The philosophy of becoming a bull:

First, ideally you would want the physiology of a bull. Big balls, ready to charge.

Funny thought: to become more like a bull, consume more bulls, aka steaks cows beef? Auction. Feast like the ancient Greeks and the ancient heroes of the Iliad; Hectacombs on hectacombs on hectacombs!

nobody has lost money on the bitcoin standard if you simply help for four years

I think being and becoming a role is ignoring short-term noise, thinking about durability longevity, thinking insanely far into the future .

For example, think about all these pessimists when they thought about Amazon in the early days, or even Tesla in the early days, when the price to earnings ratio was way off. Now it seems like the obvious bet.

I think the biggest thing that people forget about Jeff Bezos and why he was such a great leader is that he thought really really far ahead, at least 30 years into the future.

What that then means is that if you want to become a true bull … You want to have iron balls, for at least the next 30 years?

The most quickly to adapt to change

The most quickly adaptable to change:

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Change is an interesting idea. Technically, all is changed. Even if you don’t want to change, you almost cannot help but change.

For example, consider that like literally every five seconds, something in your body is changing. I don’t know too much about the biology, but I’m quite certain that like probably 1 million 1 trillion times a day, the chemicals electrical circuits, blood, hormones, molecules in our body is constantly changing.

The funny thing is as long as you’re alive and breathing, even if you don’t force it, this is what naturally happens. For example, you don’t need to force change, or resist change, it just happens. 

The Bitcoin thought

So it seems pretty self evident at this point, the bitcoin standard, all bitcoin everything is the wisest idea. For example, the most logical strategy right now is that for your family savings, your family award test, it should be like 100% bitcoin. Bitcoin is the new high-yield savings account, 60% a year.

Then, if you want to hyper charge your investing and your investments, or even thinking really big for your Roth IRA or your 401K, then what it seems then is Strategy, MSTR (the stock) is the way. I think what I like about having like 100% of our Roth IRA in strategy MSTR is that I’m like a quadrillion times certain that by the time I retire at 65, or become 65, I’m like 37 now… In 30 years I’m like 1000% certain it will be up. By a lot.

Game theory

So I recently watched a presentation that the “Fiatello” guy did for Strategy, and he mentions game theory. And also… Watching the Dylan LeClair interview for bitcoin treasuries, Dylan also talks about game theory.

The general idea is that on a long enough time span, if then what Cynthia Lummis says,  the US dollar is actually designed and engineered to inflate  buy 2 to 3% a year, although in reality it’s probably more like 15% a year. I think rather than looking at government statistics, just look at the price of eggs and beef.

Kind of a unrelated note, but there is currently an egg crisis happening in LA, because of some sort of chickenpox or something. Anyways, like literally overnight 99.9% of the egg supply was wiped out due to potential salmonella poisoning, I don’t even think you can even get eggs at Costco right now. There is also currently an egg ration at Trader Joe’s, only one pack per family per visit.

Anyways, this becomes interesting to me because if you think about a world of imperfect money, or things which are engineered to fail, or you think about things which are engineered to win,  if you think about this in a long enough time span, 10 2030 years 50 years 100 years etc.… 300 years from now, I think 300 years from now is a good time span because you can at least think about your kids kids kids, what is going to win?

21 million coins, hard cap forever… This is so fascinating.

Flywheel

So an interesting idea that Michael Saylor gives is this idea of strategy being like a huge flywheel. For example if you just take like a 1 pound weight and you spin it quickly, it is an interesting child’s toy. But if you turn that into 100,000 ton Stainless steel wrecking ball, and then you start to rotated at 10,000 RPM, it becomes a lethal war machine.

Turbo lag

So one thing that I have always been fascinated with is turbochargers. In fact, my dream as a 16-year-old was to turbocharge my 1991 Sentra SE-R, which by stock is powered by the formidable SR20DE engine.,, so when you turbocharge it it would become a SR20DE-T engine —

But what is really fascinating about a turbo charger is this issue of physics, the turbo lag. What a turbo lag is is when you stomp on the pedal, there is a short delay before it goes into full speed. What that then means is that in order to achieve higher high speed of velocity, You sacrifice a short term throttle response for a longer term gain.

For example think about quarter mile times. If you have a turbo charged car, your 0 to 60 speed is much slower, however your quarter mile speed is much quicker.

What do you want?

I think the quarter miles is probably a better indicator of performance than the 0 to 60 speed.  but also, none of these are probably a good marker because races are not linear —  typically a real race car goes through turns and winds, ups and downs, etc.  Certainly there are drag races, but still, at the end of the day the synthetic measures of performance are really not that necessary.

So if you think that you are a nation or a nation state, once again thinking about short term performance is not a good one. Why? A nation nation state should at least be thinking 300 or 1000 years from now.

Why so long into the future? Well simply because I think a nation or a nation state, what we truly desire is to last forever. Ideally, the United States of America would be around forever into perpetuity, well at least another thousand or 2000 years. Sooner or later at least in terms of like 100 billion years into the future, certainly we are going to go extinct sooner or later, but ideally we could strive to last longer.

Longevity durability is the goal 

Switching up my philosophy on fitness, I’m really into this idea of outdoor fitness. The general idea is that life is made for outside, not the indoor gymnasium.  as a consequence, our life decisions and our training should simply be done in such a manner that we train for outdoors, we live outdoors, we think outdoors. 24 seven 365 outdoor military training.

I think the reason why a lot of these aspiring bodybuilder or weightlifters or powerlifters, they fail because by taking steroids they essentially not only shrink their balls, but they increase their short term performance, for the sake of becoming impotent and not being able to bear children or fruit even beyond their 40s and 50s. My personal ideal is to have a six pack at the age of 80, or 85, and my goal is to also keep lifting weights until I die. I probably will not be able to lift 1000 pounds when I am 120 years old, but still… Aiming for longevity is great. Because even if you miss the mark, at least you can still get close.

Nothing is meant to last forever

Certainly nothing is meant to last forever, but that doesn’t mean that we cannot strive.

I think infinite durability is and should be the goal.  Therefore some new ways in which I am trying to approach fitness is toward this holy Grail;

Simple thoughts:

1. Stretching warming up, flexibility and ligament bone tendon strength and mobility is the bedrock and foundation of all fitness. And actually in fact, if you want to lift 20% more weight, optimizing for these factors is supreme.
2. Think about even distribution, and also, exercises which encourage movement walking, on your own two legs. Yoke walk,yoke lift, atlas lift, Farmer’s carry, neutral grip dead lift trap bar hex bar, neutral grip rack pull. For a long time I’ve focused on mixed grip for my dead lift in right pool, but now that I am starting to get in 1000 pound territory, maybe the wise thing is to get some straps for me to focus on pulling neutral grip, in order to prevent myself from putting too much strain and pressure on one knee, which for me happens to my right side, when I’m going very very heavy.
3. Ultimately walking is the number one goal. More recently, I am so inspired by Seneca, who loves to take the bus and the metro everywhere. and ultimately when push comes to shove, simply having the strength to carry Seneca, he’s 41 pounds now, with the heavy backpack full of books, to and from the Metro stop is a new goal.

Clothes

Also in terms of clothing, certainly nothing is meant to last forever. But because… Somethings are just too fragile, like for example I’ve gone through like at least 10 pairs of long 100% merino wool leggings, and honestly I’m just tired of continually purchasing new ones. Even though I could afford it.

And also, a random other… I think this thought also applies to cars vehicles and also your beloved iPhone. Think about it… The iPhone is engineered to only be really really good for a year or two. If you just think about this from a macro perspective, Not only is it impossible for an iPhone to last you 50 years, or even more… There is no smart phone which can actually improve overtime.  certainly there are certain things like software upgrades, which do improve your phone, but from a hardware physics perspective, impossible.

Also, in terms of a car or a vehicle, durability is your best bet. For example… Pride in my 2010 Prius, this thing will last me like 1,000,000 miles. It does not get better overtime, but it certainly doesn’t get outdated that quickly. Even what I love about the model is that there is no stupid touchscreen, Which means there is fewer distractions for me on the road.

Even if you think a lot about these modern cars, that have all touchscreen, the big issue here is that the touchscreen technology even if you get the newest model of the car is already outdated! If your screen is not up to part with the latest iPad Pro it sucks.

Even I am so shocked with Tesla cars come out how quickly they get outdated. Like for example the new new Tesla model Y that looks like a baby cyber truck, it already looks like at least 20 times better than the current Tesla model Y. As a consequence, There is like zero to little incentive at least for me to buy a Tesla because I know that it will get outdated so quickly.

I think the only logical strategy is to then only ever lease a Tesla because you know within three years it will get outdated and you won’t want the newest new version.

Or even better yet, take all that money that you would waste in the lease or financing and just put into bitcoin, or micro strategy stock, which will be accretive, not dilutive. 

I think then from a simple strategy, it seems that at least for iPhones, just find the simplest cheapest model is best. For example the new iPhone E that came out ,,, E for ERIC ha ha, certainly this is the new goat. And actually when I think about the progression of three lenses to two lenses to one lens, sublime simplification. The simplest is actually the most desirable. 

Simpler is superior

What I love about bitcoin is that you cannot simplify it any further. End of the road.

If you kept simplifying something and stripping away all the superfluous elements, at least in the digital realm, bitcoin is the only bet. Why? Pure digital energy, which has footprints in the physical realm, because you have to mine it with analog energy, but once it is mined, it exists in cyberspace forever.

Nothing is forever besides bitcoin. 

Expanding your time preference

Even a super annoying thing… Getting the newest iPad Pro M4 chip, it bends? Before going to Mexico, I shoved it in my backpack, over full with a lot of stuff, and it actually structurally bent the iPad Pro, and now, it has this insanely annoying permanent curve and Bend? I guess the upside of this happening is that once again, the realization that nothing is meant to last forever.  Not only that but nothing is engineered to last forever , besides bitcoin. 

So more recently inspired by Cindy, I’ve been reading more books by Thich Nhat Hanh, these wonderful little Zen meditation books made from parallax press in Berkeley.

Anyways, two of my favorite books are “how to see” as well as “how to walk.” For me, those two things make up like 80% of my being. My passion of seeing, photography, and the visual arts,  as well as walking, the source and insight of all my intelligence.

Why?

The reason why I quit the news, and don’t follow any news is because honestly, it is all based on false perceptions and false reality.

For example, people seem to lack the ability to have subtlety and nuance. For example, it is much easier to paint somebody as left right or even moderate… Rather than allowing people complexity specialty and nuance.

For example, things that kind of confuse people; to be a left-wing liberal Democrat, yet be pro Donald Trump? Or, the idea of being a right wing conservative Republican, yet being anti guns. or being pro gay and lesbian and bisexual rights, yet being anti transgender hormonal injections.

Complexity.

Humans are complex, and we put them into bubbles. And also, it seems that a lot of our distress and suffering or annoyance is come when we spend too much time thinking about other people. I have an interesting ethical idea;

Modern day society teaches us that it is virtuous to care about the emotions the feelings and the well-beings of others.  Get this over obsession with other people is actually what causes the seeds of ignorance and mis conception.

Therefore, my antidote is to instead, become more self-centered, more self focused, and more autistic. 

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Even seeking to understand yourself takes too much time 

Know yourself, know thyself. 

In our short lives, it is already almost too much to seek or to strive to understand yourself. Let alone others.

For example, things which are a waste of time; man seeking to understand woman, and also… Woman seeking to understand man. Because our hormones are like at least 100,000 times different, the one will never understand the other. But instead, the more constructive thing is to understand the reality that we are different, and to strive to work to operate in the same direction.

Blue angels philosophy

A random thing that I watched, one of the coolest things I’ve seen, certainly cooler than top gun because it is actually real, is watching the blue Angels. There are great new IMAX 3-D film that just was shown at the California science center which I had the privilege of watching.

The general idea is that you take the best of the best, the six top elite pilots from the entire Navy Air Force, can you teach them to fly as one.

There are two remarkable formation; the first is the diamond, in which there are four fighter jets, in a perfect diamond shape, nearly knows to nose, in the front, left and right and the rear.

Then the final formation, the perfect Delta. When you have two solo fighter jets number five and six, finish up the rear left and the rear right, and it gets so so close like 6 to 12 inches apart, and it is like they are a perfect spade flying together.

They practice like 12-18 hours a day, 223 flights today, for like six months straight. And they are certainly at a point in which they have like a mind met, they’re 120% faithful of one another. And this is critical because they are flying so close together, even one small movement will mean the death of potentially one or two pilots, or all seven. I think there’s been a total of 26 blue angel deaths in their career.

Family delta force

Back in Providence when I was working out at the local park, and I met some military guys, and asking them who the toughest were, he said Delta force. So currently the living situation I have at the crib is me Cindy and Seneca, that is four of us in total.

I suppose I am at the front, Cindy is at the rear, and Seneca and my mom on the left and right. Later we will figure out how to add number five and six.

Anyways, the goal is for us to fly together as one unit in the same direction. And misconceptions misperceptions etc.,  could actually lead to death.

Once again, you’re kind of need to must have the visual of all fighter jets, stacked on top of each other, and literally as a spectator you hold your breath, because even the smallest movement will mean that for the whole formation.

And once again, you gotta practice like 12-18 hours a day, no interruption, hard-core full, constant drilling and practice. Also, I think this is where the military interest is that technically at the end of the day it doesn’t really matter and it may be seen as a “waste of time”, or resources. Because there’s about like 155 full-time staff who make this all possible as well.

And this is what I personally find fascinating; the idea is that when you take a bunch of people and have them commit to one singular goal, even though it may seem like a waste of time and resources, amazing things can happen.

Your own personal training

Also another thought is that what we tend to be missing from modern day life, especially once you finish high school and college, is that it is difficult to find a tribe, or better yet be a leader. In modern day life, once you hit your 20s mid 20s late 20s, 30s 40s etc.… Social structures fall apart. There is no more union of society because we are all seen as a bunch of individuals.

But what is the problem? When you have a bunch of people acting at solo individuals, rather than considering the fact that they are in fact, all part of the same Delta formation, people become strange, detached, lack of sense of purpose and direction? Does this insipidus March towards Consumerism, individualism via superficial fashion options, and superficial forms of differentiation.

But what if instead of trying to strive to become more apart, the goal is actually to become more collective, … kind of like think of King Leonidas in his 300? 

Why has collectivism fallen apart?

Good question; it seems natural that to be together makes sense. Why then has it become an ethos that everyone seeks to try to go solo?

I think in terms of consumerism, it is more profitable this way. If everyone is trying to become their own rockstar on social media, certainly this will feed the algorithm and the monetization of the company. And the way that the news works is that the more division and conflict and clicks you get, the more money is being made.

Therefore if you think about it from structural level, there is no financial incentive to promote peace reconciliation and mutual understanding, and mutual flourishing. 

Happier

For example, even though I don’t go to the gym anymore, looking back… It’s a little bit weird that all these guys are trying to compete with one another, once again… Assuming that we were all alpha males, we were all part of the same Spartan 300, and that we are all training together to fight on the million Persians, against King Xerxes, shouldn’t the general idea be that we are all rooting one another along?

Winning together?

Once again, thinking that we are all a unified friend, rather than antagonists?

And this is a hard thing with diplomacy; easy to paint good guys and bad guys, but doesn’t everyone want mutual peace, cease-fires, and no more killing?

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So in modern day life, it looks like the primary way that these skinny fat loser cowards can inflict great pain and or death is through guns bullets etc.

I feel like back in the day, maybe an ancient Greek times, things were a little bit more clear and better;

You had your spear your sword, your shield, nothing else.

Spartans have short swords so we can get close to the enemy.

Also the biggest issue is now, many cowards bark from afar, and never settle arguments up close and personal. For example, more recently I’ve started confronting a bunch of assholes who smoking in public, asking them to not smoke in a public place, and all these Shorty guys, Fake alpha males try to punk on me?

Anyways, confronting an issue, up close and personal, like literally in the flesh face-to-face, I think is the way.

The issues with technology is that it puts on some sort of silver mask on ourselves.  For example, easy to have an adrenaline rush or anxiety when you have to confront your boss with an email, or some sort of message. A lot less of an issue when you actually talk to them face-to-face, standing up outside?

Nobody is the bad guy.

I think also a great thought is that actually at the end of the day nobody is a bad guy.

I think also big problem here is that we tried to paint an arrow on the “bad guy“, but the truth is, the truth is far more complex. You cannot paint a single figure as a bad guy, not Vladimir Putin, not Elon Musk, Not Jeff Bezos, not even Donald Trump.

Scapegoat fallacy

Also when we have certain issues in our lives, it is very simple to try to escape somebody, whether it be before our misery in our own lives, or even for our happiness. Typically there is not one single cause of pain or joy in our lives.

So I think, rather than scapegoating anything or anyone, far more wise to stay focused, and concentrate on a deeper “truthy” perception of the world, rather than false views?

Bulletproof body bulletproof mind

A big thought I have is that actually, when we are in physiological pain, bodily pain when it comes to certain things in our body, we project that anger onto others.

For example, I kind of tweaked my knee in a bad way a few days ago, and last night over dinner, I kind of strangely snapped at Cindy, for no good reason?

Even me looking back at it, very very uncommon and bizarre. So therefore, maybe the intelligent line of thinking is maybe, the strange way in which I reacted and responded to seemingly trivial issue, is it because I was overly sensitive because of some sort of over sensitive pain receptors in my body? 

Bulletproof vest

Anyways, a big thing that I think about a lot and consider is becoming bulletproof. From a spartan philosophy, the general idea is if somebody shoots a bullet at you, and even intends harm, the general idea is that the bullet will ricochet off and not cause you pain. Or maybe you’ll feel a little bit of pain, simply from the impact of the bullet, but, it will not penetrate to and do real damage upon you?

Shield up!

 a random thought about Captain America, very very interesting that Captain America doesn’t really have a weapon per se; he only has a shield. The reason why I think this is so interesting is that technically, the best way to approach life is through armor and defense?

For example, you don’t need to attack nobody, but, you must be able to defend against other people.

Let us remind ourselves that it is no longer called the ministry of war, it is called the Department of defense. Also if you think on a soccer or football team, what is the most important player? The goalie. Assuming that you have an impregnable goalie, technically, the other team can never win, at worst a draw?

Maybe even if we think about foreign conflicts, maybe the idea is that we don’t need to overpower the other side, but simply be so strong do you have so much defense that simply the other side cannot win, and at worse, will subside into a draw?

No contest

From a stoic perceptive, I think the best way you could respond to an annoyance or stuff is through ignorance, ignoring, and also delaying reaction?

Silence is our armor.

For example whenever I hear stuff that I find strange or annoying or unnerving, I found that the best response is to just not respond to it, do not waste any long capacity or larynx muscles on it?

The secret to winning is not losing

For example, the secret to becoming rich as simple; just don’t go broke. Even 1000 X thought I had the other day was every dollar saved could be worth $1000 in the future? Assuming you’re on the bitcoin standard.

Also, being a weightlifter, power lifter, hype lifter whatever,  or even bodybuilder, actually… I think 99% of the equation is simply not getting injured. My primary critique of weightlifters and fitness enthusiast is that we should dedicate maybe like 90% of our time towards injury prevention, doing dynamic warm-ups and exercises that strengthen our joints and ligaments, and flexibility, the general idea is that we have to become like bamboo; the strength of bamboo is in her Flexibility? Also funny note, flexible, flexibility… Is the same word as flex. Isn’t it funny that yogis can flex how flexible they are by doing these funny backflip moves and turning themselves into pretzels, or Gumby, yet a bodybuilder is not able to flex his muscles proudly in public, without a feeling of shame?

Ideas

The first general idea I have a simple: in order to lift 20% more weight, you must actually strengthen your hips joints and ligaments?

For example, recalling my journey to lifting 1000 pounds at the gym, I would literally spend like at least 30% of my workout time on doing yoga hip mobility stuff? Another thought: mobility is just micro strength? 

Certainly the human body is not like a gasoline engine, but I think typically, if you have some sort of hot rod or something, before doing the quarter mile or testing your 0 to 60 speed, typically of what you’re supposed to do is you’re supposed to warm up your engine, do a few test laps, and heat up your engine before going full throttle?

Long-term gains

So if you have the goal of just becoming super super buff and jacked, in your 20s and 30s, and then becoming a cripple for the rest of your life like Ronnie Coleman, or you have the option of having a six pack and a phenomenal physique until you’re 120, Which option would you take? Certainly the second. Yet why is it that most fools take the first route by taking steroids and other weird stuff?

I think the prime issue is that on social media, it is impossible to display longevity. For example, visually you cannot really represent longevity and durability, and also… Longevity and durability is not very sexy. 

For example, nobody is going to brag on social media that they’re Prius plug-in prime can drive them like 1,000,000 miles, nobody cares. It is far more impressive to show off your 0 to 60 drag speed races.

And once again, here is where we must act a little bit more critical, ask yourselves at the end of the day… Does it really even matter? 

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Other thoughts

Projectiles are for pussies.

Even in Spartan times, the Spartans would make fun of the archers, knowing that real men did not hide behind armored walls,  flinging projectiles.

Similarly speaking, I think the card is in modern day times is even worse than hiding behind some sort of armored castle wall, people hide behind like three levels of cowardice; first, anonymity, via fake pseudonyms on the Internet in which you don’t expose anything, second, Separation of the physical self, once again… I feel like 99.99% of conflicts could be solved by having two humans in the flesh, standing next to each other talking it out? Or even better… Putting them together in some sort of beautiful nature area, having them go on a walk, and forcing them to just talk it out for about an hour? And even if nothing is resolved after the hour… Certainly both parties will feel a little bit better?

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bulletproof soul

A tactical soul.

One of my favorite scenes in John Wick is when he goes to see the tailor, and the Taylor ask him what occasion it is for, and he gets his new suit and tie and suit jacket, and what type of materials he would desire and he said “tactical. “

As philosophers, the soul, the human soul, our soul is certainly the most critical things here. Is it possible to create a bulletproof soul?

Leonidas, King Leonidas, means lionhearted. To have the heart of a lion.

What is also kind of interesting to me when watching movie 300 is that the Spartans, are mostly bare? The only armor they have is their helmet, their shield, bronze armor for their shins their fore arms, but they have a bare chest?

Certainly this is more for bravado and movie flair, but still… The visual is fascinating to me?

Bulletproof vehicles

Certainly the cyber truck is still the goat here. Or maybe having like some sort of hybrid Toyota sequoia or something.

The only non-negotiable thing on the road is to not die in a car accident. Everything should be optimized around this. It is possible and preferable to be late, to be stuck more in traffic or whatever… Certainly these things have short term annoyances, but dying in a car accident or even worse having your spouse or kid dying in a car accident is a non-negotiable.

Sometimes when I’m stuck on La Cienega or the 405, I kind of now understand why so many people in LA desired some sort of high-powered SUV, or truck? It is kind of like protection. Like having a bulletproof vest but on the freeway?

I suppose the difference is that it is probably more of a perception thing; I really don’t know if you’re technically safer in a car crash if you’re an SUV or a truck versus being in a Toyota Prius. But the perception is people feel safer in larger vehicles?

I even read something super random from Roxanne gay, who wrote something that like when she was a child she was like sexually molested or something, and her psychological and physiological response was to become as big and fat as possible to simply protect herself from others and the outside world?

Even NASSIM TALEB, when he started to have a lot of anxiety about the outside world from other people and economists,  how he could not sleep even after chamomile tea, instead of hiring a bodyguard  decided to strive to actually become and look like a bodyguard? This is where I first discovered one rep Max lifting, the best way to turn yourself into your own personal bodyguard.

Even now, I’m starting to think, maybe the new eat those in approach I am working towards look and become or seem more like Security? Rather than seeming or looking like a civilian, to either look like a security guard, or better yet, police, or better yet, SWAT team, special weapons and tactics team, Even better, a navy seal door kicker, shout out to my friend Walter Magerison– the ultimate courage?

Door kicker

Do you remember when King Leonidas says this is Sparta and kicks the messenger into the hole, that infamous kick… Maybe that kind of door kicker should be the number one exercise we train for?

Even when I was a kid learning taekwondo, the forward kick, the Forward thrust kick , might be the most effective kick to defend yourself against an enemy? The ultimate lever; doesn’t look super flashy, but is actually the most effective?

Sparring

Where to concentrate your energy power and force?

Still… The best way I think about one rep Max lifting is that it is concentration and meditation. For like 30 seconds before you attempt a new one repetition maximum lift, you cannot be distracted you must be 100% focused. No audio no visual no distractions. It is pure transcendence.

A lot of these weirdos who take mushrooms or LSD or hallucinogens who seek some sort of out of body experience, or even seek intoxication through alcohol or marijuana, maybe we should just get into hype lifting and powerlifting instead?

Just log it.

Photography, our daily photography practice could also be considered another form of a photo log, of our lives?

A blog, a web blog, a video log, a Vlog, all of this is also simply forms of recording a log?

Captains log, even a bathroom log, is all forms of just adding marks to log things for the sake of it?

You don’t need a reason to log?

Even nowadays, whenever I send email newsletters or whatever, they are kind of more like essay logs, like some sort of random ideas that I am currently working through myself, and thinking that there’s even a 1% chance of utility for you, I send it to you? 

Maybe what courage is via negative, simply not being a coward, or not having fear?

A man who is fearless, somebody who is fearless… What would this look like?

How to subtract fear from your life

Conquering fear has always been kind of my number one preoccupation in life. Because I think… Maybe like 99% of fear that we got is simply predicated on false perceptions, or some sort of physical deficiency?

Simple prescriptions:

1. Throw your iPhone iPhone Pro into the trash: honestly I think 99% of stuff we ingest now from our mobile phones is fear porn; imagine if you could like voluntarily watch two girls one cup, or human centipede on loop, like 1000 times a day… Would you do it? Probably not. I even had a thought; if you have an issue with iPhone or smart phone addiction; maybe when you go home, just turn it off and lock it into the glove compartment of your car?
2. Second thought is maybe instead of owning an iPhone, iPhone Pro, just own an iPad Pro instead? Certainly we need a computer to thrive in today’s world, I think that structurally, having an iPad Pro encourages me to do more creative productive stuff like reviewing my photos, voice dictating essays, sending email newsletters etc., whereas an iPhone because it is so compact… Encourages more mindless scrolling?

Outside.

Very difficult to feel anxious when you are outdoors in a beautiful nature, with beautiful sunlight in your face, looking at nature. Or, if you are staring at a barbell with templates on each side… All of these other superficial issues in your life will fade away.

Trust in iron & steel

Steel & iron therapy — once again, daily weightlifting, could maybe get rid of at least 90% of the issues in our life?

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So kind of a bad philosophy that I have… After thinking about this for a long time, assuming there is wise and there is foolish, there is courageous and there is cowardly… It seems that the truth of the matter is then, assuming that most people are foolish, what that then means is that most people don’t know what is good for them.

For example, the fault of the Austrian economists like Murray Rothsbard etc is that they say that each individual is 100% rational agent, which means that the decisions that people made for themselves, is for their best interest, even though we made sneer at them for being foolish. 

OK then assuming that the majority is right, that then means that 80% of Americans who are obese and overfat is a good thing, that the Toyota Corolla is the best car on the planet, that Starbucks Frappuccino‘s are the best beverage, and that McDonald’s hamburgers are both the best food item in that McDonald’s is the most successful restaurant of all time. And that China mainland China because she has the highest sheer number of individuals, is the best nation.

Certainly we know this is not the case. The reality of the matter is that assuming that we are the new Spartans, King Leonidas and his 300… certainly better to be a spartan 300 than one of the million Persian slaves, and also, better to be a Sparta with her few inhabitants than Persia.

Visuals

In reading the politics by Aristotle, the good idea I have is… Thinking of this notion of being a philosopher king. The general idea is that almost all of the systems are bad.

For example, according to Aristotle democracy is bad because for the most part it is governed by a bunch of poor people, without much virtue because freeman Are the only men who could actually attend virtue, because they actually have leisure.

Certainly Aristotle knows that tyranny is bad.  but I think the difficult thing is that people kind of define tyranny in an imprecise manner… a tyrant is actually an individual in which all the power resides in one person. 

Oligarchies are bad because oligarchies only imply rank based on riches. 

Then what is the direction we head towards?

I’m King Leonidas 

I was recently re-watching the movie 300 on the plane, thinking of King Leonidas, as a child, not being thrown off the cliff, and then, in the winter with the wolf, no fear just a heightened sense of things – a similar feeling, right beyond the first and the last moment with King Xerxes, the final stand.

Obvious decisions are obvious

Typically, when I’m not 100% certain about a decision, I just put on my weight vest, and I go on a long walk.

Once you have come to your decision, obvious decisions are pretty obvious.

Maybe once you have reached your obvious decision, it is like casting your spear, with your form perfect, throwing it straight into the head of Xerxes.

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Once you throw the spear, don’t look back.

ERIC

So not to invoke too much weird conspiracy theories or whatever, trying to think about this more sociologically and philosophically, I like this idea of thinking about social engineering, being a social engineer etc. 

Thank god for sociology

First, I’m starting more and more… That my studies and deep dive into sociology has actually yielded amazing fortunes.

First, ironically enough, studying sociology and teaching me to “de-matrix” myself has made me a lot financially richer. Like insanely a lot.

For example, I’m pretty certain and committed to the idea that anybody who got in early on bitcoin, like I did in 2018, when bitcoin was only $6999 a coin, you kind of needed a little bit of disconnection from reality, etc. For example, starting to unlearn ideas of currency etc., back in 2017 when I was zenning out in Vietnam  was certainly one of the greatest windfalls in my life. 

People like to talk a lot about “reality,” perhaps it is better to think about first principles physics etc.  for example, I’ve been doing another deep dive into my best friend Aristotle, and one of the greatest things about Aristotle, and honestly the funny thing is that nobody criticizes the great Aristotle, because he had his head screwed on well, the general idea is that I think the best way to profit in life is to think first principles, back to basics.

For example, Aristotle in his ethics, talks about chief goods, which essentially means the end goals or desires that we have of something.

first principles,  thinking from first principles maybe one of the greatest superpowers of Elon Musk. For example, if you think about Tesla; rather than thinking about “how to make a better car“, which is just the Toyota kaizen Way  i’m making each generation of the car about 3% better indefinitely, a first principles approach is like asking the question “what should a car be and what should a car look like?”

Other example with Steve Jobs, the original first principles thinker; when he was prototyping and imagining the first iPhone, rather than thinking by analogy, which is like how do we take a pre-existing blackberry and make it “better“, he reimagined the whole thing. He had the genius idea that it should just be all screen, And to get rid of the physical keyboard, even though people were addicted to their crack berries with the physical keys. I still remember in the early days when I was in high school, even an early college, when the original iPhone came out, people will talk about how their words per minute on the blackberry was like 1 billion times faster. But now, once again thinking about first principles, I never type anything with my fingers on my thumbs anymore, only voice dictation. Why? Voice dictation is still like 1000 times faster than typing on a keyboard and certainly your thumbs. 

I’m pretty convinced that the only reason people don’t use voice dictation more is because they are fearful of looking stupid. And this is where I have found it insanely beneficial to spend a lot of time traveling being in different countries etc., other countries they use voice dictation like almost 100% at the time. For example in Cambodia, to type in Khmer the local language takes like 1 trillion stroke so everybody has devised that it is actually much more efficient to voice dictate everything.

Also, one of the grand upsides of interacting and mingling with mainland Chinese, who often walk around the grocery store with two brand new iPhone pros that done each other, hand holding it, is that they have mastered the art of voice dictation out loud, with zero shame.

If anything, the only reason why people hate mainland Chinese people is that they wish they were them; full of zero concerns about other people their perceptions, all wearing Louis Vuitton, and they really don’t care about what other people think about them. And they’re like 1 trillion times richer than you. 

Courage of being outside, the courage of social life 

So after 10 days in Mexico, 11 days, going to see the monarch butterflies in Mexico at Valle de bravo, Mexico City, and also renting a car and driving for a few days, what have I learned?

First, ironically enough LA is kind of like paradise, especially being in West LA, Culver City. Why? First, one of the biggest issues about a lot of these great foreign countries, is pollution. In the race to industrialized, pollution is out of control. For example I love Mexico City to death, but one of the critical issues here is that There is so much pollution outside, and I don’t think there really are any laws against pollution there, so you see so many trucks without Cal converters driving around, smogging up the air. 

Second smoking. For me, one of the things I made hit the most in embody reality is secondhand cigarette smell. And this is the big ethical issue: 

Technically, when a smoker smokes a cigarette, because they are doing it through a filter, they actually are being exposed to less cancer than their secondhand smoke which they shoot out.

First do no harm unto others. This means ethically, one should not be permitted to smoke in public. Public means where there is other people who are walking around you.

Which means, ethically, it is fine for you to smoke inside your house with your windows closed or your car windows closed etc., but ethically, one should not be permitted to smoke outside in public or on the street.

What are the things which is actually insanely infuriating to me is that people have a strong sense of indignant about smoking in public like he has some sort of God-given rights to do so? Not only that but most people are kind of wimps, they are a bunch of sissies who don’t have the courage to ask a person to not smoke in public. Especially when you’re with your kid.

Actually this is a big thing I’ve personally discovered for myself is that things are now different once you have a young kid, I think in the past when people would smoke I would just take it, but now that I share the air with Seneca, it is for his sake.

Therefore, my thought on being a defender or an avenger is to simply defend those who you love, obviously your firstborn son, your wife, your mom etc.

Protect and defend those who you truly care for. 

Meat Paradise 

Going to Costco yesterday, picking up ribeye steak, beef ribs etc.… The truth is seriously in America we have access to everything. Even Amazon prime, we are seriously living in the best world of all time.

Also another random thought; the upside of living on the second story apartment building, you have access to more natural light! Nowadays the meme is for a lot of wealthy LA homeowners to build these funny two or three story mini building block Lego houses, but the great tragedy here is that when you’re on the bottom floor, you don’t have any access to natural life. Therefore the name of the game is to keep building higher, the second or third floor, in order to absorb a little bit more natural light.

Even my mom who had this very interesting idea is that why do plant humans other natural beings need water? For photosynthesis, photo like futons, the light, and to synthesize energy and power.

Also ironically enough if you think about the word photosynthesis, and that we are photographers and we shoot and we make photos, shouldn’t we integrate more light photons into our everyday life?

Photon Canon!

One of my favorite games is a kid growing up was Marvel versus Capcom, and also one of my favorite characters was Iron Man, and also war machine. They had this pretty cool super in which Iron Man can shoot a photon cannon.

Pretty cool because you could hardness the power of the sun, you could do real damage?

Also a fun idea is that actually, if you think about the genius of Elon Musk, Tesla, solar city etc. is the general idea of harnessing the power of the sun, solar panels solar panel power , as certainly the future.

Certainly the technology that we have access to right now doesn’t have enough power yet, but, it seems to be the most logical path forward.

harnessing more sun in your own everyday life?

Therefore the funny idea I have; maybe if you desire more strength power or whatever, just spend more time outside in the sun! If you’re afraid of the sun put on some sun block or a hat, but no no no you will not get sun cancer.

Certainly there are cases in which if your heritage is super super north Sweden, and your pale as a ghost, then maybe putting on sunscreen and hat and stuff is a good idea, but still, don’t be afraid of the sun, embrace it!

goals?

So, some simple thoughts:

First, still… Whenever I meet a lot of people their life goals and dreams and ambitions typically involve some sort of travel like traveling to Japan, etc. And even though traveling could be seen as a little bit superficial sometimes, I still think it is a super good idea because it will really really open up your eyes to the rest of the world, to re-challenge your typical assumptions, etc.

Second, create your own doge.  Department of governmental efficiency is literally about just cutting programs which seem kind of superfluous. Political matters aside, I do believe it is a good idea to try to cut superfluous expenses whenever possible, and therefore, it seems that it will almost always be a smart economic decision to cut costs, efficiency is all about cost cutting. 

Also, what a lot of people do not understand about Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey all these great entrepreneurs, is that in fact, they’re genius is sprung from the fact that they are masters of efficiency and cost cutting. Even Jeff Bezos, don’t forget how he would cut out Doors from Home Depot to create desks. Even apparently CEOs at IKEA all fly economy as well.

Spartan Sexiness

Some superficial things I often think about is like what is the best car, the best clothes etc., but the truth is the best shirt is no shirt, being topless or shirtless, think of King Leonidas and his 300.

Even pants and shorts, essentially know that the Spartans were all essentially in male bikinis. Even a kind of random thing is that my last pair of ex officio underwear that I purchased were the black “give N go 2.0” briefs — not the boxers, but the ones that look like a speedo.

Sublime samurai

One of my favorite visuals is this all black all Matt black samurai in full samurai armor, with some hints of gold and red tassels, from chubby cattle.

Even though all black everything all that black everything is kind of a superficial aesthetic, screw it, it’s still pretty good.

bitcoin belongs to me! 

We are all Satoshi we are all Michael Saylor

I think ultimately my great pride of owning bitcoin, bitcoin is like a bitcoin owner or a property owner, is that there is actually a deep sense of pride in owning bitcoin.

Considering that I’ve been stacking bitcoin since 2018, like at least 20 or 30 purchase orders, I guess I am really committed.

Even though bitcoin is still kind of political now, considering the US strategic bitcoin reserve act,  one of the big ideas and thoughts is that bitcoin is for the most part, pretty a political which then means, you can just bitcoin and chill, without having to stay updated with annoying news about all this ridiculous political matters and affairs.