If you are male and are feeling unwell or going through something tough, remember, nobody cares.

Hayek: "Socialism opposes production aimed at profit, and opposes precisely the fundamental elements that sustain society." "Profit is a signal that tells us what we must do to serve those we don't even know."

The new Animal Farm movie: "Rather than a critique of totalitarian Soviet Union, this film focuses on the dangers of capitalism and corporate corruption." Unbelievable. Perhaps I should reread the original book. It's a classic I revisit every few years.

We live to reveal our true selves to ourselves.

Powerful Alliances: Falcon Finance's Ecosystem Expansion The success of a DeFi protocol relies heavily on strong ecosystem partners. Falcon Finance is actively building a vast alliance, including oracle providers, RWA issuers, and other DeFi protocols. Oracles (such as Chainlink) ensure the accuracy of collateral prices, acting as the eyes of system security; partnerships with RWA issuance platforms provide Falcon with a continuous stream of high-quality collateral assets; and integrations with other DEXs or lending protocols offer USDF a wealth of application scenarios. Each partnership strengthens the value of $FF. Through these collaborations, Falcon Finance is embedding itself into the underlying logic of the crypto world, becoming an indispensable infrastructure. Following Falcon's ecosystem development is following its future growth potential. @falcon_finance $FF #FalconFinance

Founders cannot outsource hiring. "Hiring is paramount because you need creativity; you need ambitious people. Ideally, early hires are geniuses. They are self-managing, humble, hardworking, highly capable, creative, and technically proficient—perhaps you also need one or two salespeople—but you can't do everything yourself, nor can you manage every single detail." Early hires are the company's DNA. It's a sad day when you outsource hiring, letting others recruit, interview, and make hiring decisions without your direct involvement or veto power. On that day, the company is no longer directly under your control. Now, there's an extra "thread of control." The hiring process is conducted by someone else, often remotely. This other person doesn't have the same screening power as you, as the founder. The key size at which a company begins to undergo significant change isn't some arbitrary number, like 20, 30, or 40 people. It's when the founder no longer directly hires and manages everyone. One key point. Once a company has a middle management level, you become disconnected from the company, and your ability to directly lead the product team and guide the company from scratch disappears. Therefore, we really can't outsource recruitment. People might think they can, for example, they'll hire recruiters. Perhaps you could outsource some recruitment channels, but I think that's very difficult. There are many reasons why recruitment is so important—many of which are obvious, so I won't elaborate—but one less obvious reason is that the best people only want to work with the best people. Working with people less capable than themselves creates a cognitive burden for them. The more people around them who are less capable than themselves, the more they feel they don't belong there. Or that they should just do their own thing. The best teams are mutually motivating. They push each other forward. Everyone wants to impress the others. A good way to test this is when you're recruiting new people, you can tell them: "Walk into the room where the rest of the team is. Pick someone randomly—pull them aside and interview them for 30 minutes. If you don't impress them, don't join." When you conduct this test...

What you create is a reflection of your true self.

Games are a form of life training, not the ultimate goal.

Democracy is a peaceful way of taking stock of military strength. If it takes stock of anything else, then it is fragile or a sham.

The harshest indictment of intellectuals is that, historically, any intellectual class that has seized institutionalized power has immediately ceased all truly innovative academic work, instead devoting itself entirely to the memorization and commentary of a fixed set of books, which constitute their dogma. Knowledge of these books and their various commentaries becomes the sole mark of "educatedness," crowding out all other forms of academic exploration and ultimately leading to the stagnation of civilization. Brahmins had the Vedas and Vedic texts, Chinese officials had the Four Books and Five Classics, medieval Christian monks certainly had the Bible, and there were also the works of Church Fathers like St. Augustine. This pattern will inevitably repeat itself once the West rebuilds an institutionalized, self-selecting intellectual class in the form of our vast university system. Now, everyone should understand that what our intellectual class considers classics are precisely the works of Marx and several other early Marxist thinkers. This is the dogma that our intellectual class adheres to. Today, humanities departments in major universities have become tools for spreading Marxism, just as the Brahmin caste was once a tool for spreading the Vedas, and the Chinese civil service was once a tool for spreading Confucianism. The reasons for this situation and its development trajectory are exactly the same as every similar event in history.