CycleProfessor

This bull market eliminated Web3's venture capitalists.
This bear market wiped out the speculators within Web3.
Currently, aside from those creating tokens and pumping projects,
only arbitrageurs and brokers remain.
Perhaps the bear market will be longer, allowing new directions to emerge again.

I highly recommend you watch a documentary—"A Day in the Life of Warren Buffett."
No luxury mansion displays, no private jet show-offs, no motivational hype—just an 90-something-year-old man getting up and heading out like an ordinary person: a burger, a Coke, yet supporting a trillion-dollar empire.
After watching, you'll be silent for a long time.
Because you'll suddenly realize that true change in destiny is never about explosive power, but about daily choices.
He lives in Omaha, in the same house he bought decades ago. It’s been renovated but not expanded, not moved, and he’s not upgrading

From *House of Cards*, Francis said:
"They like you, but they don't respect you.
Because you smile too easily, agree too quickly, apologize when you're right.
You're seeking approval, and they can smell it. You've spent your whole life playing the good guy, and you've forgotten what power feels like.
Respect isn't earned through kindness, it's earned when you don't bend under pressure.
The next time they test you, don't speak, don't blink, remind them you weren't born to be kind, you were born to be remembered."
We who think too much of others should recite this passage repeatedly.

Duan Yongping:
1. The biggest scam in investing is making you believe you can get rich overnight.
2. Don't ask what to buy; first ask if you can afford the loss.
3. When everyone is talking about opportunities, it's often the biggest risk.
4. Experts are waiting for opportunities; ordinary people are always chasing rallies.
5. Those who make quick money usually lose it back at an even faster pace.
6. The market cures all kinds of arrogance and harvests all kinds of greed.
7. What you think is investing is actually just giving your money away.
8. Control your emotions, and you can control your

Starting tomorrow,
domestic private cars will spend an additional $138 on fuel
domestic trucks will spend an additional $3,553 on fuel
oil prices have already increased 29% this year, and persistently high oil prices will transmit inflation across all industries. This year, aside from wages not increasing, all other essential goods will face price hikes
we are in a chaotic era

Today, JD Cloud made a major move:
Officially launching the OpenClaw integrated machine,
capable of processing 3.5 billion–10 billion Tokens daily
Meanwhile launching CodingPlan: Token packages + multi-model
Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, and Baidu Cloud collectively announced price increases,
only JD Cloud bucked the trend with price cuts
Although JD Cloud's market share accounts for roughly 4% nationally,
it always wants to add some pressure on competitors
The food delivery market is the same way, quite good at playing the game
The conclusion remains the same as always:
the ones selling shove

# Two Money-Making Formulas for Ordinary People
**Formula One: Arbitrage Thinking (Middleman Mentality)**
This is connecting two resources you know about and profiting from the spread. Every successful entrepreneur got their start by creating something from nothing—this is the core skill.
This is the ability to generate value from thin air. To become a money-making master, you must master this technique. My first million came from arbitrage thinking. Otherwise, unless you were born into wealth, relying solely on salary from employment will likely leave you poor for life. The biggest trap at th

# Habits of Financially Free Wealthy People
1. **Reading**: Reading only first-rate books. 90% of financially free wealthy people read for at least 1 hour daily. They have deep reading habits and tend to read biographies, classical Chinese literature, history, philosophy, and other first-rate human classics.
2. **Friendships**: Building first-rate friendships. Financially free wealthy people tend to connect with those who have first-class thinking, clear goals, and aligned values. Moreover, their friends must be reliable.
3. **Exercise**: 90% of financially free wealthy people maintain aerobic

Few people truly practice what Duan Yongping preaches with consistency:
Keep reverse thinking forever, knowing what you don't want
If you can't clearly define where the boundaries are, it doesn't count as a real ability.
Remember:
Drowning victims are usually good swimmers. Admitting your ignorance is more important than displaying cleverness.
The first law of compound interest is: never interrupt it without reason
If you truly understand the power of compound interest, you'll realize that the key to investing isn't running the fastest, but whether you can persist in going the farthest. If you

How Can Middle-Aged People Live Like the Wealthy?
1. You must have the guts. As a certain Chinese billionaire once said, Tsinghua and Peking University are nothing compared to having guts.
2. In this world, only people with guts can live like the wealthy, while those who lack courage will never make big money.
3. Better to sleep on the floor at night and be your own boss during the day.
4. Working as an employee won't get you far; only being a boss can make you big. Once a boss scales up, they can build wealth and live like the wealthy.
5. Associate with the rich, not the poor.
6. Mixing with

Here's the compiled 315 list for this year:
Current CCTV 315 Gala exposures:
1️⃣ Celebrity chicken feet (soaked in hydrogen peroxide, chicken feet trampled by staff)
2️⃣ Anti-aging exosomes (all fake)
3️⃣ Private domain marketing gray industry profiting from targeting elderly (all scammers)
4️⃣ Youth height-increasing institutions (baseless claims just for making money)
5️⃣ Rental e-bikes exceeding national standards, some even being e-motorcycles; rental companies have connections for vehicle registration. Hellobike, Dian Lv Ge and others called out
6️⃣ Poisoning AI with information to manipu

The so-called bull market will ultimately harvest the wealth of many people.
This is the law of nature.
It's too difficult to overcome human weaknesses. Saving others is hard, and speaking too much leads to misunderstanding and resentment.
What Duan Yongping called "duty" is actually managing yourself. I think regardless of bull or bear markets, frequently remembering duty is sufficient. These two characters are truly minimalist.
Investment duty requires three things:
1. Earn money from enterprise cash flows; in crypto, earn from super-tier companies that survive bull and bear cycles.
2. Earn

# A Profound Insight from Liu Zhenyun:
When you're being set up by someone,
never think about mutual destruction or flipping the table immediately. You must understand that even a dying struggle is within the other person's calculation.
The correct way to break free is to know when to advance and retreat, and stop losses in time.
You think slamming the table and tearing your face is being tough?
Wrong. That's exactly what the other person wants to see.
The more emotional you become, the more you lose composure,
the faster you fall into the trap the other person has carefully woven.
True wisdom

The US-Iran conflict is heating up these days,
Throughout history, countless earth-shattering events have occurred,
yet ordinary people ultimately cannot influence even the slightest bit.
Rather than worrying yourself sick about world affairs,
it's better to redirect your gaze inward,
and manage yourself first.
For ordinary people:
Read more of "Water Margin" and "The Golden Lotus"—
not to study the biographies and grand writings of great figures,
but to learn the survival tactics of street-level common folk;
study less the magnificent ambitions of heroes and legendary characters;
think more a

If the US and Iran continue fighting like this, what will prices surge on?
From an investment perspective, things that are likely to rise include these main categories:
1. Oil
2. Gold and silver (recently depressed, bullish long-term)
3. Chemical products chain
Because oil is the lifeblood of industry. After oil prices rise, it will transmit throughout the entire chemical chain: methanol, polyethylene, propylene, plastic raw materials, and many manufacturing costs will be pushed higher.
4. Natural gas and fertilizers
Iran is the world's largest fertilizer exporter, and relevant stocks in the U