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I Fed 20 Financial Reports to AI. It Ignored My Question and Found a Better One.
I want to tell you about a research rabbit hole that started with a tire company and ended somewhere I never expected to look. A few months ago I became interested in Sailun Group (赛轮集团, 601058.SH) — a Chinese tire manufacturer that most people outside China have never heard of, but whose products end up…
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I Used AI to Research Parkinson’s Disease. It Found 81 Active Clinical Trials in China My Doctor Never Mentioned.
There’s a particular kind of helplessness that comes when someone close to you receives a serious medical diagnosis. The doctors explain what it is, they write the prescription, and then you go home. In China, that’s usually where the process ends — you fill the medications, you follow the dosage instructions, and you trust that…
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I Fell in Love with a Stock. My AI Noticed Before I Did.
There’s a moment in every investor’s journey where they stop analyzing a company and start rooting for it. The analysis sounds the same on the outside, but something underneath has shifted — you’re no longer asking “is this worth buying?” You’re asking “why is this definitely going to work?” I hit that moment a few…
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I Built This Blog for About $96. Here’s Exactly What I Did.
This blog exists because I made a decision to stop waiting until I had a perfect plan and just start something with the money I had. The total cost to get this site live was about 700 Chinese yuan — roughly $96 USD at the time. That covered a domain name and 24 months of…
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Before I Buy a Stock, I Go to the Supermarket
Here’s something I do now that I didn’t do a year ago: before I commit to a significant position in a consumer-facing company, I go look at the product in person. I’ll go to a supermarket, find the shelf, and just look. How much space does this brand take up? What are the production dates…
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The Two Stocks I Held for Years That I Should Have Sold Much Earlier
I want to tell you about two investments I held for a combined total of about five years that I probably should have exited within the first twelve months of each. I’m not going to name them specifically, because the specific companies aren’t the point. One was in an industrial sector, one was in a…
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What Makes a Stock a 10x Candidate? I Asked AI to Help Me Build a Filter
About ten months ago, I asked Gemini a simple question: what’s the difference between a company that grows steadily and a company that actually changes your wealth? That question turned into a months-long project of comparing companies — mostly Chinese stocks, but the logic applies anywhere — and eventually landed me on a set of…
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10 Months Using AI as a Value Investing Tutor — What I Actually Learned
There’s a second account I run that I haven’t mentioned here either: a Chinese-language Xiaohongshu account about value investing, built almost entirely with AI as my study partner. I want to explain why I built it in Chinese before ever writing about investing in English, because the reasoning says something about how I think AI…
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I Translate Western Side Hustle Stories for Chinese Audiences. Here’s How the Gap Works.
I’ve been writing this blog in English, for an English-speaking audience, about an ordinary Chinese guy trying to make money with AI. There’s a small irony in that I’ve never mentioned the other side hustle I run — in Chinese, for a Chinese audience, doing something close to the opposite. It’s an account where I…
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AI Told Me to Buy. I Hesitated. It Tripled.
I want to tell you about a mistake that still bothers me a little. I’d asked Claude to help me think through a sector tied to AI infrastructure — the kind of industry that benefits no matter which specific company wins the broader AI race. The analysis came back clear: fundamentals improving, demand accelerating, conditions…
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Week 1 of Running This Blog: What I Expected vs. What Actually Happened
I launched this blog one week ago. Here’s what I thought would happen, and here’s what actually happened. What I Expected I expected it to feel exciting and immediately validating. I’ve built websites before — a goji berry export site, a Chinese side hustle blog — so I know the technical process. But this time…
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I Built a 1,500-Article Website About Making Money — Then Shut It Down. Here’s Why.
A few years ago, I built a Chinese-language website about making money online. Over time, it grew to more than 1,500 articles. I covered freelancing, e-commerce, content creation, affiliate marketing, dropshipping — basically every way an ordinary person might try to earn money on the side. Then I shut it down. Not because it failed.…
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How I Analyze Chinese Stocks with Claude Every Morning
Every morning before work, I spend about 20 minutes with Claude analyzing A-shares. I’m not a professional investor. I don’t have a Bloomberg terminal or access to expensive research reports. I’m just an ordinary guy in China who got interested in value investing a few years ago and has been trying to figure it out…
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I Used AI to Create 60 Social Media Posts in One Day — Here’s What Actually Happened
A few weeks ago, I sat down with Claude and spent a few hours working on content for my Chinese social media accounts. By the end of the day, I had 60 complete posts ready to publish. Not outlines. Not rough drafts. Sixty finished pieces of content, each with a hook, a main idea, and…
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My Goji Berry Website Ran for 6 Years and Never Made Money — Here’s What I Actually Learned
In 2018, a friend of mine was trying to export goji berries to overseas markets. He needed an English website to reach international buyers. I said I’d build it. He dropped out six months later. No product, no business partner, no plan. I kept going for another six years. That website — mjy-shop.com — became…
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I’m an Ordinary Chinese Guy Trying to Make Money Online with AI — This Is My Story
Let me be honest with you from the start: I’m not a tech expert. I’m not a successful entrepreneur. I don’t have a big following or a proven system to sell you. I’m just an ordinary guy from China with a full-time job, a young son, and a habit I can’t seem to quit —…