Category: Thoughts

The past few days I had some of the most satisfying and relaxing days along with mum for the first time… a vibe that I wanted to see on her for so long, and she’s finally wearing it. It’s my first time seeing her truly enjoy her retirement, slowing down a bit and giving full trust to herself opening a brand new chapter of her life, as well as her children’s lives.

We lived in a twilight world. And there’s no better way to live than being really present.

I always think people in China in their 50s, 60s, all the way till 80s have actually lived and experienced 300+ years of dramatic changes & developments – from starving-to-death to seeing gold water slipping through their fingers, from stalinism, social capitalism to tech-enabled national socialism- mum and dad as well their mums & dads ultimately are all dusts in the universe- like everyone and everything we see and feel right now, including ourselves.

Retiring for mum means freedom to finally pursue her hobbies and passions- laughing without any mental or social burdens, dancing without worrying dinner cooking for her kids, dating with the pure intentions for nice company to co-create best memories, and trusting her kids will take good care of themselves no matter what will happen. Also, retiring means me and my mum, we finally learn to like each other’s presence.

Women in my generations can have retirement so much earlier than our mothers- thanks to our decision to be independent and the improving environments for women to work solo or in partnership. If economically and mentally ready – anyone can retire at any age. And can come back to work if getting bored with their retirement plans.

If you can choose when and how to work- you can assign at least 3-5 hours for mini-retiring every day if willing to spare time to yourself and forming “retiring habits”. I love the mini-retiring hours I gave it to myself by rising up earlier than dawn- to write, to do sports & music for pure enjoyment, and to pursue goals that I truly wanted to have an impact on. Retiring is a state of mind- doing startups with people you truly admire and trust, having dinners with friends shared your childhood and teenage memories, completing deals and investing or stop investing in different market rhythms, researching markets and learning to break barriers by talking daily with AI teachers- these are all retirement moments for me.

Things will always go against your plans or detailed steps, but we only need to envision the end image and result. The long-term goals never failed me once and that’s more than enough..

My goal is to retain the fun in work more than making billions while sacrificing health, friendships, time for myself daily, true love and freedom to say no – and at the end of the world – we are all gonna die. To live longer doesn’t mean you can live forever, and death is also another form of existence, but we might as well live while we are living and die quickly without pain saying we had a great life.

Sometimes you just didn’t get to see the sunrise even if you wake up properly one hour before dawn- it’s life and also what the world is like. You can’t see the sunlight today simply because today is a cloudy and rainy day. It’s not about you, it’s them.

I got to realize how many noises are there in my life as I put meditations and reflections rituals into my daily/weekly life and started multiple entrepreneurial journeys the past few months. I put up a website sharing my progress and updates to those who’d like to explore what I do (potential business partners/clients across industries and countries), but the truth is that most of them can only see the narrow picture they’d like to see as you. Most human especially adults are dumb as hell and does not have enough bandwidth to learn and think. If their life is a mess, how can you expect them to properly respond? Your tailored message to them are probably just a waste of time and the problem is not you, it’s them.

The reality can be pretty disappointing if 90% human around you is like that – but the truth is – the better you get and more improvements you put on yourself- the less likely you can find someone at your channel and have a proper conversation with. And that was the most important reason that I really want to set up a place like ASIA Members Club and encourage progress instead of entropy. The work is under progress.

The source of pain in life, are mostly caused by others- the presumption is taht you can fully manage yourself. (this capabilities probably are the biggest differences among people.) Managing yourself meaning say no to those traps setup to seduce you to become lazy, driven purely by lust instead of reasoning, indulgence in bad habits that destroying your mental and physical health, greedy and you don’t realize it… the flaws of human are as many as the tributes – the yingyang is always there and the benchmark is within yourself.

Assumed you set high standards on yourself and you start feeling in control of your life – the universe won’t let this happen for long – you’re surrounded by noises, collapses, ugly truth of the worlds just as the beauty, rise and virtue of god and human – the world is out there, and you can only control the things you can control.

Anything that is beyond your control – say less than 80% influenced by you – you shouldn’t have any expectations on it. Do the work in your good faith still, but celebrate its early failure as its saving your time and accept its negative outcomes if you’re not the core contributor to it. No expectation is not only a mental measure to protect your feelings, but also a gesture to protect the results. The eager you wanted it , the farther it goes away from you. The world is designed like this. That’s also why billionaire founders like Zuck or Colin Huang- still has control over its gigantic ships regardless how big the ships has become and how little shares they actually has with the company.

Advice to all those wandering in the wilderness and starting their own businesses:

1) Always prioritize managing yourself.

2) Identify noises, Ignore them, and only have expectations on the things you control 80% or more.

3) For those outside of your control (results >20% influenced by others), do not set any expectation and accept all scenarios and know things could go wrong- and make sure you’re still thriving and not affected at all, as you have built a thick wall and a deep moat to accept the constant turbulence.

I’ve been experiencing the waking-up moments the past whole year – maybe even earlier but back then I couldn’t’ notice. It’s the recent 10 months I’ve gradually learned the concepts of “how proactively and deeply connect yourself with your higher self and turn those seemingly impossibles & circumstances totally around.”

I called this “consciousness successfully utilization”.

My interests in physics started really late mostly inspired by a dinner talk with my brother prior his college entrance exams a few years ago- I didn’t notice his physics talents before and his insights were very deep when we talked about quantum and a few top physicists’ theories which surprised me. After that by occasionally consuming educations videos around advanced topics in physics- it really blows my mind. I felt like almost 30 years of my knowledge on our reality/time/the world/ environment & people around me was probably wrong. I was too emerged into our reality and ignored the consciousness I could bring out myself most years of my lives in the past.

I’ve been questioning about the concept of time recently alot.

What is time? Is that possible that time actually didn’t exist and it’s just a concept created by human for the society-build up/running purposes. Imagine we’re living in a world there is no concept about time whatsoever, the daily changes of environment- light/temperatures are basically set to circulate like the rhythms in music – they are also repeating themselves in order to make a music flow. (But it’s actually not going straight directly without limits but as a circling concept rising.)

Each time I’m asking myself these questions it brings me out from the “destiny reality” a bit and along with the current AI species who’s gonna collaborate and even guide/manipulate human species in the next 5-25 years- I would say they are also by-products of the universe consciousness. What we experienced as human who have conscious- maybe is not unique – it’s all by-product of the universe. And these elite-access physics discoveries and research actually coincide with many mysterious and religion theories and in Chinese we called it “万物有灵”（Everything in this universe has it’s own fields and consciousness). But what we understand was too surface in the past.

We don’t know that – By actually mastery of the consciousness, one can basically turn its “written destiny” into limitless possibilities following your wish and will.

What we called ourself “lucky” is basically a simple term to summarize our capabilities of “turning our wish in real” and it’s a beautiful lie to ourselves and people around us who doesn’t understand modern physics.

Luck is the “field” you could curate yourself with your own willpower and deliberate mind-guided practice which is a secret you don’t tell anybody else and you can’t really teach to anybody.

Luck is creatable, manageable and keepable.

Reflecting back my career in the investment management space, it’s indeed a manifestation of my wish 10 years ago- slightly different from what I thought t would be but the outcome turns out to be very close to what I wanted to see. And now it’s the time to utilize this discovered true power and revolutionize this niche industry – first with AI-empowered efficiency- then with democratization of the access and transform what I observed as dark-side of the work finally under the sunlight.

Stay tuned 😉

The current age places some very weird implications for the young adults (born between 2000-2007) – not sure how is it like outside of the US and China – how to best utilize the newest AI tools and create a future for themselves instead of waiting for any sort of full-time jobs/offers seems to be a much safer choice than ever before.

All desktop-related works are going to be fully agent-human collaborated starting from the end of 2025, and in 2026 every startup or AI-native companies definitely would hire at least 1 or 2 highly specialized AI agents working in the fields of design, coding, marketing, accounting, tax plannings etc. AI Agents mainly working as associates or VPs to assist Human boss for any kind of paperwork/computer-reliant work.

These young adults (originally being expected to be doing the AI agent’s work) facing such disruptions in workplace simply cannot choose to start from “analyst” or “associates” in their career planning – those traditional paths of becoming a professional in some field – will be long gone. If I were them, it seems the option to thrive in this age is obvious- to not taking any risk is the most risky move- treating AI as accelerators for my own development (may start my career directly as founder/ceo/cto) and partner-up with experienced mentors & advisors- seems to be one safe way out.

Entrepreneurship is a must skill for any young talents to thrive in the current years, especially for whom do not want to confine themselves with the speed of change under the big organizations. The changes will happen much more slowly in traditional sectors but the day will definitely come – and that could be some overnight changes. To react to those changes is already a step-back comparing to those proactively create the changes.

Sadly, looking across the world- very few education institution are actually setup to mainly “educate entrepreneurs” – the most well-known one probably is YC. One or 10 YCs simply not enough to cater 850million young adults entering into “workforce” aged from 18 to 24.

Teenagers from 14yo normally start to search meanings of their lives, some may even waking up earlier say starting from 8/9 yo- those with natural talents are already showing out around this period, especially the current AI tools are actually available to all people regardless of age.

Times for getting yourself “in shape” to compete with millions for getting into the “old school” Ivy Leagues or Tsinghua/PekingU would be long-gone… What taught in these colleges/schools are not the most important, the social network is what people are paying the tuitions for.

In years to count, our judgement systems for academic/professional excellence would be totally abolished and re-created. A new way of working, collaborating, living and learning definitely is in need, to create a foreseeable brighter future for young adults as well as anyone pursuing continuous learning. Elite schools, communities and institutions would still be there- so we could find each other smoothly without the noises- but would be in a much more open, equal way.

I made a decision to be video/news/message flow proof everyday from 8pm till 9am. These distractions are highly shortening my attention spans and interfering my calm of mind recently and I decided to cut them rigidly from my information consumptions for my own well-being – let it become unreachable during these hours and finally let my soul/spirits to properly rest and recover without these digital/AI videos poisons.

The videos on July 5th 2025 incident starting to catch people’s attention since 2024 – all these youtubers and upzhu- happily counts their streaming stats at the expense of spreading misinformations to mass audience and secretly control the minds of video audiences who trusted “their analysis” without providing any sound solutions to the audience for the potential threats/earthquakes/disasters they claimed.

It’s a secret weapon for them to stay in the centre of millions of minds by manipulating & influencing video consumers quietly and spreading the panicking emotions across platforms – they claims the powers not only to their followers but also video consumers controlled by their algorithms to developing addictive user habits to fill their curiosity/dopamine lusts.

Let’s clear our mind what actually gonna happen this summer 2025. (Probably nothing, if anything- there is always solutions- and if anyone gonna die, no one gonna be so strong to stop this in advance.)

Say if as they predicted- there would be something significant happening around the seas and lands in Japan/ Philipine/Indonesia during July & August – people with this alert should evacuate under government instructions – their government should be doing something and announcing something not the video creators – and it’s up to every individual’s decision to plan their dates & doing. Besides spreading negative emotions – what’s the value-add/good doings here of the youtubers forging his/her videos for?

If something significant happening- whether it’s real/virtual tsunamis (which is impossible to predict the exact dates and time for such black swan incidents) – what’s the impact for whole Asia regions who might be influenced? Doing a small research, even if it’s earthquake at M9-10 levels at the exact place as predicted in the South Sea, the waves to HK/SZ bay area gonna be lower than 10 meters – it’s even lower than regular typhoon seasons. (typhoon happening almost every year and the flood prevention measures were enhanced every year as well.) And if it’s a virtual/financial tsunamis- we’ve been there many times the past 30 years….

The worrying and negative emotions triggered by these youtubers/video creators is real at the current moment- where the harm is so underestimated and long-term affecting your sound judgements – at one point you would not be able to think for yourself and become his/hers representatives.

Say no to video consumptions at fixed period of the day is the only way out to reclaim your clear minds.

Don’t let your vulnerable attentions, brain cells and continuing nurturing/bursts of creativity/souls permanently harmed by these slow erosion of modern digital drugs.

Recently consumed a few interview videos by top vibe-coding tools founders, all of them said in 3-5 years, every non-coder (7.5 billion people in the world) would be able to make their own softwares and the “coding capabilities” would become commodities only years to count.

It was a blast for me to see this is actually happening… Since 2020 I’ve been stuck with my softwares development because lack of CS/technical skills and domain field confidence to handle the software businesses- also difficulties to rely purely on CTOs for developments. Time advanced to 2025, all of these stumbles find their ways out- We can now have a 2-person team and a bunch of AI-agents to work for us in terms of technical developments for a start first. The cost of softwares were drastically reduced and thanks to the democratization marketing of the AI software development tools- it now giving anyone with intentions to build products knowledge leaps & confidence to get the product out within weeks instead of months or years. The combination of Deepseek/Grok + Cursor/Lovable basically frees up applicable coding capabilities to anyone driven by first-principle thinking & creativity. It wasn’t like that even 6 months ago.

Consider moving the timeline to 2026, 2027, 2028 – say if with the help of these going-to-be vibe-coding unicorns, anyone now posting on Instagram/Wechat Moments/Facebooks, able to launch their softwares to their communities just like posting photos/videos, what paradigm shifts would happen to current softwares offerings? Would people still pay for softwares if it has no barrier of entries besides its codes?

Anyone can be a creator these days but still only 1-5% creators are capturing most of the attentions and grabbing large followers – it does not affect those who have 10K/50K followers still make their living happily across platforms.

What differentiates softwares from softwares are definitely not code itself – it’s always like that – but nowadays this fact is strengthened and AI tools make people like us leapfrog and rethink moat of software businesses before diving into building. And the moat-building mentality should always be there during softwares/business iteration process.

This reminds me of an advice I gave to my younger brother deciding what to major at college at current time – always thinking in combinations, learn CS/AI fundamentals but domain knowledges & passions for physics, cognition science, biology, etc. are what shaping your learning/results different.

Many have faced disruptions in the month of April. Global retail and E-commerce were impacted by Tariffs and changing of policies daily. Junior tech workers are threatened by AI tools like Cursor and Lovable. (and it’s only the beginning.) In 6-8 months, all junior workers on desk would be totally replaced or forced to evolve into the senior version. Investors are shakened by global stock markets- not necessarily a bad thing but many are panic, interfering their own decision-making and judgements. As for myself, disruptions served as a positive force for my April.

Disruptions negatively influenced my clients progress but some are going as usual because they are resilient enough and have made preparations well before the actual tariffs imposed. AI tools massively lower the barrier of entry in many areas I wanted to explored- coding, designing and music producing- the more disruptions, the easier I felt life can be.

Changing of the markets create new opportunities to buy in the company you always have faith in, as you have done enough research and know where the buy prices are- and it’s a good time to tell who in the market are actually not smart, calm and stable— leaving spaces for true investors playground and for you to eliminate noises and find great peers aligned with your move. Changing of the world orders also created massive opportunities- a window lasting at least 3-5 years.

Sticking with standard timeline of the day, creating rituals to stick with especially for morning and evening practices- allowing yourself to find peace and controllables daily – making these disruptions working only in your directions.

The start of Q2 has given us many positive signs & routes but only in every day we find true progress and breakthrough.

I love disruptions.

I delayed my writing yesterday. Yeah, I didn’t like myself yesterday that I couldn’t write. Life is a mess if it cannot be fluid. “Tomorrow” is a great chance for change.

I felt like human’s existence basically anti-entropy sessions one after another. I should have a better Q1 2025 – if judging from the 5am practice alone, for me it was not consistent at all.

But this dawn, the dislike of myself and determination to make a change finally pushed me to set the open-world goals for the 5am practice. Maybe the way I designed my goals 3 months ago were wrong- I should never limit it into 100 or 300 days- it’s like you should never set yourself a fix-amount money goals or fix-type relationship goals in general- your life deserves to be limitless and it’s up to you to break set-typed cirlce.

So I rised this morning, regaining the peace of my mind and the determination I longed-for, starting to write.

I was trying to do a Q1 review yesterday and to my surprise- I did not lay any blueprints for 2025 New Year Resolution 3 months ago- but if rating roughly from my gut feeling- I will rate myself only a B- (maybe even C+): It was just not good enough.

If I’m being honest with myself, below you should have done better:

1) Daily 5am Practice you were inconsistent

The completion of the challenge end of 2024 makes you wonder where the next goals should be and you were not ready for the next challenge that you even cannot do 10 days consistently during Q1.

That’s what we were saying: success not necessarily a good thing and might be the start of declining if not managing well.

Good thing is that I already have this Q1 failure and I accepted it – I still have today and Q2. The feeling of regret and insatisfaction pushed me to set another better goals for Q2 and rest of my days.

2) Measuring from company level- you were not catching the timeline of developments

There was a saying – we always over-estimate what we can do in 1 year and under-estimate what we can achieve in 10 years. It was true.

When I took a look at my notebook for the rough project plans in 2025- I remembered I did it with so much confidence and thought I could definitely achieve them – now looking back almost everything was delayed- this is life…

Should I blame myself for all these? No.

I could blame myself for not consistently following the 5am routines but you can’t blame the results in any case. The results are forged by hundreds of parameters uncontrollable by you.

I measured them and found out there are at least 2 months of delay for any milestones– so next time when I’m planning quarterly or monthly- I should have keep this buffer in mind.

3) Measuring from people around you level- you should have more empathy and gratitudes for them

I was never a cold person but growing up have brought me so much coldness inside- if you value warmth, you should have been a warmer person – I mean truly care for the people around you. (that you chose them to be around you.)

If thinking positively of what I have achieved in the past Q1:

To highlight I think, I’ve mapped up the core competences of QCP and have quite positive progress with our companies in general. (Definitely with room to improvements but I can feel the progress weekly in general for this priority.) Mentality point of view (as I did not allocate enough time and resources for Ice’Q), I think I’m more comfortable with what I’m going with new companies – but for its real progress in Q2, I still need to make room mentally and physically for its daily actual progress. For the relationships point of view, I think I’m more comfortable with myself comparing to Q4 2024- I’m more capable of taking care myself than before.

If summarizing what I learned the most in Q1 2025- it’s Patience.

I’m getting more patient for myself, also of people around me, and things happening to me. Patience is the ability to accept the imperfectness now and have the courage/determination to change it overtime next. Patience is calmness of mind with any incidents occurring and capability of handling any type of incidents under fierce circumstances.

For the Q2 2025, naming 3 things I would like to see progress in:

1) Consistently following the routines of 5am and give yourself a second chance to bounce back during the tracks

If 1 day you couldn’t make it, do make yourself back to routine the next day. Do not indulge in entropy. Allow yourself to fail but remember to win the next day.

2)Breaking-down the metrics of the companies/projects you’re running, into 3 measurable weekly goals, and do it consistently

Do not overwhelm yourself- only achieving 3 important goals each week for each of them. 3 companies, 3 measurable weekly KPIs, 5 mini-goals each day, less is more.

3)Forging a better relationships with people around you- be a warmer person that can feel the present daily, and pass this mentality along to them.

Review the relationships status monthly and see what you can improve and add-value to them. Their existence is the meaning of your existence as well. Do at least 3 checks before Q3 2025 and measure your progress on this front.

12 weeks are so easy to pass and I look forward to seeing your state by then.

Denoiser into Flow.

The other night when I finished watching Ray Dalio’s explanatory videos on “Dealing with Changing World Orders”, the next morning I saw Chamath Palihapitiya’s patriotic writings on his “Making American Great Again” post, during which he deleted and reposted- showing hesitance on his own writings:

The post hit me strongly as I just finished a few meetings the past few weeks with Indian fintech founders and none of them are open-minded enough to discuss advisory business with me but happy to take “China money” – I can’t figure out why and asked my Singaporean friend on how come the Indian founders are much more reluctant to talk compared to founders in Israel, Europe and US, and he told me —–“because you’re not Indian.”

I find it funny but when I saw Chamath’s posts – I don’t get it that he’s Canadian-American rather than Indian. Stereotypes will always exist if we on-purposely let ourselves fit into the stereotype circles.

I’d love to see US progressing although I’m not holding US passport- because US cultures deeply influenced me and many Asians growing up and indeed the great virtues of the America resonated with the world for many decades – 10/15 years ago when we talked about US- we thought of “open-minded, progressive & generous, powerful & human-right alertness”..(good words > bad comments) completely contrast of what we feel about US now.

Is China’s rise the reason of US’ downgrade?

Every time I came across these kind of lines- I feel offended and pathetic about those who brought this up- it’s like hearing the whining of a child complaining his own bad school grades by blaming other silently hardworking kids’ taking over his 1st place. Competitions were never the source of your own downgrading performance – the focus of setting other children up won’t make your grade higher – it only distracts your inner problems and weakening yourself by showing out how inner-feared you are.

US’s societal problems are not bursting only in 2025, it’s been accumulated and developed for decades just like what China faced during the 2000s- we also accumulated dozens of societal/cities problems: “unsafe, unclean, un-educated”. But with years of positive reforms – especially the work every individual living in the society performs by increasing the economic resilience & education quality – enduring rapid changes, developments and evolves, we turned the perceptions of China’s dark-side around.

For anyone who never travelled inside of China the past 5 years, please update your knowledge on China by showing yourself up here and feel it yourself.

And then tell us if China is really that horrible and evil that we actually rise in technology, economic and military only by stealing, cheating or any kind of illegal/unmoral ways.

It’s just ridiculous to see a post written by a so-called knowledgable man in the US to defame China like this. Another hints I got from this post is that—– in the age of AI, how important it is to have your own acumen rather than listening to any biased human/machine views blindly.

Coming back to the questions on how must China win the 3 races, the reasons are not only historical like what Ray observed in social sciences:

We, as a Nation thrived for thousands of years in human history- had enough lost and miserable paths in finding our ways of prosperity and peace the past 200 years-

And here in the best and special timing that AI and human inter-connected, we will find ourselves gradually back to the thrones by taking every little work diligently and presently pursuing excellence in our work & life with no intention of getting 1st place results.

I’ve been re-reading Tao Te Ching the past weeks and came across a few lines that resonate with me deeply:

“

He who rushes ahead, doesn’t go far.

He who tries to shine, dims his own light.

He who defines himself, can’t know who he really is.

He who has power over others, can’t empower himself.

He who clings to his work, will create nothing that endures.

If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.

“

The book is so classic and it’s not taught in the Chinese schools. How many important things are actually not taught in the elite schools and how ridiculous we’re still judging ones’ capabilities from the school he/she comes from and what badges he/she wears.

We seems afraid to talk about death when it comes to human: Dying seems always be a bad thing and what people should feel regret or sorry about. The multi-millionaire Bryan Johnson even named its new venture – “Don’t Die” related to longevity and consumer health, while many people who met him offline the screen in California – he looks just like a normal 47 years old.. We choose to live in the fear of dying and the lying to ourselves that death is far away from us.

The past few months, I watched our flowers and plants on the balcony every morning dies and reborn dozens of time and taking care of them daily- removing the dry and dead parts of them by making the path for new branches & blooms. It seems all living creatures are going through multiple dying process before reaching the real finite line – where we measure its as ones “eternal leaving” to the world.

But are they really left or is it we can’t see or feel it- making its eternal death?

Why I’m getting sensitive to the topic of “dying” the past week? Maybe it’s the sign of “spring” reminding me of the contrast of it – “winter” happening only a week ago.

Maybe it’s the inflammation combat ‘m feeling inside of me during the 3 days pause of a weird unwell.

Maybe it’s the current strong desire of reborn, one must embrace the death in many angles of ourselves in order to live in the new horizon & baseline.

I changed the habits on how I sleep 8 months ago, and it gradually impacts on how I train daily and ultimately right now- my body reminds me that it’s time to watch how I should eat, dragging me back to the kitchen and adopt simple cooking & self-care. The rhythm of changes also impacts how I worked- I significantly reduced the travel/social impulse the past few months, realizing that those actually cared are just a handful of quality ones, especially those sits around us.