The philosophy of goals:

So, is a goal a good idea, or is it not?

My personal thought right now is goals are not the path. Instead, I prefer the idea of principles, thoughts, patterns, or general values.

So I’ve had random goals in my life and I’ve hit all of them, financial personal fame etc.

And also… And weightlifting, lifting the mythical 1000 pounds.

Now, my personal thought is trying to focus on more important things like for example, deeper thoughts, deeper philosophies etc.

And also, trying to pioneer new ideas that are hugely practical and pragmatic, which could help other people. And obviously thinking through things to help myself. 

So currently, a huge thought on my mind is financial, living, lifestyle etc.

So for example, I think a lot of people, maybe around my age, I’m 36 years old, born in 1988; a lot of people are into trying to buy a house or something? Not sure?

So I think and wonder, I think the big question about buying a house, buying your property, single-family home etc.

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Financial leverage?

So the first critical thought to consider is financial leverage.

So I think the number one critical thing is the interest rate. And also the philosophy of interest.

So obviously everyone needs somewhere to live, but if you need to live somewhere you could just rent. So the question is what is the purpose of purchasing a home, especially if you need to buy it not all in cash?

100% cash offer?

So then the big question at hand is should you buy a house if you have to mortgage it or borrow money from the bank?

So there are all these really really sophisticated financial instruments, remortgaging your house, refinancing it or whatever… And somehow being able to draw equity from it?

I have no idea how this works, but still, my general gut feeling is that having to deal or mess with anything in the physical realm seems like a losing bet.

Why? First, the critical issue here is that you’re playing with the laws of physics gravity and time. Which is a very very fragile position to be in because boom, your roof goes out, the foundation of your home is in disrepair, you could easily be out $100,000 or $200,000 without blinking.

The idea?

The difference between a man and a woman–

 I think women seek to buy a home and own a home as a conduit for safety security etc. A man might want to buy a house as a gesture of supporting and providing for the family, etc.

And or, maybe if you want to be a man in the high castle, do you want to build yourself a fortress?

But if you think of yourself like Achilles… And you think about the Greece versus Trojans, you don’t want to have a choice you essentially create a prison for yourself.

I think actually what we want is power, domination.

Is it that Achilles wanted? And what he cared for? Briesis his “rightful” prize, so, an unintended side consequence, getting revenge for his best friend Patroclus by avenging his death by killing Hector.

My personal read is actually… Achilles, all he cared for is actually the lust for battle.  Seems this is when Achilles is at his finest; she is a warrior demigod, a mean green killing machine. 

Maybe happiness is not the goal?

Aristotle says all men to be happy, and it is one good that people seek for the sake in itself.

I beg to differ, I think a little different; maybe what we really do desire instead, is the lust for battle, domination, and conquering?

For example what is it that Alexander the great wanted to do? To essentially conquer the known modern world. What does America want? The same. 

“Defense”

Apparently there are all these laws that we have the legal right to self-defense, but nobody has the legal right of offense.

And also where things get tricky is if let us say that you have a gun and somebody else might or might not have a gun, and you’re afraid of your life in danger or your kids life in danger whatever… And you shoot first, in preemptive self-defense, and then boom you found out that the other guy Was just trying to reach for a cigarette or whatever, then what?

I think things are very very tricky if it has to deal with the life of your child, or as a conduit, your life as it means to protect your child?

So for example, I have zero interest in performing fake bravado and getting shot by some skinny fat loser with a beard, and dying to try to act tough, because if this is the case Seneca will not have a father.

So I think you’re very important thing to think about and consider is you’re not just thinking about your own life, but, also, the future life of your son, your daughter, your kids, or even potentially your future kids?

so what is it here we really want?

I think in America, there is a notion of security. Of settling down, stability etc.

But is this a good goal?

Once again, it all depends on who you are, your value ethics and morality etc.

So for example, considering that I love powerlifting, one Max lifting, my notion of safety is different than the over generalized notion of safety for somebody else.

For example, maybe somebody who is more of a boring person, might like to do things more of a bodybuilding style, like doing predictable repetitions, sets, using the loser cable machine etc. And their goal is more towards developing a look and physique, rather than building their courage, strength, power and dominance.

And this is why, at the end of the day… The biggest dick in the room will always be the guy who could lift the most.

So for example, if you’re at the gym, which is the modern day arena, if you could lift 1000 pounds, your dick is 1 trillion times bigger than the guy with the big chest, who could only bench press 325 pounds or something.

I think once again, the truth of the matter is when you’re at the gym, everyone is trying to be the biggest dick in the room. And I think that is fine; everyone tries to seek it a different way. 

For example some people end up being the weird calisthenics or weird mobility people because they think that it makes them feel dominant, others tried to do it with muscular size and steroids, other guys try to do it with increasing their one rep max number also taking steroids.

So here… To compete with other random strangers in the gym or the world is a bad idea because if that is your ultimate goal, you’re probably sooner or later going to take steroids or something.

Also this is where I trust zero professional sports, even the regulated ones in the Olympic; if you want to win and get the goal… You’re going to take steroids or other weird drugs, to give you an edge.

Same goes with actors, actresses etc.… The whole industry is not good because it’s see extreme novelty and weirdness; women will end up doing strange plastic surgery and augmentation surgery, men will also be taking steroids other stuff to get the great on camera physique.

Like let us consider… If there is a scene in the superhero movie in which you’re taking off your shirt, obviously you want to look like a superhero, like a god. That shot might only be like 10 seconds, but it is whatever everyone is going to be talking about in the next 10 years. So obviously from this perspective, the optimal strategy to take steroids, and promise that you won’t ever do it again later. 

What does this happen? Obviously not. 

Leg thoughts

I have this simple idea of a never sitting lifestyle. You’re never sitting in a chair, on the couch, or in a car, doesn’t matter if you have a Rolls-Royce or whatever.

So what is super interesting is that now, I have the 60 pound weight vest, which has totally changed my life. Every single morning without fail, I always put it on, and do my morning walks with it. Within a very very short period of time, it has improved my Physiology 1 trillion fold; my posture is superior, I stand up straighter, I’m just far stronger more handsome, more glorious!

And, the biggest benefit is that what I’m sitting down, with it… I realize, how poor sitting is for you.

People say that sitting is the new smoking, I think maybe instead… Sitting is the new Poison?

Why sitting is toxic for you 

First, there is actually no physiological reason why you need to sit, unless you’re crippled in a wheelchair.

For example, there is no reason why you can’t use a standing desk, if you’re tired, your legs are tired whatever, instead of trying to self yourself to keep working and be productive, the easiest thing is to just lie down on your back and take a nap!

And also… Even taking it a step further, there’s no real reason you need to even stand at a desk anymore, the idea is to just have an iPad Pro, and walk around while you’re doing your work! You could even have an iPhone or iPhone Pro, and ideally just do all of your walking outside while you take meetings or do work related things?

Even if you have to send an email for a living, or take phone calls for a living, the ideal would just to just maybe have AirPods on, to just walk around nature and do your meetings on your phone? And do your emails just doing voice dictation, in nature or on a hike?

ANTI OFFICE MINDSET

It is the year 2024, I don’t understand it… Why are corporations and companies, especially the big tech ones, still forcing their employees to have to come into the office, even once a week or something?

The only reasonable explanation is some sort of Panopticon monitoring Security thing; you’re fearful that your employees are getting lazy and unproductive, slacking off at home, therefore you force him to go into the office, to assert your domination and power over them.

Brave New World of digital capital,

So it looks like microstrategy, MSTR stock is gonna hit $300 this year soon; earnings report incoming October 30th.

And some big news, the FASB.org financial accounting standards board, they updated their accounting standards to include bitcoin and crypto,  which is an insanely big deal because starting January 2025, essentially companies corporations like Apple can start to add bitcoin to their balance sheet, being able to accurately mark their assets and capital in bitcoin, openly transparently, fair accounting.

Anyways, the reason why this is such a big deal is that for a long time, especially thinking about bitcoin pizza day, in which a guy bought two medium sized Domino’s pizzas with about 100,000 bitcoins, maybe worth about $200 million today, back when it was worth nothing, round 2009, my junior year of college.

Anyways, back in the day actually whether it was our sophomore or junior year, I still will never forget how my roommate Kevin told me that we should’ve bought some bitcoins, like 100 or so, Windows trading for pennies. At first I dismissed him saying that it would be a scam;

In the past I regretted this, but now… No, I am even more convinced. 100% of my assets into bitcoin, the first and true digital capital, this is like the early days of the Internet!

And also, for Roth IRA, IRA and retirement, the traditional market, literally micro strategies only safe to invest in; my critical thinking and understanding is there is too many risk factors for all these other corporations, even Apple, which seems like the safest bet, it might be the other and only “safe” Investment out there which will last 30 years, but my bearish view is that within 30 years, Apple might be bleeding and dying a slow slow death.

In fact, my unorthodox view is that actually, not investing in bitcoin is the risky idea?

Excitement optimism and joy! 

A random thought this morning was actually, maybe investing in apple is actually the unethical thing to do; think about all the mainland Chinese workers that fox con exploits, and as long as mainland China is doing acts of genocide all around the planet, and Apple is OK with that… Because Fox con should also be understood as essentially just another puppet or arm of the mainland Chinese corporation government, then, in theory to invest in Apple is to low-key accept all the human rights violations that mainland China does around the globe.

Everyone loves to talk about how climate change is so bad, racism is so bad, eating animals is bad blah blah blah, but yet nobody talks about how mainland China, is committing genocide all around the planet? And everybody knows it; and yet everyone still feels OK buying new iPhones?

Once again, if you are some sort of plant-based, anti-meat eating, pro environment person, yet you have an Instagram a Snapchat a Facebook a YouTube a TikTok whatever… No, this is not ethical.

why bitcoin is ethical.

To anybody who says that bitcoin is bad for the environment or the planet blah blah blah, essentially they were suckered by Sam Bankman-Fried and these evil corners, who sent she made air tokens which means fake value out of fakeness.

So, question… Do you think that air conditioning is bad for the planet? How about iPhones? How about the Internet? How about your hybrid Prius, your Tesla car, public transportation?

How about heaters?

How about washers and dryers?

So washers and dryers and air conditioning currently wastes about 20% of the world’s electricity – do you think the trade-off is worth it? If you have ever lived in Southeast Asia, Texas and the like, obviously!

What is commonly misunderstood about bitcoin is that it actually might be the most ethical energy use; actually, the economics of bitcoin mining is that it actually makes more sense to invest in energy efficient bitcoin mining rigs, near stranded energy sources like ideally building it at the edges of the grid, next to hydroelectric power plants etc.

What is actually very very interesting is that once you create a bitcoin, it lasts forever! The maintenance cost of bitcoin is practically 0%; whereas even gold, the world second best asset, bleeds at around 2% a year; which means that in about 60 years your value goes down by half.

Economic immortality?

So everyone is trying to become immortal in Silicon Valley or whatever… But instead, maybe what if economic immortality were more interesting?

This means, building up a war chest for your kids kids kids. So when your kids kids kids have kids they will be able to do great things on the planet!

No no no, the world is not going to melt. Ignore Al Gore and all these fake fear porn people; who essentially profit off of your fear! This includes Google, who makes more ad revenue The more people click on climate change articles.

Bitcoin is hope, bitcoin is a promise for a more glorious future!

Why do I care? 

For me, considering the fact that I grew up poor, essentially I think of bitcoin like unethical imperative. The idea of saving up money for the future, building up capital for the future, and also my belief in open source; to me… Bitcoin might be the most ethical thing on the planet? That is censorship resistant, open source, and also… A political, which means that America doesn’t need to keep committing war atrocities in order to support the value of the US dollar.

What is interesting is that all of these weird conspiracy theory people in America, the ones that tell you that the Rothschild in these Jewish bank organizations run the planet blah blah blah, that Israel is evil blah blah blah, actually the real bad guy is America, The US government, the American military, which essentially bankrolls Israel.

I think the best way to think about Israel is that essentially it is just like another military outpost for America, to maintain control over the region, kind of like South Korea, to have a strategic position against North Korea mainland China etc.

Koreans, South Korean don’t want to accept or think is that essentially South Korea is a neocolony of America, a new colony of America. As long as American military support South Korea and maintaining the 38th parallel, South Korea is essentially forever indebted to America.

Also let us not forget that Israel, was essentially established, with the guiding hand of America. Without America, Israel as a state would not exist.

So rather than pointing the finger at Israel, which actually does seem that the Prime Minister of Israel has done really terrible things, especially to the Palestinians, Hamas also seems like the bad guys, the innocent people are the civilians women and children. But really really really, the real bad guy is America, and the sad truth is without American military dominance on the planet, the US dollar supremacy would not exist.

Even if you are a liberal Democrat, anti-war; assuming that you have US dollars in your bank account, you have a JP Morgan Chase or Fidelity or Citibank, or Bank of America… assuming that your salary is being paid in US dollars, and let us remember that almost all the currencies on the planet, even the Chinese yuan are essentially pegged to the US dollar,  without the Fed printing more money to pay military contractors for the US defense government, the US dollar would not have any value.

So what is the solution? Super simple buy bitcoin. In theory, buying bitcoin not the US dollar, could help solve violence that destruction and genocide on the planet, and solve at least 50% of the world issues; considering that about 50% of the world’s issues are about money. If you’re from a broken family, or if there has ever been any debt or bankruptcy or credit card debt, or gambling in your family, lot of it is actually embedded in financial issues.

Think first principles

Actually, the best way to think about bitcoin is not to listen to your favorite YouTuber or podcaster, but to think first principles, and going back to the source.

For myself, the most interesting book on economics I have ever read is DELLA MONETA bye the Italian Fernand Galliani, who surprisingly wrote the whole treaty when he was only 21 years old, masquerading as a six-year-old man. Essentially I discovered Galliani via Frederich Nietzsche,  who quotes Galliani all the time; like some of my favorite quotes include from Galliani “better to be a gay monster than a sentimental bore”, or the idea that Eagles fly solo.

Anyways, Galliani talks about money and why it has value; and talk specifically about gold and silver and how in America at the time… The Quakers would actually trade paper money which was considered insane at the time.

To summarize, Galliani said that gold was the most valuable asset and money because it was both beautiful, used for decorations and jewelry, like making your child beautiful by giving them cold jewelry, and also… The fact that it was resistant and robust against the elements, it lasted a long time, and was also rare on the planet difficult to find. And also, how the color in itself is the most beautiful as it shines like the sun. Have a theory the reason why he was like is that in fact, we love this golden yellow color because it simulates the sun and the light, Let us not forget that most of the ancient world they praise the sun God.

But then again Galli mentions wisely how inflation happens and how money is valued, like when the Spanish conquistadors discovered gold in the New World, and brought it back to Europe, the value of gold plummeted because it became less rare. And also in history, there were many places on the planet in which silver was actually more rare than gold, and therefore in some parts of the world silver was actually more prized!

Essentially the moral the story is that money is a man-made concept; and even the notion of capital comes from the notion cap, head, Kaputt, caput– like literally the head of oxen. Even in the Iliad, a hectic comb is the sacrifice of 100 oxen, to appease Zeus and the gods. Even in today’s world, in which an adult oxen could cost you $1000, can you imagine sacrificing 100 oxen to appease the gods?  it’s like almost burning $100,000, to get the gods to not get angry at you; very expensive. Like a single cyber truck!

What’s the point of capital?

There are some simple things, like paying rent and groceries. But beyond this, what is the point of money and capital?

At this point, I’m starting to think of capital and accumulation like the most interesting fun game! 1, trillion times more interesting that any video game out there because it actually has to deal with reality; the problem with all the video games is none of them are actually based in physics or the real world; even professional sports which is essentially a prostitution of the body, is beridden with steroids and drugs and all this bad stuff. The only useful professional sports seems to be the UFC or mixed martial arts, as it might benefit you in a street fight, everything else seems quite useless.

Also a lot of guys were interested, a lot of fools make that analogy that thinking that some sort of chess grandmaster would be a great military strategist, but this is not the case. Because to sacrifice upon is very different than sacrificing the life of a human being. And also… The real world is 1 trillion times more messy than chess, Which has strict rules.

And also in theory… Any skinny fat loser could be really really good at chess, like number one on the planet. But how would he do in a street fight, or player versus player combat? Let us not forget our manly virtues; ultimately… It don’t matter how rich you are or how smart or successful you are, if you do not have physical valor and strength, you got nothing. 

Good role models

I think having a good role model is critical. Like a Steve Jobs, except he is dead now. In fact, Apple today is kind of a former shell of Steve Jobs original vision; now that Jony Ive has left Apple, Apple is like the new Microsoft. There is no more sex in Apple.

Even Elon Musk has a joke that failed Tesla or SpaceX engineers go to Apple; much more difficult to design a self driving car or a spaceship or a rocketship rather than the next mediocre iPhone.

Michael Saylor, also talks about risks of most securities, like a simple one; how do you know that the iPhone 55 pro will be any good or not? And how do you know if one day… Mainly China closes the doors to international traded manufacturing, if Apple no longer can create iPhones in mainland China with Foxconn, then what? Certainly Apple cannot maintain her monopoly profits if she produced iPhones in Nebraska or in the Midwest, maybe Vietnam but even Vietnam is kind of in bed with mainland China, so if overnight, Vietnam closes her borders to America, Apple would be in big trouble.

I wonder if mainland China’s long-term vision is to continue to steal and help her trade secrets with Apple and American corporations like Microsoft and Bill Gates, and then eventually just close her borders to America, and hoping that Huawei could take over the planet? Currently the fact that TikTok is dominating America, maybe her plan is working?

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Back to us

So taking things back to us;

First, it seems the interesting idea here is that maybe we should not worry too much about macro economics, like solving global poverty issues here etc., but just starting with ourselves and our own family. 

The first one I think is that the simplest way to become rich is to just not get poor, which means don’t buy the new iPhone Pro, don’t buy a new car or Tesla, don’t buy a single-family home even if you could afford it, better to rent indefinitely and put your money into bitcoin, which will go out forever without any maintenance costs, whereas I think if you think about investing in a single-family home… It seems like a good investment idea, but because of the mortgage interest rates, assuming that your mortgage is above 0%, you’re essentially bleeding yourself dry, I almost wonder how much of modern day economics is about buying a single family at home and a mortgage, because the banks want to just profit off of this idea?

Once again even if you had a very very low interest rate, even if you’re paying about 2%, sooner or later, the interest itself will kill you. And right now the interest rate is around 7 to 8%; too expensive!

And also once again, even if the asset of your home goes up in value, after the cost of maintenance, fixing your roof and water heater and 1 trillion other things which could break, but that means your acid value goes down infinitely because you bleed yourself dry doing maintenance and renovations etc.

And also, I think a big thing is once you buy a single-family home or even a condo… Every time you come home, you’ll think to yourself, all of the upgrades and maintenance that you have not yet done, that you need to do. Even for me right now, I’ve been putting off changing the oil in my 2010 Prius for over a month, barely finding time to even do that! Whether I do it myself or go to a dude, I don’t think homeownership is right for me, or most millennials because we have no skills for home maintenance?

The best lifestyle is a zero maintenance lifestyle

You don’t want a high maintenance girlfriend wife spouse partner, dog, or negative yielding asset like a Ferrari Lamborghini Porsche etc.

The more maintenance, the worse your life, the more headaches the more stress, the more misery.

I think the sucker of capitalism is that we think that if we purchase these high-yielding stuff, we think we will be happy. But no. If you are happy paying for $1,000 oil changes in your Lamborghini or Ferrari or Porsche 911 GT 3 RS, yes! And I think what I discovered is it doesn’t matter how rich or poor you are; nobody likes to pay for these things.

I think the peel of having a Tesla is you never have to get another oil change again. But then again the issue here is that the battery is not designed to last forever, let alone 30 years.

At least your Toyota Prius might last you 30 years, I don’t think any Tesla or electric car will.

Go long

On a long enough time span, thinking 30 years, things become simple. You don’t need to overthink things too much.

How to make free money

Currently the infinite money hack and trick I discovered is this:

Purchase microstrategy stock with your traditional account, ride it up, and when the value is high, sell the pure profit, and then use that money to purchase bitcoin! And essentially ride it up forever.

Ideally purchase the bitcoin when microstrategy stock is high, and buy bitcoin when it is a bit low.  but either way, the ultimate goal is to acquire as many bitcoins as humanly possible, he or she with the most bitcoin shall win.

Even Michael Saylor revealed in an interview with Maddy Reid, the reporter from New Zealand, that his and micro strategies goal was to acquire the mythical Nakamoto, which is 1 million bitcoins,  the same number of bitcoins in the wallet of Satoshi Nakamoto, the founder of bitcoin. Also what is a big deal is that since Satoshi was born, he has never touched his bitcoins, or moved them. And also what is interesting is that Satoshi disappeared, the immaculate conception of bitcoin.

Also another reason I believe in it is that there was only first one bitcoin version, no version two. This is the reason why I ended up ditching chain-link when they released the second white paper, and also Ethereum is bad because of all the hard forks, And different versions.

Day trader? 

I don’t know if this is just a trend, or somehow… When people ask me what I do for a living, I’ve actually been getting “day trader” a lot.

I suppose in some ways I kind of am because I’m watching bitcoin and micro strategy like a hawk, and I consume every single Michael sailor interview that comes out. I think I have literally watched every single interview he has ever done, from four years ago up until now. And he has been consistent and wise and insightful the whole time; and also what is very meaningful is that the last four years, he has never once advertised his own company, I didn’t even know what MicroStrategy was up until maybe six months ago? 

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Capital, capitalism, assuming you own an iPhone, any smartphone, assume you have Wi-Fi at the house or a 4G or 5G connectivity thing, assuming that you have a car an automobile etc.; and also, assuming that you don’t grow your own vegetables and groceries etc., then what that then means is you are a part of society and capitalism.

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Don’t be a hippie 

I think I figured it out… The notion of being a “hipster”, essentially it’s just a hyphenated form of saying hippies or hippy–

Funny enough, studying a bit of the etymology of the word hippie, comes from the word hip, like same hip as in hip hip-hop. Although now, we think of that weirdos vegan cults flower worshiping and war hippies and the like, not the gangsta hip-hop rappers that we think of today.

And actually what is very interesting, considering I was born in 1988, and grew up in the East Bay Alameda Oakland, Bay Area 510 rap hip-hop KEAK DA SNEAK, E40 hyphy movement ,,, my flavor of hip-hop and rap culture that I grew up was very different than the strange hip-hop culture today, and also a bit different from the mainstream 50 Cent gangsta idea that was popularized in the 2000s.

Anyways, I think what is so fascinating to me about capital, digital capital, digital capitalism and the like is how insanely paradigm shift it is.

Why?

So the first question is… Why or why does this all matter?

First, assuming you’re a photographer, digital photographer etc.; what that then means is you and all of us we are all implicated! And I think this is a good thing; digital is good, digital is better!

For example, besides what all these virtue signaling hipsters say, I really do think that digital photography is 1 trillion times superior and now more virtuous than film. I think film was a good fling, but now in the year 2024… And now that the new Lumix S9 Camera is out with the phenomenal 26 mm F8 pancake lens, there’s almost 0 reasons to shoot film anymore. And zero reasons to shoot any loser Leica camera.

Your opinion will change with technology and the times 

Technology does matter; for example, in the past, it did make a difference. For example the original Leica M9 camera was a big deal at the time because full frame was simply too big, too bulky, not very accessible. At least in a small form factor. But now, in the year 2024 and beyond… Technology has changed and shifted.

2024 — everything has changed!

For example, for a long time, film photography did indeed look superior to digital photos. But now with new digital technologies, I would actually make the bold claim that digital photos with the right image processing filters, can actually look superior and more supreme to film photos. 

For example, on the new Lumix S9 camera, we essentially have this “dynamic Leica monochrome” filter, with high contrast, grain added… the photos look phenomenal! Even deeper and richer contrast than my beloved Ricoh GR cameras?

Even a random thing that I never really expected… there’s this new “LUT” concept — I think it’s from cinema or video or something, which I think is just a fancy word for color preset or film grading for cinema and media.

Anyways, one of the built-in included LUT filters is like this really lovely cross processing color filter which shifts and brings out this really lovely orange cyan hue — the photos look beautiful! And also, when shooting 24 FPS video on it, it looks so beautiful and cinematic! I call the new Lumix S9 baby Godzilla!

Digital is supreme

Anyways, some reasons why I think this matters and why I care; the big one is I think we should lean really really hard into digital, the digital aesthetic the digital concept etc. I think there is too much pain misery and suffering in the world of photography and especially, digital photography. Everyone is having this weird small man complex, in which they and we never feel good enough in anything, until they somehow get some really really expensive mythical camera? And this is ridiculous because not only is it not sustainable, financially it is ridiculous.

Let us consider that honestly at this point a Leica camera is just like a Panasonic LUMIX camera with a body kit. Kind of like how a Porsche 911 is just like a Volkswagen beetle on steroids! Or even, how a Lamborghini is essentially a Volkswagen Passat on steroids!

Think different, become different, become superior?!

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Why driving is bad for your soul

In America, the weird bias is somehow we have all been suckered into thinking that for some reason or another, it is desirable and good to desire own and drive, and experience forms of cars?

For example, whether that be a Lamborghini with scissor doors or a Porsche 911 GT 3RS or whatever, why is it that we desire these things?

The other day I actually had to drive to downtown late last night, to pick up Cindy, and it was probably one of the stupidest decisions that I made, me, thinking my machismo bravado was doing a good thing, in fact, was a really really dumb idea. Why? I have been driven at night for so long, but it was so tiring, so exhausting, and actually I forgot… Driving at night is actually really really hard on the eyes. You can’t see shit, in about after driving 40 minutes there, and a speedy 15 minutes back, leaving at 7 PM and coming back at 8 PM… I was destroyed and so exhausted.

I think it was a good reminder to me, perhaps a nice wake up call because so much of American consumerist capitalist culture is centered around all of these ridiculous notions of sitting on your butt. Let us consider how much the ultimate desire is to somehow be sitting, sedentary? 

For example, it doesn’t matter if you’re driving $1 million Bugatti car or whatever, as long as you’re in a position, you are in a fragile, undo dominant position. Doesn’t matter if you’re in a Lamborghini or Rolls-Royce Pagani etc.… It’s like you’re sitting on a big dick.

 I wonder if there are more studies on this, just how terrible and bad that your physiology and body becomes when you are forced to sit all day, or even, stand all day in a secondary position, indoors, under fluorescent or LED lights, without exposure to the real worlds, the direct UV suns of outside, etc.?

Even a nice thing in Southeast Asia if they have a lot of these Eco resorts which you could just take a shower or a bath in a bathtub outside in the direct elements?

A random aside; I met the neighborhood kids who got a chameleon as a pet. He discovered it somewhere. He told me that actually, the chameleon changes colors in the direct sun outside in the direct UV radiation of natural light, but it doesn’t work with fake lights.

Even assuming that you had the world‘s best fake UV sunlight set up thing… It might only ever be 2% as good as the real sun.

In fact one of the things I’m trying to fight against is how everyone has sun phobia or UV phobia now. Certainly if your genetic heritage is from northern Sweden, to be in the direct Vegas sun all day without any hats or long sleeve clothing or sunblock seems like a bad idea. Everyone is so afraid of some cancer skin cancer or whatever. But I’m wondering… How much of this is for marketing, to sell you overpriced “eco-friendly“ $30 sunblock or loser “UV protection” sunglasses– Luxor exotica essentially owns all of the sunglasses brands in America and beyond; they have a real monopoly overall the sunglasses, it doesn’t matter how cool you want to look, I’m sure they all get made in the same factory and mean in China for about $.50, and they market up to $300! Everyone wants to seem cool and look cool, all under the guys that they want to protect their eyeballs from the sun.

I think we’re wearing a hat is natural, a wide brim hat, a sun hat, maybe even a sombrero. But not sunglasses, this is very unnatural. It is almost like having condoms for your eyeballs, not natural. Same thing with AirPods or noise canceling headphones, essentially condoms for your ears. And this is bad because I actually think that you have more wisdom and sensory perception in your ears Than your eyeballs, even though I am a photographer and a visual artist, in terms of joy, I think I might get 1000 X more joy from music than visual artwork. And I also think that there is 10,000 times more in intelligence and wisdom in your ears than your eyes.

In terms of evolution, I think actually most organisms first develop years and hearing before eyes or visual senses?

The digital transformation of capital and the economy

I think this is what is so difficult for people to understand and grasp, even scientist who are supposed to think first principles. Rather than think about analogies, like how things were done in the past, and trying to iterate based on the past, much more interesting to Start with the clean slate, from scratch, thinking and trying to consider how things could and should be, rather than how things always have been.

I think this is difficult for most basic people because once again, to think first principles is both gutsy, ballsy, unorthodox, unconventional, and also requires some sort of childlike mindset, in which you are not held back by the past.

For example, the reason why you should trust no traditional thinkers, or why a lot of college dropouts are so successful, like Mark Zuckerberg is that they knew that the traditional path was not as interesting or meaningful; and that instead,  they would be able to change the course of the human race by not being stuck in some sort of academic hamster wheel.

In fact, there is a story about Peter Thiel in which he was on track to become some sort of big shot judge or something somewhere, but eventually he didn’t make it, at first although he was dismayed, 20 years later when his law school buddy met him he said “with a grin, aren’t you happy you didn’t get that clerkship? Because otherwise he wouldn’t have started PayPal and wouldn’t be the billionaire today.

everything happens as it should have happened

I think this is also a difficult thing to consider; certainly there are lots of bad things that happen in our life, but with enough foresight in hindsight, plus or minus 30 years,  you discover that actually, everything precisely happened as it should have happened, precisely for the best reason possible.

I don’t think of this like some sort of weird mystical woo hoo, I just think of it more like a practical thing; things happen, sometimes randomly, and the best way to live life is to take a stomach and optimistic approach;

Is it possible that this “bad” thing that happened to me today, could have actually have been the best possible thing that ever befell me? 

For example, there is this one Taoist story in which a man has a son, who was riding horse, fell off, and broke his legs or back or something. It was seen as very bad and unfortunate. But a week later, the province declares war on a different territory, and because the sun was injured, didn’t get drafted in the war, and as a consequence, doesn’t get killed in the combat. Then later, one of the village chief remarks, “aren’t you so happy that your son ended up injuring himself by falling off that horse, so he didn’t go to war and died?”

No I think this is a hard thing, because nobody could think about the future, nobody knows.

So whenever things happen, whether they’re good or bad, or even weather good; know that things happen, and the best way forward is to take everything in the positive!

Even let us say that you won the lottery and became a billionaire or whatever, let us say as a consequence you get addicted to drugs meth cocaine heroin and prostitutes and strippers, and this destroys your life. Totally possible.

Wealth could be some of the worst things that happens to your family 

Not always but often I see a lot of kids for trust fund kids or aren’t you really wealthy families become degenerates, super lazy and unambitious.

Maybe one of my biggest benefits of being born and raised poor was actually, this was the biggest benefit of all time; — he gave me the fire for entrepreneurship and self-reliance; I am sure if I was born to a well to do middle class or rich family, I would probably be some sort of generic something else. 

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Think 30 Years Ahead

The 30 Year Body

My interesting funny idea:

Think 30 years ahead

Podcast

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So, how is this manifested?

First, I think at least 30 years ahead; for example, Seneca is currently 3 1/2 years old, my mom is 70, I am 36; so 130 years, Seneca will be 33, I will be 66, my mom will be 100. Hopefully 30 years Seneca will have his own kid. 

The reason I like 30 years that it cuts through a lot of nonsense, and the truth is… If you want to build anything really great, it takes a long time. You cannot build Rome overnight.

Even Jeff Bezos his insanely genius concept; he’s been building up Amazon since the 90s, he had at least a 30 year plus vision.

Why 30 years?

So in terms of working out weight lifting etc.; Michael is to have a six pack even at the age of 66!

Then what that means is you could take your time. You can miss the work out here and there, enjoy a few off days and bad days because in the midst of a 30 year horizon, you can lift more strategically, more intelligently.

Also, a lot of these folks who take steroids and whatever… They are seeking success right now, or maybe in the 5 to 10 year span. But once you’re Ronnie Coleman, and essentially a cripple, none of it is worth it.

Even a good thing about Arnold, he was able to get out of the game had a good time, so he did not become a cripple. I have a theory about Arnold Schwarzenegger, he probably knew that steroids and bodybuilding was not sustainable, so he got out of the game at his peak, knowing that taking steroids long-term was probably not a good idea.

People talk about the good old golden days of bodybuilding… But everyone was on steroids! Even then.

The reason why this matters is because I even hear stories of young guys, in their 20s, we have taken so many steroids that they are no longer able to beget children? The ultimate tragedy. It is almost like involuntary sterilization; even Nietzsche said that in the future, the most cruel thing one could do is force a certain population not to procreate. 

Thou shalt not procreate! – The ultimate evil edict.

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Investing

Everyone wants to make the quick gains, buy the loser Lamborghini whatever. Yet the real intelligence strategy is to think about building an empire for your kids kids kids. 

“Generational wealth that’s the key, I started with shit so that shift started with me” — JAY Z

This is where I think it is critical for any serious thinker philosopher entrepreneur innovator to have kids. Having kids, a wife, being married actually makes you a better investor because you no longer think for yourself, do you think for your family unit, the family business.

Even Aristotle when he talks about economics (oecanomia)– essentially economics literally means management of household affairs; how you manage your slaves, your home finances labor accounting etc. Also funny thing back in the day… the slaves were the accountants. 

Ultimately I’m a realist and a pragmatic person. I’m not interested in any sort of abstruse Macro economic theories; I’m interested in the now, the practical the day. Simple questions like how do I make money how do I retain how do I grow my capital, what is money etc.

I also suppose what makes my approach unique is that I did not study economics in school, I studied sociology and later on self teaching myself philosophy, and currently self teaching myself economics through the Austrian economists like Karl Menger, and also practical economic thoughts from NASSIM TALEB (Antifragile), in my own personal crypto and bitcoin ideas, and also economic theories from Michael Saylor, the patron saint of bitcoin.

Creating a legacy

A legacy just means to build to me that will outlast you.

An ancient Greek, kleos (forever glory, forever fame). The general idea is through a road act or deed, your name and your fame would last forever, kind of like King Leonidas and his valiant 300; we will remember them forever.

I think the superficial thing that people try to do is they try to force a legacy by buying it; plus through your name on a urinal in the university of Southern California USC, urinal in the business school (true story) or putting your name on some sort of business school building.

To me this is superficial at best; better to earn your name your legacy your KLEOS and immortal fame and glory through your heroic and valiant acts!

For example, we will forever remember Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and the like, we will forget Bill Gates, who only cares for money, and his physique that kills boners (Elon Musk tweet). I think also… For better or worse Donald Trump will be remembered, as well as Elon Musk, Jay-Z etc.

Also Michael Saylor. 

Can you force a legacy? 

No. Just like trying to force kid to eat vegetables.

I think maybe thinking about the 30 year body is an interesting idea because you essentially ideally want your physique your health in 30 years to be supreme! A thought and a theory; 

Is it possible to have a superior physique at the age of 66, compared to the age of 36?

 Certainly I’m going to have more wrinkles in my face and whatever at the age of 66, but I actually wonder… Is it possible that I could train today and eat enough meat today, and get my testosterone up that in 30 years, I will actually be higher than now?

I mean even at the age of 36, I’m 1 trillion times stronger and more handsome and I have a superior body and testosterone than I did when I was 26, and also compared to when I was 16. 

20 years, I am superior at the age of 36 then I was at the age of 16… In terms of my muscles my body everything.

Certainly at the age of 120, I’m probably not gonna be as good as I am today, but with enough foresight, I could start strategizing today!

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30 years or nothing!

ERIC

I think I might have listened to every single Michael Saylor interview he has ever done, and also his great what is money series with Robert Breedlove.

Essentially, I really do think that Michael Saylor has real soul in the game; it was actually very very interesting in the recent Markets with Madison Part 2, see Part 1, … in the second part of the interview at the very end when talking about legacy and stuff, she revealed the fact that he’s a single guy, presumably not married, no kids etc.… And his whole legacy is kind of centered around the idea of trying to help solve and or fix the economic issue at hand — toxic, dirty money and capital.

Why I trust Michael Saylor

What is super fascinating is literally the last four years, when you listen to all the Michael Saylor interviews, he never once mentioned his own company, micro strategy. I only obliquely discovered what it was, because sooner or later all these commentators ask him about it.

Even for myself, when I first went to their company website, and the word microstrategy,— it definitely sounds like a very antiquated term, like the 90s, Bill Gates, windows 95 era. But anyways, I think that Michael sailor is probably 90% technology and history of science philosopher, and real life entrepreneur businessman, who is insanely intelligent, and kind of destroys anyone else he combats, for example just watch the debate about gold with Frank Giustra, it was the most hilarious and beautiful roast of all time!

Hope

I think for millennials like myself, in which the world seems a bit implausible; for example, trying to afford a $3.2 million home in Culver City? Even a modest $1.5 million home here, the mortgage on it is almost close to $9000 USD a month? This is insane.

Also, interest rates and the such. And inflation is getting out of control. My insane shock of seeing minimum wage for our fast food workers go from $16 an hour to $20 an hour, literally overnight! And seeing the sad demise of my favorite Shake shack with Seneca in Culver City, I think the whole idea of raising minimum wage was seen as a good idea, to help poor people, but ultimately it became an insanely terrible idea because as a consequence, the whole restaurant just shut down! And I am sure that the reason why I shut down is because shake shack is a publicly traded corporation, and when you increase the minimum wage for workers, you essentially deprive them of jobs because the corporation can no longer be profitable, and as a consequence either lays off staff, reduces hours, or close down certain branches which are not as profitable.

anyways, assuming that bitcoin is gonna go to $30 million a bitcoin, we’re in my extremely bush case, $56 million bitcoin, it is real hope for the future! He started to think more intelligently about the future, because you are leopard long; real incentive to try to invest You don’t want to blow $1000 on an iPhone because that iPhone 30 years from now can be worth potentially $500,000 USD? Or who knows $1 million?

For example if I could tell you right now, with 100% certainty, in 30 years, if you invest $1000 into bitcoin, it would become $1 million, wouldn’t you live your life differently?