Reading Notes – Page 23

Narrow management focuses on managing people and resources, so investing is essentially just managing money.

Narrowly defined management is about controlling people and resources. So investing is nothing more than managing money…

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Platforms Must Become Gateways

The fundamental nature of platform businesses is that they are capital-intensive. You need to burn money upfront until people recognize your value, get used to you, and ultimately make you their gateway.

November 24, 2025

In existing games, it’s all about how much practical resources you can get.

In an established system, the rules are already set by others. You need years of study and practice to gradually earn t…

All returns require a cost.

Your own physical and mental energy are also costs. Going from a 2400 loss to a 1500 loss — how much did you lose? Y…

When you’re broke, 99% of problems are just the same problem: no money.

When you're rich, problems that money can solve stop being problems. Every issue you encounter is one that money simply…

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Standardized products are destined to be unprofitable.

You can use someone else's 1/20 manpower, at 1/20 the price, in 1/20 the time to build the same project, snatch their m…

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Existing Games Depend on Human Nature, Which Lacks Clear Standards but Can Be Exploited

Going to the bureau director's office to make a scene, dropping your kid at the director's house right around dinner ti…

When you don’t trust someone, would you still do good for them? No, you would only exploit them, taking as much advantage as possible.

When you recruit Guan Yu in a game, you trust and重用 him. Would you do the same for Lü Bu?

When trust has been broken, words are powerless.

Trust between people takes time. Childhood companions may trust each other, but when they grow old, everyone becomes full of suspicion.