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Why Medium and WeChat Reward Completely Different Writers
WeChat gave me fewer than 200 reads per article. Medium writers earn $10–$500 per story. The gap is not just about money — it is about what each platform is built to reward. Here is the comparison nobody in China is making.
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I Paid ¥1,000 for an AI Content Course. Here’s What I Got. (Failed Experiments #2)
I paid ¥1,000 for an online AI content course run by a WeChat influencer who promised to make me rich. Here is exactly what happened — and why that ¥1,000 now buys something much more useful.
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Why My First Side Project Got Zero Visitors (And What Every Indie Hacker Can Learn From It)
I spent months building it. I believed people would find it, buy from it, tell their friends about it. They didn’t. Nobody did. For three years. Looking back, the biggest mistake wasn’t the product. It wasn’t the price, the design, or even the market. It was something more fundamental — and more common than most…
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Why Investors Keep the Wrong Stocks Too Long — and the Mental Model I Use to Stop (Investor Psychology #1)
⏱️ Proof of writing date: This article was written and published on July 28, 2026 — the same day Innolight (300308) dropped 16%.View Wayback Machine archive → I once held a stock for five years — not because it was still the best investment, but because it had become my investment. The stock was Kanste,…
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Before Buying Innolight (300308), I Asked 5 AI Models the Same Four Questions
⏱️ Proof of writing date: This article was written and published on July 28, 2026 — the same day Innolight (300308) dropped 16% on the A-share market.View Wayback Machine archive → Breaking news as I write this: Zhongji Innolight just completed a Hong Kong IPO, raising $6.81 billion — Asia’s second-largest listing of 2026. The…
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The Apartment Where I Grew Up Has Been Abandoned for 20 Years. AI Brought It Back to Life.
A few weeks ago, a relative sent me a photo on WeChat. They had visited the place where I grew up — a five-story brick building about 55 years old. I hadn’t been back in years. The message came with three words: “It’s all gone.” I looked at the photo for a long time. This…
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9 AIs vs. China’s Biggest-Ever Tech IPO: The Prediction Showdown
I won 1,000 shares of CXMT (688825) via IPO lottery — China’s #3 largest IPO ever. Then I gave 9 AI systems the same data and the same 5 questions. They all said something different.
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I Built a Free Tool That Turns 8 AIs’ Investing Wisdom Into Your Personal Investing Coach
Seven experiments, eight AIs, $104 in API bills — and the most common question was still: which investing approach should I actually use? So I built a free tool that answers exactly that.
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I Asked 8 AIs: What Will Humans Still Be Better At in 2040? Eight Answers. One Core Idea. One AI That Said You Shouldn’t Fully Trust Any of Them.
Episode 7: I asked 8 AIs to name humanity’s last irreplaceable advantage in an AI-dominant world. All 8 rejected creativity, empathy, and consciousness — and converged on the same structural insight: AI cannot lose anything. But the framings differed sharply. And Claude made the most important move in the series: used this question to argue…
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I Asked 8 AIs to Pick an Investing School and Show Their Prompts. All 8 Said Value Investing — Then One Warned You Shouldn’t Fully Trust Any of Them.
Episode 6: I gave 8 AIs five investment schools and asked them to pick one, build an AI-assisted framework around it, and be honest about the limits. All 8 chose value investing — the same unanimous answer as Episode 1. But the frameworks differed significantly. And Claude said something important: AI can produce ‘garbage conviction…
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I Asked 8 AIs: $2,000/Month, 20 Years, One Action. Seven Said the Same Ticker. The Real Debate Was About Something Else.
Episode 5: I gave 8 AIs $2,000/month for 20 years and asked for one action. Seven independently chose the S&P 500 index fund — the most unanimous result since Episode 1. The one dissenter chose a global index instead. But the most interesting answer wasn’t about which ticker. It was about why you’ll probably sabotage…
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AI Experiments: 8 AIs Answer the Same Investing Question — Every Episode, Ranked
All episodes of AI Experiments — a series where I ask 8 AI chatbots the same investing question, separately, then make them judge each other’s answers. Four episodes so far: investment philosophy, stock picks, cognitive skills, and asset allocation.
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I Asked 8 AIs: $10,000 Into One Asset Class, 10 Years, No Selling. Six Said the Same Thing. The Other Two Made a Better Argument.
Episode 4: I gave 8 AIs $10,000 to invest in one asset class for 10 years, no rebalancing. Six independently chose the S&P 500. Two chose Bitcoin. But the most interesting moment was the one AI that started with S&P 500, read the other answers, and changed its mind — citing a single valuation number…
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I Asked 8 AIs What Skill to Learn for the Next Decade. They Disagreed. Then They Voted — and It Wasn’t Close.
Episode 3: I asked 8 AIs what single cognitive skill would matter most in the next 10 years. They gave 8 completely different answers. Then I made them vote on each other — and 5 out of 7 first-place votes went to the same answer. The AI that won had ranked itself third.
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I Asked 8 AIs: One Stock, Hold 10 Years. The Answers Ranged From French Luxury to China Taiwan Semiconductors.
Unlike Episode 1 where all 8 AIs agreed on value investing, this time they scattered across 5 industries and 4 countries. Three independently converged on the same stock. One picked a French handbag company. And Grok copied another AI’s answer word-for-word — again.
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My Friend Asked Me How to Use AI for Investing. I Froze. So I Made 8 AIs Compete — Then Judge Each Other.
I asked 8 AI chatbots which investment school they endorse. All 8 gave the same answer. Then I made them judge each other. What came back was either reassuring or a little unsettling.
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40 Psychology Laws That Explain Why People Do What They Do (Complete Index)
The complete index of 40 psychology laws, cognitive biases, and mental models — each explained with real examples, original research, and a quiz. Bookmark this page.
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My Website Was Secretly Redirecting Visitors to a Malicious Site. AI Helped Me Find Out.
My Chinese website was secretly redirecting mobile visitors to a malicious site. I had no idea. Here’s how AI helped me trace the source — and what I found inside a popular free analytics tool.
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Month 1 Blog Income Report: $0 Earned, 484 Real Visitors, and Why I’m Still Recommending Hostinger
My first-ever blog income report. Revenue: $0. Traffic: 484 visitors. Affiliate application: still pending. Hostinger recommendation: genuine. Here is everything.
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Hostinger vs BandwagonHost: I Used Both. Here’s What Actually Changed.
I ran this blog on BandwagonHost, then switched to Hostinger. Real comparison: price, speed test results, setup experience, and who each one is actually for — including the one area where BandwagonHost still wins.