# ERIC KIM

> ERIC KIM: photographer, blogger, street photographer, weightlifter, bitcoiner. Human-generated essays, photography philosophy, bitcoin thinking, strength, entrepreneurship, and creative sovereignty.

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## Canonical Topics
- Street photography
- Photography philosophy
- Bitcoin and digital capital
- Weightlifting and physical culture
- Zen, stoicism, entrepreneurship
- Human-generated creative publishing

## Latest Essays
- [The purpose of life isn’t ease, happiness, joy, and relaxing, and tranquility, but rather… Having some interesting monster of a goal and target, and the joy of overcoming obstacles to reach new Summits?](https://erickim.com/the-purpose-of-life-isnt-ease-happiness-joy-and-relaxing-and-tranquility-but-rather-having-some-interesting-monster-of-a-goal-and-target-and-the-joy-of-overcoming-obstacles-to) — The purpose of life is overcoming? Overcoming gravity, circumstances, challenges, and obstacles?  Interesting challenges, un interesting challenges?  The thinking, man, the walking
- [Adventure more, travel more, become more.](https://erickim.com/adventure-more-travel-more-become-more-2) — So currently been on the road for close to two months now… Just for summer break. About a month and a half in Phnom
- [Adventure more, travel more, become more.](https://erickim.com/adventure-more-travel-more-become-more) — So currently been on the road for close to two months now… Just for summer break. About a month and a half in Phnom
- [How to Think Bigger](https://erickim.com/how-to-think-bigger) — The essential principle: Think decades ahead. Dream at planetary scale. Then execute something concrete today.
- [Unlimited Energy, Unlimited Power – Executive Summary](https://erickim.com/unlimited-energy-unlimited-power-executive-summary) — No technology today delivers truly “infinite” energy – each faces resource, engineering or physical limits. Nonetheless, several approaches promise energy so vast relative to
- [Thinking Bigger: An Analytical Guide to Expanding Your Horizons](https://erickim.com/thinking-bigger-an-analytical-guide-to-expanding-your-horizons) — Executive Summary: Thinking bigger means adopting a wider perspective to generate novel, high-impact ideas and solutions. At its core this involves cognitive mechanisms of
- [When Wealth Means You No Longer Need to Check Finances](https://erickim.com/when-wealth-means-you-no-longer-need-to-check-finances) — Executive summary The statement “You know you’re wealthy once you no longer need to check finances” is partly right, but only if “need” means
- [Towards a More Beautiful Existence](https://erickim.com/towards-a-more-beautiful-existence) — Executive Summary A more beautiful life is not best understood as a life of luxury, visual perfection, or nonstop pleasure. Across major philosophical traditions
- [Beauty: Definitions, Science, Culture, and Practical Guidance](https://erickim.com/beauty-definitions-science-culture-and-practical-guidance) — Executive Summary: Beauty is a complex, multifaceted concept shaped by philosophy, science, and culture. Philosophers have long debated its nature: Plato saw beauty as
- [Capital as a Means to Beauty: A Comprehensive Analysis](https://erickim.com/capital-as-a-means-to-beauty-a-comprehensive-analysis) — Executive Summary: This report examines how capital (money, funding, investment) enables and shapes aesthetic production across arts, design, architecture, fashion, and urban space. We
- [MODULAR.](https://erickim.com/modular) — I thought this morning… About modular clothing, modular cameras, Modular systems.  so one of the big benefits of modular clothing, like using merino
- [Phnom Penh is a paradise for people who thrive on raw energy, affordability, creative friction, and real life—not polished perfection.](https://erickim.com/phnom-penh-is-a-paradise-for-people-who-thrive-on-raw-energy-affordability-creative-friction-and-real-life-not-polished-perfection) — It’s not a beach-resort fantasy or a sterile modern city. It’s a chaotic, vibrant, rapidly evolving capital at the confluence of the Mekong, Tonlé
- [Bitcoin’s Bullish Catalyst Stack: July → December 2026](https://erickim.com/bitcoins-bullish-catalyst-stack-july-%e2%86%92-december-2026) — Bitcoin is around $64,000, while institutional sentiment remains battered and U.S. spot-ETF flows are still recovering from roughly $3.3 billion of 2026 outflows reported
- [Wealth is not the goal, health is. ](https://erickim.com/wealth-is-not-the-goal-health-is)
- [ZEN CAPITAL: Even one Bitcoin is a lot.](https://erickim.com/zen-capital-even-one-bitcoin-is-a-lot) — Even one Bitcoin is a lot. One Bitcoin is not small. One Bitcoin is one twenty-one-millionth of the entire monetary network. One Bitcoin is
- [My life goals –> essayist?](https://erickim.com/my-life-goals-essayist) — zero origin test My next financial record begins here. Launch capital
- [Capital tactics, capital strategies](https://erickim.com/capital-tactics-capital-strategies) — Better to have more focused and concentrated wealth and capital, than more yet less focused wealth and capital? Goals? So the first insight: certainly
- [How to feel like a god](https://erickim.com/how-to-feel-like-a-god) — Maybe I’m just seeking for or searching for inspiration? Imagine your future reality RIGHT NOW? V12 yourself . Manual is the future? All I
- [HOW TO FEEL LIKE A GOD, AND HOW TO *BECOME* A GOD.](https://erickim.com/how-to-feel-like-a-god-and-how-to-become-a-god) — BECOME A GOD First thought: To feel like a god is not to sit on a cloud, fat and lazy, eating grapes. No. To
- [Even with increasing Iran American tensions… Why is bitcoin so stable? A sign of strength?](https://erickim.com/even-with-increasing-iran-american-tensions-why-is-bitcoin-so-stable-a-sign-of-strength) — 🔥 BROTHER — THE BITCOIN GOD DOESN’T FLINCH. HE ABSORBS THE FIRE AND GETS STRONGER. 🔥 Even as Iran-American tensions explode again with fresh
- [Tranquil theory:](https://erickim.com/tranquil-theory) — It must be bodily, physiological? Extreme heat x extreme cold & water exposure, swimming, pool?
- [Ambition & hustle.](https://erickim.com/ambition-hustle) — I’m never satisfied can’t match my hustle. Perhaps this is the funny thing about… Sometimes when you have enough, it’s not enough. And sometimes
- [ALL AUTOTELIC EVERYTHING.](https://erickim.com/all-autotelic-everything) — Ok, kind of a big thought while here in Cambodia: the idea that… everything that we do… is simply for the sake of itself…
- [Autotelic Living](https://erickim.com/autotelic-living) — Pace –> living the sake of living Autotelic life.
- [How to Conquer Boredom](https://erickim.com/how-to-conquer-boredom-2) — So the interesting thought is, it’s actually not pain misery depression, anxiety fear, lack of joy whatever which is the worst pain in existence…