Ok, kind of a big thought while here in Cambodia: the idea that… everything that we do… is simply for the sake of itself… Or better yet, for the sake of ourselves?
Beyond the sake of extracting maximum economic value from yourself
So I think this is a big thought especially while leaving the states –>
So the first big idea is, in America… Essentially we quantify our value in terms of economic value. I think structurally the reason why this is the case is because,… The truth is, America’s actually kind of a middle class society… And also the truth is, even the act of living and paying the bills is actually very difficult. And actually the true insight I have is it doesn’t matter how rich you are in America… You will always feel poor because there’s somebody far more rich than you… Or even worse, somebody who seems richer than you because they have more expensive vehicles or whatever’s, but in fact, you actually may be richer or wealthy or better often than them. 
Asia
So I just met some 23 year-old International Khmer-Cambodian-Canadian kids, more or less we’re raised here, in the elite illuminati. And rich Khmer Cambodian people make American rich people look poor. For example, one of the 23-year-old guys that I met, one of his friends from school who is also like 23 years old… Owns a Bugatti Chiron, and also, his other friend just bought seven Rolls-Royce cullinan suv cars ,,, all in each color tone, with his moms written on the side of it.
Also… It seems that he has at least five friends with Lamborghini Aventador’s, and growing up was super normal for him to ride around in Lamborghinis with his buddies.
Even the gym that I go to every day here in Cambodia, just saw a Lamborghini urus casually parked in front.
why does this matter
So I think in America… Our sense of self-worth is typically assigned to some sort of economical numerical value. And this seems to be a very very fragile position to be in because, like if the markets are up or down or whatever… These are things which are outside your control, so from a stoic perspective, it doesn’t really make sense to outsource your self-esteem to the markets because once again… You could be the most insightful trader or investor in the world but, Black Swan events like a random war or other random happenings… These things are outside our control.
doing things for the sake of it or investing in ourselves
So I’m currently prototyping some interesting 100% all black linen clothing, shirts tank tops and also shorts because… The first motive I have is for myself, like I wanna make insanely great or the best possible clothing items that best suits my fitness lifestyle every day needs.
I spent like hundreds of thousands of dollars on stupid Lululemon clothing, and other elite fitness brand attire,  and it’s funny because… I think the traditional thought is, clothing attire stuff like that as soon as very very unimportant and superficial but, I actually think, the clothes that you wear actually may be more important than your iPhone, your iPad, your laptop, your car, your watch etc. After your clothing, perhaps your shoes, ideally some sort of zero drop minimalist Vibram five finger style shoes, is more important.
So the first thought: create the products and the services which you desire to see manifested in the world, the first motive is to just serve yourself. 
Also, I think when you are starting off and prototyping things, I don’t think that the economic motive is actually the primary driver because… The truth is, prototyping new products or trying to introduce you products to the world or the marketplace, it is impossible to know that there will be any demand or people are actually willing to pay money for it. But I guess… If you’re curious enough to find out, or you know… You simply do it for the sake of it.
towards Autotelic self development
What is the most important thing for us to invest in? Not the markets but ourselves.
I think an American Society… Our economic value is more important than our self value or our self-determined value. That idea is investing time into ourselves to either build up our philosophical thinking… Or our bodily fitness is seen as a waste of time unless it equates to some sort of economic output. For example… Exercise is only justified if it helps “reduce our stress levels“, in order for us to work harder and earn more capital.
Same thing goes with philosophy… Even though philosophy may be the supreme field, higher than economics, to study philosophy or to be a philosopher or whatever… Is seen as wasted effort unless once again, it equates to some sort of economic output value.
end games and goals
On a base basic level, certainly there are simple things we gotta do like pay the rent, pay for groceries, pay the mortgage or whatever. But beyond this… It actually seems more important for us to preserve our freedom. If there’s a certain point in which earning more money or capital … Leads you to enslaving yourself, it actually is not worth it. 
For example… If you think about the ancient Spartans, what did they care for? All they care for was their freedom, their small lots of land, and just spending the rest of their time and the day on military exercises, presumably working out topless outside, during target practice with helots, playing music reading poetry philosophy related stuff, and that was it. It seemed that they limited their acquisition goals, like when each Spartan just owned a small plot of land, that was it, that is all he needed, and then they just kind of stopped at that point.
In America… There are no limits, it doesn’t matter if you have 1 million 2 million 5 million 10 million 100 million 1 billion 500 billion whatever, enough is never enough.
Life goals
According to Nietzsche, the purpose of life is for more power. I do think that this is pretty accurate, but, maybe it’s not just economic power but other types of power.
For example, physical physiological fitness power, art artistic creative power, philosophical mind power, and also more Zen power, tranquility power. 
Also the power to be present.
Why does this all matter?
Concentration and focus. Like for example in Los Angeles… Just thinking consider, how much mind soul time attention power is wasted on thinking about the automobile you drive?
In Asia, Cambodia Phnom Penh in particular, this is essentially a non-thought. Like literally… If someone just gave me a free Lamborghini Aventador here in Cambodia I would probably refuse it because, A: functionally speaking it’s just kind of impossible to drive on the streets, 2) I don’t really trust myself driving is here anyways because the visibility is so poor, and 3)–> I actually love riding in a ramorque tuk-tuk open aired, skinny tiny vehicle, rather than being in a stuffy car with no view and the air-conditioning on?