❕ You will always have problems. And that’s not a bad thing.

You’ve probably heard these phrases many times.

Mo money, mo problems.

More money won’t solve your problems, it will solve your money problems.

When you’re healthy, you have many problems. When you’re sick, you have just one.

They may sound worn out, but there is real truth behind them.

It’s common to think that life works like a checklist. Make enough money and everything will be fine. Quit bad habits and everything will be fine. Find the right partner and everything will be fine.

In reality, problems do not disappear. They change.

More money helps, but it brings new pressure. Taxes, structures, legal questions, responsibility. These may be better problems than being broke, but they are still problems. They still create stress and require effort to solve.

Quitting destructive habits can be life-changing, but it also removes the things used to avoid deeper issues. Solving one major problem often reveals several smaller ones underneath.

Relationships work the same way. Being single has its own set of struggles. Being married or committed has a different set. No stage of life is problem-free, it just comes with a new configuration.

The mistake is chasing X with the belief that it will fix everything. X can be worth chasing. Money, health, and relationships matter. They just are not a universal cure.

If someone is overwhelmed and unhappy today, waking up tomorrow with more money or status will not erase that. It only changes the setting in which the same internal problems are lived out.

Life is problems. The real skill is learning to live with them without constant suffering.

There is a Buddhist idea that captures this well. Everyone has problems. Fix one, and another appears. The real problem is wishing life had none.

You will always have problems.
That is not a failure.
It means life is happening.

💸 Bitcoin mining is no longer alpha

After the halving, companies with no revenue outside of hashprice either moved sideways or fell 40–70%, while the winners were those selling AI compute, hosting, or capacity with stable, fixed demand.

🔥 From 70% drawdowns to +150% in one year

Clement Ang didn’t turn things around by finding a new edge. He fixed risk, execution, and discipline. The result was a +150% year after a 60–70% drawdown.

5 actionable lessons from his championship year:

✔️ Cap monthly drawdowns at 5%.
Large losses break compounding. A 10% loss needs an 11% recovery. A 50% loss needs 100%. By cutting bad months early, he kept capital intact and stayed mentally stable enough to keep trading well.

✔️ Risk small until the market proves you right.
He dropped risk per trade to 0.3–0.5% during choppy periods. Size only increased once trades started working. This reduced stress, prevented revenge trading, and allowed him to survive losing streaks.

✔️ Remove bad trades, not good ones.
Out of 1,200+ trades, around 500 had no real setup. FOMO, boredom, and revenge entries quietly destroyed PnL. Simply not taking them would have made the year dramatically better.

✔️ Scale out instead of selling all at once.
He took partial profits on strength and kept a runner. This locked in gains while allowing upside when trends extended. The goal was consistency, not perfect exits.

✔️ Buy strength after corrections.
His best trades came after market pullbacks. He focused on stocks that held up better than the index and bought once selling pressure exhausted. Strength after pain mattered more than chasing momentum.

The takeaway is uncomfortable but clear.
Returns came from defense, not aggression. Once capital was protected, performance followed naturally.

🌍 The end of the liberal world order and the return of power politics

The Atlantic published an essay by political scientist Robert Kagan arguing that US foreign policy under Trump effectively marks the end of the post-WWII liberal international order.

Kagan’s core point is blunt. The American-led order is ending not because the US can’t sustain it, but because it no longer wants to. US power will shift from maintaining global stability to openly pursuing national advantage.

He warns this pushes the world back toward a pre-1945 system of spheres of influence, great power rivalry, and frequent wars. Alliances weaken. Security becomes transactional. States either rearm or cut deals with stronger players.

As a symbol of this shift, Kagan points to US claims on Greenland, where territory is treated as a strategic asset rather than a question of norms or sovereignty.

If defending the old system felt expensive, Kagan’s message is simple.
What comes next will cost much more.