Insight

宏觀看都是問題，微觀看都是機會 — From a systems view, everything looks broken. Zoom in, and every breakdown is a market waiting to be captured.

A reader asked if upward mobility is dead. I answered with a story about being Pan Feng—the general who died in one blow—and why the real staircase isn't an elevator.

Why building your business on rented land—social media platforms—is a strategic vulnerability, and why owning your digital asset (your website) becomes critical in the AI search era.

A new study reveals AI Overview citation links get clicked only ~1% of the time. Here's why that changes everything about Generative AI Optimization — and what to measure instead.

Explore the art of listening beyond words. Learn how to perceive the unspoken truths in communication and enhance your understanding.

AI writes better essays than most students. That's not the problem. The problem is that the thinking never happened. Here's why writing still matters in the age of perfect prose.

As AI compresses the premium on raw capability, careers reprice around reputation, relationships, and guarantee eligibility. Early career is not about betting big — it is about converting borrowed trust into a personal track record through small, survivable commitments.

Google's ATLAS study reveals 21% of Hong Kongers are AI superusers. They're not searching anymore—they're delegating. Here's what that means for your marketing budget.

Google killed Gems. OpenAI killed personal GPTs. The 'wrap a prompt in a chat window' era is over. Here's what replaced it—and why Mercury Flux routes models by task complexity with local memory.

History remembers Yue Fei as a patriot betrayed by a traitor. The truth is darker: he was a victim of the same office politics that kills careers today. Here's what 900-year-old history teaches us about being too good at your job.

Explore how retail investors can gain an edge through time arbitrage, leveraging their unique position against institutional pressures.

AI's real constraint is not model IQ — it is humans who cannot inspect the flood. Stop line-by-line heroics. Run manufacturing discipline on intelligence output: specs, automated gates, sampling, rollback. That is Answer Yield Management.