Morrisss

A Beijing-based subscriber asked me: What do I think about drones no longer being allowed to be kept at home in Beijing? In fact, the drone issue itself is not the main point. The more realistic issue is that, in the future, the practical value of drones in Beijing will continue to decline, while the costs of ownership and compliance, as well as the risks, will continue to rise, so there is no need to keep one. But behind this issue lies an even bigger trend: Beijing’s greatest value in the past was as a political, economic, and resource center. Jobs, companies, income, and personal connection

Morality is not selflessness, but a more long-term form of self-interest: it may not make you money directly, yet it can reduce friction costs in credit, cooperation, transactions, and relationships. Truly mature people uphold morality not to prove their nobility, but because they understand long-term interactions; restraining short-term gains is often a way of protecting their long-term interests. Morality’s most important function is not to judge others, but to restrain oneself.

Programmers used to be mocked for copying and pasting “code.” Now, those who don’t need programmers have also started copying and pasting “requirements.”

Ranking of individual moats in the AI era:
Self-brainwashing ability > mental resilience > credibility > execution > judgment > filtering ability > information gap.

When you keep creating, you enter a wonderful state: the more you do, the more excited you become, and the more you feel that opportunities are everywhere in this world. Opportunities have never actually increased; what has truly changed is you. Once you have the ability to create, you begin to see possibilities that were invisible to you before.

A truly mature relationship is not sustained by one person sacrificing for the other, but by both people taking responsibility for their own choices. You are willing to give because you believe it is worthwhile; you are willing to stay because you accept the cost; even if you ultimately do not get the outcome you wanted, there is no need to turn what you gave into a debt. Strong people enter a relationship not by betting on whether the other person will reciprocate, but by being clear about why they are choosing it and having the ability to bear everything that follows from that choice.

A subscriber once asked me what it really means to understand how the world works. I said: Don’t read the news; study history. Don’t look at prices; look at time. Don’t focus on events; look at cycles. Don’t listen to rhetoric; look at interests. Don’t look at positions; look at where people stand. Don’t focus on appearances; look at structure. Don’t look at promises; look at constraints. Don’t look at morality; look at incentives. Don’t look at emotions; look at the chips on the table. Don’t look at stories; look at cash flow. Don’t look at momentary choices; look at human nature over the lon

Reposting a piece written by someone from the core base:
The world's largest organization has 100 million members.
On the surface, everything appears peaceful and prosperous,
but beneath it, sparks are flying everywhere.
We fear them,
and they fear us breaking through,
and it has been this way for 3,000 years.
They think we have money,
and we think they have a solution.
Only in the end did we discover
that we are not that wealthy,
and they do not have such a solution either.
Later, we discovered
that we had both misjudged each other.
Now, he knows that I am truly out of money,
and I know that

The two most foolish kinds of people: those who always live at the peak of life, and those who always live in the valley of life.

If people truly want to achieve something, they must learn to constantly “brainwash” themselves. Because many people’s minds are already dirty, having been washed many times before. “Dirty” here doesn’t mean damaged; it means being stuffed with too many standards imposed by others: nine-year compulsory education delivers the first round, telling you what the standard answers are; higher education continues the process, training you to adapt to the rules; after entering society, the process continues—you are harshly beaten by reality while being told that “everyone has gone through this”; back

Someone asked: Why are you so harsh toward poor people in your words? In fact, this harshness is the best way to change the fate of the poor. Because changing one’s fate often begins with recognizing oneself.

Someone in the members’ group asked: What is the spirit of nobility? The true spirit of nobility is a form of self-restraint and a commitment to higher values. It means not bullying the weak when you have the ability to do so; knowing which money should not be made when faced with temptation; remaining neither servile nor arrogant before the powerful; showing respect to the weak; being willing to bear the consequences of promises you have made; being able to concede defeat with dignity, and not humiliating others even when you win; and maintaining your own principles even when no one is watchi

Dalio: I’m worried about who will control AI in the future.
Jensen Huang: I’ll look into how to turn on hands-free.
Trump: Let’s first figure out who the enemy is, then discuss who controls AI.
Musk: You all keep messing around with Earth; I’ll go build an interstellar civilization.

Elon Musk will eventually merge all his companies into a single company. Because an interstellar civilization needs not several independent enterprises, but a complete 0-to-1 civilization system: energy, AI, robotics, communications, transportation, manufacturing, monetary finance, human-machine interfaces, and ultimately space transportation must all become capabilities within the same system. But the most dangerous part of this vast system is Musk himself.

Some people, the more they deprive themselves, the more they showcase their hardships to the outside world, and the more desperately they try to prove how hard they work, the more easily they are exploited. Because you keep sending the outside world a signal: I can endure, I can shoulder the burden, I don’t dare refuse, and I’m willing to give more in exchange for recognition.

Don’t turn yourself into a mere function: studying only for employment, working only for money, and socializing only for resources—until you become increasingly useful but increasingly empty. What people truly need is not just ability, but also judgment, the ability to settle themselves, and a sense of meaning. So, while being able to solve real-world problems, preserve your own pace, values, and inner world.

Dynastic system cycle formula: = Establish order (end chaos and restore rules) → Release dividends (growth, expansion, and increased opportunities) → Entrench class interests (resources become concentrated among vested interests) → Narrow paths for ordinary people (upward mobility, wealth accumulation, and changing one’s fate become increasingly difficult) → Accumulate contradictions continuously (conflicts over wealth disparity, opportunities, distribution, and expectations intensify) → Strengthen control (compress the space for survival, expression, choice, and exit) → Continuously compress

True security comes only from your ability to solve problems yourself.

Why shouldn’t you help poor people too easily? It’s not because they have no money, but because prolonged deprivation will make a person care more about losing than gaining. Help them ten times, and they will quickly take what they receive for granted; but if you don’t meet their needs the eleventh time, they won’t feel that they have gained one less time—they will feel that they have lost once. What deprivation truly changes is not a person’s wealth, but the weight they assign to gains and losses. So when helping others, especially through ongoing assistance, it’s best to make the terms clear