About
玉书房 — The Jade Study — studies one thing: how a person or a family makes judgments that hold up over time, when the choice is important, long-horizon, expensive, and hard to reverse.
Education, geography, marriage, career, wealth, succession. What they have in common: get one wrong, and you cannot go back.
The author
James Liu (刘一卜 / Liu Yibu), based in Luxembourg, working regularly in Switzerland.
Twenty years of Yijing research, across more than a thousand working cases.
Reading for a Master’s in Wealth Management at the University of Luxembourg; Master’s in media, United Kingdom. Over twenty years as an entrepreneur, including two company acquisitions and early-stage investing. Currently runs a cross-border education company. Member of the Luxembourg Entrepreneurs Association.
Two children in international schools in Europe.
Method and limits
The Jade Study researches major decisions. It does not promise to predict the future.
The knowledge it draws on comes from several directions: the Yijing, mental models, decision theory, statistics, geography, and energy resonance. No single one of them is sufficient alone.
The writing distinguishes between established fact, the author’s own judgment, and assumptions still to be tested. Judgments are revised as practice, cases and new information accumulate; revisions carry a version number and a date.