GuShiio.com This industry is full of poisons, and the most poisonous one must be identity anxiety.
For a long time, my most relaxed and happy moment every day was 12 o’clock. Because when the bell rings at 12 o’clock, she said that the APP will push today’s brand new 21 guests, so that I can also have a 3-minute experience card for a big G scumbag. I can not only slide right, but also slide left.
On the profile page of her APP, there is a question that is my wish. I remember during a road show meeting, while colleagues were asking questions, I thought for five minutes and solemnly wrote down my wish to become a writer. After submitting the information, colleagues were still discussing the economic model with the founders. I followed closely for 10 seconds, heard some flywheel or something, and confirmed that I had not missed any valid information.
I really want to be a writer.
I like a writer very much: Guy Terris, author of “Neighbor’s Wife”. He was also dubbed the father of new journalism by the American media because of this book. But Gueteris publicly declared: I have no interest in being the father of new journalism. I just want to write as well as Fitzgerald. ldquo;
“I just want to write as well as Fitzgerald.& rdquo;This is cool.
My original intention to become a writer at first was simple: I like writing. I want to write as well as Maugham. If many people in the future will read my stories and be half an hour late for an appointment because of them, that will be enough.
One day later, my country’s publishing industry began to promote an author named Feng Tang.
Teacher Feng Tang’s identity is a bit special. The inside of the envelope of every book he writes: Feng Tang was originally named Zhang Haipeng. Mr. Zhang Haipeng is a Ph. D. from Union Medical College, an MBA from Emory University, a businessman, a consulting partner of McKinsey (promoted in just 6 years), CEO of China Resources Healthcare (founding), and managing director of CITIC Capital (senior). Manager (head of the medical industry), founder of Chengshi Buertang, owner of Houhai Courtyard, antique lover, native Beijing, translator, modern poet, and writer. I’m not sure whether Teacher Zhang wrote on the inside of the envelope about his promotion in just 6 years, Houhai Courtyard and Beijing Aborigines. But what I am sure is that he must have used some means to let us China people know, consciously or unintentionally.
After learning about Teacher Feng Tang, my Tao heart was a little confused, because Teacher Feng Tang is undoubtedly a multi-dimensional literary idol: not only has he crossed the golden thread he himself proposed in literature, but he has also achieved success in the secular sense. He is also handsome and elegant, this should be the son of the v1.0 version of the high-quality human male.
I thought it didn’t seem that important whether I wrote as well as Maugham? More importantly, I can write on the inside of the envelope of the book: Mr. Lin is a well-known venture capitalist,(foreign) investment bank manager, guitar player, boring ape master, Shanghai household registration, and writer. My story will be adapted into a midnight drama by iQiyi, and my book signing will be lined up outside the alley entrance. I can also promote more fun tonight on Weibo, and then live streaming online classes on Douyin to sell my own methods of getting things done. I can also go to colleges and universities and start literary talk shows, just like Cui Jian sang “Nothing”. Gain both fame and wealth. This is the real reason to become a best-selling author, right?
In the two and a half years since I joined the Web3 industry, my biggest feeling was the industry’s influence on people’s hearts. The dominant characteristics of the Web3 industry are: chaos, cruelty, naked humanity, huge wealth effect, and the strong fear of missing out. This industry is like a never-ending gold rush, with everyone being slapped and rushing forward, afraid that they will miss the next password. In such an environment, the definition of success seems to be infinitely distorted: it is no longer about creating value, but how to become strong and get results.
Recently, I communicated with many friends and found that many people’s mental state is worrying. Being surrounded by various wealth myths and successful people, they fell into endless anxiety and loss. Every day, while swiping X, looking at screenshots of earnings posted by others, and listening to seemingly relaxed but full of show-off success stories, a sense of powerlessness and self-doubt inevitably arises in my heart. Over time, this anxiety will corrode people’s hearts like poison and make people numb and even extreme.
The next step in this kind of coercion is to destroy values. In such an environment, a abnormal logic has gradually formed. Being able to deceive is the ability, and whoever has the most U is the truth. Some people began to pursue interests by any means and even took pride in cheating; others were forced to follow the trend and pretend that they also knew how to navigate this complex ecology; others were completely lost and forgot why they entered the industry in the first place.
J.D. Salinger participated in the Normandy Landings in his twenties, and the manuscript of “The Catcher in the Rye” lay in his military backpack on D-Day. He said writing novels was his way of maintaining his sanity in this hell on earth. Web3 is similar to Normandy, with D-Day almost every day. In such a world full of mud and sand, the most important thing for us is to maintain mental normality.
It is said that at Western weddings, a wise mother-in-law would give the two newlyweds a secret word: In every good marriage, it helps somewww.gushiio.coms to be a little deaf. I think it will also apply in the Web3 industry——
You don’t have to force yourself into anyone
You don’t have to be an omniscient person
You don’t have to be a 360-degree success
You don’t have to fight day and night until you’re covered with the Medal of Honor
You can slow down
You can turn around and walk away
You don’t have to know what they’re talking about
You can turn on music at any time and turn a deaf ear to the hottest twitter space
This industry is full of poisons, and the most poisonous one must be identity anxiety. There are countless voices that tempt you to become the person you don’t have to be, and you fall into the trap of self-awareness in such temptation. The only antidote is to be mindful, be honest with yourself, and only become the one you most want to be.
There is a line I like in “Hua Mulan”: Take your place, Mulan, more than two years have passed, and I think I will only be myself in Web3, an investor who focuses on early investment. Like now if someone asks me why I want to be a writer, I should tell him: Hey, I just want to write as well as Maugham. ldquo;
Not long ago, a female friend told me that one of our colleagues had a good impression on her. She heard that this boy was very excellent, but wanted to ask me about him.
I didn’t have much dealings with this brother, and there was little information in his WeChat circle of friends, so I clicked on his X and what came into view was: d/acc, CXO@ AAA, larping@ BBB, host@ CCC, building@ DDD, Prev: CXO@ EEE, co-founder@ FFF, ex@ Google, @ Uber , Forbes35U35, alum@ LBS @ Cornell, SOL maxi, base on airplane, Cookie dad, doer. I didn’t read all his top-posted tweets because they temporarily exceeded the bottom edge of the screen.
I closed the webpage and opened the WeChat dialogue box between me and my female friend, who was still anxiously waiting for my DD results. I took a deep breath, thought about it and replied to her: Lao Tie, I remember you also like reading. I want to ask, what do you think of Feng Tang? rdquo;
March 2025, Shanghai
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