ERIC KIM

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  • NOT THE SAME BREED?

    I’m not like them

    Some random funny thoughts:

    Breeds of dogs & breeds of humans?

    OK… let us apply a line of thinking to dogs, different breeds of dogs. For example, certainly a canine or pitbull would be a much better and ferocious fighter than a pug or a hotdog wiener dog.

    But the funny thing is I think all breeds of dogs could pro generate with one another, irregardless of breed? 

    Also certainly with human beings, there are some families which are naturally taller, some families which are naturally shorter. And certainly there has been some sort of genetic diversification on the planet and beyond, especially when it comes a different parts of the planet.

    For example, certain places certain humans have more bodily hair, possibly to dissipate the heat. Other places, darker pigments to fight off the sun. It makes sense, if your family genetic heritage is from sub-Saharan Africa, logically the human body will produce more pigment to fight off the sun then if your genetic heritage was from northern Sweden, in which during the winter time you might only get 30 minutes of sun.

    Why others are confused by me

    I’m starting to feel more and more… maybe other people, they’re just a different breed than me. For example, I think of myself kind of like a canine, a K9 attack police dog, and everyone else is just a wiener dog? Or annoying poodles?

    And so then… when other people try to punk me around, I have zero tolerance for it.

    For example, let us say that you were a ferocious fighting dog, and there’s a random annoying poodle that starts barking at you! Or tries to bully you around? How would you respond? Obviously you would just want the damn poodle to shut up!

    Thinking about Achilles

    In my mind, I see myself like an Achilles. I see myself like the most handsome, powerful, dominant, ultra being out there. And perhaps it is precisely my oversized ego is where I get my power.

    I think there are a lot of sissy philosophers and thinkers who somehow think that ego is a bad thing. I think this is not the case. Your ego is almost like your balls and your testicles… would you castrate yourself because sometimes it makes you too angry– having big balls and a lot of testosterone is almost like overpower.

    For example, we think about Dragon Ball Z, Goku going super Saiyan etc.… Obviously you want the golden flaming flowing hair, and the ultra power of going super Saiyan! But let us say that with the ability to go super Saiyan, there were also some downsides like sometimes you cannot tolerate the power? Would you sacrifice it? Of course not!

    Niagara Falls would make a great bitcoin mining rig 

    Kind of like a raging river, Niagara Falls; would the point be to simply cut it off … or wouldn’t a more intelligent strategy to be to harness it like putting a water electricity damn thing on it, harness the hydropower, not to cut it off?

    And this is my critique about modern day times, it seems like a lot of people are trying to do is to castrate the source, rather than channel that energy for positive constructive good things!

    Don’t castrate yourself!

    For example, the ego should be something augmented, amplified and magnified, but also concurrent channeled in such a way which could be empowering and useful for others?

    How?

    So can we use the ego in a constructive or positive way?

    First, a non-competitive spirit… just compliment everybody you see! Even if somebody is taller, more good looking, handsomer, richer, more successful, buffer than you! When you see somebody with a great physique, the correct strategy is to compliment them and acknowledge them!

    Second, to harness and channel your ego and your energy and your physiological power towards writing, producing text, making videos, podcasts etc.… Sharing ideas, irregardless of how unethical they may seem.

    If anything… I’m starting to think more and more, the only interesting ideas are the unethical ones. Or the ones which are shunned by mainstream modern day society.

    To me, the only good ideas are the bad ones. When an idea seems right, and it seems to make sense, typically it is bad and or wrong.

    Follow your values

    When it comes to values, there is no right or wrong, there are simply authentic to yourself, or not.

    For example, my values and beliefs in open source, entrepreneurship, and empowerment through photography are true. Why? I grew up poor, single working mom waiting tables at Japanese sushi restaurant for nearly 20 years, and also almost went homeless twice. A lot of your own personal narrative forms who you are.

    As a consequence, I think the idea is not too shroud who you are, your own personality etc., but rather to magnify it!

    Magnify your personality!

    For example, I’m a very inquisitive, curious person, and I’d like to chop it up! I like to be friendly!

    Funny enough… I try to be friendly to everybody, but people who are standoffish, or bizarro, they react to me in very bizarre ways. But should I suddenly shut down my friendly personality because other guy is a cowardly poodle? No!

    ERIC KIM PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT

    Ever since I was a kid, what was my great gift? Being a great entertainer! I am literally the most entertaining person that I know, I’ve only met maybe two people in the flesh who outperformed me.

    Maybe it is a form of social conquest, trolling around, having fun etc.! Maybe it is that I seek to be the biggest dick in the room? 

    But it’s supposed to question is, why do I care? Why do I care to be the biggest dick in the room?

    Not sure? Maybe the desire to dominate is in my DNA?

    How I became the street photographer 

    Whether you like it or not, all street photographers, especially young ones are disciples of ERIC KIM. How and why? I essentially created a metaphorical Bible or textbook or encyclopedia and ultimate resource for anything revolving around street photography. Why?

    100 lessons from the masters of street photography

    It was always my number one goal to be the number one street photographer on Google, to become number one in street photography. As a consequence, my laser like eyes and focus was insanely simple; do everything I could do to become number one on Google for street photography. And the strategy was very very simple, create the most in-depth articles blog posts and information for everything street photography! It took me nearly a decade, but I did it! After that, other domains to conquer.

    But the funny thing is in today’s world… certainly Google is relevant, but now that ChatGPT is coming out with their own search engine, which is in my opinion at least 1000 X more intelligent, google should be scared, very scared. 

    What is the future?

    Obviously it will be ChatGPT and AI, open AI.

    Let us consider… AI and cars. Besides the vanity object, the ideal is for your car to be 100% self driving, and this is where Tesla is a great bet; one should think of Tesla like artificial intelligence company with wheels.

    Because the truth is, if you compare the ride quality of any Tesla car and any Toyota, the Toyota is superior and almost every single shape and form, besides speed. A Tesla is very very uncomfortable, the springs are too harsh, the ride quality is inferior to even my 2010 Prius!

    For example, if you wanted a car with the ultimate ride comfort, you would probably purchase a Lexus vehicle, or maybe a Mercedes? 

    Even though I love Tesla and Elon Musk to death, the cars feel pretty cheap. If you wanted the best car, probably get a Lexus LS.

    Autopilot is the killer feature

    But anyways, the really intelligent strategy is to purchase the cheapest base level Tesla car, with the most basic options, and just purchase auto pilot. I think auto pilot for about $8000 is the best deal of all time; it is like having your own personal driving slave that doesn’t need to be fed, paid, never gets tired, is always ready.

    Even the new Google pixel that comes with the new pro Gemini AI… If your life runs on Gmail, it is kind of the game changer.

    If you can’t beat them join them 

    Even Apple is lagging behind in artificial intelligence, the new Apple Intelligence looks pretty lame. Super smart that the Apple team decided to integrate with open AI to integrate ChatGPT into her services; if you can’t beat them, join them. 

    Rather than Apple trying to create a ChatGPT copycat, simply to integrate or offer ChatGPT services on the iPhone is the smart way.

    I guess Google has had a bit of a headstart; she was in the AI game for a very long time. And this is where Google to pivot to focus on AI is a good idea. 

    So what will be the purpose of humans now?

    In a brave New World of ChatGPT, AI etc.… What is the purpose or the significance of humans?

    The first step is to transfer all of the tedious tasks from humans to ChatGPT. Or AI.

    For example, the greatest innovation of TurboTax is having that new AI that automatically has you categorize all of your expenses. Oh my god, this was literally the most hateful thing about doing my taxes, having to categorize all of my different deductions. But now, what would otherwise take me about eight hours, takes me about eight seconds when you connect TurboTax with your bank accounts.

    I love TurboTax!

    And this is where the future of things become interesting; all these things in the past which we had to do inefficiently slowly and begrudgingly… we should just let AI do it, and we humans do more meaningful things. 

    Slave Work, Master Work?

    I think this is the future; let AI be the new slave, and you, the flesh bound human being, you do the human creative work!

    The ultimate disruption 

    ChatGPT is one quadrillion times more productive than you. This is a big deal. Why?

    What that means is that the purpose of us humans is not productivity. We can finally unchain ourselves from the leashes of this ridiculous notion of productivity. 

    How do the gods of mount Olympus live?

    The gods, who live at ease. 

    You fools, the point of life is not to give fellatio to hard things, hard lives, etc. We should be like Zeus, with the mighty thunderbolt, the gods lived in supreme ease.

    This is also the funny thing is that when a lot of people retire, make a bunch of money or whatever they are lost… they don’t know how to embrace or live a life of ease; they’re still trying to grind their nose against the grinder, because for their whole life, that is what their life was? 

    I would say emulate the gods of the Iliad, ancient Greece. Read the new Iliad translation by Emily Wilson, I purchased it in the iBooks store, reading on my iPad Pro and I love it!

    Ethos

    I suppose that the primary thing here to consider is the ethos of human humanity, reasons of living etc.

    I think for too long, the whole ethos of humanity was to maximize productivity, income income earning potential, money and capital and capitalism etc.… but once again, if bitcoin, AI and ChatGPT can do it better than you, by 1 billion fold,,, what is your new life ethos?

    Risk free returns

    Assuming that you’re a big contractor, and you’re building a new skyscraper or commercial real estate or whatever, what is the goal? To create income producing property, and to eventually cop a profit?

    However the great issue here is the cost to capital; the startup costs and the initial investment is too high! As a consequence, let us say that you invested $1 billion to build this new commercial real estate… You eventually have to find all these tenants to sign a lease, occupy it, pay the lease or the rent, and maybe in 20 or 30 years you can make a positive profit? 

    Assuming that bitcoin is digital capital, digital land, digital real estate… The cost of capital is practically zero, you just have to sit and vest, I can almost guarantee you that you have a 0% risk over 30 years. And I can almost guarantee you with 100% clarity that bitcoin will go up in the next 30 years. 

    I also like the notion of bitcoin being digital real estate because nobody checks their home price on Zillow 10 times a day, reacting to short term increases or decreases or volatility.

    Why is bitcoin so volatile?

    It is a feature, not a bug!

    First, you could trade bitcoin 24/7, 365, every millisecond. 
    Let us consider how insane this is… It is the year 2024, we live in the future, and traditional markets are closed on the weekends? This is 1 trillion times bizarre.

    Assuming that the real world was like a science fiction film… Can you Which economic trading doesn’t happen on the weekends?

    So this is why bitcoin is so volatile and always goes up and down, almost randomly because it is always trading! I wonder if the volatility of other assets and stocks are a lot less because simply you can’t trade it on the weekends.

    Flesh future

    I’m pretty sure that almost 99.9% of men, assuming that they have an iPhone, probably watches porn every single day, almost 100% certain at least once a week or once a month etc. Or better yet, if you want to see whether your friend watches porn or not, ask to see his laptop, and to see whether they have a torrenting or VPN application installed on their MacBook laptop– utorrent, Trasmission etc.

    Or, if they have the brave browser on their phone, Google Chrome incognito etc.

    Almost every single person I know who works in tech, knows how to program or code whatever, all use pirate bay.

    Anyways, once again another bizarre thing; one would never watch pornography which is centered around ideas, souls, personalities, etc. It is always the flesh, the human body!

    Why did it in modern day times, we are trying to deny the human body, and trying to promote instead, one’s “personality” and “mind” and “soul”– ?

    Build your body

    Become a body – builder ,,, obviously without the steroids!

    ERIC

    All injected hormones are bad hormones

    Unless you have cancer, HIV aids, and is literally a life or death thing.

    EK

  • NOT THE SAME BREED?

    Some random funny thoughts:

    OK… Let us apply to dogs, different breeds of dogs. For example, certainly a canine or pitbull would be a much better and ferocious fighter than a pug or a hotdog wiener dog.

    But the funny thing is I think all breeds of dogs could pro generate with one another, irregardless of breed? 

    Also certainly with human beings, there are some families which are naturally taller, some families which are naturally shorter. And certainly there has been some sort of genetic diversification on the planet and beyond, especially when it comes a different parts of the planet.

    For example, certain places certain humans have more bodily hair, possibly to dissipate the heat. Other places, darker pigments to fight off the sun. It makes sense, if your family genetic heritage is from sub-Saharan Africa, logically the human body will produce more pigment to fight off the sun then if your genetic heritage was from northern Sweden, in which during the winter time you might only get 30 minutes of sun.

    I’m starting to feel more and more… Maybe other people, they’re just a different breed than me. For example, I think of myself kind of like a canine, a K9 attack police dog, and everyone else is just a wiener dog? Or annoying poodles?

    And so then… When other people try to punk me around, I have zero tolerance for it.

    For example, let us say that you were a ferocious fighting dog, and there’s a random annoying poodle that starts barking at you! Or tries to bully you around? How would you respond? Obviously you would just want the damn poodle to shut up! 

    Thinking about Achilles

    In my mind, I see myself like an Achilles. I see myself like the most handsome, powerful, dominant, ultra being out there. And perhaps it is precisely my oversized ego is where I get my power.

     I think there are a lot of sissy philosophers and thinkers who somehow think that ego is a bad thing. I think this is not the case. Your ego is almost like your balls and your testicles… would you castrate yourself because sometimes it makes you too angry– having big balls and a lot of testosterone is almost like overpower.

    For example, we think about Dragon Ball Z, Goku going super Saiyan etc.… Obviously you want the golden flaming flowing hair,  and the ultra power of going super Saiyan! But let us say that with the ability to go super Saiyan, there were also some downsides like sometimes you cannot tolerate the power? Would you sacrifice it? Of course not!

    Kind of like a raging river, Niagara Falls; with the point be to simply cut it off … or wouldn’t a more intelligent strategy to be to harness it like putting a water electricity damn thing on it, harness the hydropower, not to cut it off?

    And this is my critique about modern day times, it seems like a lot of people are trying to do is to castrate the source, rather than channel that energy for positive constructive good things!

    For example, the ego should be something augmented, amplified and magnified, but also concurrent channeled in such a way which could be empowering and useful for others?

    how?

    So can we use the ego in a constructive or positive way?

    First, a non-competitive spirit… Just complement everybody you see! Even if somebody is taller, more good looking, handsomer, richer, more successful, buffer than you! When you see somebody with a great physique, the correct strategy is to compliment them and acknowledge them!

    Second, two harness and channel your ego and your energy and your physiological power towards riding, producing text, making videos, podcasts etc.… Sharing ideas, irregardless of how unethical they may seem.

    If anything… I’m starting to think more and more, the only interesting ideas are the unethical ones. Or the ones which are shunned by mainstream modern day society.

    To me, the only good ideas are the bad ones. When an idea seems right, and it seems to make sense, typically it is bad and or wrong.

    Follow your values

    When it comes to values, there is no written wrong, there are simply authentic to yourself, or not.

    For example, my values and beliefs in open source, entrepreneurship, impartment through photography are true. Why? I grew up poor, single working mom waiting tables at Japanese sushi restaurant for nearly 20 years, and also almost went homeless twice. A lot of your own personal narrative forms who you are.

    As a consequence, I think the idea is not too shroud who you are, your own personality etc., but rather to magnify it!

    For example, I’m a very inquisitive, curious person, and I’d like to chop it up! I like to be friendly!

    Funny enough… I tried to be friendly to everybody, but people who are standoffish, or bizarro, they react to me in very bizarre ways. But should I suddenly shut down my friendly personality because other guy is a cowardly poodle? No!

    ERIC KIM PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT

    Ever since I was a kid, what was my great gift? Being a great entertainer! I am literally the most entertaining person that I know, I’ve only met maybe two people in the flesh who outperformed me.

    Maybe it is a form of social conquest, trolling around, having fun etc.! Maybe it is that I seek to be the biggest dick in the room? 

    But it’s supposed to question is, why do I care? Why do I care to be the biggest dick in the room?

    Not sure? Maybe the desire to dominate is in my DNA? 

    How I became the street photographer 

    Whether you like it or not, I’ll stream the photographer, especially young ones are disciples of ERIC KIM. How and why? I essentially created a metaphorical Bible or textbook or encyclopedia and ultimate resource for anything revolving around street photography. Why?

    It was always my number one goal to be the number one street photographer on Google, to become number one in street photography. As a consequence, my laser like eyes and focus was insanely simple; do everything I could to become number one on Google for street photography. And the strategy was very very simple, create the most in-depth articles blog posts and information for everything street photography! It took me nearly a decade, but I did it! After that, other domains to conquer.

    But the funny thing is in today’s world… certainly Google is relevant, but now that ChatGPT is coming out with their own search engine, which is in my opinion at least 1000 X more intelligent, google should be scared, very scared. 

    What is the future?

    Obviously it will be ChatGPT and AI, open AI.

    Let us consider… AI and cars. Besides the vanity object, the ideal is for your car to be 100% self driving, and this is where Tesla is a great bet; one should think of Tesla like artificial intelligence company with wheels.

    Because the truth is, if you compare the ride quality of any Tesla car and any Toyota, the Toyota is superior and almost every single shape and form, besides speed. A Tesla is very very uncomfortable, the springs are too harsh, the ride quality is inferior to even my 2010 Prius!

    For example, if you wanted a car with the ultimate ride comfort, you would probably purchase a Lexus vehicle, or maybe a Mercedes? 

    But anyways, the really intelligent strategy is to purchase the cheapest base level Tesla car, with the most basic options, and just purchase auto pilot. I think auto pilot for about $8000 is the best deal of all time; it is like having your own personal driving slave that doesn’t need to be fed, paid, never gets tired, is always ready.

    Even the new Google pixel that comes with the new pro Gemini AI… If your life runs on Gmail, it is kind of the game changer.

    Even Apple is lagging behind in artificial intelligence, the new Apple Intelligence looks pretty lame. Super smart that the Apple team decided to integrate with open AI to integrate ChatGPT into her services; if you can’t beat them, join them. 

    Rather than Apple trying to create a ChatGPT copycat, simply to integrate or offer ChatGPT services on the iPhone is the smart way.

    I guess Google has had a bit of a headstart; she was in the AI game for a very long time. And this is where Google to pivot to focus on AI is a good idea. 

    so what will be the purpose of humans now?

    In a brave New World of ChatGPT, AI etc.… What is the purpose or the significance of humans?

     the first step is to transfer all of the tedious tasks from humans to ChatGPT. Or AI.

    For example, the greatest innovation of TurboTax is having that new AI that automatically has you categorize all of your expenses. Oh my god, this was literally the most hateful thing about doing my taxes, having to categorize all of my different deductions.  But now, what would otherwise take me about eight hours, takes me about eight seconds when you connect TurboTax with your bank accounts.

    And this is where the future of things become interesting; all these things in the past which we had to do inefficiently slowly and begrudgingly… we should just let AI do it, and we humans do more meaningful things. 

    Slave Work, Master Work?

    I think this is the future; let AI be the new slave, and you, the flesh bound human being, you do the human creative work!

    The ultimate disruption 

    ChatGPT is one quadrillion times more productive than you. This is a big deal. Why?

    What that means is that the purpose of us humans is not productivity. We can finally unchain ourselves from the leashes of this ridiculous notion of productivity. 

    How do the gods of mount Olympus live?

    The gods, who live at ease. 

    You fools, the point of life is not to give fellatio to hard things, hard lives, etc. We should be like Zeus, with the mighty thunderbolt, the gods lived in supreme ease.

    This is also the funny thing is that when a lot of people retire, make a bunch of money or whatever they are lost… they don’t know how to embrace or live a life of ease; they’re still trying to grind their nose against the grinder, because for their whole life, that is what their life was? 

    I would say emulate the gods of the Iliad, ancient Greece. Read the new Iliad translation by Emily Wilson, I purchased it in the iBooks store, reading on my iPad Pro and I love it!

    Ethos

    I suppose that the primary thing here to consider is the ethos of human humanity, reasons of living etc.

    I think for too long, the whole ethos of humanity was to maximize productivity, income income earning potential, money and capital and capitalism etc.… But once again, if bitcoin, AI and ChatGPT can do it better than you, by 1 billion fold,,, what is your new life ethos?

    Risk free returns

    Assuming that you’re a big contractor, and you’re building a new skyscraper or commercial real estate or whatever, what is the goal? To create income producing property, and to eventually coup a profit?

    However the great issue here is the cost to capital; the startup costs and the initial investment is too high! As a consequence, let us say that you invested $1 billion to build this new commercial real estate… You eventually have to find all these tenants to sign a lease, occupy it, pay the lease or the rent, and maybe in 20 or 30 years you can make a positive profit? 

    Assuming that bitcoin is digital capital, digital land, digital real estate… The cost of capital is practically zero, you just have to sit and vest, I can almost guarantee you that you have a 0% risk over 30 years. And I can almost guarantee you with 100% clarity that bitcoin will go up in the next 30 years. 

    I also like the notion of bitcoin being digital real estate because nobody checks their home price on Zillow 10 times a day, reacting to short term increases or decreases or volatility.

    Why is bitcoin so volatile?

    It is a feature, not a bug!

    First, you could trade bitcoin 24/7, 365, every millisecond. 
    Let us consider how insane this is… It is the year 2024, we live in the future, and traditional markets are closed on the weekends? This is 1 trillion times bizarre.

    Assuming that the real world was like a science fiction film… Can you Which economic trading doesn’t happen on the weekends?

    So this is why bitcoin is so volatile and always goes up and down, almost randomly because it is always trading! I wonder if the volatility of other assets and stocks are a lot less because simply you can’t trade it on the weekends.

    Flesh future

    I’m pretty sure that almost 99.9% of men, assuming that they have an iPhone, probably watches porn every single day, almost 100% certain at least once a week or once a month etc. Or better yet, if you want to see whether your friend watches porn or not, ask to see his laptop, and to see whether they have a torrenting or VPN application installed on their MacBook laptop– utorrent, Trasmission etc.

    Or, if they have the brave browser on their phone, Google Chrome incognito etc.

    Almost every single person I know who works in tech, knows how to program or code whatever, all use pirate bay.

    Anyways, once again another bizarre thing; one would never watch pornography which is centered around ideas, souls, personalities, etc. It is always the flesh, the human body!

    Why did it in modern day times, we are trying to deny the human body, and trying to promote instead, one’s “personality” and “mind” and “soul”– ?

  • Black & White

    Add more extreme contrast to your life:

    Man is black, woman is white? 

    Increasing contrast?

    I’m starting to think that if we apply the black-and-white art photography aesthetic to real life, maybe the idea of “preserving the midtones“ is a bit boring.

    The general notion of crushing the blacks is when you’re processing or post processing your photos, you dragged the black slider all the way to 100, and you also crank up the contrast to 100.

    Aesthetically, I think this makes for much more striking and interesting images.

    First, midtones are boring. Almost universally, the more you increase the contrast of something or the photos, the better.

    For example, even when we design our homes. What is the best way to design a home? Very very simple, use white and black accents.

    For example in my eyes, the ideal home exterior paint color is not a matte black, but rather, a pure clean white, with black trimming.

    Also, with cars… I think we’ve discovered is the apex is both a shiny white with shiny black accents — gloss, not matte.

    I think matte, matte black, the whole matte aesthetic is centered around jet stealth fighters, which desire to escape enemy detection. So typically when you try to matte black your car and murder it out… aesthetic you’re going for stealth bomber, or jet fighter aesthetic?

    But the irony that I find… nobody would ever matte black or murder out their Prius, to escape detection from the police or the other party. We typically do it to our sports cars, our Teslas, etc. 

    Put the strange inconsistency I see here is on one hand, we want to be seen and to show up, on the other hand, we want to be fake low-key, and be “humble”?

    Bitch be humble?

    A few years back, the song HUMBLE by Kendrick Lamar went triple maxi viral. It was the most viral song of all time, maybe even more viral than the recent “They Not Like Us” song.

    The song was very bizarre to me. Because I’m not sure what Kendrick was really trying to say. Two interpretations —

    1. First, he is calling the counterparty a bitch, and telling them to sit down and be humble because I am so much greater than you
    2. Or, trying to remind everybody to be humble in general.

    But the weird inconsistency in modern day life is we are centered around Christian Jesus ethics, or some sort of quaker Protestant morality which is centered around notion of humility, being humble, close to the ground etc. This is why you will never ever ever meet a rich person in America called themselves rich, they will call themselves “fortunate“, or “lucky”.

    Also another bizarre thing in the world of bodybuilding… you almost never ever ever see bodybuilders proud to flex unabashedly, like Arnold in the documentary Pumping Iron, back in the day. It is very uncommon for you to see self-confident men at the gym, working out topless, in booty shorts, 3 inch short shorts, flexing their muscles in the mirror, not trying to hide it etc.

    The big issue with the typical bodybuilder is that they are trying to become dominant, but be humble about it? Really weird?

    Lord Achilles 

    I am currently reading the Iliad by Emily Wilson, I am always always happy to see a new translation or a fresh take on the classic.

    Anyways, also an interesting thought… I like the idea of reading a female woman translate the most manly literature of all time. I think the problem when I was talking to my friend Kelly, is that traditionally in the past, it was a bunch of impotent old men who would translate great classics like the Iliad or the Odyssey, using their own fake impotent machismo, to translate it.

    For example, a lot of the misogyny, misogynistic language from 100 years ago or so, was actually very inaccurate.

    Anyways, something worth noting is how artful, succinct, beautiful, and unlike English ancient Greek was. In fact, I definitely want to get Seneca on the classics, get him into Latin and ancient Greek, and mathematics like NASSIM TALEB recommended.

    If you think about it long enough, what are the least harmful majors which exist? Classics, math, physics.

    Classics is almost like the superior form of sociology, physical theory, it is the pillar of the humanities. Either classics or history.

    Math, it will never hurt nobody. There are simple binary rules of math, it is either right or wrong, but then again the problem with a lot of mathematicians math teachers or people who are too into math, they seek some sort of rationality behind real life, society and people… but the true wise man knows that humans are not mathematical equations, ones and zeros. Humans are messy, even the Ancient Greek gods — they are all flawed! They are a bunch of petty, incestuous, sibling rivalry, family drama folks.

    What to focus on?

    My friend Anton (congrats on your new kid!) told me something interesting… it was his general observation that individuals like me, who diversified themselves, and did not just focus on street photography were the ones that succeeded, and won in the long run. 

    For example, I bemoan the death of digitalrev it was literally the best thing since Top Gear for photography and street photography. But also here, I think the cautionary tale of digital rev is critical, because whenever you build an empire on a foreign platform, it is like building your castle in a marsh or quicksand. 

    Even something which shocked me ,,, the infamous video of me shooting street photography in Hong Kong with Kaiman Wong,  I think was either taken down or deleted by digital rev? Really weird, I guess it was too controversial?

    Anyways, once again, I think the rational thing is whenever you post something, know that it is built on a cotton candy foundation, whether it be Facebook Instagram YouTube TikTok etc.… Even Twitter… Know that it is destined to die. 

    I even heard some kids at the mall yesterday talk about myspace, so funny… nobody has any idea what that is. Or xanga, Friendster, live journal?

    Sooner or later whenever you build something on a foreign platform, two things are inevitable to happen; either your account will eventually get deleted, taken down, blacklisted, grey listed, banned shadow banned real banned, or just made obsolete. 

    Neopan 1600

    Some suggestions to Fujifilm:

    First – make a new filter, call it extreme monochrome. The general idea is that you want to make a black-and-white filter so hardcore, so extreme, it will blow the Ricoh GR strong monochrome out of the water! 

    I really love the Fujifilm cameras, for the color filters, before some reason, they really lack a good black-and-white filter mode. The acros filter on it sucks. 

    A simple idea: make a neopan black and white film simulation, and make it extreme high contrast, like neopan 1600! Or like the effect of taking neopan 400, and pushing it two stops to 1600!

    Right now, the only real competition to Fujifilm is Ricoh Pentax. And it seems that Leica is dying a slow death. 

    First, it seems that the Leica Q is only cash cow keeping Leica alive. Also, it seems that Leica is desperate to maintain her clutches on her film film photography heritage, resurrecting the Leica M6, the like etc.

    But I think the critical issue here is that in someways, what the Germans do is kind of like kaizen; they take the existing model, and they just keep iterating it, making the new version maybe 3% better… There is never a 100% revolutionary new product, like what Elon did with cybertruck etc. 

    Once again, the glory of cybertruck is that when it is on the road, it is literally impossible to ignore! You could pretend like you didn’t see it, but you did see it! And if you did not see it, definitely your 3 1/2 year-old kid will see it!

    And this is where I am still Tesla and Elon… As long as the kids love it, the future is bright!

    Even Lamborghini… It isn’t cool anymore. And nobody even knows what a Ferrari is.

    I think things will go bananas when Tesla puts out a mini cyber truck, imagine a Tesla model Y, but a baby cyber truck version?

    The best car is the car not yet innovated invented or released.

    I’ve always loved cars, car culture etc. I feel bad for anybody whoever purchases any brand new car, because the sad reality is that it will become obsolete in a matter of months or years?

    For example, all of these guys who bought a Lamborghini Urus, only to have the new version come out, or even guys who bought the Lamborghini Huracan, with a new one that just came out?

    Or even the guys who bought the Aventador… All these rappers from five or 10 years ago… Now that the new Revuelto is out, their Aventador is made obsolete? 

    You fools!

    “I pity the fool?”

    A random sidenote… It seems that the most constructive way to approach life is through compassion, empathy, maybe even pity.

    For example, whenever there are people that I am suspicious of, they are on my bad side, and then finally, I see them without a hat on, without sunglasses, in direct light, and I see how sickly or unwell they are – the first feeling is extreme compassion. Like I find myself to be the fool — there is somebody that I vilified, or made into a bad guy, or somebody that I created a totem for my general hate or despise… And then I see how unhealthy they are, and then I realize,…

    Wait,,, this whole time, when I am painting this guy as a bad guy, and then I truly see you and witness that in fact, they are just a poor miserable soul, slowly dying… Why was I so negative towards that person?

    Something I learned about living in LA… everyone here has problems. For example, a lot of women, their husband is cheating on them, and they know what, but don’t want to admit it. Even Jay Z… Probably still 100% cheating on Beyoncé… Why?

    And all these assholes who honk at you in the road…  spending a lot of time out of a car, just walking around now, observing traffic politics, if you actually get a really good look at the driver, they are either miserable looking Uber drivers, food delivery people, or just very very unwell sickly looking people, insanely poor health, who may be just want to get home because they were stuck in traffic for two hours? 

    When to be compassionate, when not to be a pushover?

    It seems that the primary issue here is the strange bifurcation of ethics. First, we are taught to forgive, turn the other cheek etc., but then you have all these assholes honking at you from behind. So in this case, what are you supposed to do, take it up the ass, because you’re afraid that they might have a gun and shoot you? Or the other person may commit road rage, and do something dangerous? 

    I think the issue here is why should you live your life in fear that some asshole some pussy coward might have a gun, and pop you?

    Obviously, I do not want to get shot by some random coward, because I have my son to live for. But still… Isn’t the real role of a man to stand up for his child, and to never ever ever see your father get pistol whipped around?

    Stand up

    I think this is also where manly masculine ethics are different than feminine ones. For example, if you see some asshole smoking in the park, and you’re there with your kid… Obviously the correct strategy is to tell them to please stop smoking. I have a new line that I’m experimenting with–

    “No smoking,,, pleeeease!”

    For example, two assholes in front of the Apple campus on Washington in Culver City… Apple 10, 8777 Washington — One fat guy wearing some sort of blue Greek food T-shirt, I think he might be an Apple employee… I was walking with Seneca down Washington, on the Apple side, and this asshole is smoking Indignantly on the side, blowing his secondhand smoke all the way down the block.

    I came up to him, and I said, no smoking… pleeeease

    And this asshole has audacity to tell me that “I’m on my break…” And then I stopped, looked at him and eyes, and I said, “that’s why I said please”. He had no response, his jaw dropped. And like an asshole he kept smoking.

    Anyways, fortunately there was some security guards down the block, and I asked them to tell the guy to stop smoking. Maybe next time this happens, I’ll just record him or take a picture of him on my iPhone, shame him.

    Extreme ethics

    I think the big issue is in today’s world, ain’t nobody have a backbone or ethics anymore.

    In actually… The big issue here is that it seems at 99.9% of people just become passive aggressive, and never confront– we are a non-confrontational society, yet we hide behind our cars and honk at people? Because we are shielded from recompense?

    For example, I think this is also where people become keyboard warriors… You would never talk smack about me face-to-face, because you will see how much stronger, taller, more charismatic, and dominant I am than you. In fact, some of the things that I’ve discovered after meeting some of my “haters“– were in fact, they were my greatest lovers! The biggest issue here was actually… Unrequited hate or love.

    What is worse, unrequited hate or unrequited love?

    Once again, some bizarre inconsistencies here; I’ve never hated anybody. Why? Because I’m not that interested in anybody else, nor do I really desire the affection of somebody else that much?

    And also, the reason why a lot of men become misogynists, and hate women is because of unrequited love. Then the unrequited love becomes hate.

    Everything starts off as love, then evolves to hate?

    An alternate theory; maybe hate is just a more exaggerated or extreme version of love? 

    Super facts

    The internet is a toxic place. Don’t let your kids go on it.

    Why? I even have this kind of shocking memory, when I was a 12-year-old kid in Bayside Queens, New York. I was connected to the Internet, AOL 3.0, on my 38.8 K modem… and I was randomly in this chat room, and then I was chatting with this guy, who then instant messaged me, (IM) via AOL instant messenger, AIM, and then eventually started to say weird stuff like pedophile stuff like it feels really good to get your dick sucked by another guy?

    Anyways, obviously I got super scared and just banned him.

    And I think the issue is in today’s world, I think the safe strategy in assumption is that 100% of people on the internet are just malicious bots. And it’s starting to get scary… If you could program a bot to be malicious, and to create more malicious bots, ad infinitum — shit starts to get scary.

    For example, Michael Saylor was talking about how whenever he tweets something, and somebody responds to it in a very malicious way… almost 100% it was a bot! And actually the big problem then is there are real life human beings having back-and-forth inflamed debates with these malicious bots.

    Think about it… Let us say that you are interacting with someone on Twitter, and you have no idea that it is a bot you assume it is real person… Who is going to win in the long run? Obviously the bot!

    Adding friction to the digital and cyber world

    Bitcoin is virtuous

    As time goes on, I’m starting to think of bitcoin like a more ethical idea.

    For example, Michael Saylor has an incredibly genius idea of fixing all of this toxicity on the internet, just adding a little bit of monetary, bitcoin or Satoshi friction;

    For example, if it cost $10 worth of US dollars, or satoshis to create an account on Twitter or some social media account, then, overnight practically 100% of the malicious bots will be made obsolete or deleted from the platform.

    Why? Right now it cost only a nickel to spin up 100,000 bots, to troll your worst enemy on Twitter. But, if it cost $10 a bot, it cost you $1 million to cyber bully somebody, you probably wouldn’t… because it is too expensive and you don’t hate them that much. 

    I think it is Chris Rock or Chris Tucker who had this funny comedy bit about making bullets super expensive. Then the ideas that if you really really hate somebody, and let us say that one bullet is worth $100,000, then if you really want to kill them, or even with multiple bullets, you might think twice.

    Financial friction and consequences is a good idea

    Maybe the greatest use of money is physical friction, monetary friction, consequences.

    Fines work, monetary penalties, like getting $500 traffic tickets for turning red on a red light and not stopping. This has certainly changed my driving behavior.

    So I suppose the critical intelligent thing to consider is want to make things free, and want to make things cost money, to direct human behavior.

    For good behavior, make it free.

    For bad behavior, make it very expensive.

    ERIC

    Funny experiments

    Some very very simple things to consider:

    First, make things expensive, don’t make them free.

    For example, let us say that you dip into the pr0n– but you don’t want to do it anymore, for whatever reason. Maybe make it a thing that if you want to watch it, you have to go to an adult DVD store, and pay $20 bucks to buy the CD or whatever. 

    Or, for activities… I think often signing up and paying for an activity is a good idea because it creates sense of ownership, responsibility, or follow through. Or commitment.

    For example, perhaps the intelligence of paying money for a trainer or a personal trainer is that you you know that if you don’t show up there is a fiscal penalty.

    But the new ones is you don’t want to breed fake virtuosity for the sake of fake virtuosity. 

    For example, there is this weird notion in American culture that pain and suffering and overcoming is virtuous. No. Fools!

    Exercise workout or whatever is not virtuous, it is something that you do because it is fun enjoyable and something that you like!

    For example, would you bribe your kid money to play at the playground? No! So why do this for yourself? 

    What now?

    1. Upload your best photos to arsbeta.com —
    2. Start your own self hosted blog via WordPress.org and bluehost.com
    3. Think humanity!

    ERIC

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    Super radical idea that all is terrible, tragic, and bad and evil but in spite of all of it,,, extracting the maximum upside from reality?

    PHILOSOPHY BY KIM

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    IDEAS BY KIM

    1. YOUR RICHEST SELF IS YOUR BEST SELF
    2. EVERYTHING HAPPENS AS IT *SHOULD HAVE* HAPPENS
    3. *Beyond* Individualism
    4. MAN & WOMAN, LIGHT & DARK
    5. A LIFE WITHOUT PAIN, DISCOMFORT OR (LIMITED) SUFFERING IS NOT A LIFE WORTH LIVING?
    6. BIGGER IS WEAKER.
    7. How to Become a Philosopher
    8. Deep Vanity
    9. Time Will Tell
    10. What is Wisdom?
    11. LOOK *BEYOND*
    12. BECOMING MORE IMMORAL?
    13. ‘LUCK’ VS COURAGE
    14. ‘SKILL’ VS MERIT?
    15. Becoming Antifragile
    16. How to “Improve” Men
    17. The Art of Virtue
    18. How to Dominate
    19. JUST SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES AND WISDOM WITH OTHERS.
    20. How to Get More Done in a Single Day – MEMENTO MORI PHILOSOPHY
    21. THINK FOR YOURSELF
    22. Cruel?
    23. GO DEMIGOD.
    24. How to Be Happy: Challenge and Danger Philosophy
    25. To Become Greater, You Must Become *LESS* Productive!
    26. Imperfect Beauty
    27. The Philosophy of Pleasure
    28. What Interests You?
    29. Anti Theory of Everything
    30. Become?
    31. STRONGER OR NOT?
    32. Carte Blanche Ideals
    33. CHOOSE JOY
    34. Don’t Judge Your Impulses
    35. On Becoming Less Human
    36. COWARDICE.
    37. The Philosophy of Futurism
    38. PHILOSOPHY IS VALUE-SETTING
    39. PHILOSOPHY IS NOT LIFESTYLE
    40. WHY STANDARDIZATION IS BAD.
    41. YOUR OWN TABLE OF VALUES.
    42. RETRO IS BAD.
    43. INSANELY LOFTY THOUGHTS.
    44. Strive to *Lose* Weight, Not *Gain* Weight
    45. DIABLO II ANALOGIES FOR REAL LIFE.
    46. If You Know Your *WHY* You Can Discover Any *HOW*
    47. Life is Too Short to Be Miserable
    48. What Consumption Takes Skill?
    49. OFF THE GRID.
    50. REALITY IS CRUEL.
    51. Pain is Information
    52. WHY REMOVE VULGARITY AND DISORDER FROM OUR EYES?
    53. AUTOTELIC.
    54. UNPLUG.
    55. How to Become a Philosopher
    56. SUBOPTIMAL IS OPTIMAL
    57. THE LUST FOR MORE.
    58. TO DO IS TO BECOME.
    59. IN PRAISE OF AGGRESSIVE.
    60. THE PHILOSOPHY OF OPTIMISM
    61. OUR PHILOSOPHICAL WILL TO EXISTENCE
    62. Is Hope a Vice?
    63. MOVE MEAN
    64. Carte Blanche Ideals
    65. One Interesting Thought
    66. What Lasts? What Doesn’t Last?
    67. A WOUND STIMULATES THE RECUPERATIVE POWERS
    68. Children & Purpose
    69. Thoughts on Becoming a Parent
    70. Where Does Our Desire to Upgrade Come From?
    71. WE ALWAYS NEED SOMETHING FURTHER TO ASPIRE TO.
    72. Self-Task Yourself an Awesome Mission in Life
    73. Differentiation vs Equalization
    74. My Passion to *Become* Something More
    75. No Aesthetic or Ethos is Forever
    76. What is Your Higher Purpose in Life?
    77. IT WILL NEVER SATISFY YOU.
    78. How to Decide
    79. Things You *Want* to Do vs Things You *MUST* Do
    80. Towards a More Beautiful Mode of Existence and Future
    81. EXTREME GRATITUDE.
    82. AMAP (As Much as Possible) or None.
    83. Why or How Does it Matter?
    84. The Philosophy of Time and Events
    85. How *Not* to Resent
    86. FORWARD LOOKING
    87. DOMAIN FLEXIBILITY.
    88. The Miracle of Human Growth
    89. EXTREME ADAPTATION.
    90. Why Plan?
    91. You Don’t Need to Justify Yourself
    92. The Philosophy of Ego
    93. True vs False Passions
    94. How to Achieve Tranquility
    95. On Making Your Own Philosophy
    96. The Purpose of Life is to Create New Life
    97. Think On!
    98. The Wisdom of Doing Nothing
    99. Congruency
    100. My Thoughts on Meditation
    101. The Philosophy of Purpose
    102. Emulate Yourself
    103. Good Fear, Bad Fear
    104. For the Betterment of Humanity or Just Yourself?
    105. What you *really* believe in and care for is manifested through your actions (or non-actions)
    106. Why Culture is Your Enemy
    107. YOUR EXPERIENCES ARE KING.
    108. LIFE IS INHERENTLY GOOD.
    109. Artistic, Physical, and Philosophical Muscles
    110. All New Experiences are Good Experiences
    111. What is the Purpose of X?
    112. UTILITY.
    113. Philosophy is a Luxury
    114. The Attempt is More Interesting than the Result
    115. Joyfulness vs “Happiness”
    116. Effectiveness Over Happiness
    117. Self Actualization
    118. MAXIMAL ENGAGEMENT
    119. Life & Pain
    120. On Living Every Day with No Regret
    121. Learn as if you’re going to live forever, live as if you’re going to die tomorrow
    122. Live Every Day Like it Were the Last Day of Your Life
    123. Self-Determination
    124. FALSE GRATITUDE vs REAL GRATITUDE
    125. HOW TO LIVE MORE
    126. THE UPSIDE OF TRAGEDY
    127. Satisfaction is a Sucker’s Game
    128. Supreme Repose
    129. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE? According to ERIC KIM
    130. STUBBORN, FLEXIBLE
    131. EVERYTHING HAPPENS AS IT *SHOULD* HAVE HAD HAPPENED
    132. Good Addiction, Bad Addiction?
    133. What is the Best Life?
    134. The Philosophy of Thinking
    135. The Philosophy of Conspiracies
    136. Conspiracies
    137. Growth
    138. Skepticism.
    139. What Do You Really Want Out of Life?
    140. Seem or Be?
    141. Learn Through Pain
    142. Respect Yourself
    143. In Praise of Elitism
    144. Why Independent Thinking?
    145. I Will Never Die
    146. Bitter is Better
    147. The Genesis of Nihilism and Existential Dread
    148. The Ethics of Personal Enrichment
    149. Good vs Not Good
    150. Punished by Privilege
    151. Abstinence Over Moderation
    152. Just Leave Others Alone
    153. You Can Only Critique that Which You Truly Understand and Love
    154. ERIC KIM Critique of Metaphysics
    155. Only Trust Philosophers Who Deadlift
    156. Heuristic: If Someone Talks Shit About Others Behind Their Back, Most Likely They’re Also Talking Shit About You Behind Your Back
    157. Virtue is a Privilege
    158. What Are Your Life Goals?
    159. Honesty
    160. Why I’m Anti Moderation
    161. No Spite, No Malice.
    162. Ascending Life or Descending Life?
    163. Double Edged Sword
    164. Ignorance.
    165. Why I Don’t Trust “Nice Guys”
    166. Why You Must Share Your Opinion
    167. Selfish Isn’t Evil
    168. Wisdom is the Goal
    169. YOU ARE KING.
    170. MASTER YOURSELF
    171. What is “Good” for You is Often what is Bad for You
    172. Care.
    173. BITTERSWEET
    174. ONE REP MAX
    175. Morality and Ethics is the Snare
    176. BY HELPING YOURSELF, YOU BEST HELP OTHERS
    177. Insanity is Good.
    178. Think Deep.
    179. PHILOSOPHY IS THE FUTURE.
    180. Open Mind vs Closed Mind
    181. ENTHUSIASM IS GENIUS
    182. Towards a More Critical and Rigorous Line of Thinking
    183. How to Encourage and a Foster Independent and Free Thinking
    184. What is the Purpose of Life?
    185. WHY PHILOSOPHY IS SUPREME.
    186. Elitism.
    187. I Cannot Form an Opinion About Somebody Until I’ve Met Them in the Flesh
    188. ALL GENETICS ARE GOOD GENETICS.
    189. Happiness vs Freedom
    190. The Birth of a Hater
    191. My Way Isn’t the Right Way
    192. Walking as an Existential Thing
    193. Why I’m So Tolerant
    194. Mortal Gods
    195. THE HUMAN SPECIES
    196. Why I’m So Skeptical
    197. Just Follow the Money
    198. Why Selfish?
    199. WHY WE CANNOT BLAME OTHERS
    200. Why Are We So Anti Elitism?
    201. What Actually Interests You?
    202. How to Become Yourself
    203. SELF HATE
    204. Optimistic Fatalism
    205. Death is the Ultimate Creative Constraint
    206. FLUX.
    207. How to Think for Yourself
    208. FLESH
    209. How to Live the Best Life
    210. Why Live a Life Without Regrets?
    211. Why Plato Ruined Art and Aesthetics for Us
    212. Self Respect
    213. Hypocrite vs Contradict
    214. Ideals vs Reality
    215. Spaceship Philosophy
    216. What is Your Ideal Life?
    217. MY EXTREME GRATITUDE TOWARDS LIFE AND BEING ALIVE!
    218. Critique of Utilitarianism
    219. Don’t Treat Others the Way You Want to Be Treated
    220. The Eternal Recurrence of Tragedy and Joy in Life
    221. Elite Asceticism
    222. Why I Don’t Like Numbers
    223. Action and Reaction, Cause and Effect
    224. The Antidote to Nihilism: The Philosophy of Nothingness
    225. ERIC KIM Notes on Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
    226. EXPLOIT CHAOS.
    227. WHY I DON’T BELIEVE IN GENETICS
    228. Self-Wisdom
    229. The Future Belongs to the Fearless
    230. INDIVIDUALISM
    231. Why Live Forever?
    232. THIS TOO WILL PASS.
    233. Why Education?
    234. How to Become Yourself
    235. Things Shouldn’t Go Back to the Way They Used to Be
    236. Why Am I So Cruel?
    237. The Great Joy of Existence
    238. Virtue for the Sake of Virtue
    239. NO DISDAIN.
    240. INTELLIGENT IGNORANCE
    241. A LIFE WITHOUT PAIN, DIFFICULTY OR TRAGEDY ISN’T A LIFE WORTH LIVING
    242. BITTER IS BETTER.
    243. EXPLOIT THE BEST FROM TRAGEDY AND LIFE 
    244. DISREGARD FOR SELF-PRESERVATION
    245. PAIN.
    246. WHAT IF EVERYTHING IS NOT GONNA BE ALRIGHT?
    247. Tomorrow is Never
    248. Life is the Ultimate Creative Constraint
    249. EMBODIED REALITY
    250. BLACK SWAN
    251. THINGS WILL NEVER GO BACK TO THE WAY THEY USED TO BE
    252. What are you *really* afraid of?
    253. HAPPINESS ISN’T THE GOAL
    254. Philosophy is King
    255. Why is Selfish Evil?
    256. YOU’RE CONSTANTLY IN A STATE OF BECOMING
    257. ENTITLEMENT A SIN?
    258. NARCISSISM
    259. BE BRUTALLY HONEST WITH YOURSELF
    260. WHY FREE WILL?
    261. OBEY YOUR OPINION
    262. EGO IS GOOD.
    263. WHY IT IS GOOD TO BE INTO YOURSELF
    264. Seek the Good Pain
    265. Anti-Perfection in Photography, Art, and Life
    266. Can You Become an End into Yourself?
    267. WHY I LIVE
    268. Why I Hate Decline
    269. Why I Eat
    270. Why am I So Positive and Optimistic?
    271. EFFORT IS ENJOYMENT
    272. Never Stop Gaining
    273. TRUST YOURSELF
    274. A Life of Maximal Personal Independence
    275. What Do You Desire to Become?
    276. What Do I Want from Technology?
    277. Stratified Society
    278. Do You Love or Hate Reality?
    279. On the Brian, Body and Mind
    280. I’m Maximally Happy, Now What?
    281. Care over Fame
    282. ACTIVE NIHILISM
    283. Never Stop Subtracting
    284. How to Live a Happier and More Epic Life
    285. A Risker Life is a Better Life
    286. Only Work on Things You Can Imagine Doing for Eternity
    287. How to Maximize Your Happiness
    288. Influence
    289. The Gladiator Makes His Plans once He Enters the Ring
    290. Meditations on Meaning in Life
    291. There is Nothing More Interesting than Human Beings
    292. Is Hope a Vice?
    293. EGO
    294. Why Be Unique?
    295. Happiness is Metabolism Health and Strength
    296. You’re the Hero
    297. Is Productivity a Virtue or Vice?
    298. Why Do We Prize the Rare?
    299. The Joy of Uncertainty
    300. How Should I Best Use My Time and Life?
    301. A Life Without Pain or Suffering Isn’t a Life Worth Living
    302. Free or Unfree?
    303. What Do You Really Care For in Life?
    304. Anti-Satisfaction in Life
    305. Why Think?
    306. The Eternal Return
    307. Only Do What is Best for You!
    308. Truthiness
    309. Why Be Happy?
    310. Permissionless Living
    311. In Praise of Unconventional Wisdom
    312. Become the Change Which You Wish to See in the World
    313. Happiness
    314. Beyond Freedom
    315. Idolize People, Not Stuff
    316. What Makes You Stronger? What Makes You Weaker?
    317. Why Hate?
    318. The Secret of Happiness
    319. You’re Constantly in a State of Becoming
    320. Life is about Choices, Not Obligations
    321. Anti-Nihilism
    322. First, Do What is Best for You.
    323. Live Dynamic
    324. How to Prosper
    325. Is the Point of Life to Be Satisfied?
    326. SUPREME EFFORT OF WILL.
    327. How to Become more Idealistic
    328. Thrivival 101
    329. Create Yourself
    330. Non-Small
    331. Inspiration
    332. How to Live a Heroic Life: Dare the Heights!
    333. Human Augmentation
    334. Prune
    335. Happiness: Do What You Want to Do (And Don’t Do What You Don’t Want to Do)
    336. Avoid Vain (Empty) Pursuits in Life
    337. Modern Slavery
    338. Kill the Leeches
    339. Wisdom Augmentation
    340. Why We Need Friction in Life
    341. Straight Line Philosophy
    342. What’s Your End-Game in Life?
    343. Create Your Own Happiness Today
    344. Desire Both Pain and Pleasure in Life
    345. Try the Impossible
    346. SELF-RESPECT
    347. Anti-Social Extrovert
    348. Never Blame Anybody But Yourself
    349. Human Flourishing
    350. Simpler, Not Better.
    351. How to be Free
    352. Embrace the Extremes
    353. Cultivate Your Own Culture
    354. COURAGE.
    355. Thrivival
    356. Inner Power
    357. How to Live a Purposeful Life
    358. My Definition of Happiness
    359. Why Change is Good
    360. Why Work?
    361. How to Live the Happiest Possible Life
    362. The Two-Pronged Approach to Maximize Joy in Your Life
    363. You Always Have Another Option!
    364. INFINITISM
    365. Never Stop!
    366. What is Your Self-Directed Purpose in Life?
    367. Live Today Like it Were Your Last
    368. Do You Photograph to Live, or Live to Photograph?
    369. ARTIST-PHILOSOPHER
    370. Live Life to the Fullest!
    371. In Praise of Selfishness
    372. Why You Must Be a YAY-SAYER to Succeed in Entrepreneurship and Life
    373. Why I Love Walking
    374. Live Life Like a Video Game!
    375. Simple Luxuries in Life
    376. Treat Your Life Like a Fun Experiment!
    377. Only Prove it to Yourself
    378. You Don’t Always Need to Feel Joyful to Live a Fulfilling and Meaningful Life
    379. Life is Too Short to Be Bored!
    380. Money Cannot Destroy Boredom
    381. How to Find Inspiration in Life
    382. Why You Must Ignore Haters to Succeed and Win in Life
    383. An Active Life is a Happy Life
    384. My Simple Joys in Life
    385. Never Stop Striving
    386. How to Motivate Yourself in Life
    387. How to Be Optimistic in Life
    388. How to Dictate Your Purpose in Life
    389. In Praise of a Dynamic Life
    390. PURPOSE.
    391. How to Enjoy Life
    392. Photography Therapy
    393. How to Conquer Regret
    394. Take Your Play Very Seriously.
    395. How to Prosper
    396. Memento Vivere
    397. Destroy in Order to CREATE
    398. Trust Your Body More Than Your Mind
    399. Make Photos to Make Meaning in Your Life
    400. Seek Knowledge, Not Information
    401. The Purpose of Human Life
    402. How to Overcome Impedence
    403. Why I Love Death
    404. How to Be Centered in the Eternal Now
    405. How to Be Happy
    406. Why Do You Care What Others Think of You?
    407. Why I’m Happy
    408. Why?
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  • Black & White

    On adding more contrast to your life:

    Man is black, woman is white? 

    Increasing contrast?

    I’m starting to think that if we apply the black-and-white art photography aesthetic to real life, maybe the idea of “preserving the midtones“ is a bit boring.

    The general notion of crushing the blacks is when you’re processing or post processing your photos, you dragged the black slider all the way to 100, and you also crank up the contrast to 100.

    Aesthetically, I think this makes for much more striking and interesting images.

    First, midtones are boring.  almost universally, the more you increase the contrast of something or the photos, the better.

    For example, even when we design our homes. What is the best way to design a home? Very very simple, use white and black accents.

    For example, my eyes, the ideal home exterior pin color is not a matte black, but rather, a pure clean white, with black trimming.

    Also, with cars… I think we’ve discovered is the Apex is both a shiny white with shiny black accents — gloss, not matte.

    I think Matt, Matt Black, the whole met aesthetic is centered around jet stealth fighters, which desire to escape enemy detection. So typically when you try to Matt Black your car and murder it out… Aesthetic you’re going for stealth bomber, or jet fighter aesthetic?

    But the irony that I find… Nobody would ever matte black or murder out their Prius,  to escape detection from the police or the other party. We typically do it to our sports cars, our Teslas, etc. 

    Put the strange inconsistency I see here is on one hand, we want to be seen and to show up, on the other hand, we want to be fake low-key, and be “humble”?

    Bitch be humble?

    A few years back, the song HUMBLE by Kendrick Lamar went triple maxi viral. Like  it was the most viral song of all time, maybe even more viral than the recent “They Not Like Us” song.

    The song was very bizarre to me. Because I’m not sure what Kendrick was really trying to say. Two interpretations —

    1. First, he is calling the counterpart a bitch, and telling them to sit down and be humble because I am so much greater than you
    2. Or, trying to remind everybody to be humble in general.

    But the weird inconsistency in modern day life is we are centered around Christian Jesus ethics, or some sort of quaker artist morality which is centered around notion of humility, being humble, close to the floor etc. This is why you will never ever ever meet a rich person in America called themselves rich, they will call themselves “fortunate“, or “lucky”.

    Also another bizarre thing in the world of bodybuilding… You almost never ever ever see bodybuilders proud to flex on the bash Lee, like Arnold in the documentary pumping iron, back in the day. It is very uncommon for you to see self-confident men at the gym, working out topless, in booty shorts, 3 inch short shorts, flexing their muscles in the mirror, not trying to hide it etc.

    The big issue with the typical bodybuilder is that they are trying to become dominant, but be humble about it? Really weird?

    Lord Achilles 

    I am currently reading the Iliad by Emily Wilson, I am always always happy to see a new translation or a fresh take on the classic.

    Anyways, also an interesting thought… I like the idea of reading a female woman probably the most manly literature of all time. I think the problem when I was talking to my friend Kelly, is that traditionally in the past, it was a bunch of impotent old men who would translate great classics like the Iliad or the odyssey, using their own Fake impotent machismo, translate it.

    For example, a lot of the misogyny, misogynistic language from 100 years ago or so, was actually very inaccurate.

    Anyways, something worth noting is how artful, succinct, beautiful, and unlike English ancient Greek was. In fact, I definitely want to get Seneca on the Classics, get him into Latin and ancient Greek, and mathematics like NASSIM TALEB recommended.

    If you think about it long enough, what are the least harmful majors which exist? Classics, math, physics.

    Classics is almost like the superior form of sociology, physical theory, it is the pillar of the humanities. Either classics or history.

    Math, it will never hurt nobody. There are simple binary rules of math, it is either right or wrong, but then again the problem with a lot of mathematicians math teachers or people who are two into math, they seek some sort of rationality behind real life, society and people… But the true wise man knows that humans are not mathematical equations, ones and zeros. Humans are messy, even the Ancient Greek gods — they are all flawed! They are a bunch of petty, incestuous, sibling rivalry, family drama folks.

    What to focus on?

    My friend Anton (congrats on your new kid!) told me something interesting… it was his general observation that individuals like me, who diversified themselves, and did not just focus on street photography were the ones that succeeded, and won in the long run. 

    For example, I bemoan the death of digitalrev it was literally the best thing since Top Gear for photography and street photography. But also here, I think the cautionary tale of digital rev is critical, because whenever you build an empire on a foreign platform, it is like building your castle in a marsh or quicksand. 

    Even something which shocked me ,,, the infamous video of me shooting street photography in Hong Kong with Kaiman Wong,  I think was either taken down or deleted by digital rev? Really weird, I guess it was too controversial?

    Anyways, once again, I think the rational thing is whenever you post something, built something on a cotton candy foundation, whether it be Facebook Instagram YouTube TikTok etc.… Even Twitter… Know that it is destined to die. 

    I even heard some kids at the mall yesterday talk about myspace, so funny… nobody has any idea what that is. Or xanga, Friendster, live journal?

    Sooner or later whenever you build something on a foreign platform, two things are inevitable to happen; either your account will eventually get deleted, taken down, blacklisted, grey listed, banned shadow banned real banned, or just made obsolete. 

    Neopan 1600

    Some suggestions to Fujifilm:

    First – make a new filter, call it extreme monochrome. The general idea is that you want to make a black-and-white filter so hardcore, so extreme, it will blow the Ricoh GR strong monochrome out of the water! 

    I really love the Fujifilm cameras, for the color filters, before some reason, they really lack a good black-and-white filter mode. The acros filter on it sucks. 

    A simple idea: make a neopan black and white film simulation, and make it extreme high contrast, like neopan 1600! Or like the effect of taking Neilan 400, and pushing it two stops to 1600!

    Right now, the only real competition to Fujifilm is Ricoh Pentax. And it seems that Leica is dying a slow death. 

    First, it seems that the Leica Q is only cash cow keeping Leica alive. Also, it seems that Leica is desperate to maintain her clutches on her film film photography heritage, resurrecting the Leica M6, the like etc.

    But I think the critical issue here is that in someways, what the Germans do is kind of like kaizen;  they take the existing model, and they just keep iterating it, making the new version maybe 3% better… There is never a 100% revolutionary new product, like what Elon did with cybertruck etc. 

    Once again, the glory of cyber truck is that when it is on the road, it is literally impossible to work! You could pretend like you didn’t see it, but you did see it! And if you did not see it, definitely your 3 1/2 year-old kid will see it!

    And this is where I am still Tesla and Elon… As long as the kids love it, the future is bright!

    Even Lamborghini… It isn’t cool anymore. And nobody even knows what a Ferrari is.

    I think things go bananas when Tesla puts out a mini cyber truck, imagine a Tesla model Y, but a baby cyber truck version?

    The best car  is the car not yet innovated invented or released.

    I’ve always loved cars, car culture etc. I feel bad for anybody whoever purchases any brand new car, because the sad reality is that it will become obsolete in a matter of months or years?

    For example, all of these guys who bought a Lamborghini Urus, only to have the new version come out, or even guys who bought the Lamborghini Huracan, with a new one that just came out?

    Or even the guys who bought the Aventador… All these rappers from five or 10 years ago… Now that the new Revuelto is out, their Aventador is made obsolete? 

    You fools!

    “I pity the fool?”

    A random sidenote… It seems that the most constructive way to approach life is through compassion, empathy, maybe even pity.

    For example, whenever there are people that I am suspicious of, they are on my bad side, and then finally, I see them without a hat on, without sunglasses, in direct light, and I see how sickly or unwell they are – the first feeling is extreme compassion. Like I find myself to be the fool — there is somebody that I vilified, or made into a bad guy, or somebody that I created a totem for my general hate or despise… And then I see how unhealthy they are, and then I realize,…

    Wait,,, this whole time, when I am painting this guy as a bad guy, and then I truly see you and witness that in fact, they are just a poor miserable soul, slowly dying… Why was I so negative towards that person?

    Something I learned about living in LA… everyone here has problems. For example, a lot of women, their husband is cheating on them, and they know what, but don’t want to admit it. Even Jay Z… Probably still 100% cheating on Beyoncé… Why?

     And all these assholes who honk at you in the road…  spending a lot of time out of a car, just walking around now, observing traffic politics, if you actually get a really good look at the driver, they are either miserable looking Uber drivers, food delivery people, or just very very unwell sickly looking people, very overfat, insanely poor health, who may be just want to get home because they were stuck in traffic for two hours? 

    When to be compassionate, when not to be a pushover?

    It seems that the primary issue here is the strange bifurcation of ethics.  first, we are taught to forgive, turn the other cheek etc., but then you have all these assholes honking at you from behind. So in this case, what are you supposed to do, take it up the ass, because you’re afraid that they might have a gun and shoot you? Or commit road rage, and do something dangerous? 

    I think the issue here is why should you live your life in fear that some asshole some pussy coward might have a gun, and pop you?

    Obviously, I do not want to get shot by some random coward, because I have my son to live for. But still… Isn’t the real role of a man to stand up for his child, and to never ever ever see your father get pistol whipped around? 

    Stand up

    I think this is also where manly masculine ethics are different than feminine ones. For example, if you see some asshole smoking in the park, and you’re there with your kid… Obviously the correct strategy is to tell them to please stop smoking. I have a new line that I’m experimenting with–

    “No smoking,,, pleeeease!”

    For example, two assholes in front of the Apple campus on Washington in Culver City… One guy wearing some sort of Greek food T-shirt, I think he might be an apple employee… I was walking with Seneca down Washington, on the apple side, and this asshole is smoking Indignantly on the side, blowing his secondhand smoke all the way down the block.

    I came up to him, and I said, no smoking… pleeeease

    And this asshole has audacity to tell me that “I’m on my break…” And then I stopped, looked at him and eyes, and I said, “that’s why I said please”. He had no response, his jaw dropped. And like an asshole he kept smoking.

     anyways, fortunately there was some security guards down the block, and I asked them to tell the guy to stop smoking. Maybe next time this happens, I’ll just record him or take a picture of him on my iPhone, shame him.

    Extreme ethics

    I think the big issue is in today’s world, ain’t nobody have a backbone or ethics anymore.

    In actually… The big issue here is that it seems at 99.9% of people just become passive aggressive, and never confront, we are a non-confrontational society, yet we hide behind our cars and honk at people? Because we are shielded from recompense?

    For example, I think this is also where people become keyboard warriors… You would never talk smack about me face-to-face, because you will see how much stronger, taller, more charismatic, and dominant I am than you. In fact, some of the things that I’ve discovered after meeting some of my “haters“– we’re in fact, they were my greatest lovers! The biggest issue here was actually… Unrequited hate or love.

    What is worse, unrequited hate or unrequited love?

    Once again, some bizarre inconsistencies here; I’ve never hate anybody.  why because I’m not that interested in anybody else, nor do I really desire the affection of somebody else that much?

    And also, the reason why a lot of men become misogynist, and hate women is because of unrequited love. Then the unrequited love becomes hate.

    Everything starts off as love, then evolves to hate?

    An alternate theory; maybe hate is just a more exaggerated or extreme version of love? 

    Super facts

    The Internet is a toxic place. Don’t let your kids go on it.

    Why? I even have this kind of shocking memory, when I was a 12-year-old kid in Bayside Queens, New York. I was connected to the Internet, AWOL 3.0, on my 38.8 K modem… And I was randomly in this chat room, and then start a messaging this guy, Who then instant messaged me, (IM) via AOL instant messenger, AIM, And then eventually started to say weird stuff like pedophile stuff like it feels really good to get your dick sucked by another guy?

    Anyways, obviously I got super scared and just banned him.

    And I think the issue is in today’s world, I think the safe strategy in assumption is that 100% of people on the Internet, or just malicious bots. And it’s starting to get scary… If you could program a bot to be malicious, and to create more malicious bots, ad infinitum — shit starts to get scary.

    For example, Michael Saylor was talking about how whenever he tweets something, And somebody responds to it in a very malicious way… Almost 100% it was a bot! And actually the big problem then is there real life human beings having back-and-forth inflamed debates with these malicious bots.

    Think about it… Let us say that you are interacting with someone on Twitter, and you have no idea that it is a bot you assume it is real person… Who is going to win in the long run? Obviously the bot!

    Adding friction to the digital and cyber world

    As time goes on, I’m starting to think of bitcoin like a more ethical idea.

    For example, Michael Saylor has an incredible genius idea of fixing all of this toxicity on the Internet, I just adding a little bit of monetary, bitcoin or Satoshi friction;

    For example, if it cost $10 worth of US dollars, or Satoshi to create an account on Twitter or some social media account, then, overnight practically 100% of the malicious spots will be made obsolete or deleted from the platform.

    Why? Right now it cost only a nickel to spin up 100,000 bots, to troll your worst enemy on Twitter. But, if it cost $10 a bot, it cost you $1 million to cyber bully somebody, you probably wouldn’t… Because it is too expensive and you don’t hate them that much. 

    I think it is Chris Rock or Chris Tucker who had this funny comedy bit about making bullets super expensive. Then the ideas that if you really really hate somebody, and let us say that one bullet is worth $100,000, then if you really want to kill them, or even with multiple bullets, you might think twice.

    Financial friction and consequences is a good idea

    Maybe the greatest use of money is physical friction, monetary friction, consequences.

    Fines work, monetary penalties, like getting $500 traffic tickets for turning red on a red light and not doing. Certainly has changed my driving behavior.

    So I suppose the critical intelligent thing to consider is want to make things free, and want to make things cost money, to direct human behavior.

    For good behavior, make it free.

    For bad behavior, make it very expensive.

    ERIC

    Funny experiments

    Some very very simple things to consider:

    First, make things expensive, don’t make them free.

    For example, let us say that you dip into the pr0n– but you don’t want to do it anymore, for whatever reason. Maybe make it a thing that if you want to watch it, you have to go to an adult DVD store, and pay $20 bucks to buy the CD or whatever. 

    Or, for activities… I think often signing up and paying for an activity is a good idea because it creates sense of ownership, responsibility, or follow through. Or commitment.

    For example, perhaps the intelligence of paying money for a trainer or a personal trainer is that you you know that if you don’t show up there is a fiscal penalty.

    But the new ones is you don’t want to breed fake virtuosity for the sake of fake virtuosity. 

    For example, there is this weird notion in American culture that pain and suffering and overcoming is virtuous. No. Fools!

    Exercise workout or whatever is not virtuous, it is something that you do because it is fun enjoyable and something that you like!

    For example, would you bribe your kid money to play at the playground? No! So why do this for yourself? 

  • Apex achievement of the human race

    Harness, channel energy

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    The future of TV?

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    Digital Energy

    How to harness energy and power?

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    Analogue to Digital

    Put a payload in orbit

    15 billion years in orbit

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    Space vs Outer Space

    Cyber Space

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    Gold is money everything else is credit

    Check with 1M, IOU

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    Check is monetary information ,,, monetary energy (gold)

    Think energy not information

    Energy is Everything ***

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    Maintain Illusion

    Everything is credit

    You are moving credit not money

    Credit risk or default

    Creatures with no pain receptor l,,, squeeze out of the gene pool

    Toxic signals in cyber space no pain cost in cyber space

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    Friction is a good thing we can walk

    Toxic or misleading or criminal

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    Demon in cyber space

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    Toxic responses is bots

    96 bots

    Inflammatory

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    Real people argue with bots

    You’re arguing with a machine

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    Love bot?

    Build something of beauty in cyber space

    Matter and time in cyber space

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    Matter in cyber space

    Material wall $10

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    Do you want it to be free or not

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    EYES LIKE A HAWK

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    Tesla — energy frequency and vibration

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    Potential kinetic vibration

    Music harmony

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    Sense music frequency

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    Parrot dance and got happy

    Didn’t go to music school

    Energy frequency and vibration

    React to music

    Genetically coded into our DNA

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    Shadows on ghosts, disembodied spirits

    Things in cyber space are dead

    No real things in cyber space

    Energy is life

    30 days digital credit

    10 hertz, 10 times a second.

    Once every 6 weeks we can vibrate

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    A440; rate on 20th century rails , million times slower

    Move once a year at great expense

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    Million times an hour once master the technology

    Frequency vibration

    “It’s music to our ears”

    Acoustic energy ,,, good at channeling acoustic energy

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    Digital Capital

    Long store of asset

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    Spartan or Persian

    MORE MONEY, buy less every year?

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    Put it on granite

    Putting your capital to work?

    Penetration Testing

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    Non defective treasury asset to the world

    Lose 9% a year

    Just don’t sink –> create value!

    Don’t destroy value

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    Rising platform

    Lucky and talented

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    Not work anymore forever ,,, endowment for the family

    Property & equity

    Harvard and Yale forever

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    Don’t build on swamp

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    20 years of profit … 100 years of

    Bulletproof balance sheet vs melting ice cube

    Double your wealth every 3 years, double it 33 years

    Never catch up?

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    Everyone has the same rights

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    LASER FOCUS

    LASER EYES

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    More chaotic, more valuable

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    Create your own company and opportunities

    Chaos Engine

    Stampede to Bitcoin

    Argentina and Turkey

    Betting on collapse?

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    Genius In Singapore

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    Heavy hitters

    American history

    Biggest week

    Inflection point

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    We don’t sell our Bitcoin

    Auction off

    Bitcoin is property

    Property rights

    Bitcoin strategic national reserve big deal

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    Ignore

    100x

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    Negative to neutral opinion

    30% charge

    Tax inefficiency is hostile

    Tax on transformation is hostile

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    Fair accounting

    One way ratchet

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    Prejudicial and hostile

    Biden ruined the economy

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    Another 4 years

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    5% interest in your Bitcoin

    Loan at sulfur 6% from Citibank when can custody Bitcoin

    100% loan to value

    Bitcoin as collateral

    Rippling

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    Robert F Kennedy

    Ethics,

    Ethics > Morality

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    Banks are conservative

    Rhetoric matters

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    Would you prefer to be seated or standing?

    Funny thing, it seems that a lot of people desire to be in some sort of high-powered sports car, hyper car, truck etc.… But technically if you’re just standing next to them or the vehicle, you’re in a dominant position. 

    For example, I think the reason why people tell you to sit down watch and take a seat, it’s actually because they want to be in a more dominant position than you.

    For example, if you are a presidential candidate, have you ever seen a presidential candidate do a debate or speech while sitting? No! They stand!

    This is also where modern day education is so… Why do you get kids to sit down? It is probably the worst position for them to be in? Is actually for them to be standing… Walking around, outside outdoors, in the agora etc. 

    Ideal would be actually a bunch of people standing, outside in the direct elements, or at least in the shad or whatever… And everyone is standing in a circle, and there is a little speech of peptalk, etc.

    Also, today’s brave New World of voice dictation and modern technology, there is no real reason to use a keyboard anymore, or even write down things pen and pad. 

    For example, we are brainwashed into thinking that Penn and Pat is virtuous, but when is the last time you had to fill out a form long hand? In fact, I have more difficulty and annoyances having to figure out how to fill out PDF form, and how to edit a PDF form, rather than Figuring out how to do long hand stuff.

    Michael Saylor said something interesting, in which whenever you watch sci-fi films, you never see somebody just busted out an iPhone and type it out with your thumbs. No. They talk to Jarvis, or voice dictate it. Think about how Tony Stark interacts and engages with Jarvis his personal computer and AI, he never touches a keyboard! He stands, does the zooming and enhancing with the floating holographic screen, and what he does is talk to it! Kind of like what we could do right now with ChatGPT.

    This is why Apple putting a keyboard on the iPad is the worst diss you could do to the soul of Steve Jobs. Or even worse, that’s stupid Apple stylus, even more shameless the Apple Pencil “pro”? Come on guys didn’t you know that Steve Jobs intended the iPad to be used without a keyboard, and for it to be used to draw with your finger, not a stupid overpriced device which will get outdated in a season or two?

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    National Citi Bank ; Rockefeller brother

    John d Rockefeller didn’t trust JPMORGAN Chase

    100 years

    $1B a month

    $5B Microsoft to Bitcoin

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    Too big to fail

    Catalyst

    High powered rails

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    Move B dollars a minute

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    21$M a coin

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    Stupid normie

    I don’t like normies or normal people

    $40B

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    Pray for volatility

    21 year .

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    Become an anime character

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    Keyman risk

    Slay your heroes