0. Only newbies lack memory

1. Profit outweighs emotion, which outweighs loyalty
2. Everyone is crafting a persona
3. History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes
4. Every model will eventually fail
5. A person’s greatest enemy is themselves
6. The essence of pain is wanting control but losing it
7. Time is not the enemy, it’s a filter
8. The majority opinion is usually wrong
9. All competition ultimately comes down to efficiency
10. “Information asymmetry” is the biggest wealth gap
11. Behind every problem is unequal resource allocation
12. People aren’t lazy about action, but about “thinking and changing”
13. Human nature to “seek benefit and avoid harm” is written in our genes
14. You are not important; your position and value are
15. Most noise exists to cover up a few truths
16. Only by “seeing cause and effect clearly” can you escape most anxiety
17. The end of all competition is cognition, not ability

19. You think the other person is being reasonable, but actually they’re stating their “position”
20. What you think is common sense may just be a “repeated lie”
21. People have only two motives: “avoiding pain and seeking benefit”
22. Most people live in “what ought to be,” not in “what is”
23. “Information asymmetry” is the root reason the bottom is exploited
24. The only principle of resource flow: it gathers toward “irreplaceability”
25. 90% of your problems come from “not knowing” or “not admitting” reality
26. Human nature craves “certainty,” but also fears “absolute certainty”
27. Fear and greed drive 90% of decisions; rationality is just for show
28. People only respect power—it may not always be violence, but it’s always real power
29. Human nature is constant; technology only changes the means of fulfilling desires
30. All complex systems ultimately revert to a single variable: the cost of human choice
31. 99% of cognitive bias: inability to distinguish between “correlation” and “causation”
32. No one is willing to pay for your “existence”; only “value” is worth paying for