth discussing is: h

In a society, the weaker a person is, the more easily they may sometimes be exploited. However, the exploitation they face is more dispersed, routine, and institutionalized, making it difficult to identify the specific parties involved in the game.

A person lacking intrinsic value is more likely to attack specific individuals.

Someone messaged me asking: Does human suffering come from one’s own understanding? If you have never seen much of the world and live your whole life naively, would you actually be happier? Often, it is not understanding that brings pain, but understanding that shatters an originally false sense of stability. A person in a closed environment may feel satisfied, but this satisfaction may not be genuine happiness; rather, it is an adaptation formed within limited information, limited choices, and a shaped value system. When someone begins to see a larger world and different possibilities for lif

Many foreign corporate partners I used to know still treat our relationships the same way as before when I reconnect with them after a long time. But when I contact former Chinese corporate clients or friends I once had good relationships with, they often first ask what I’m doing now and how much I’ve earned recently, then decide whether to continue communicating with me—or say they’re a little busy right now and suggest talking when they have time.

Getting stronger doesn’t come from figuring everything out; it comes from continually engaging with reality, solving real problems, and then leveling up through new problems.

No matter how old you are, never stop setting new goals and having new dreams. Life truly ends not when you grow older, but when you stop believing that you can still change.

Why don’t ordinary Chinese people trust good things that come for free? This is not simply a “cognitive issue,” but a behavioral logic shaped by a long-term environment. In an environment of limited resources, intense competition, and high costs of trust, people develop a defensive mechanism: free things often imply hidden costs, and value is difficult to trust without an exchange. That is why, for many people to accept an opportunity, three conditions need to be met: actively pursuing it, proving that it was earned through their own abilities; additional conditions, proving that it is not mea

Someone sent me a private message asking me to evaluate some prominent figures, but I don’t really like evaluating “people”; I’m more accustomed to looking at issues structurally. That’s because the outcome of a person’s actions is often not determined solely by personal qualities, but by the combined effects of the institutional environment, power structure, incentives and constraints, individual choices, and historical outcomes. Anyone who enters a particular position will be influenced by the power, responsibilities, interests, and limitations that position confers. Therefore, when evaluati