Business & Entrepreneurship — Build Something That Lasts
Frameworks for building a durable solo business — positioning, pricing, operations, and the trade-offs that founders discover too late.
Most business advice is written for venture-backed startups. This guide is different — it is for the solo founder, the consultant, the creator building a profitable business on their own terms.
Latest Articles
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Marketers’ AI superpowers: Use Vibe Coding to turn ideas into online sales pages and brand websites
The biggest bottleneck for marketers is not coming up with ideas, but the waiting between thinking and doing them. This article shares how to use Vibe Coding and Claude Code to allow marketers to use dialogue to create sales pages, brand websites, and entire marketing workflows—no programming knowledge required.
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Free writing: the lowest threshold for improving your writing skills, you can practice it in 5 minutes after a meal
Many friends who want to learn to write are stuck at the “I don’t have a writing habit” level. The introductory exercise I recommend has always been free writing: don’t care about writing style or structure. You can practice it 5 minutes after meals and 10 minutes before going to bed. This article shares the methods I have used to help students get started with free writing over the years, the three core principles, and how to develop it into a lifelong writing habit.
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Intention-centered communication model: Cognitive revolution in the AI era, from Vibe Coding to a new paradigm of personal branding
AI in 2026 is not just a tool upgrade, but a deep cognitive revolution. When execution costs approach zero, what really determines value is no longer the technical threshold, but the ability to define intentions. This article is an extended version of my column in the Economic Daily, talking about how Vibe Coding, contextual authority, second brains and AI agents can reshape the work philosophy of digital nomads.
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In the AI era, building a personal brand starts with choosing a good website and a high-quality registrar
The AI era has lowered the threshold for Vibe Coding to a record low, and more and more people can set up their own websites on weekends. But when the website is going online, the first thing that will get stuck is not the program, but the domain. This article shares my five principles and four tips for choosing domain names over the years, as well as the registrars I recommend for international and Taiwanese domain names.
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Inspiration is a bonus, but ability is your duty: nine fields and a set of workflows where writing coaches proactively collect creative inspiration
One of the most frequently asked questions by writing coaches is: "Teacher, where can I find inspiration?" The answer I have accumulated over the years is straightforward: inspiration is a bonus, and ability is a must. This article shares nine areas where I actively collect inspiration, four key points of observation, and a set of database processes to make inspiration available for a long time.
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The three most common bottlenecks in writing: mediocrity, blandness, and flatness, and the way I’ve overcome them over the years
Most people cannot write well not because of their writing skills, but because they are stuck in three bottlenecks: mediocrity, blandness, and flatness. This article breaks down the causes of Sanping, shares the specific methods I have used to overcome the past over the years, and provides a five-step workflow from technique to physique.
Frequently Asked Questions
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How do I validate a business idea?
Talk to 20 potential customers before writing a line of code. If you cannot get 20 people to describe the problem in their own words, the problem is not sharp enough yet.
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What should I charge?
Charge for the value delivered, not the hours worked. Start by asking: what does solving this problem save or earn the client? Your price should be a fraction of that.
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When should I hire my first employee?
When the work that only you can do is being crowded out by work anyone could do. Hire to reclaim your time on the highest-leverage work, not to scale vanity metrics.
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How do I handle slow months?
Slow months are inevitable — plan for them. Keep 6 months of expenses in reserve, use slow periods to invest in your own skills and content, and never make big pricing decisions from a place of scarcity.
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