Or un-disciplined?
VISION.
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Choose Your Fighter
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Get people excited!
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Discipline to sleep early
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I’m shocked, after Nvidia and bitcoin, there’s like a huge jump down to Tesla google Meta Microsoft Apple. Which in the last four years is around the 155% to 75% range.
Everything else beyond that… Amazon is practically on life-support?
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Money Manager
Monetary health, financial economic health
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What to chase, what NOT to chase?
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Gold– gold is real money, but Bitcoin is a gazillion times better
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Wisely stubborn or foolishly stubborn?
Peak feminae?
A young society vs an old society?
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Gold vs Bitcoin
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How is Eric Kim’s investing style different?
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My investing philosophy
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What do the Japanese live for?
The Japanese live to proceed with life with minimum amount of pain and suffering, minimum amount of sensations, until they eventually die.
What do Americans live for? 
Americans live and work in anticipation and hope of increasing their purchasing power, to purchase more hedonistic pleasures, ad infinitum.
What do Koreans live for?
Koreans live in order to hoard respect, and seek to reach the peak of the hierarchy. 
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100% merino feels so luxury!
Too much wisdom!
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The philosophy of financial health?
If it ain’t broken don’t fix it?
The cult of the best?
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Trust the Germans!
LUMIX S9 is like a baby Leica Q
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How to sleep insanely fucking early?
OK so this is a big thing… Especially once you have a kid, OMG, last night I had like the worst headache and migraine of all time, the big issue being that we stayed out a bit too late, and didn’t go to bed until 9 PM, which in Kids world is like at least two or three hours too late.
I think actually, perhaps the best bedtime for kids is like 5 PM. Assuming that your kid gets out of school at like 2 PM, then the ideal thing is to go home, clean up shower up, eat some more random stuff, shower bathe and try to go to sleep as early as humanly possible.
The reason why is that actually, no matter how disciplined you are, that time will always run like two or three hours late.
I think this happens with almost everything in life, with money finances and planning… I’m starting to think that like maybe, the wise idea is to set like an insanely huge buffer for everything, always anticipating the worst.
For example, there is no worse thing than the anxiety of being late somewhere? So always always always show up early, maybe try to show up like at least 30 minutes or 40 minutes early? Because when there are unanticipated things like the President of China coming down into town, and shutting down all the streets, at least you are prepared.
Being, being more mobile nimble, skinnier? Thinner?
So being here in Phnom Penh Cambodia,  grab which is there Uber, there are like 1 billion tuck tucks running around which are these like mini motorcycle transport vehicles, which are insanely skinny, and will only cost you like a dollar to go anywhere.
Now during peak traffic rush-hour… These things are a godsend. Why? Because in the worst of traffic, even having an insanely tiny edge like a few more inches of skinniness, you can skinny skinny skinny sneak through little tiny cracks, in order to get by the traffic. But assuming you have a truck an SUV, a car, even a Prius… You’re stuck.
As a consequence, the hilarious irony is if you have like infinite wealth, nobody likes being stuck in traffic, not the rich not the poor, nobody. Certainly not kids.
So when it comes to purchasing a vehicle, I might be the only one who thinks this but even if you’re worth like $1 billion, you always always always always always want the skinniest car possible.
Ford fiesta
One car I surprisingly really loved was the Ford fiesta, I was part of this marketing campaign called the Ford fiesta movement, in which I got a suite electric blue Ford fiesta five speed manual car, while I was living in Michigan, and I was given free gas for like six months.
What’s actually super super insanely interesting is that this car, especially the Ford fiesta ST which I feel it looks like the most underrated car of all time, is that ultimately when shit hits the fan, the thing that you’re always going to feel good about is being able to find a parking spot even in the midst of the worst Traffic conditions and in terms of space.
So for example, even if you’re a billionaire the best Tesla car is the smallest the skinniest, the closest to the round the most stable. This would be a Tesla model three performance, because typically with cars, the closer you are to the floor the more stable. And no no no don’t get suckered by those stupid offloading people, It’s like a very very expensive way to get a headache. I think it’s actually much more interesting that you could instead, just go topless and in shorts, and just run through the mud, the rocks yourself and parkour around?
Toyota?
Also, with a Toyota car, similarly speaking the best Toyota car might also be the maximum small and skinny one. The same thing goes with Lexus.
I’m not sure, but I think maybe the smallest skinniest car is either the Prius or the Toyota Corolla. Assuming that they’re the same size, Prius is obviously the better option because assuming you get a hybrid car, you’re going to get at least 2X the MPG. And assuming that you’re comparing a Corolla hybrid and a Prius hybrid, the reason why the Prius makes a lot more sense is because of the hatchback. With a hatchback you could fit like 1000 X more space stuff in the trunk and also ironically enough if you look at the two, the Prius actually looks a lot cooler than the Corolla?  The only other contender is the GR Corolla which I love and I think is insanely cool, but once again for practical purposes, you never ever ever want to be paying premium gas because you’re going to have to pay it for the rest your life, even if America gets into a situation in which there is a embargo on oil — and if oil then became like $20 a gallon, you will be very very very happy that you had a Prius. And that you get like 50 MPG‘s, on regular cheap unleaded 87 gas, not 91 octane which is for suckers.
And once again I think this is the hard thing for people to understand is that even if you’re super super rich, technically the people who become super super rich or actually ironically the most frugal economical and penny conscious.
Ident suppose the wisdom is knowing when to be frugal wisely but also knowing when to spend money wisely?
It takes no skill to be a Scrooge, no wisdom to become a Scrooge. Because it is very very straightforward to penny you pinch every single penny, even if it might go to your disadvantage?
For example, let us say you’re trying to book a flight to Asia from LA. Let us say you have two options: a direct flight for $1000 which takes you 8 hours, or a flight in which you have to connect three or four times, that takes 50 hours, that costs $800. which option do you take?  of course you take the direct flight even though it cost $200 more… The difference between being in transit for eight hours versus 50 hours is pretty obvious.
So there is some sort of economic calculus which is always happening, and I think the tricky thing is this economic stuff is not intuitive, rather, it is learned, indoctrinated, taught.
My personal difficulty is that more or less, I came from nothing, I started from the bottom, and made it to the top. But so much of this was through my own bricolage (trial and error), personal experimentation and figuring things out. One of the greatest blessings in my life is actually meeting Cindy, because she essentially taught me financial literacy. When I first was living with her and dating her, I might have only had like 300 bucks in my savings account. Now I could purchase a garage full of Lamborghinis if I wanted to, but obviously will not because Lamborghinis are only for low testosterone losers. High testosterone tall handsome demigods, with a body like Achilles, we all drive Prius’s. 
What is our real enemy?
The way I see it, the only trend enemy here is media, television, the news, fake news real news, social media, iPhone notifications, etc.
Even a thing which is making things 1000 times more messy is AI. For example, I’ve been playing a lot with Grok and ChatGPT, I’m kind of an expert in both, and what I’ve discovered is AI becomes a strange self fulfilling prophecy. What that means is You train the AI on your blog and your data set, and then you use the AI to generate new text and information, using your voice and style, but then becomes a point in which AI doesn’t know whether you wrote it or AI wrote it. As a consequence, You can’t trust nothing. Only yourself.
I’ll give you an example, I’ve been having a lot of fun having Grok and ChatGPT write blog articles and essays in my voice, simply because I’m curious what it will produce.
Thus for my lesson is that Grok, is a lot more fun and entertaining, in a surprising in a good way! I would say Grok is great for generating new creative ideas, ideas I would have not even thought of myself! For creative ideation, for coming out with new creative ideas… Grok is the best.
ChatGPT is interesting because it’s still the golden standard, and technically I think the better of the truth. Because it has been around for longer.
With ChatGPT, the articles and information that produces is technically more accurate, but more bland and boring. None of the essays that ChatGPT has written in my voice has been entertaining to me.
The funny thing is with Grok, all these essays that it writes, I think there’s too much training that is done on Twitter X, so it’s not really my voice it seems more like some sort of male meme person. For example he uses words that I have never used like “HODL” or “sats”.  Even though I have been a bitcoin investor since 2018, I don’t think I have ever used the word HODL (hold onto dear life), or “sat” (short for satoshi, the smallest denominator of a bitcoin) or even Satoshi. 
Also, my personal knowledge gaps. I know almost nothing about cold storage, keys, hardware wallet etc. Simply because I don’t trust them. I also don’t trust myself. The reason why I would prefer a custodian like Coinbase is because I feel much much more secure storing my Face ID or my thumbprint, rather than being the guy who forgot my keys and my password, locking myself out of $1 billion.
Darney in the hilarious thing is that a lot of people, in order to get more security, simply end up locking out themselves? Like with Security, ironically I think the safest way to live is to not have security. For example, even NASSIM TALEB, at the height of his exposure to other economist in mainstream media, started to get anxiety that not even chamomile tea could get rid of. Therefore instead of hiring a bodyguard, she decided to look like a bodyguard himself, and this is where I first learned about one rep Max lifting, in which the style of weightlifting is rather than trying to do these hateful repetitions, much more mainly fun interesting and effective instead to simply hold up all of your strength to see, whether eucalypt a maximum weight, successful successfully once, rather than grind out like 100 boring repetitions.
This is kind of a big deal because it’s almost like bodybuilding truth 1 oh one that in order to get bigger hypertrophy, you have to do light repetitions, on to failure. For example, like the professional bodybuilder might try to dead lift 405 pounds like 20 times in a row, whereas a power lifter would prefer to lift 1000 pounds, once?
Or, a bodybuilder might try to bench press 315 pounds 10 times, for 4 sets, while a power lifter might try to bench press 800 pounds, once?
In terms of showmanship, there is nothing more entertaining to watch in real life than a power lifter tried to hype himself up before one repetition maximum he has actually never attempted before. Even for myself as a weightlifter, this is my supreme joy in life: to see, whether I will be successful or not? Or even having the balls to attempt it in the first place?
My general idea in weightlifting is simple:
if you already know with 100% searching before doing the lift that you will be successful, it is not worth doing.
Even as Jeff Bezos says, thinking of himself like an inventor or a scientist, the idea is that with experiment, what a lot of these risk-averse individuals do not know is if you know with 100% certainty already that it will be successful, it is not an experiment. An experiment is having a gut predilection towards something ,,, something in which you have autotelic curiosity about, and something you want to attempt because you’re genuinely curious, almost rather than the result?
Like Donald Trump says: in the art of the deal “I do it in order to do it”. 
Also for Donald Trump even said in the art of the deal, that he doesn’t do it for the money but money in dollar bills is simply a way to keep score.
Unrelated
I totally unrelated thing, in the bit of all this tariff warfare, it suddenly came to my memory that Donald Trump, I think co-authored a book or wrote a book through the voice of a ghost writer, called the Art of the deal. I think the truth is he didn’t actually write the book but had another guy write it for him — which makes sense because if you’re a real business man, you don’t actually have time to write books. Like for example ask Michael Saylor if he’s going to write a book on bitcoin, but the truth is he cannot right now because he is simply too busy doing the real deal?
And typically this is where it is wise to never read business books which are actually not written by the entrepreneur themselves because a commentator who isn’t on the front lines will never know. Still today… I think the only business books worth reading are the biographies by Walter Isaacson, on Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Leonardo da Vinci etc., and also, zero to one by Peter Thiel.
And then actually, more interesting than reading a book about a successful individual is interviews with the individuals themselves. For example, I really love the Joe Rogan interview interviews with Elon Musk because it is unfiltered, and, you get it straight from the source!
Another thing to learn from is through people‘s physiology and demeanor. For example, for me a big concerning aspect about Elon Musk was how his physical health looked. I think in the most recent Joe Rogan podcast in which he is wearing the occupy Mars T-shirt, he looks really really obese and unwell? But anyways, super interesting random things that came to my attention is how great Elon Musk is that video games, that actually… I think in Diablo for his like ranked top 10 on the planet? And at one point maybe when he was in college… He was one of the top players in the states and thus the world?
Keep, keeping your options open?
Ancient wisdom 
