THE NEXT ITERATION
We Are Not Looking Only for People Who Already Have the Ability.
In the previous round of recruitment, we were looking for:
People with ambition and ability.
This round, we are looking for another kind of person:
People with ambition — or people who simply refuse to give up.
You may already be highly capable.
Or you may not be.
You may not even have any grand ambition right now.
You may simply want to come in, read for free, talk to other people, and learn something.
That's fine.
Because we are testing a different hypothesis:
Maybe ability creates ambition.
THE PROBLEM IS NOT AI
Today, everyone is talking about AI.
People imagine:
AI will democratize knowledge.
AI will democratize intelligence.
One person + AI will be able to build a company.
Everyone will have access to the world's knowledge.
There is nothing wrong with any of these aspirations.
Anyone has the right to imagine such a future.
But there is a very basic obstacle in reality:
Most people cannot effectively read across disciplines.
Not because they are stupid.
But because the modern knowledge system has become highly specialized.
Open a legal paper, and you encounter legal terminology.
Open financial materials, and you encounter financial terminology.
Open a scientific paper, and you enter another linguistic system.
Open historical research, and you enter yet another.
Even English itself has developed an enormous vocabulary.
No one can memorize every word.
It is even less realistic to expect an ordinary person to master the entire modern knowledge system through rote memorization.
So the question becomes:
How do you understand a word you have never learned?
That may be more important than:
“How many words have you memorized?”
WE ARE BUILDING A DIFFERENT KIND OF LANGUAGE TRAINING
This is what The Language of Relations is trying to solve.
It is not an ordinary English textbook.
Nor does it ask you to memorize thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of words in a year.
We are trying to train a different ability:
When you encounter something you don't know, learn how to decode it.
An unfamiliar English technical term does not necessarily need to be memorized immediately.
You can look for:
prefix → root → suffix → origin → related words → historical meaning → professional meaning → modern context
An unfamiliar Chinese character can likewise be approached through:
character form → etymology → original meaning → extended meanings → combinations → historical context
Ultimately, we want Chinese and English to become more than:
“I need to learn a second language.”
Instead:
“I need to learn how to decode the semantic relationships underlying two linguistic systems.”
THE ONE-YEAR EXPERIMENT
Therefore, we are giving participants one very simple goal:
Give us one year.
During this year, The Language of Relations will continue to evolve.
You do not need to have an extraordinary memory.
You do not need to remember every word in the English-speaking world.
Our goal is more realistic:
By learning how words are constructed, related, and transformed, we want participants to become increasingly capable of approaching unfamiliar literature, professional materials, and cross-disciplinary knowledge with the assistance of translation and AI tools.
Google Translate can help you cross a language barrier.
AI can help explain unfamiliar concepts.
And this book is designed to train you to:
know what to ask, how to break something down, how to look for relationships, and how to connect an unfamiliar concept to something you already understand.
Our goal is not to make you “finish learning English.”
It is to gradually develop your ability to move through a cycle of:
READ → DECODE → CONNECT → QUESTION → DISCUSS → READ AGAIN
THIS IS NOT A PROMISE OF INSTANT INTELLIGENCE
We will not tell you:
“Join us, and one year from now you will know everything.”
That would be a scam.
We will not tell you:
“AI will do everything for you.”
It won't.
AI cannot think effectively with someone who cannot effectively communicate with it.
AI can dramatically reduce the cost of acquiring and producing knowledge.
But there is a prerequisite:
You must be able to enter the conversation.
You must be able to read the material.
Understand the question.
Break down terminology.
Ask questions.
Connect information across different fields.
And determine what the answer AI gives you actually means.
That is what we really want to train.
YOU ARE ALLOWED TO DO NOTHING
We do not believe everyone has to become an entrepreneur.
You do not have to enter the founder competition.
You do not have to build a company.
You do not have to enter the Risk Consortium.
You can simply come in, read, talk, learn, and leave.
You are allowed to do nothing.
You also have the right to believe in a savior.
You have the right to wait for a political party.
You have the right to wait for the government.
You have the right to believe that the world should first create a better environment for you.
You have the right to opt out.
You have the right to complain that you were not born into a wealthier family.
You have the right to protest.
You have the right to join a conspiracy-theory community.
You have the right to attribute your problems to the outside world.
Those are all choices.
We are not here to stop anyone from making them.
BUT WE ARE LOOKING FOR SOMETHING ELSE
We are looking for:
People who do not want to give up.
Even if you are not capable yet.
Even if you do not know what you actually want to do.
Even if all you can say right now is:
“There must be more than this.”
That is enough to begin.
Because ability can be trained.
Language can be learned.
Knowledge can be accumulated.
Relationships can be built.
Experience can be gained.
And ambition is sometimes not the starting point.
It is the consequence of discovering what you are capable of doing.
A DIFFERENT KIND OF SELECTION
Therefore, this round will not select people solely according to:
“Who is already the best?”
We are more interested in:
“Who is willing to keep evolving?”
This does mean that selection still exists.
The elimination rate may even be high.
The founder competition is not an unlimited-capacity training program.
Each competition will have a limited number of participants.
The exact capacity may vary by challenge, but the general principle is:
Each challenge is designed for a limited group — roughly 30–50 participants.
Once the Risk Consortium is established, it will not need thousands of people either.
It needs a small number of people who can genuinely take responsibility, understand structure, and produce results.
Therefore:
Learning is open to participants.
Governance is not automatically open to everyone.
You may receive an opportunity to learn.
Whether you eventually enter the commercial, governance, or risk-management layers is a separate question.
APPLYING DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE IN
Submitting an application:
≠ automatically joining Discord
An application is only the first step.
We need to control the scale of participation, and we also need to select participants according to the nature of each challenge.
If you are selected to enter Discord, you will receive:
Free reading access to The Language of Relations
Continuously updated bilingual semantic-training materials
A cross-industry reading and discussion environment
AI-assisted semantic exploration
Opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange with other participants
Eligibility to apply for relevant Challenges
Each Challenge will still have its own independent participant limit.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO ARRIVE POWERFUL
You do not need to arrive with an impressive résumé.
You do not need an Ivy League degree.
You do not need to have founded a company.
You do not need to have written a bestseller.
You do not need to already know Hollywood producers.
You do not need to already be a lawyer, professor, investor, or risk specialist.
Those things certainly have value.
But they are not the only sources of capability.
What we want to know is:
Can you learn?
Can you connect ideas?
Can you keep going?
Can you turn what you learn into something?
THE OLD ORDER WILL NOT BE DEFEATED BY COMPLAINTS
After I published the previous recruitment call, the most common response I saw was not opposition.
It was:
silence.
I will not give up because of silence.
Nor will I compromise because of silence.
And I certainly will not dump every structure that has not yet been made public onto the table simply to beg people to look at it.
My response is simple:
Iterate.
Publish.
Observe.
Learn.
Modify.
Publish again.
Observe again.
Modify again.
Iteration creates selection.
Some people stay.
Some people leave.
Some people grow.
Some people are eliminated.
That is not failure.
This is the experiment.
THE SPIRIT
There is a very old American spirit here.
It is not about waiting for someone to announce:
“You have been chosen.”
It is:
Build something that proves you were capable.
This bears some resemblance to a tradition found in early Protestantism, particularly among the Puritans:
demonstrating one's capacity and calling through action, discipline, creation, and achievement.
But we do not ask anyone to believe in a religion.
We retain only a secularized core:
Don't ask the world to declare that you are chosen.
Build something that makes the question irrelevant.
You do not need to prove that you are one of the “chosen.”
Let the results speak for themselves.
THE INVITATION
So, if you are already capable:
Come.
If you have ambition but lack ability:
Come.
If you currently have nothing more than curiosity:
Come.
If you simply want to read a book for free:
That's fine too.
But if you are genuinely willing to give yourself one year to keep learning, reading, questioning, discussing, decoding, and trying—
then we want to know:
What happens when an ordinary person finally acquires the tools to understand a much larger part of the world?
That is the question we actually want to test.
NARRATIVE WIND TUNNEL
You don't need to arrive capable.
You need to be willing to become capable.
Give us one year.
Learn the language. Decode the world. Then decide what you want to build.
