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# The Gatekeeping of Academia Is Complete
Let me tell you something harsh. A friend of mine is a fellow in the UK who's already published in Nature, but can't return home yet because that's how his domestic boss arranged it.
His domestic boss is an academician ranked among the top in this field who's given him many collaborative projects. But he simply can't come back yet—even though he wants to. He has no choice.
Because under this big boss, there's a mid-level boss who's been pushing for academician status these past few years. The team has built up a large group of "publish or perish" sacri

# Destroying a Child: Keeping Them Home All Day
Many parents don't realize that
one reason children become rebellious and temperamental
is because they're frequently confined at home.
Li Meijing's suggestion:
"Don't let your child stay home studying all day long.
Otherwise, their cerebrum becomes highly stimulated
while their cerebellum receives no stimulation,
and when the brain nerves aren't fully activated,
psychological problems easily emerge."
Children's regulatory functions are inferior to adults':
- Ages 3-4: attention span of about 3-5 minutes
- Ages 7-10: attention span of about 20-30

Why do Hong Kong bosses prefer Guangdong subcontractors when taking on major projects? Is this exclusionary?
Actually, everyone knows that we southerners have many rules—for example, you can't flip food with chopsticks, the teapot spout can't point at someone's seat, and there's a hierarchy to observe.
I grew up in this system of logic myself, and I always thought it was just feudal remnants. Later, I studied and worked in Beijing for several years, met and interacted with many warm-hearted people, and lived many relaxed days.
It wasn't until I started working in factories and doing business t

Stocks are drugs, yet everyone's playing
Money is evil, yet everyone's scheming
Beautiful women are trouble, yet everyone wants them
The high ground is lonely, yet everyone's climbing
Smoking and drinking harm the body, yet no one quits
Heaven is the most beautiful, yet no one goes there

There's something bothering me—I suspect they were setting me up.
Over the New Year holiday, I went home and had dinner with a group of old classmates. After eating, they started pushing to play a couple rounds, so a group of us went to a room to play Dou Dizhu (a Chinese card game).
I said at first that I didn't know how, and asked them to play first. Then one classmate who I'm relatively close with kept teaching me on the side. After just 2 rounds, they started pressuring me to join in. I said I wanted to watch more, so we waited 2 more rounds and they pressured me again.
Finally I just told

# Observations on the Decline of the Middle Class Around Me
I've observed that over the past few years, approximately eighty percent of the middle-class people around me have fallen back into poverty.
The reasons are varied, but about half of it is due to real estate depreciation. Basically anyone who bought property in the years after 2018 has seen their assets shrink by more than half.
In the past, when people had money, they liked to invest in commercial properties and residential real estate. A friend had a commercial shop worth over 2 million yuan—now they can't sell it for 500,000 yuan e

Only when you have 10 million in savings will you sigh and realize that even with 10 million in savings, you're still a nobody in a county town.
In the past, you didn't think this way.
Only after you have it do you think like this.
Because banks will invite you to participate in various tastings, all at the same level as you, and you discover that they're all just ordinary people—ones who grill lamb skewers, raise chickens, develop apps, manufacture machinery equipment, and trade in red wine.

Let me reinforce these definitions for everyone:
1. Monthly income of 10,000 or above is considered high income
2. Monthly income below 5,000 is considered middle income
3. Apartment size of 90 square meters or above is considered a large house
4. 2 million or above is considered entry-level luxury car
5. Full-time bachelor's degree or above is considered high education
6. Male height of 1.75 meters or above, female height of 1.62 meters or above is considered tall
7. Intimate relations once a month is considered normal frequency
8. No debt and self-sufficient is considered living a comfortabl

# Life of a 985 Graduate Working at a Large State-Owned Enterprise in Beijing
I previously managed a 985 graduate who went to work at the grassroots level. After 5 years of work, she has Beijing hukou (household registration). I'm quite familiar with how people like her live.
She's an only child from a small county in southern China, graduated from a 985 university in Beijing, and joined a subsidiary of a large state-owned enterprise right after graduation.
She rented a one-bedroom apartment about 40 minutes by subway from her workplace—not in a subway-adjacent area, the kind where you need to

Why does MacBook Neo's screen surpass all Windows laptops? Let's analyze:
1. Huawei, the only brand that could rival MacBook, is no longer making Windows laptops and has switched to HarmonyOS laptops instead
2. Many Windows laptops now use OLED screens with poor flicker performance and uneven color accuracy to cut costs and achieve slimness
3. Among the few remaining LCD and miniLED screen options, almost all have content-based adaptive brightness control enabled by default—some are embedded in the screen module and can't be disabled; some are in the graphics driver; some are in Windows settin

My uncle is a doctor, and he often encounters patients who say to him:
"I've never done anything immoral in my life.
Why do I have to suffer from this deadly disease?"
My uncle would tell them what his mentor once told him:
Actually, getting sick in life
is not because you did something immoral,
and heaven is punishing you,
but because you've done too many things that are unfair to yourself,
leading your body and emotions to become excessively tense,
overworked, worried, and sad.
Over time, this accumulates and causes illness.
So, you need to learn to love yourself.

External Brain Distribution:
Gemini: Music, Creativity, Literature, Humanities, Complaints
Gpt: Logic, Philosophy, Dialectics, Work, Language, Programming
Deepseek: Neuroscience, Nature, Analysis, Finance

A small story from the Qing Dynasty:
Foreign Western firms in the Qing Dynasty offered high salaries to Chinese employees, which caused strong dissatisfaction among Chinese officials. Zeng Guofan submitted a memorial to the court: foreign merchants heavily invest to lure our Chinese people, leading craftsmen to be unwilling to serve the country, which is not a long-term strategy.
Liu Kunyi also submitted a memorial to the court: foreign firms pay too high salaries, fearing that Chinese workers will gain these substantial benefits, become arrogant over time, and forget their original duties.
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Friends with a monthly income below 10,000
There's no need to care about gold stocks
The best way to manage your finances
Is to skip dinner
One dinner costs 20
In a year, that's 7,000
Which is equivalent to depositing 700,000 in the bank
Only with such an interest rate
Skipping dinner = depositing 700,000 in the bank