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I don’t like it when a post is a video or an image, because YouTube and TikTok already have those, and they do them very well. I scroll through TikTok to watch things; I scroll through X to encounter a thought that had never occurred to me before.

Open source has never been the goal. Security, fairness, stability, verifiability, respect for users’ interests, and values that remain trustworthy over the long term are what truly matter.

As a child, you can be conditioned by your parents; at school, by your teachers; after entering society, by your boss; after starting a business, by your investors; and even after coming to X, by algorithms. But I happen to like posting deep, rational writing, even if it gets no traffic.

A weak economy is the best window of opportunity for ordinary people to understand the world.

In China, ordinary people have a major misconception: when the economy keeps declining, income expectations fall, and opportunities grow scarcer, they wonder whether the future is “doomed.” But economic deterioration and systemic instability are two different things. They have extensive historical experience and many ways to maintain stability: unsolvable problems can be prolonged, unbearable short-term costs can be spread out, and irreversible trends can be gradually adapted to. Besides, next door is North Korea, a good little brother that has been lying dormant for decades. What may really h

What would you like to discuss today, and is there something you don’t know whom to tell?

Have you ever noticed that in large chain restaurants like KFC and McDonald’s, you rarely see flies or mosquitoes? Many people assume it is simply because they maintain better hygiene and employees clean more frequently. But the real difference is often in places you cannot see. For example, entrances may use two sets of doors, air curtains, and other methods to reduce the direct entry of outdoor insects and dust, while indoor air circulation is controlled through supply air, exhaust air, and spatial pressure differences. The idea is not to wait until flies have flown in and then ask employees

Sense of boundaries: not having especially rigid boundaries, but having especially clear ones.

Being rejected is one of the shortcuts to success in life.

Low-cognition family model formula:
= Authority worship + emotional blackmail + fear of risk + face culture + comparative education + empiricism + lack of individual boundaries + suppression of independent judgment + cultivating obedience rather than agency.

The key to your first pot of gold is not the “gold,” but the “pot.” Money is merely the result; what truly matters is that you have built, for the first time, a system capable of continuously capturing wealth: skills, knowledge, channels, credibility, resources, relationships, products, traffic, organizational capabilities, and the ability to turn opportunities into cash flow. If you have only the “gold” without the “pot,” your first pot of gold can easily be spent or lost, and you may never be able to replicate it; but as long as the pot remains, even if the money temporarily disappears, you

Someone sent me a private message asking: What does a person have to go through to truly remain unmoved by material gains or personal losses and stay composed in the face of misfortune? I don’t think that the more one experiences, the more enlightened one necessarily becomes. What truly makes people stable is constantly revising their understanding of the world after going through things: accepting that many matters are beyond one’s control, accepting that what is gained will be lost, relationships will change, and life will have its cycles, while gradually reclaiming one’s sense of worth from

Someone asked me: Why do many big shots who already appear to be very wealthy continue making money through self-media? Because “owning a lot of assets” and “having stable cash flow” have never been the same thing. Much of many people’s wealth is tied up in company equity, real estate, stocks, funds, cryptocurrencies, brands, and other long-term assets. These assets may be highly valuable, but they do not necessarily generate cash continuously, and may even experience valuation declines, liquidity drying up, and difficulty being converted into cash as economic cycles change.
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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.