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理性 #Voice of Tsingtao

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

The best journals aren’t for the reader. They are for the writer. To slow the mind down. To wage peace with oneself.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

The most dangerous moment is right after you win.

You did it. You made the money. You quit your job. You built the physique. You got the girl. Now what? Most people let themselves decline into misery because their driving force has now vanished.

You need another mountain to climb. You need to understand that it is a gift, not a curse, to always be in the pursuit of your potential - the constant balance of challenge and skill is what makes life meaningful. There is no final top of the mountain.

[Morris @Morris_LT]

有订阅会员问我一个老话题：为什么建议中国中产去买山姆会员卡、用苹果手机、开特斯拉？不完全是因为它们一定质量更好，而是因为它们能帮你减少大量不必要的判断和焦虑。山姆把一部分食品安全和筛选成本外包掉，苹果减少广告、弹窗和权限骚扰，特斯拉它替你做掉了大量选择：更少的车型、更少的配置、更统一的质量和体验，让汽车重新变成一个不用研究的工具。真正重要的不是这些品牌，而是背后的逻辑：人生走下坡路的时候，不只是要节衣缩食，更要主动减少社会摩擦。少做无意义的选择，少承担不必要的风险，少和低质量系统反复博弈，把有限的注意力、判断力和情绪稳定留给真正重要的事情。穷的时候要省钱，低谷的时候更要省认知���

[Poetic Outlaws @OutlawsPoetic]

“Contemporary man is blind to the fact that, with all his rationality and efficiency, he is possessed by "powers" that are beyond his control. His gods and demons have not disappeared at all; they have merely got new names.

They keep him on the run with restlessness, vague apprehensions, psychological complications, an insatiable need for pills, alcohol, tobacco, food - and, above all, a large array of neuroses.”

—Carl Jung

[Morris @Morris_LT]

你越接近那些始终保持“自然人”状态的人，你自己的状态也会越好。

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"Twitter is television for intellectuals."

@naval

[Stern Drew @SternDrewCrypto]

🚨 THE NEXT MONETARY WAR BETWEEN U.S. and CHINA HAS ALREADY STARTED

The U.S. is betting on Digital Dollars (Stablecoins) while China is betting on physical gold.

Trump and the Treasury just admitted the quiet part out loud.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: We will keep the dollar as the world’s reserve currency and will use stablecoins to do it.

Trump’s January 2025 order made dollar-backed coins official policy. The GENIUS Act locked the mechanism in: every compliant stablecoin must sit 1-for-1 on cash, T-bills, and Treasury repos.

That’s the escape hatch. America can’t print gold. It can print demand for its own debt.

How it works:

Billions of people who will never open a U.S. bank account can hold a dollar token. Every new token forces the issuer to buy short-term Treasuries.

Dollar demand gets exported on crypto rails.

The reserve currency survives even if SWIFT loses corridors because the world is still holding a claim on U.S. paper.

It’s not a gold standard. It’s a digital T-bill standard wearing a crypto costume.

Meanwhile China is doing the opposite:

The PBOC just posted its 21st straight month of gold buying. Official holdings: ~2,366 tonnes. They’re stacking metal like the clock is running out.

Hong Kong already opened the first offshore Shanghai Gold Exchange vault. The city wants 2,000+ tonnes of storage. More vaults are being scoped for Singapore, Dubai, Riyadh, Moscow. The pitch is simple: hold yuan, convert it to gold you can actually take delivery of.

That’s the old-school play.
Physical collateral.
Offshore vaults.
Yuan contracts settled in metal, not promises.

Two strategies. Same problem.

The London Metal Exchange (LME) Treasury Chief Just Quit London For The Crypto Firm “Ripple” For Tokenized Commodities on XRP Ledger As China Builds a Yuan-Gold Vault Settlement System.

That product is already live. Assetiko gold XAUa and silver XAGa on the XRP Ledger. Swap metal to native XRP on @Trensik_com without leaving the book.

The U.S. is trying to keep the dollar’s privilege by turning private coins into a global bid for Treasuries.

China is trying to leave the privilege by stacking gold and building a vault-and-settlement network that doesn’t need Washington’s permission.

One side is digitizing the debt. The other is hoarding the metal.

Watch which one the rest of the world actually trusts when the next shock hits.

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

The main reason socialism has always failed and caused misery and poverty is that equality of outcome is incompatible with the incentives a society needs to build, create, innovate and prosper.

This helps explain why:

1. A professor wanted to test socialism in a classroom

2. He averaged everyone's test scores so all students received the same grade.

3. Hardworking students stopped studying because their effort no longer earned top marks.

4. Low-performing students stopped studying, knowing they would pass anyway.

5. Overall grades quickly fell to an F.

Socialism is against human nature, has never worked and never will. Why is this so difficult for the left to understand?

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

Consider this mindset:

-Never in a hurry
-Never worried
-Never desperate
-Never stopping short

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Many people think they have social anxiety when actually they're just surrounded by assholes and don't realize it.

[Dr. Brian Hoeflinger, MD @drhoeflinger]

I’m a retired brain surgeon and I wanna tell you why you feel like life is passing by. I just need one minute to explain this to you so hang in there.

Repetitive daily routines stop the brain from recording clear detailed memories. When every day looks the same, your brain does not track time the same as a clock does. It tracks change. If nothing new happens then days, months, and years start to blur together.

This is know as Time compression. When life lacks variety, your brain compresses past days together, making it feel like time is sped up.

To stop feeling like life is passing you by, add new experiences to your life. Break routine habits, like changing your daily home routine, taking a different route to work, or trying a new hobby.

Schedule small trips or plan new adventures so your days do not blend together.

Practice mindfulness by staying fully focused on what you are doing right now and not trying to race off to the next task.

Keep a journal and write down happy memories or memorable parts of the day before you go to sleep.

Take deep, calm breaths when you feel anxious or rushed to return your focus to the moment.

You can and you will retrain your brain to not feel like life is passing you by by following these few simple measures.

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

Simple heuristic: If you're evenly split on a difficult decision, take the path that's more painful in the short term.

@naval

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

6 Simple Steps to Improve Your Life:
1. Sleep
2. Exercise
3. Don’t eat garbage
4. Talk to a friend
5. Be productive for a few hours
6. Repeat every day for years and years and you’re set.

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Senator Rand Paul says there’s a Deep State within the Deep State.

“There’s only 8 people in Congress who have any idea what the CIA and FBI are doing.”

“Everyone else is kept in the dark.”

“When you talk about a Deep State, there’s a Deep State within the Deep State.”

“They’re the elite eight.”

[Peter Mallouk @PeterMallouk]

I am an old man and have known many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Mark Twain

[Morris @Morris_LT]

其实，你没钱的时候，减肥很难。因为排解压力，最廉价的手段就是吃。

[Alex Hormozi @AlexHormozi]

Friendly reminder that no one gives a shit about the reason you didn’t make it happen.

[Morris @Morris_LT]

如何真正的做自己？很多人以为做自己，就是不在乎别人眼光，按照自己的喜好生活，但真正的做自己，并不是叛逆，也不是任性，而是一场不断剥离的过程。我们首先要摆脱外界赋予的标签，不再通过证明自己获得价值；然后过滤掉社会的标准和他人的期待，找到属于自己的节奏；最后接纳自己的全部，包括优点、缺陷、矛盾和不完美。一个人成熟的标志，不是变得更像别人期待的样子，而是越来越清楚自己是谁，知道自己为何而活，并在复杂的世界里坚定地走自己的道路。真正的自由，不是拥有无限选择，而是不再被外界定义，回到自己的位置上。

[Orange Book 🍊📖 @orangebook]

A lot of people go bankrupt because they don’t understand that a lot of advice out there never applied to them.

Successful people say “follow your passion” but they don’t mention that they have a comfortable financial safety net and/or connections that would have landed them a job anyway.

They say “quit your job and start your own thing” but they are certainly not taking responsibility when your business fails and you have nothing to bounce back from.

They say “just be yourself, just believe in yourself” without mentioning all the years of tutoring, training, traveling, mentoring, healthy lifestyle that they were blessed to have.

Stop focusing on the destination that all those advice givers reached; focus on their starting point, and make sure it’s relevant to yours.

[Morris @Morris_LT]

资源越是匮乏的人，越容易沉迷于讨论宏大的世界问题，因为讨论国家、经济、战争等，可以带来一种参与感和掌控感，但真正面对自己的成长，需要直面能力、选择、失败和不足，这会带来压力。因此，很多人愿意单纯的研究世界如何变化，却不愿研究自己如何改变。真正的成长，不是知道更多外部信息，而是不断提升自己在世界中的位置，提高创造价值和交换价值的能力。理解世界最终的目的，不是成为旁观者，而是找到自己在其中的位置，并通过行动改变自己的轨迹。