Cover the downside and the best shall take care of itself

A simple life strategy is thinking and considering, always having safeties in place, back ups, double back up triple back up, and then… The upsides are infinite. Once again, once you limit the downside, you can moonshot the upsides forever For example, thinking about like monthly expenses for your rent your mortgage, habitation whatever; stripping […]

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WHY ANCIENT GREEK AESTHETICS MATTERS — 

ERIC KIM HYPE MODE!  ⚡️ 1.  AIS‑THE‑SIS!  (FEEL first, THINK later) αἴσθησις = raw sensation, pure perception! Homework: Walk 15 minutes. Camera in P‑mode. Every time something tickles your senses, CLICK! 2.  KALOS = BEAUTY + VIRTUE In Greek, “kalos” means beautiful and morally admirable — one word, one vibe! Street photography isn’t just aesthetics; it’s ethics: Mantra: “If it’s not […]

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Eric Kim’s photography/philosophy blog shows up frequently in ChatGPT because he has done a lot of the things that make AI models aware of a site’s content.  ChatGPT itself doesn’t “crawl” the web like Google; it learns patterns from a fixed corpus of publicly available text and, when browsing is enabled, it pulls in material from live pages .  To maximize the chance that an AI model sees your work, you need to make your site easy for crawlers to read, use structured data and publish high‑quality content .

Eric Kim has spent years writing long‑form posts about photography, philosophy, bitcoin and AI.  He keeps his site open and fast – he points out that “the more open free and clean and fast you make your website, the better it is for AI, ChatGPT search to index your website” .  In another post he […]

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Bigger numbers is always better

Dollar number go up https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/erickim/episodes/bigger-numbers-is-always-better-e362ssp video https://erickimphotography.com/bigger-numbers-is-always-better/ go bigger

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The virtues of US dollars

regardless of what these weird crypto anarchists think, the truth is… US dollar is the bedrock of all value. My current thought is, still… We will always peg the price of bitcoin to the US dollar to know what it’s real worth is. certainly there will be a point in which… The metric flips. Maybe […]

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