Upon much thinking and consideration, the true feeling in my heart and my soul is gratitude, being grateful to everybody. Doesn’t matter how much they annoyed me in the past or irked me; ultimately even if it is for the .0000000001% of the times they were insanely helpful and or useful ,,, the only feeling in my heart and soul is gratitude!

PHILOSOPHY BY KIM

IDEAS BY KIM

  1. EVERYTHING HAPPENS AS IT *SHOULD HAVE* HAPPENS
  2. *Beyond* Individualism
  3. MAN & WOMAN, LIGHT & DARK
  4. A LIFE WITHOUT PAIN, DISCOMFORT OR (LIMITED) SUFFERING IS NOT A LIFE WORTH LIVING?
  5. BIGGER IS WEAKER.
  6. How to Become a Philosopher
  7. Deep Vanity
  8. Time Will Tell
  9. What is Wisdom?
  10. LOOK *BEYOND*
  11. BECOMING MORE IMMORAL?
  12. ‘LUCK’ VS COURAGE
  13. ‘SKILL’ VS MERIT?
  14. Becoming Antifragile
  15. How to “Improve” Men
  16. The Art of Virtue
  17. How to Dominate
  18. JUST SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES AND WISDOM WITH OTHERS.
  19. How to Get More Done in a Single Day – MEMENTO MORI PHILOSOPHY
  20. THINK FOR YOURSELF
  21. Cruel?
  22. GO DEMIGOD.
  23. How to Be Happy: Challenge and Danger Philosophy
  24. To Become Greater, You Must Become *LESS* Productive!
  25. Imperfect Beauty
  26. The Philosophy of Pleasure
  27. What Interests You?
  28. Anti Theory of Everything
  29. Become?
  30. STRONGER OR NOT?
  31. Carte Blanche Ideals
  32. CHOOSE JOY
  33. Don’t Judge Your Impulses
  34. On Becoming Less Human
  35. COWARDICE.
  36. The Philosophy of Futurism
  37. PHILOSOPHY IS VALUE-SETTING
  38. PHILOSOPHY IS NOT LIFESTYLE
  39. WHY STANDARDIZATION IS BAD.
  40. YOUR OWN TABLE OF VALUES.
  41. RETRO IS BAD.
  42. INSANELY LOFTY THOUGHTS.
  43. Strive to *Lose* Weight, Not *Gain* Weight
  44. DIABLO II ANALOGIES FOR REAL LIFE.
  45. If You Know Your *WHY* You Can Discover Any *HOW*
  46. Life is Too Short to Be Miserable
  47. What Consumption Takes Skill?
  48. OFF THE GRID.
  49. REALITY IS CRUEL.
  50. Pain is Information
  51. WHY REMOVE VULGARITY AND DISORDER FROM OUR EYES?
  52. AUTOTELIC.
  53. UNPLUG.
  54. How to Become a Philosopher
  55. SUBOPTIMAL IS OPTIMAL
  56. THE LUST FOR MORE.
  57. TO DO IS TO BECOME.
  58. IN PRAISE OF AGGRESSIVE.
  59. THE PHILOSOPHY OF OPTIMISM
  60. OUR PHILOSOPHICAL WILL TO EXISTENCE
  61. Is Hope a Vice?
  62. MOVE MEAN
  63. Carte Blanche Ideals
  64. One Interesting Thought
  65. What Lasts? What Doesn’t Last?
  66. A WOUND STIMULATES THE RECUPERATIVE POWERS
  67. Children & Purpose
  68. Thoughts on Becoming a Parent
  69. Where Does Our Desire to Upgrade Come From?
  70. WE ALWAYS NEED SOMETHING FURTHER TO ASPIRE TO.
  71. Self-Task Yourself an Awesome Mission in Life
  72. Differentiation vs Equalization
  73. My Passion to *Become* Something More
  74. No Aesthetic or Ethos is Forever
  75. What is Your Higher Purpose in Life?
  76. IT WILL NEVER SATISFY YOU.
  77. How to Decide
  78. Things You *Want* to Do vs Things You *MUST* Do
  79. Towards a More Beautiful Mode of Existence and Future
  80. EXTREME GRATITUDE.
  81. AMAP (As Much as Possible) or None.
  82. Why or How Does it Matter?
  83. The Philosophy of Time and Events
  84. How *Not* to Resent
  85. FORWARD LOOKING
  86. DOMAIN FLEXIBILITY.
  87. The Miracle of Human Growth
  88. EXTREME ADAPTATION.
  89. Why Plan?
  90. You Don’t Need to Justify Yourself
  91. The Philosophy of Ego
  92. True vs False Passions
  93. How to Achieve Tranquility
  94. On Making Your Own Philosophy
  95. The Purpose of Life is to Create New Life
  96. Think On!
  97. The Wisdom of Doing Nothing
  98. Congruency
  99. My Thoughts on Meditation
  100. The Philosophy of Purpose
  101. Emulate Yourself
  102. Good Fear, Bad Fear
  103. For the Betterment of Humanity or Just Yourself?
  104. What you *really* believe in and care for is manifested through your actions (or non-actions)
  105. Why Culture is Your Enemy
  106. YOUR EXPERIENCES ARE KING.
  107. LIFE IS INHERENTLY GOOD.
  108. Artistic, Physical, and Philosophical Muscles
  109. All New Experiences are Good Experiences
  110. What is the Purpose of X?
  111. UTILITY.
  112. Philosophy is a Luxury
  113. The Attempt is More Interesting than the Result
  114. Joyfulness vs “Happiness”
  115. Effectiveness Over Happiness
  116. Self Actualization
  117. MAXIMAL ENGAGEMENT
  118. Life & Pain
  119. On Living Every Day with No Regret
  120. Learn as if you’re going to live forever, live as if you’re going to die tomorrow
  121. Live Every Day Like it Were the Last Day of Your Life
  122. Self-Determination
  123. FALSE GRATITUDE vs REAL GRATITUDE
  124. HOW TO LIVE MORE
  125. THE UPSIDE OF TRAGEDY
  126. Satisfaction is a Sucker’s Game
  127. Supreme Repose
  128. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE? According to ERIC KIM
  129. STUBBORN, FLEXIBLE
  130. EVERYTHING HAPPENS AS IT *SHOULD* HAVE HAD HAPPENED
  131. Good Addiction, Bad Addiction?
  132. What is the Best Life?
  133. The Philosophy of Thinking
  134. The Philosophy of Conspiracies
  135. Conspiracies
  136. Growth
  137. Skepticism.
  138. What Do You Really Want Out of Life?
  139. Seem or Be?
  140. Learn Through Pain
  141. Respect Yourself
  142. In Praise of Elitism
  143. Why Independent Thinking?
  144. I Will Never Die
  145. Bitter is Better
  146. The Genesis of Nihilism and Existential Dread
  147. The Ethics of Personal Enrichment
  148. Good vs Not Good
  149. Punished by Privilege
  150. Abstinence Over Moderation
  151. Just Leave Others Alone
  152. You Can Only Critique that Which You Truly Understand and Love
  153. ERIC KIM Critique of Metaphysics
  154. Only Trust Philosophers Who Deadlift
  155. Heuristic: If Someone Talks Shit About Others Behind Their Back, Most Likely They’re Also Talking Shit About You Behind Your Back
  156. Virtue is a Privilege
  157. What Are Your Life Goals?
  158. Honesty
  159. Why I’m Anti Moderation
  160. No Spite, No Malice.
  161. Ascending Life or Descending Life?
  162. Double Edged Sword
  163. Ignorance.
  164. Why I Don’t Trust “Nice Guys”
  165. Why You Must Share Your Opinion
  166. Selfish Isn’t Evil
  167. Wisdom is the Goal
  168. YOU ARE KING.
  169. MASTER YOURSELF
  170. What is “Good” for You is Often what is Bad for You
  171. Care.
  172. BITTERSWEET
  173. ONE REP MAX
  174. Morality and Ethics is the Snare
  175. BY HELPING YOURSELF, YOU BEST HELP OTHERS
  176. Insanity is Good.
  177. Think Deep.
  178. PHILOSOPHY IS THE FUTURE.
  179. Open Mind vs Closed Mind
  180. ENTHUSIASM IS GENIUS
  181. Towards a More Critical and Rigorous Line of Thinking
  182. How to Encourage and a Foster Independent and Free Thinking
  183. What is the Purpose of Life?
  184. WHY PHILOSOPHY IS SUPREME.
  185. Elitism.
  186. I Cannot Form an Opinion About Somebody Until I’ve Met Them in the Flesh
  187. ALL GENETICS ARE GOOD GENETICS.
  188. Happiness vs Freedom
  189. The Birth of a Hater
  190. My Way Isn’t the Right Way
  191. Walking as an Existential Thing
  192. Why I’m So Tolerant
  193. Mortal Gods
  194. THE HUMAN SPECIES
  195. Why I’m So Skeptical
  196. Just Follow the Money
  197. Why Selfish?
  198. WHY WE CANNOT BLAME OTHERS
  199. Why Are We So Anti Elitism?
  200. What Actually Interests You?
  201. How to Become Yourself
  202. SELF HATE
  203. Optimistic Fatalism
  204. Death is the Ultimate Creative Constraint
  205. FLUX.
  206. How to Think for Yourself
  207. FLESH
  208. How to Live the Best Life
  209. Why Live a Life Without Regrets?
  210. Why Plato Ruined Art and Aesthetics for Us
  211. Self Respect
  212. Hypocrite vs Contradict
  213. Ideals vs Reality
  214. Spaceship Philosophy
  215. What is Your Ideal Life?
  216. MY EXTREME GRATITUDE TOWARDS LIFE AND BEING ALIVE!
  217. Critique of Utilitarianism
  218. Don’t Treat Others the Way You Want to Be Treated
  219. The Eternal Recurrence of Tragedy and Joy in Life
  220. Elite Asceticism
  221. Why I Don’t Like Numbers
  222. Action and Reaction, Cause and Effect
  223. The Antidote to Nihilism: The Philosophy of Nothingness
  224. ERIC KIM Notes on Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
  225. EXPLOIT CHAOS.
  226. WHY I DON’T BELIEVE IN GENETICS
  227. Self-Wisdom
  228. The Future Belongs to the Fearless
  229. INDIVIDUALISM
  230. Why Live Forever?
  231. THIS TOO WILL PASS.
  232. Why Education?
  233. How to Become Yourself
  234. Things Shouldn’t Go Back to the Way They Used to Be
  235. Why Am I So Cruel?
  236. The Great Joy of Existence
  237. Virtue for the Sake of Virtue
  238. NO DISDAIN.
  239. INTELLIGENT IGNORANCE
  240. A LIFE WITHOUT PAIN, DIFFICULTY OR TRAGEDY ISN’T A LIFE WORTH LIVING
  241. BITTER IS BETTER.
  242. EXPLOIT THE BEST FROM TRAGEDY AND LIFE 
  243. DISREGARD FOR SELF-PRESERVATION
  244. PAIN.
  245. WHAT IF EVERYTHING IS NOT GONNA BE ALRIGHT?
  246. Tomorrow is Never
  247. Life is the Ultimate Creative Constraint
  248. EMBODIED REALITY
  249. BLACK SWAN
  250. THINGS WILL NEVER GO BACK TO THE WAY THEY USED TO BE
  251. What are you *really* afraid of?
  252. HAPPINESS ISN’T THE GOAL
  253. Philosophy is King
  254. Why is Selfish Evil?
  255. YOU’RE CONSTANTLY IN A STATE OF BECOMING
  256. ENTITLEMENT A SIN?
  257. NARCISSISM
  258. BE BRUTALLY HONEST WITH YOURSELF
  259. WHY FREE WILL?
  260. OBEY YOUR OPINION
  261. EGO IS GOOD.
  262. WHY IT IS GOOD TO BE INTO YOURSELF
  263. Seek the Good Pain
  264. Anti-Perfection in Photography, Art, and Life
  265. Can You Become an End into Yourself?
  266. WHY I LIVE
  267. Why I Hate Decline
  268. Why I Eat
  269. Why am I So Positive and Optimistic?
  270. EFFORT IS ENJOYMENT
  271. Never Stop Gaining
  272. TRUST YOURSELF
  273. A Life of Maximal Personal Independence
  274. What Do You Desire to Become?
  275. What Do I Want from Technology?
  276. Stratified Society
  277. Do You Love or Hate Reality?
  278. On the Brian, Body and Mind
  279. I’m Maximally Happy, Now What?
  280. Care over Fame
  281. ACTIVE NIHILISM
  282. Never Stop Subtracting
  283. How to Live a Happier and More Epic Life
  284. A Risker Life is a Better Life
  285. Only Work on Things You Can Imagine Doing for Eternity
  286. How to Maximize Your Happiness
  287. Influence
  288. The Gladiator Makes His Plans once He Enters the Ring
  289. Meditations on Meaning in Life
  290. There is Nothing More Interesting than Human Beings
  291. Is Hope a Vice?
  292. EGO
  293. Why Be Unique?
  294. Happiness is Metabolism Health and Strength
  295. You’re the Hero
  296. Is Productivity a Virtue or Vice?
  297. Why Do We Prize the Rare?
  298. The Joy of Uncertainty
  299. How Should I Best Use My Time and Life?
  300. A Life Without Pain or Suffering Isn’t a Life Worth Living
  301. Free or Unfree?
  302. What Do You Really Care For in Life?
  303. Anti-Satisfaction in Life
  304. Why Think?
  305. The Eternal Return
  306. Only Do What is Best for You!
  307. Truthiness
  308. Why Be Happy?
  309. Permissionless Living
  310. In Praise of Unconventional Wisdom
  311. Become the Change Which You Wish to See in the World
  312. Happiness
  313. Beyond Freedom
  314. Idolize People, Not Stuff
  315. What Makes You Stronger? What Makes You Weaker?
  316. Why Hate?
  317. The Secret of Happiness
  318. You’re Constantly in a State of Becoming
  319. Life is about Choices, Not Obligations
  320. Anti-Nihilism
  321. First, Do What is Best for You.
  322. Live Dynamic
  323. How to Prosper
  324. Is the Point of Life to Be Satisfied?
  325. SUPREME EFFORT OF WILL.
  326. How to Become more Idealistic
  327. Thrivival 101
  328. Create Yourself
  329. Non-Small
  330. Inspiration
  331. How to Live a Heroic Life: Dare the Heights!
  332. Human Augmentation
  333. Prune
  334. Happiness: Do What You Want to Do (And Don’t Do What You Don’t Want to Do)
  335. Avoid Vain (Empty) Pursuits in Life
  336. Modern Slavery
  337. Kill the Leeches
  338. Wisdom Augmentation
  339. Why We Need Friction in Life
  340. Straight Line Philosophy
  341. What’s Your End-Game in Life?
  342. Create Your Own Happiness Today
  343. Desire Both Pain and Pleasure in Life
  344. Try the Impossible
  345. SELF-RESPECT
  346. Anti-Social Extrovert
  347. Never Blame Anybody But Yourself
  348. Human Flourishing
  349. Simpler, Not Better.
  350. How to be Free
  351. Embrace the Extremes
  352. Cultivate Your Own Culture
  353. COURAGE.
  354. Thrivival
  355. Inner Power
  356. How to Live a Purposeful Life
  357. My Definition of Happiness
  358. Why Change is Good
  359. Why Work?
  360. How to Live the Happiest Possible Life
  361. The Two-Pronged Approach to Maximize Joy in Your Life
  362. You Always Have Another Option!
  363. INFINITISM
  364. Never Stop!
  365. What is Your Self-Directed Purpose in Life?
  366. Live Today Like it Were Your Last
  367. Do You Photograph to Live, or Live to Photograph?
  368. ARTIST-PHILOSOPHER
  369. Live Life to the Fullest!
  370. In Praise of Selfishness
  371. Why You Must Be a YAY-SAYER to Succeed in Entrepreneurship and Life
  372. Why I Love Walking
  373. Live Life Like a Video Game!
  374. Simple Luxuries in Life
  375. Treat Your Life Like a Fun Experiment!
  376. Only Prove it to Yourself
  377. You Don’t Always Need to Feel Joyful to Live a Fulfilling and Meaningful Life
  378. Life is Too Short to Be Bored!
  379. Money Cannot Destroy Boredom
  380. How to Find Inspiration in Life
  381. Why You Must Ignore Haters to Succeed and Win in Life
  382. An Active Life is a Happy Life
  383. My Simple Joys in Life
  384. Never Stop Striving
  385. How to Motivate Yourself in Life
  386. How to Be Optimistic in Life
  387. How to Dictate Your Purpose in Life
  388. In Praise of a Dynamic Life
  389. PURPOSE.
  390. How to Enjoy Life
  391. Photography Therapy
  392. How to Conquer Regret
  393. Take Your Play Very Seriously.
  394. How to Prosper
  395. Memento Vivere
  396. Destroy in Order to CREATE
  397. Trust Your Body More Than Your Mind
  398. Make Photos to Make Meaning in Your Life
  399. Seek Knowledge, Not Information
  400. The Purpose of Human Life
  401. How to Overcome Impedence
  402. Why I Love Death
  403. How to Be Centered in the Eternal Now
  404. How to Be Happy
  405. Why Do You Care What Others Think of You?
  406. Why I’m Happy
  407. Why?
  408. Why I’m So Prolific
  409. How to Reduce LAG in Life

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THE HALVING

The reason why the impending halving for bitcoin is such a big deal, is that with any big technological shift or happening, it will stimulate interest, news reports, social media whatever, which will drive prices up.

Or in other words, start hoarding your bitcoin right now!

Human Psychology

The reason why I feel that I’m so well adjusted and qualified to talk about this is because I think I am a genius and a master of human psychology.

For example, the halving; even Cindy knows about it, and she only has a superficial knowledge of crypto and bitcoin.

Scarcity?

Bitcoin is so fascinating to me because technically it’s not really worth anything; but… With any sort of commodity, we seem to prize things when it is more scarce.

For example video games, if you think about Diablo II etc.; a lot of these legendary items are extremely rare and scarce, therefore it has higher values.

***

CRYPTO BY KIM

Brave new world for photographers and crypto:

  1. ALL BITCOIN EVERYTHING
  2. Self-Custody
  3. HOLD OR CIRCULATE?
  4. BITCOIN OR BUST
  5. BITCOIN THOUGHTS
  6. Bitcoin is Sexy
  7. Fuck the Banks!
  8. Ethereum?
  9. Why Chainlink?
  10. BIG AMOUNTS, SMALL AMOUNTS?
  11. CRYPTO, CRYPTOCURRENCY THOUGHTS.
  12. The Philosophy of Crypto
  13. BITCOIN SHALL BE THE LAST CRYPTO STANDING.
  14. Bitcoin Price Prediction
  15. Trust chainlink for the most accurate prices for bitcoin or any other crypto
  16. BITCOIN
  17. There is No Web 3.0
  18. 2 cents to 2 dollars?
  19. Crypto.com?
  20. Speculation vs Investing
  21. Building with Bitcoin
  22. DYNAMICS VS STATICS.
  23. How Do You Know if the Timing Is Right?
  24. BITCOIN IN THE NEWS
  25. BITCOIN & UNCERTAINTY
  26. Fake Money
  27. Why I Bought More Bitcoin (Again)
  28. How I Made Money with Crypto
  29. Better to buy Dogecoin then buy a Tesla
  30. NO LIMITS.
  31. ALL DIGITAL FUTURE.
  32. Digital over Physical Possessions
  33. DIGIBYTE.
  34. CHAINLINK.
  35. The Excitement of Starting from Zero
  36. HAPTIC INDUSTRIES NOW ACCEPTING CRYPTO AND BITCOIN
  37. In Praise of Crypto
  38. JUST BUY IT.
  39. Why I’m So Bullish on Bitcoin
  40. Bitcoin as the Simplest Cryptocurrency
  41. Why I bought (more) bitcoin
  42. Once You Become a Crypto Billionaire, Then What?
  43. Why Crypto is Under-Hyped
  44. The Joy of Speculation
  45. BITCOIN AND CRYPTOCURRENCY FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
  46. Why I Bought Bitcoin
  47. Crypto Photography
  48. Crypto Thoughts
  49. On Making Money from Nothing
  50. BITCOIN THOUGHTS
  51. Bitcoin is Sexy
  52. Fuck the Banks!
  53. Ethereum?
  54. Why Chainlink?
  55. BIG AMOUNTS, SMALL AMOUNTS?
  56. CRYPTO, CRYPTOCURRENCY THOUGHTS.
  57. The Philosophy of Crypto
  58. BITCOIN SHALL BE THE LAST CRYPTO STANDING.
  59. Bitcoin Price Prediction
  60. Trust chainlink for the most accurate prices for bitcoin or any other crypto
  61. BITCOIN
  62. There is No Web 3.0
  63. 2 cents to 2 dollars?
  64. Crypto.com?
  65. Speculation vs Investing
  66. Building with Bitcoin
  67. DYNAMICS VS STATICS.
  68. How Do You Know if the Timing Is Right?
  69. BITCOIN IN THE NEWS
  70. BITCOIN & UNCERTAINTY
  71. Fake Money
  72. Why I Bought More Bitcoin (Again)
  73. How I Made Money with Crypto
  74. Better to buy Dogecoin then buy a Tesla
  75. NO LIMITS.
  76. ALL DIGITAL FUTURE.
  77. Digital over Physical Possessions
  78. DIGIBYTE.
  79. CHAINLINK.
  80. The Excitement of Starting from Zero
  81. HAPTIC INDUSTRIES NOW ACCEPTING CRYPTO AND BITCOIN
  82. In Praise of Crypto
  83. JUST BUY IT.
  84. Why I’m So Bullish on Bitcoin
  85. Bitcoin as the Simplest Cryptocurrency
  86. Why I bought (more) bitcoin
  87. Once You Become a Crypto Billionaire, Then What?
  88. Why Crypto is Under-Hyped
  89. The Joy of Speculation
  90. BITCOIN AND CRYPTOCURRENCY FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
  91. Why I Bought Bitcoin
  92. Crypto Photography
  93. Crypto Thoughts
  94. On Making Money from Nothing

Raging Bull

Becoming a Bull: The Bull Mindset

People want the Lamborghini, the raging bull. But why don’t you just turn yourself into a raging bull instead?


Money and power?

More money is not more power. Money is actually not related to power. I think what is more important in terms of power is courage and valor. Nothing else.


Humans are bad at math? 

I think the problem with math, money is that intuitively, humans are not good at math. For example, Seneca at the age of three years, one month: it is funny because for the most part he knows one, too, or “manh-hee” (a lot, in Korean).

Apparently also in a lot of indigenous cultures, they do a similar distinction. Not individual counting, but simply referring to a lot of things as “many”. 

What is “gambling”?

When you only speculate things in order to make money; not what you really care or believe in?

The reason why I like to call myself speculator, a cryptocurrency speculator, a bitcoin speculator is that in truth, ain’t nobody know the future. All of my predictions, they are seated in intuition, but feelings, and also some conceptual framework I have about the world. It looks like ultimately I was right, but this doesn’t really even matter; tomorrow I could be wrong, the day after I might be “more right.”

It doesn’t matter whether I am right or wrong, but whether I win or lose.

In terms of finances, winning is simple:

Just keep seeing the number go up!

But also this is tricky because on what time scale? On the minute basis, the hourly basis, the day basis, the week basis, the month basis, the year basis, the 10 year basis? 

For example my bitcoin bet; I am glad that I was mostly ignorant to the news and the prices, I intentionally avoided. Apparently last year it was a low around 18,000 a bitcoin, and the other day it hit an all-time new high, I think around $69,000 a bitcoin. It dipped a little bit the other day and I bought more.

So with predictions, price predictions, I think you want to be right in the 10 year, 20 year, 30 year time scale. Why do you think at this time scale? Thinking about your kid, your kids, their kids kids.

***

How many gains, or how much gains is enough gains?

Humans, we are insatiable. We always want more.

For example, I think it was just the other day I remember having only $100 in my savings account, then 300 $500, 1000, and now it is a lot more.

Certain barriers: 20,000, 25,000, 250,000, 500,000, 700,000, 750,000, $800,000 and beyond.

And at this number continues to balloon, there will always be new goals and price targets, $1 million, $1.3 million, $5 million, $10 million, $100 million, 500 million etc.

Why do humans want more?

I think this is a good thing; the human desire for more is what has propelled us this far.

For example, the other day I just got Internet, give it fiber Internet connected to our house, and the guy who was installing it showed me… How micro thin the fiber optic cable was, but given this insanely tiny filament, to provide a download and upload speed of both about 1000 Mb a second. That is amazing.

Ways that this is useful to me: 

Currently, uploading videos and video files is painstakingly slow, and interrupts my workflow. Greater technology better technology will enable me to create quicker, more freely, less friction. 


Becoming a real man

Masculinity, virtue; what is it and what does it all mean?

Well the notion of virtue was initially about virtus, which just means man.  Let us also not forget that the notion of woman comes from the notion man.

wo-man

My best thoughts come to me while walking?

Still… The more think about it, what is the greatest privilege of modern day living? Walking!

Another big intervention:

it is better to rent an extremely desirable area which allows for a magnificent 100% walking pedestrian lifestyle, which you could walk to all of your favorite coffee shops and public spaces, rather than own a very nice home, even in a moderately good location.

For example, all of this is currently written on my iPad Pro, M1 chip, voice dictation via the built-in Apple keyboard. And I love it! It allows for a new mode and channel of communication and thought expression that is not possible before. 


BULL

So in finance, the notion of being a bowl, bullish is the generalized idea that you are positive, optimistic, strong, thinking about upwards growth.

The opposite of a bull is a bear.

In finances, if you are bullish about something, you are optimistic about it, you see it growing.

If you are a bear, do you predict that something will fail, the prices will drop. As a consequence you might short as dog, which means that you make money when you see the company lose shareholder value.

Only be bullish?

There are 1 million different ways you can make money, but it seems that the safest and the best way is to be bullish not bearish. Why?

First, the danger of shortselling is that if the price goes the other way, you don’t just lose 100% of your money, you could lose 200% of your money. Which means if you make the wrong that, you go into massive debt.

Whereas with going long, or being bullish, if you’re prediction is wrong, at worst your money goes to zero, never negative.  


BULL THINKING

So perhaps in life, the goal is to become a bull, to become more bullish, the raging bull.

  1. Yoke, yoke walk?
  2. Atlas lift, atlas walk?

Just carry an immense amount of weight on your shoulders, on your traps, upper shoulders and your back and just walk?

Don’t think about it too much. 


To become mentally bullish, your body must also become bullish?

One of the most nonsensical things is this notion “mind over matter”; the idea that you could be a skinny fat loser, tied to a computer screen and be courageous, devoid of any physical strength?

To me, true courage and valor is rooted in the physical. For example, until you have successfully lifted up 1000 pounds on your shoulder, you don’t know nothing.

True courage is rooted in physical courage. This is why ultimately, humans will be most amazed by physical strength and might, height and muscles, and size… not money possessions cars etc. 

Also, even though powerlifting is not perfect, the general idea of “one rep max”– one repetition maximum is a good one.  

Even on the playground, kids… the most impressive thing for a kid is to be strong.

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Better to be over warm than over cold?

 I have a theory: I wonder if a lot of modern day misery from people is the fact that they are simply too cold, literally and physiologically. For example, their homes. Too much time spent indoors, at the house or in the home, not enough time turning on the heater, in order to “save money”.

I think people make a foolish optimization and decision; in order to “save money”, they lack the critical insight that actually in fact… isn’t the point and purpose of money to improve our physiology health and well-being, not to save money for the sake of saving money? 


Money Mentalities?

OK this is a funny thing about money; a lot of people often criticize and critique Jewish people for their habits regarding money, even Galiani criticized and critiqued Jewish people, the people of Judea for being the most cruel money-lenders and usurers.

However, my personal thought and insight is that actually, the greater thing to consider is money culture.

For example, the only reason why I think Jewish people have built a culture around money, saving money, building capital etc. is because of the long history of oppression, everything taken from them etc.

For example, if you are a race of people who literally have nothing, you gotta do everything in your power to build a capital, and power. I think for Jewish people that meant becoming educated, becoming money conscious, etc.

In fact, I think the reason why people hate Jewish people so much, is actually in fact… Jewish people are very wise and sparing with their money. The superficial criticism of Jewish people is that they are so rich, and therefore I hate them. But don’t hate Jewish people because they don’t blow their money on stupid things like you do.


The refugee mindset and mentality with money?

Another thing; I find that Vietnamese people, especially Vietnamese refugee people are actually really good with money, whereas immigrant Korean people are really poor with money.

Another thing with Vietnamese people, when Vietnamese, Vietnamese people fled the communists, especially the Saigonese boat people, the logic was simple: 

We already have experienced having everything taken and stolen from us, therefore as a result, we will become exceedingly sparing with our money, because who knows… at any other given moment it could all be taken from us again.

Koreans on the other hand, we are very poor with money. Why? Ever since the bailout from the IMF international monetary fund to South Korea, essentially we could consider Korea as a neo colony of America. Just look at the facts; the American military intervention in South Korea, the border, protection against North Korea.

Therefore the interesting insight is that in terms of money culture, spending, the family structure etc.… Korea, South Koreans are becoming exceedingly like Americans. In fact the last time I went to Korea, the thought:

Koreans, South Koreans are just like Americans, except everyone speaks Korean.

In fact, did you know that Korea has Costco, a lot of Costco‘s!

One of my funniest modern day memories is driving to Daegu South Korea and having to park a car inside the insane parking structure in the Daegu South Korea Costco!


Humans are naturally bad with money and math?

Apparently there’s a pretty good book that came out recently, by the psychology of money. I read a little bit about it, but I found it a bit boring, I find my own personal insights to be more interesting.

Now that bitcoin is booming, and I’m stupid rich, funny enough my attitudes about money hasn’t changed much. Why or why not? I think our culture and attitude about money is deeply ingrained within ourselves from a young age. Therefore as a consequence, the thought:

Money, having money getting money doesn’t change us.

Then what changes? Only thing that changes is that the number that we frame and imprint in our minds, in terms of our net worth or the money value associated with us, keeps going up. This is a very good feeling, but… For the sake of what?


Ignore media

What messes us up? Media. TV, cinema films, it all gives us a distorted view of reality.

In fact, my proudest thing is that Seneca, ever since he was born has never been exposed to external media. No stupid YouTube, no Disney, no Disney+, no kid shows, etc. I found that actually even from an early age, strange morals, moralizing ethics comes from these kids shows, or they are just stupid distractions.

So with money, stuff like that… Even from a young age the reason why I hate YouTube, YouTube kids etc.… The really insidious thing is that lobby sneaky YouTube kid producers are just doing product placement for their mediocre toys in their videos. So the thought:

Ever since you were born, ever since you were a young child, you were already marketed to.

Even as a kid growing up in the 90s, growing up, born in 1988, the thing that I personally learned was thinking about how many dumb advertisements I saw on TV for all these stupid toys.

Advertising works

Advertising works, it works on nerds, it works on you.

Something that PETER THIEL said .,,, in his Zero to One book — he hit the bull’s-eye target exactly;

Advertising works.

The danger happens when we don’t think that it works on us, that somehow we are above it, we are lofty above it.

No. We are all influenced by marketing advertising etc. Advertising marketing and imagery works in sneaky ways. Without wanting to, we naturally get influenced by our environments, the sociology of the place we live in.

 of course if you live in a modern de Society, you cannot escape it. But there are certain things you could do:

Never consume any sort of media which is supported by advertising.

This is almost 100% of websites and blogs on the Internet which have advertisements, display ads, Google Adsense. Practically 100% of podcast, radio TV shows, essentially anything that you don’t have to pay money for.

Also magazines, a lot of books, newspapers etc.

Even now, a lot of these streaming services, like Netflix etc.… I think the new strategy isn’t to create insanely great media, but instead to create these addictive shows, which have you continue to invoke your own curiosity, to keep having you watch it and subscribe for the rest of your life. The curiosity gap here is strong.

Stick to the Classics

Trying to do some mental math inside my mind today, in terms of my crypto and bitcoin gains, I realize that I am very bad at math, very poor at mental math, very poor at analyzing and thinking it all myself.

One suggestion that I got from NASSIM TALEB, in regards to studies — is trying to think about the majors or the disciplines or the things to study which do the least amount of harm to us. It seems that he suggests studying classics, the classics, and math. Being really good at math, certainly doesn’t hurt. And also the classics are great because our modern day society is so different in terms of thinking and deseridatum (things to be desired), compared to modern day times. Also, I find a certain precision in Latin and ancient Greek, even studying Proto Info European which escapes modern day English and modern day thinking. 


YOUR BODY AS A TANK

Another funny trend I see in modern day society, everyone is trying to purchase cars that make them look like an armored vehicle, maybe it might be more effective to just transform your own body into a tank, an armored vehicle instead?

 For example, these stupid Range Rover cars, Range Rover defenders, SUVs etc.; everyone wants to feel like their king of the hill, or king of the roads.

For example look at these lifted cars trucks, etc.

Am I the only person that I know who is proud to drive a Prius?


where to find or seek innovation?

This is my current preoccupation. I think the innovation lies somewhere in walking, being off the grid, weightlifting, etc. 

Everyone’s the same?

 Another funny bias in society is that we are all trying so hard to differentiate ourselves from one other, but in fact, we are far more similar than dissimilar.

What is the true differentiating factor? Not our things are possessions or bank account, but instead, our courage and valor.

I was reading the sayings of this Partins from Plutarch, and one of the interesting thoughts was an ancient Sparta, they did not allow the boys to have wrestling trainers, so that wrestling, was more about courage and valor not skill.

 You?

It is only ever my ambition to help empower motivate and uplift others.

Trying to change the world is a complicated task, but changing yourself seems more interesting.



A CRITIQUE OF THE LOSER MENTALITY

The bone I have to pick with modern day Society, is that the ideology is so loser oriented. What that means is that I think humans don’t believe in their own self agency as much, we seem to not think that we have that much control over our destiny our bodies our souls etc.

The will to ERIC?

Ever since I was a kid, ever since I was a fat 1112-year-old kid in New York, my mom was working two full-time jobs, my dad was a deadbeat, just watching TV and movies at home all day, and I was a fat kid. I remember having a triple chin in the humid York summers, not being able to fall asleep because all the chins stacked on top of each other, and I couldn’t fall asleep until I rub some Vaseline under my chins. I think I even recall weighing myself as a kid, maybe at around 11 years old, I think I was 120 pounds, and pretty short? This was before puberty.

I think the issue was way too much orange juice, hot pockets, sugary stuff, without knowing it. Also lots of barbecue sauce, ketchup etc.

Anyways, at the age of 11, I made a vow to change things. Our friend Spencer laughs in warm recollection of how I started putting rocks in my backpack, running around Bayside queens, trying to get fit. I asked my mom to buy me some weights, some dumbbells, and I still recall, her purchasing me 15 pound dumbbells, and eventually I got strong enough that I could stack 215 pound dumbbells on top of each other, and lift them as 30 pounds. Then later, Getting 50 pound dumbbells etc.

So one thing that a lot of people don’t know about me, which even predates Tarpy, is my passion for a diet health fitness working out muscles etc. I’ve literally tried everything. High fat low-fat, high carb low-carb, intermittent fasting, 7 to 8 small meals a day, bodybuilding etc.  More recently powerlifting, now it is tending more towards strongman style. 

“Realistic” vs “unrealistic” body goals?

So this is a big differentiation between men and women; men want to get super jacked like the terminator, and look like the Incredible Hulk or orc, which is typically done by doing steroids, artificial testosterone injections and consumptions, etc. Women on the other hand seem to want to look slim, Have a big butt, big breast etc.; and a certain facial structure which is predicated on make up, plastic surgery and Botox, breast and butt augmentation.

So this is the difference:

  1. For women, the ideal body look and facial look is achieved through plastic surgery
  2. For men, the ideal body look physique and composition is achieved through steroids

Simple

OK I have a super simple suggestion for both men and women;

1. First, 100% carnivore diet both for men and women. Plants are for cows.

 a diet which is predominantly organ meat, grass fed meat, bone marrow etc. If you live in LA, just go to Gelson’s and ask them to cut you some bone marrow in the back. Or if you just go to the local markets or organic markets, the often have frozen beef liver in the fridge or whatever.

For men and women, liver might be one of the most nutritious food items on the planet.

Therefore, if you’re just out and about with your kid and you see some organ meets at Whole Foods or wherever, just buy it and deal with it later.

2. Being outside and physical fitness

So there are a lot of people who have therapist and mental things they want to deal with etc.; I was asking my friend Jeffrey about this, who is now a young therapist, studying to be a psychiatrist, and I asked him:

as a therapist, are you allowed to prescribe exercise or physical activity for your patients?

 he said no. Because in America, we have a strange relationship with our bodies. On one hand, I think a lot of people desire to just become like a vessel, a brain in fishbowl. People are fools; they don’t seem to understand that the truth is I wonder if 99% of our “mental illnesses”, or actually physical in origin. 

For example, being outside, direct access to the direct sun and UV radiation, I would rather get skin cancer than be miserable and be inside all day.

Second, some sort of physical activity or exercise. This is both critical foreman and women. In ancient Sparta, I believe the girls trained as hard as the boys.

Also in ancient Sparta, they predicted correctly that one women were physically fit, they would get stronger children. 

“Do you do CrossFit?”

One of the best low-key compliments that I’ve been getting from people is this:

“Do you do CrossFit?”

It seems that this compliment is mostly from women — which is a low-key way of saying “I think you look good and sexy”.

In fact, my personal pro tip is all of your clothes should be sleeveless. Just wear a tank top, and a sleeveless down vest on top, always show off your shoulders you’re trapped in your bare arms; let everybody know how jacked you are. 

Make yourself the object of fascination 

So this is another weird bias; it seems that modern-day society, we are not allowed or permitted to be into ourselves. There is this weird duty to become like somebody else?

For example, typically the choir says “You must be like Jesus”. But, we forget that Jesus was not a pushover. He went to the temple, the Jewish temple, saw all of the money changers inside the temple, and cattle, brought out a whip and whipped them all out and said “how dare you do commerce inside my father‘s house!” Let us also not forget that Jesus was Jewish. 

Also, being here in Culver City, which is essentially the new Hollywood, you see a lot of people personalities and individuals who look like they’re in media. Attractive interesting looking people. But funny thing is that a lot of them are actually very short in real life. Even a lot of these rappers, Kanye West I think is only 5 foot seven, even Jeff Bezos is only 5 foot seven! also people don’t know that Kim Kardashian is short; she might only be 5 feet tall?

What is the will to power? 

For myself, I have always believed that “If you really want it, and you set your mind to it, you can get it.”

For example body goals. It is very very very very easy for all human beings to become more beautiful, by lowering your body fat percentage, even without exercise. The simple thing is this:

  1. Quit all sugars starches dairy cheese lactose, nuts, legumes, pasta rice etc. even the “good ones“.
  2. Quit all bread, fiber, etc.
  3. Quit alcohol all of it, even red wine; new studies are showing that even two alcoholic beverages a week, even red wine can actually increase your chance of getting cancer 
  4. Quit smoking marijuana or taking CBD stuff
  5. Quit fruit, vegetables etc. 

So what do we eat instead?

  1. Organ meats: beef hard, beef liver, beef kidney, also bone marrow. A super simple thing to do is when you have a bunch of bones, beef bones etc., just toss it into a pot or instant pot, add some water, boil it, and you could drink the broth!
  2. Eat lamb, beef, beef neck bone, red meat. The redder the better. Don’t eat pork because pork is white meat, don’t eat chicken or turkey and certainly no breast.
  3. Eat 100% grass fed beef, short ribs, ribs, beef neck bone, etc.
  4. four “vegetables“, don’t eat vegetables… Only dark leafy greens. This is colored greens, kale, anything bitter. Bitter is better. 

Beverages?

Beverages are simple: just drink water, tapwater, filtered water whatever, and black coffee, nothing added to it.

Don’t drink milk, real or fake, it is all just sugar in disguise with a good conscience.

Exercise

The thing with exercise that it should not be some sort of weird moralistic duty. Rather, we should think of it like play, pure joy. Autotelic exercise means the exercise and you do stuff and you move around and lift weights for fun! 

For example, a very interesting thing that I’ve observed about Seneca is that he never stands still; he is always moving around! He stands, he sits, he crawls around on his knees, he squats. Also a very interesting thing:

Whenever Seneca wants to pick something up, he always squats all the way down, full sumo style squat, ass to grass, every single time.  

And now that I think about it, because he’s playing with toys all day, he might do this, what– a 1000 times a day? 

Same thing goes with him picking up rocks and throwing around rocks! He’s not rewarded for throwing rocks nor does he do it for “exercise“, in order to “build muscle“, or “get fit”. Seneca throws rocks because it is fun, funny, and interesting to him! I wonder if it all is just like a physics experiment for him.

I think this is also my passion for weightlifting, one rep max lifting, always increasing your personal records. To me it is just a physics exercise and experiment;

How far can we push the human body, how strong can we become, without the use of steroids?

400 pound sandbags, and 2000 pound lifts 

I was randomly on Google and YouTube, and I saw this thing like  on the history channel, history of the worlds strongest man something like that, and it was centered around the idea of seeing whether the strong men could lift 2000 pounds.

Essentially Brian Shaw, the strongest of them all, also it seems that he is the best of taking steroids, was the winner. Apparently the other guy who attempted the same, an older guy with knee reps, was he able to do it, but tweaked something in his upper shoulders? 

I think one of the protest moments of my life was when I was able to successfully lift 1000 pounds, which I coined the “Atlas lift“. And now that I think about it, seeing those other guys do it, I’m sure if I kept my training up, I could eventually get to 1100 pounds, 1200 pounds, 1300 pounds, 1400 pounds, 1500 pounds and beyond. Maybe I cannot do 2000 pounds, because I don’t take steroids, but still… It is all achievable without steroids. Also I do it all while fasting. 

Anything and everything is possible

Another thing that I’ve been doing quite religiously the last seven years or so is intermittent fasting, no breakfast no lunch, only one insanely big dinner a day. I aim for at least 4 to 6 pounds of meat for dinner every sitting. During the day, I just drink water and black coffee, and I’ll wait until dinner time.

To a lot of people that seems impossible, but obviously it is not. In the beginning obviously you get some hunger pangs, but, my solution is simple: 

If you want to start intermittent fasting, the night before, eat 5 pounds of beef short rib, bone marrow, beef liver; the trifecta. I can guarantee you won’t be hungry until dinner time the next day. 

In fact, almost want to become like a food diet fitness exercise advisor to some of my favorite heroes, Elon Musk, Kanye West.

Elon musk looks terrible. I think he should start doing some sort of hot sauna, spend more time doing meetings outside in the sun, get into weightlifting, eating more organ meats, bone marrow etc. I’m still convinced; bone marrow, which Achilles was raised on, is the most superior and supreme steroid of all time. 

Just do some research with Google and ChatGPT; the majority of the diet of Achilles as a young child was bone marrow, and organ meat; heart, bone marrow, etc.

Scientism

Do not trust any food diet health science from any of these skinny fat loser academic scientist types. First of all just look at them; they are all pale and sickly, no muscle mass whatever. They might be into running or at worst — rock climbing– which is bad because it is all indoors typically.

This insidious idea that “a calorie is a calorie”, and the notion” calories in, calories out.”

Let us do a thought experiment. Let us say that you lift weights every single day, and you had two options:

Consume 2000 cal of Twinkies versus 2000 cal of bone marrow and beef heart.

Let us just think; at the end of it, who is going to look better? Who’s going to get fat? Certainly the person eating Twinkies. 

Also, another thought experiment; this one is in regards to “protein”, which I think is also a bit of a scam. If you’re a bodybuilder weightlifter or whatever, and every day you eat 500 grams of protein via  P protein powder versus beef liver, who is going to get more jacked, whose testosterone is going to be higher? Of course the guy eating beef liver.

Increasing your testosterone

Very very simple guys; and also women, the goal is to get your testosterone up. And the best food items to get your testosterone up is beef hard, beef liver, beef kidneys, bone marrow etc. The more cholesterol the food has, the better.

Experiment more with your diet, less with your technology?

OK now the new high watermark at least for mainstream devices is the Apple Vision Pro, $3499. Just think to yourself:

How many packets of bone marrow, beef liver, beef hard, beef kidney etc. can this buy me? 

Read ancient

The only thing I trust is ancient literature on things food health diet etc.

For example, the Iliad, the odyssey, etc. Why? This is before they had all of this nonsensical “woke“ or “politically correct” BS. The Greeks the ancient Greeks, were the highest men and humans of all time; no weak feelings, they delighted in cruelty and joy in humans, the human body. 


Make the body sexy and beautiful again

The biggest complaint or the biggest rebuttal against eating meat, being a carnivore etc. is that “it is bad for the planet“. This is a bunch of BS. What else is bad for the planet? Your Tesla, your Prius, your iPhone, your iPhone Pro, your AirPods, Amazon prime, through Netflix, etc. And also your dog.

Therefore, put zero trust or turn a deaf ear to anybody who invokes all this nonsensical thoughts on environmentalism; they are all fake.

Why do people buy Teslas? Not because they are “good for the environment“, but because they are sexy!


Now what?

  1. So speculate yourself via your diet, what you eat and what you don’t eat, as well as weightlifting equipment. Go to Titan.fitness, and allow yourself to buy a bunch of weightlifting equipment and toys. Some things I recently ordered and got the mail, insanely fast, I think it literally came within a day or two, was the “loadable farmer carry hack bar, farmer’s carry walk bar”, easy loadable farmers carry handles, attachments for my T3 independent squat rack for dips and chin-ups, and also something I’m very excited for; a 60 pound weight vest, which I might just take with me on my daily walks, or even hiking, or when I’m hanging out with Seneca.
  2. Give yourself a $1000 food speculation fund: load it up with bone marrow, organ meats, grass fed beef etc. 
  3. Quit media: quit your Netflix, cancel it all. No Hulu, Apple TV, Apple TV+, Disney, Disney+, HBO, HBO Max etc. If you want to watch something, just buy it on the Apple store, Apple TV store, and just watch it.

other things

Other things and suggestions include spending more time being a nature! I think for anybody who is in a poor mood, assuming that the sun is out, go to the beach, go on a hike! Find some easy nature hike trails close to your place, you don’t need to drive more than 20 or 30 minutes.

And also suggestion: turn off your phone, all the way off, and just keep it locked inside your glove compartment. Or if you take your phone with you, turn it off 100%.


What else?

My secret to happiness is simple; 30,000 steps a day, and spend at least eight hours a day outside!

ERIC