Tag: Society (11 articles)

Two men named Wang An, nine centuries apart, one diagnosis.

Before the cards are turned, every judgment is a rearview mirror.

Ten nines of reliability, and the flakiest component is still me.

A 90-minute window; a 5-second run.

Not cleverness. Starting.

A tax with no collector, paid by everyone.

Flow isn't mysticism. It's a byproduct of ownership.

Long-term margins come from which line of human nature the bill sits on — but everyone can read human nature. The profit belongs to whoever converts a stable need into a licence and a position.

The first principle of making money is creating value. Following this logic chain reveals a complete framework: creating value requires solving problems, solving problems requires identifying real needs through practice, iterating fast, validating models, and building systems that scale using leverage instead of linear accumulation.

Six years behind the glass deserves dissection, not pity: time gone pathological, labour that evaporates, the smile billed as a separate line item — every symptom of the service economy, concentrated in one teller window.

The rapid advancement of AI has a highly differentiated impact on different economies. For economies that rely on large-scale labour, this impact first manifests as economic urgency.