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After hearing a “good” principle, what matters is not whether you have become its propagator, but whether it has made you a better version of yourself. If it only makes you better at talking, it has merely given you more to talk about; if it changes your choices, behavior, and life, only then does it truly deserve to be called a “good principle.”

The world is changing, and everyone is looking for new opportunities. Some say, go to Polymarket. But it brings together some of the smartest people in the world, with the fastest access to information and the strongest skills in strategic competition. If you have not previously demonstrated particularly strong information-gathering, judgment, or trading abilities, this is probably not your opportunity. Real opportunities often do not come from going head-to-head with the smartest people, but from finding changes that most people have not yet reacted to.

Nowadays, the biggest predicament for many people is not a lack of opportunities, but not knowing what to do next. When at a low point, they are trapped by past failures, emotions, and exhaustion; although they should start over, they have no energy to get moving. Once they have just established a bit of order, they become unsure which task to tackle first because there are too many directions and the goals are too far away. So what is truly scarce is not answers, but the ability to see clearly where you are at any moment and find the “next step.” Life does not require figuring everything out

In this era, the best job is not working for someone else, but having the ability to make money independently. Platforms will disappear, roles will change, and companies will lay off employees, but as long as you can continue creating value, identify demand, and monetize it, you will always have the ability to start over.

The past only provides information, the goal provides direction, and the present is for action.

Getting rich is both very difficult and very easy. The difficult part is that most people know about compound interest, but cannot endure the long, slow period before its effects become visible.

For many people, the first half of life is essentially not about being themselves, but about breaking free from the things imposed on them by their external environment. Family gives you boundaries, society gives you standards, and experience makes you pay the tuition, until you become capable of recognizing what others have put into you and what truly belongs to you. Maturity is not about having seen more of the world, but about gradually rebuilding your values, judgment, and inner order. A person’s true breakthrough often comes after this: no longer rushing to prove themselves, no longer bei

High awareness is often not about knowing more, but about being less controlled by instinct. You do not rush to argue back, because understanding first matters more than taking a position first; you can accommodate different opinions, because you do not need to prove yourself by convincing others; when something happens, you look for the cause first instead of indulging in complaints; you respect boundaries, neither controlling others nor sacrificing yourself; when facing conflict, you prioritize solving the problem rather than winning the argument; you are clear-eyed enough about yourself to

If you’re impatient, I’ll make money from your impatience. If you’re greedy, I’ll make money from your greed. If you’re lazy, I’ll make money from your laziness. If you’re afraid, I’ll make money from your fear. If you’re vain, I’ll make money from your vanity. If you lack judgment, I’ll make money from your lack of judgment. One of the essences of business is putting a price on human weaknesses. The market may not always make money from those with limited understanding, but it is constantly putting a price on uncontrolled human nature.

Why doesn’t Musk dare shill Dogecoin as much anymore? Because too many people support him, but too few actually understand trading. Whenever he makes a call, his followers rush in; those who don’t believe him but understand the market better only need to know in advance that this group will rush in. When stupidity becomes a consensus, smart people are no longer trading the asset, but the behavior of this group.

Chinese apartment buildings may look modern and convenient, yet they turn connecting with nature into something that requires “deliberate action”: you have to go downstairs to bask in the sun, touch the earth, and experience the changing seasons. The more important value of traditional Chinese siheyuan courtyards, Japanese detached houses, and American single-family homes is not simply that they offer more space, but that they allow sunlight, air, plants, and weather to naturally enter daily life. A truly good home does not merely give you the “opportunity” to get close to nature; it lets you

One must learn to embrace boredom and leave room in life. Boredom allows the brain to step away from constant stimulation and grow its own thoughts again; leaving room means not filling every moment with tasks or every bit of attention with information, allowing judgments, inspirations, and desires that have not yet taken shape to emerge. If a person is always taking in information, responding, and rushing from place to place, they can easily become merely a reflector of the outside world. The things that truly matter are often not gained through busyness, but slowly grow in moments of quiet,

What is truly expensive is never the purchase price, but losing the ability to exit. The value of cash lies in the optionality it provides; once it is exchanged for an illiquid, continuously depreciating asset with little demand, what you lose is not just money, but the freedom to make different choices in the future. So for any purchase, you should not only ask, “Can I afford it?” but also: Is it truly necessary? Who will take it over? How high is the cost of exiting? In an era of rising uncertainty, what truly matters is not owning more things, but keeping your assets as reversible, sellable

The past cannot be rewritten, but its meaning can be redefined by the present. Many people remain trapped in regret because they treat the past as the final verdict: one mistake, one failure, or one low point becomes proof that “I’ll never amount to anything in this life.” But the truth is that experiences have no fixed meaning; their value depends on where you eventually take yourself. If you remain stuck, the wrong turns of the past are merely costs; if you ultimately move forward, those failures, misjudgments, and low points will all become part of your abilities, judgment, and story. The r

Many people who hope to change are not truly held back by a lack of ability, but by being unable to see the future clearly and not daring to keep investing in an uncertain future. They always want to get a definite answer first before deciding whether to make the effort; to see the result first before deciding whether to persist. But reality is precisely the opposite: most real change begins with betting time, energy, and resources when the path is still unclear, then continuously gaining feedback through action, and only gradually seeing the direction clearly in the end. People do not start a

People with high cognitive ability often find it harder to accept religion—not necessarily because they are smarter, nor because they are arrogant, but because they find it harder to treat unverified answers as the final destination. What religion truly provides is often more than just “God”; it is a complete system of certainty: a scripture, a set of interpretations, an ultimate authority, and closed-loop answers about death, meaning, good and evil, and fate. For many people, this certainty can ease existential unease; but the stronger a person’s cognitive abilities, the more capable they oft

Why does making money from poor people often ultimately rely on deception, while making money from the wealthy ultimately depends on value? Because what poor people lack most is money. It is difficult to keep extracting profits from someone who is already short of money, so you can only keep creating impulses, amplifying desires, and exploiting information gaps; what wealthy people truly lack is time, efficiency, certainty, and high-quality opportunities. Therefore, you can only keep getting paid by helping them save time, reduce risk, improve efficiency, and make more money. Low-quality busin

The post-80s generation has experienced almost everything except large-scale war: material scarcity, waves of layoffs, rising housing prices, financial crises, the internet bubble, the restructuring brought by the mobile internet, the shock of the pandemic, and now the AI revolution. They learned to adapt to limited resources in childhood, intensifying competition in their youth, and the constant replacement of old experience by technology in middle age. Brick phones, pagers, PCs, the internet, smartphones, mobile payments, short videos, blockchain, VR, AR, AI... The tools keep changing, the r

Perfection isn't designed; it's iterated into existence: start rough, iterate continuously, keep correcting course through real-world feedback, and inch closer to that perfect goal that originally existed only in the imagination.