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If you were a rich kid born into a wealthy family, what would you do?

The nation-state is a concept invented only in the modern era.
Before the invention of the nation-state, people were more familiar with empires and kingdoms—the empire used civilization as the basis for national unity and stability, as with Chinese civilization and Greco-Roman civilization; the kingdom used bloodline and royal authority as the basis for national unity and stability, as with the Frankish Kingdom and the Kingdom of England.
Because the nation-state was invented, people were forced to search history for grounds to establish “national identity.” Are the French and Germans nations?

The name of the country Türkiye is particularly interesting—it means “the land of the Turkic people.”
It is similar to Indians calling their country Anglusstan, believing that their country is the land of the Anglus people, and then claiming that all English-speaking countries are within their sphere of influence.
The difference is that the Anglus people are too powerful for the UK and the US to ride their coattails; but the Turkic people have no powerful state or shared national identity, so Türkiye uses the Pan-Turkic narrative to glorify itself.
In reality, the Turkish people are simply the

Napoleon and de Gaulle shaped a strong state, a shared national identity, a secular public order, and the capacity to act for the Republic.
When the government appears unable to control its borders or unwilling to uphold public rules, ordinary people feel that the Republic only demands that they obey the rules while being unable to protect them.
The French have failed to respect Napoleon’s and de Gaulle’s republican tradition, yet pride themselves on being liberal democrats and have been overly tolerant of Islam and illegal immigration, thus paying the price.
France has lost its “Frenchness,”

When ambition exceeds ability, it is called aiming too high.
But if ambition does not exceed ability, how could it be called ambition?
Every ambitious person waits for fate to favor them once, as long as they do not die.
For this, you must be prepared to try repeatedly and suffer setbacks, as well as have the resolve to try one more time, forever.

I have to say, the philosopher is a pretty good trader—honestly, possibly one of the best.
He just needs to improve his entries, exits, narrative analysis, research process, performance at critical moments, adaptability, position sizing, intuition, time in the market, risk management, patience, group chat communication, stop-losses, discipline, pattern recognition, sleep schedule, journaling, wallet tracking, workplace organization, timing, conviction building, knowing when to sit tight, and overall understanding of crypto.

The bourgeoisie ease their anxiety and sense of insecurity by presenting themselves as though they were feudal aristocrats.
The bourgeoisie derive their power from capital, and capital is highly competitive and strenuous, and therefore also insecure and anxiety-inducing.
Feudal aristocrats derive their power from bloodline, and bloodline is predetermined and requires no effort, and is therefore secure and free of anxiety.
By imitating European aristocratic clothing and manor-like lifestyles, the bourgeoisie gain a sense of genuine superiority over others.
This is why Loro Piana and Brunello Cu

AI’s primary domain of “intelligence” is discovering, learning, and applying conditional relationships: “under condition C, A and B have relationship R.” Probabilistic models are an important way to achieve this capability.
Abstraction is discovering common structures among different phenomena, deduction is applying constraints between relationships, planning is finding paths between conditions and outcomes, and error correction is comparing differences between expectations and feedback.
Therefore, all repeatable intellectual activities that essentially involve finding conditional relationship

Yes, we do not need so many CEXs, public chains, lending protocols, DEXs, Perp DEXs, or Launchpads, but that does not mean the original players will always win.
Competition drives the industry forward. Eternal empires are rare, and we always believe in the moats of pioneers and the innovations of latecomers.
Technological revolutions and bubbles always occur simultaneously. Noble things are often stained with blood, and the right judgments are often met with repeated setbacks.
The right time, the right place, and the right people. Everything has its timing, and so does life.

Buy assets that hold an important position in the narrative, have favorable token distribution, are potentially driven by influential figures, and generate real revenue and capture value.
What makes an asset excellent? Ask four questions:
1. Position: What is the current dominant narrative (the industrial revolution)? What position does it occupy within that narrative? Is it indispensable infrastructure or a critical bottleneck?
2. Token distribution: Who controls most of the tokens? Who holds ownership and control? What are their costs, constraints, and exit conditions?
3. Momentum: Who is mo

The earlier a person (believes they) know the right answer, the less likely they are to question the question itself.
And this questioning of questions—the meta-question—is precisely the source of our re-understanding and reshaping of the world.
Those who question meta-questions are naturally unwilling to accept ready-made answers. In their youth, they often struggle to fit in; later, depending on their upbringing, luck, intelligence, and talents, they become entrepreneurs, speculators, poets, artists, people with bipolar disorder, and Sanhe drifters.
They are forced into a state that cannot f

I have a misconception: whenever I see a pattern similar to something existing or from the past, I always think, “Isn’t this just copying xxx?” But in reality, the idea and the pattern are not the key. Later entrants can always surpass those who came before through numerous details and the influence of objective circumstances.
iPhone was not the first smartphone, Google was not the first search engine, NVIDIA was not the first accelerated-computing chip company, and AMD was not the first CPU company (yet it caught up with and even surpassed Intel in consumer CPUs!)
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