I recently read an article that mentioned a phenomenon while summarizing the talent issues in the crypto ecosystem this year:

A large number of entrepreneurs/"gold diggers" have left the crypto space this year and have instead flocked to the artificial intelligence sector.

Just a couple of days ago, I was chatting with a friend about this topic, so after seeing this article, I naturally recalled my past experiences and what I've seen and heard over the years. Today, I want to share my thoughts.

The core points I want to share are:

• We can boldly try different fields, but in the end, we must find the area that interests us the most, resonates with us, and where we have the most advantages to cultivate in the long term. Only in this way can we achieve the best returns.

• Many seemingly attractive fields may not be suitable for everyone. Once we discover the field we excel in, we can also boldly try other fields, but we should not completely abandon our existing areas of advantage for a momentary so-called "opportunity."

Before I got involved in the crypto industry, I had tried many fields, including traditional software, the internet, embedded systems, and tech education. In those industries, I felt I could do my job well and achieve decent returns, but I always felt that my understanding and insight into the direction of the industry were not deeper than others, especially lacking a kind of lasting endurance and persistence.

At that time, I really disliked the feeling of just getting by in one field, so even though I had not found an industry that I found very attractive, I did not give up on exploring new fields. It wasn't until I entered the crypto industry that I felt I could find a slightly different feeling, experience details that others might not experience, and persist in things that others might not dare or be able to persist in, even confidently questioning some so-called big figures' viewpoints in this field.

This feeling was something I had never experienced in any other industry I had participated in before.

Later, when GPT was released and artificial intelligence began to usher in a revolutionary new chapter, I also tried to seriously learn about artificial intelligence and read articles from various predecessors. However, my overall feeling was rather dull and passive. A typical phenomenon was:

I could hardly raise any doubts or thoughts about some so-called authoritative viewpoints, let alone see details that others could not. All I could do was grasp the latest viewpoints and then understand the shortcomings and flaws of past viewpoints through these new perspectives. But none of this was derived from my own thinking; it was all obtained by reading others' articles and absorbing and digesting them.

This dullness and passivity quickly made me realize: my feelings and advantages lie not in artificial intelligence but in the crypto ecosystem.

I have also observed the same phenomenon in others.

For example, Sam Altman. I think he is a genius entrepreneur in the field of artificial intelligence, but his involvement in crypto projects has been quite average. The crypto projects he participated in lacked taste and novelty, and were very similar to what many other entrepreneurs were doing: linearly translating traditional internet concepts onto the blockchain, without the flavor of the crypto ecosystem.

Another example is a tech blogger I have been listening to for the past few years in his private domain classes. He discusses various cutting-edge technological developments and application trends, and his analyses of many fields (such as artificial intelligence, life sciences, longevity technology, robotics, e-commerce, etc.) are excellent, but his analysis of the crypto ecosystem is rather unsatisfactory.

From his discussions, I can tell that he was exposed to Bitcoin much earlier than I was, but over the years, his understanding of the crypto ecosystem has not made much progress.

In last year's sharing, when he mentioned the crypto ecosystem, he only referred to Bitcoin, believing that the greatest value of blockchain technology is the creation of Bitcoin as "digital gold." When he mentioned Ethereum, he thought its role was merely to issue tokens. He emphasized that the problem with blockchain is its low efficiency and weak TPS.

This year, when he mentioned blockchain, he emphasized the fast transaction speeds of Solana and Hyperliquid.

The issues he pointed out are indeed problems with blockchain, but they are not fundamental issues; the advantages and progress he emphasized are certainly advantages and progress of blockchain, but they are not the essential core advantages and progress.

I bring up these two examples not to belittle them; in fact, I still frequently read Altman's articles and watch his videos, and I continue to pay for that tech blogger's private domain classes, benefiting greatly from both.

But I want to emphasize that no matter who it is, regardless of how strong or impressive they are in their area of advantage, it is likely limited to that area; in other fields, they may not excel and could be on par with ordinary practitioners.

Each of us is the same; it is difficult to be a jack of all trades, so what we need to do is find the field where we excel, feel most connected, have the most insight, and have advantages over others, and reap the unique fruits in that field. We should not blindly follow trends or abandon our existing advantages to chase something that we may not be able to grasp or that may not suit us at all.

Of course, if we always feel out of place and unable to find our footing in the field we are currently involved in (including the crypto ecosystem), we should continue to persist in exploring other fields and searching for other tracks until we find a place where we have unique advantages and can truly showcase our abilities.

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