What do you want from reality?

Abundance, joy!

OK… Looks like we crossed the 111 threshold, $111,000 a Bitcoin ,,, which at this point is more hilarious than anything because it seems so unreal.

I’ve been pegged to the all-time high, more recent hype being like $107,000 bitcoin. And I suppose one of the upsides of being in Asia time is like I’m almost like pseudo in the future; it broke that record high while everyone else in America was still asleep, so I suppose it is good that I am here because I was able to witness the all-time high with my own two very eyes.

Being here in Phnom Penh, good philosophical thinking. I think the big question is like… What’s the purpose or the point of reality?

First, to just be outside, to walk around in the real world. It doesn’t matter if you have all the virtual Lamborghinis and all the virtual babes in Apple Vision Pro, and all the infinite virtual monies, without a physical world, none of it is worth it.

Also, simple physiological things. I sleeping like 8 to 12 hours a night, and actually, a really big one: I’m like crushing my all-time highs for my weightlifting records, my most recent record is clocking in 471 kg rack pull, 1038 pounds — which is 38 pounds higher than a ton, 1000 pounds.

I suppose one of the fun things about being in Asia that because everyone uses kilograms, the numbers don’t look that scary. 471 kg, to me doesn’t look like that high of a number because I do not have the cultural adaptation to these numbers. Kind of also the funny thing about when you’re abroad and traveling, money becomes funny, because the local currency feels more like monopoly money than real money.

For example, in Cambodia they use the KHR, the Khmer riel. All the numbers are formed to me, but there’s this one note which is like roughly $12 USD, the nice yellow one, and I think two local Cambodians it’s almost like their $100, $120 bill?  Now that I’m bowling out of control, and even before that, I’ve always surprised myself on generosity and tipping well, as I knew how difficult it was for my mother to support me and my sister, working like 20 years at a sushi restaurant.

But anyways, I got a really great massage from this one woman like a week ago, and I slipped her the mythical big yellow note, and afterwards I heard her screaming and giggling and like exuberant full of joy, in the back staff room. It might have been the first time that anyone has ever tipped her that much.

More recently, meeting a woman who gave me a 90 minute traditional massage, all of her three kids are back in Siem Reap, and I gave her $20 USD in tip, saying it was to pay for her kids school and education. I think you’re in Cambodia, I don’t know if the schools are actually free? Or maybe the kind of decent ones are not free?

But anyways, if you meet local Cambodian people, you could almost like 99% assume that they have kids. 1 2 or three.  not like America we’re asking somebody whether they have kids or not is considered bad manners?

Anyways, like me giving the local lady a $20 tip, assuming that there is like 10X financial leverage here, that’s like me giving her a $200 tip. Note that the average salary in Phnom Penh is like I think 300 $350 a month, which sounds about right because in America, average working salary might be like 3000, $3500 a month?

But I think the magic of living here is that it’s almost like activating card mode, or in 007 golden eye, activating the golden gun. It’s like a cheat code.

If you are an American who has never traveled outside of the states, and have never been to Asia or Southeast Asia, I think it is actually very very difficult for you to understand how epic this is. Once again, the big problem in America is that even for the rich, everything feels too expensive and out of reach. It’s ridiculous in LA, average home price is like one now… 1.2, $1.3 million? And it’s not because the house itself is worth that much, it is not. But inflation has gotten so bad that these numbers are simply a signal of maybe a broken economy?

Bitcoin fixes the economy

Let us assume that bitcoin is clean drinking water, and traditional capital is like toxic sludge, sewer water.

If you have a young family and a kid, and you don’t know, but… The water in which you feed your child is contaminated, and your kid keeps on having diarrhea and is sick, cannot hold any food down, has no appetite, doesn’t eat food, and you are insanely scared and concerned because you think your kid will die… Is this out of virtue that somehow you are a bad and lazy parent and you don’t work hard enough? No! You’re like trying to do the best thing possible, but once again, either you don’t know that the water is contaminated, or… You only have access to dirty sewer water.

Nietzsche once talks about this… The lower caste system in India — the book of manu, says that the untouchables shall only be given dirty water, shall only eat onions, and she never ever ever interact with the clean Indian race. 

Like people think that the caste system and racism in America is bad, try going to India, go to Calcutta or go to Mumbai, Bombay ,,, if you are like a rich Indian from India… You might have never shook the hand of an untouchable on the streets. Me out of my American naïveté and openness, shook everyone’s hand give them all high-fives, even my friend Kaushal Parikh was shocked!

Anyways, not all, but close to 100% of the world’s problems are economic.

I’ll say 99.99% of the world’s problems are economic.

For example, racism classism and poverty, is because there are structures and structural loops in play in which people on poverty, stay in poverty. If you have never ever ever driven through Compton late at night, or sketchy parts of LA late at night, even sometimes during the day… It is difficult to understand how bad some of these neighborhoods are.

A lot of kids from the hood, end up just being nerds, staying at home playing video games all day, in some ways it is the safe strategy because you are less likely to get held up at gunpoint or beaten up for your shoes your necklace or whatever… Can you imagine growing up in an environment like this?

Even myself, I grew up in a relatively safe environment, Alameda California, which was like considered once… Like one of the nicest suburbs in the Bay Area. Yet when I was in middle school, already… Once again guys in middle school, at the age of 12… Girls were getting pregnant, kids were buying knives and trying to get guns, from kids in Oakland, there were already a gang in initiations, like I remember my best friend Aaron, Once… I was hanging out with him, and he took off his shirt because he was changing clothes, and his back was scarred from all these knife wounds, and I was really shocked and I asked him what happened and he said that he was dealing drugs on one corner which was a different gang territory, and he was knifed up as a lesson. Once again guys this is like 12-year-old kids.

Or… I remember as a kid, being bullied a lot, being called gay and faggot all the time. Middle school was extremely hardcore and bad.

I was very fortunate and happy that my mom moved us out of Alameda, into the nicer Castro Valley, more inland, more privileged. No drama there. As a consequence, I was able to thrive! No more drama, no more kids getting high off of ecstasy, I remember in middle school, in the seventh or eighth grade, my friend Tony came over my house, hopped half a pill of ecstasy, offered me some and I said no, because I knew better, and him getting very very high, and like touching the walls and carpet for like an hour. I think we were 13 at the time.

So once again guys… I was in a relatively privileged position. I can only imagine if I was a black kid, being raised in Compton or Watts, it probably was like 10 times as worse.

This is where a Kendrick Lamar is so exceptional, he was able to make it out of the worst of situations, same as Jay-Z. They are very virtuous in this way.

Kanye West is an exceptional case because his mom was an educated professor, he spent some time living abroad in Japan, and I think for the most part Kanye was a nerd, kind of like Pharrell. And also Kanye West is very short, 5 foot seven at best, maybe more like 5 foot 6 1/2, or 5 foot six?

Also do not forget that Kim Kardashian is a midget. I think she’s only like 5 foot tall? I think she lies, or the media lie and says she’s more like 5 foot one or 5 foot two, or 5 foot one and a half… But once again the fax is at least typically with men, if you are a Shorty guy, you will always have a small man complex. And this is where I am so confident, I am 182 cm tall, Which is about 5 foot 11, 5 foot 10 1/2, I have never had a small man syndrome in my life.

What next?

So assuming that your alpha, what is the goal? My thought is to become more alpha.

For example, bitcoin… Nobody will be happy until bitcoin is like $125 million a bitcoin. I hope maybe in my life… When I’m like 120 years old, I could see if it hit $1.1 billion a coin.

The world is changing. Even Kraken, just announced like six minutes ago that they have now offered tokenized American stocks like Apple Tesla Nvidia, as tokenized stocks? I cannot wait until somebody or Coinbase tokenize is MSTR stock, and also on Coinbase in the future to see like 2X leverage along MSTR token options? In the traditional market right now… MSTU is definitely the best bet, or MSTX, both in which Michael Saylor indirectly promotes.

Both are 2X levered long MSTR. Bitcoin is the best case, MSTR is 2X bitcoin, and then as a consequence, MSTU or MSTX  should be 4X bitcoin.

So if you want to make the maximum money, the quickest, MSTU. This is where I have invested a lot of money.

MSTX is technically the same thing as MSTU, but I prefer MSTU because it is created by Rex shares, which also created the Vmax, bitcoin convertible bond financial product, which essentially is like primarily MSTR strategy convertible bitcoin bonds.

The market is getting excited. And how and why does this matter to you?

First, if you live on planet earth, you need money. Money is not the end goal, but having money is like having clean drinking water. Clean water clean drinking water is a non-controversial issue. Without clean drinking water, all 9 billion people on the planet will die.

Second, freedom. If you like the idea of just being able to walk around eight hours a day, thinking, snapping pictures, hiking whatever, or nomading around the planet, focusing on your photography, your street photography, your kids your wife your life whatever… Any sort of creative productivity,,, and you wish you can FIRE, financial independence retire early, bitcoin backed stuff is super obvious. Bitcoin is FIRE. Both metaphorically and literally.

Are there any reasons to not buy bitcoin?

I don’t think so.

What else?

If you are a programmer, computer scientist, engineer, programmer… Smart person, you studied mathematics sociology philosophy, or any sort of critical thinking discipline… I think it’s pretty obvious that bitcoin is the answer.

First, people often forget that bitcoin is open source. If you have ever downloaded any of my free e-books, or open source stuff, you will know that this is great. Yet I think the hard thing for people to understand is just because bitcoin is open source,,, doesn’t mean that you can magically download bitcoins for free.

And I think this is a hard thing maybe something I need to talk more about that once again, this difficult to understand paradigm, especially for millennials in which we grew up being able able to pirate free stuff on the Internet for free… is that bitcoin is more about freedom, rather than having no cost.

it’s a feature not a bug

People say that bitcoin is bad for the planet and electricity blah blah blah. Yet you fools, don’t you know that like air conditioning requires like 25% of the world’s electricity, and yet nobody is saying that we should band that. Bitcoin is like at most 1%.

But if I could make the argument that bitcoin, could offer the whole planet, all 9 billion of us economic prosperity, forever, and there will be no more poverty no more kids dying of dysentery, essentially bitcoin is like clean drinking water for all impoverished people on the planet, and it will indirectly benefit all of the poor and marginalized people on the planet, and it would cost us only 1% of the world’s electricity… would it be worth it? Of course!

Goals

OK, now that I have officially made it, and it looks like it’s just gonna keep going uphill from here.

So I think a new pivot or direction, is definitely about like financial economic freedom power independence, thriving.

Economic prosperity and thriving for all 9 billion people on the planet, isn’t this like the ultimate life goal?

ERIC

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Bodily time vs world time?

BTC $ Gain

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Perpetual ,,, big deal!

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If the returns and gains on stuff,, we’re like their returns and gains on your muscle mass, your weightlifting abilities?

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Big picture!

What can I offer that other people cannot?

If you think about it, the technology being able to write something down without actually talking out loud is unique and a bit bizarre?

The future is oral culture?

The future is oral?

Social skills, oral skills, orality is future 

Market leader!

Why $2.1B not $21B?

STRF, 10x choosy, crown jewel

The pristine fixed income stock, … investment grade fixed income

BTC rating

Drive BTC rating up!

What’s BTC rating?

Improve the credit quality of this

The virtues of owning a beautiful home?

Offer something, offer a product for everybody!

I suppose the genius of Saylor and strategy and micro strategy, is that they are creating new innovative products, which fulfill a need for all investors, all human beings, built and backed with Bitcoin?

Similarly speaking, I also find it interesting because maybe this is also what I wished to offer? To try to solve problems, with bitcoin as a solution? 

Bitcoin- backed solutions

MSTR at $5,000 a share! $10,000 a share?

The strategy eco system

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Torque, how to generate more torque?

Artfully balanced, created and programmed

Signals

Execute minute by minute

Synchronize

The more successful you become, the more modest you become?

Bitcoin Triple Torque

Men & women both need one another

Scaleable

BTC gain , maximize BTC gains

BTC gains,,, all!

Capital preservation & productivity

This is my passion, Bitcoin is my passion!

Issue securities, acquire Bitcoin

Not just 1:1

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More levered more volatile more liquid

$100B

$100’s of B’s

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Women just want stability and calm, men desire more power?

Convertible bond markets BMAX

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Preferred stocks

Stocks

Eric Kim stock?

Provide a frame work

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Men want to have kids!

So do women! We all naturally want to have children!

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Pristine thoughts, pristine capital?

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What if bitcoin could solve the whole poverty issue… Also solving racism and the police?

So, this is a list of design principles I got:

1. Nice to have versus absolutely effing necessary?

So for example, when you’re designing a home, there are all these cool designer homes, but the really wise thing to consider… Is if each single room bedroom floor is absolutely effing necessary?

Also, the new iPhone is an abomination. Adding that stupid camera control was like one of the most embarrassing things of all time from the Apple design team. It’s kind of a cheap marketing tactic to add a feature, to get people to buy the new thing.  the genius of Steve Jobs was opposite: each new generation of the thing to subtract superfluous features, spending insane amount of time to figure out what to cut.

In some ways, Elon Musk is the new Steve Jobs. Delete delete delete, cut cut, or the idea you have to keep deleting until failure, and then you have to add it back?

For example, his genius of figuring out cutting and getting rid of the stalks. Also, the cyber taxi, just getting rid of the steering wheel and all the controls! Insanely bold, amazing.

I think also with social media it’s kind of the same thing, 100% thousand percent absolutely critical versus nice to have?

For example, if you are an MSTR shareholder, you technically don’t even need social media you just go on strategy.com to get all the important vital information, which is typically a reflection of the real market conditions of bitcoin. Or you could just look at the price of bitcoin.

I’m constantly on this ruthless quest, trying to figure out what to add and what to subtract. But remember my general principle:

Every single day, delete at least one app utility or thing from your phone, your laptop, your iPad, your life. 

2. Raw is better

So for example, the most hilarious innovation of the modern day condo is trying to make it as thin, invisible as possible. Everyone knows that coitus feels best without any sort of condom or thing on. And therefore, ideally the best design principle is raw, like even a funny thing is that if it is actually really really really hot outside, just taking off your shirt is often the easiest way to pull down. The best outfit is being naked.

And then also if he apply this principle to everything else, subtraction is the most effective strategy. For example, with foods, substances beverages, the simple thought:

If it does not cause your pain don’t fix it!

For example, like 99.9% of the substances we put in our bodies are not 100% necessary. The only thing that I do not imagine ever quitting is coffee or caffeine because if I do not drink coffee first thing in the morning, it causes me pain.  Yeah yeah yeah I know that’s not good for me but screw it, I’m like the most sober person I know. I don’t why I haven’t touched alcohol in like seven or eight years, and I don’t take drugs not even painkillers. No marijuana or hallucinogens for me. I think I have only smoked weed twice in my life, like six years ago, the first time it was kind of funny, the second time I didn’t really like it.

Same thing with alcohol, only problem with alcohol is that it just doesn’t make me feel good. I always get a hangover the next day, it ruins my sleep, and also the biggest thing… It probably doesn’t help me maintain my 5% body fat six pack.

3. Reduce reduce reduce

Reduction and cutting often has no downsides.

4. If it does not cause you pain don’t fix it

So for example, the only time I think you should ever like change your car is if the car yours currently are using is causing you pain. Like for example, I had one former student who told me that his old BMW X.3 or some other car caused him to severe back pain, and it had to do something with the seat or the armrest?

As a similar thing, I have not touched a laptop in like eight years because it causes me severe back pain and also carpal tunnel pain?

5. Nice to have, and convenient or 1000% critical?

Another big idea, is that thing like 1,000,000,000,000% critical or is it just nice to have and add convenience to your life?

For example, currently in Cambodia, most people don’t really use cash. They use ABA pay, which is the local QR code popular bank here.

Apparently if you get a APA account, it will make your life a lot easier. But, I’ve actually figured out that I am able to pull the local currency, the KHR, KHMER RIEL ALSO FROM THE ATM, AT A LOCAL ABA ATM.

So I think that assuming that I could still pay cash, with the local currency, it might add a little bit of friction to my life, but it is fine!

6. Clothes

Clothes and shoes, once again, the pain issue.

The reason why I discovered the view from five finger shoes was in fact because all the traditional shoes I had was causing me severe tendinitis pain on the bottom of my foot plantar fasciitis, very very simple, it can be cured by just wearing these five finger minimalist shoes.

My personal thought is the only reason people don’t wear them is that they look weird. But then again, crocs look weird and it seems like everyone wears those.

I think there’s a certain point in your life, I’m 37 now, I really care less. All I care about is Seneca Cindy, my family and friends, my bitcoin in my MSTR stock. To reduce your sphere of concern is wise.

7. Life is like Lego bricks

I just recently watched the new Pharrell Lego movie, piece by piece. Probably one the most interesting watches of my life.

 so one of the big principles from Pharrell which is super interesting is thinking that life is like Legos. Infinitely configurable, and the idea is that assuming that this planet, a lot of of it is built and designed, that that means that you cut yourself on your own reality.

Lately I’ve been having fun with Seneca, buying Lego technics, and just making new inventions by ourselves and what’s really fun and interesting is that there is like an infinite amount of configurations that you can make, even with like a $10, 70 piece set.

So my personal thought is that you could design your own reality! A designer, your designated what is important and what is not important.

For example, nobody is holding a gun to your head and saying that you must use Instagram Facebook WhatsApp or whatever to stay alive. You have the option to believe it. Certainly there might be loss of entertainment I suppose, but that is a small price to pay for your freedom .

I think for mental health and physical health, deleting all social media from your phone may be the most effective strategy of all time. And the hilarious things that it costs you nothing.

Typically whatever I encourage, it’s Bree! To delete stuff doesn’t cost money.

And also, one of the best ways to spend money is to simply pay for services or things which blocks advertising, and other annoying stuff.

Like my ideal thing is that if we had some sort of like augmented reality glasses, and you can pay like $50 a month to have this thing automatically block advertisements in the real world, this would be a great invention.

And all of the Safari plug-ins and extensions that I have purchased, the ones that continue to live on my devices, are all of the paid ad blockers.

Come on, nobody likes advertisements, not kids, not Google employees. Not you.

8. Friction

So some simple thoughts:

If there’s a certain behavior you want to change adding a little bit of creative friction is a good idea.

For example, if you’re addicted to social media, try to figure out ways that you could make it more difficult to access stuff. For example, am I quest of getting rid of Twitter and X, I’ve just been logging out of my account occasionally, and using rss.app to access @saylor

Also, the funny thing with networking is that actually, to become more wealthy and prosperous isn’t to augment and add more contacts to your contact list, but to selectively prune, and delete contacts from your list.

Some friction is good some friction is bad.

So for example, reducing friction on Amazon prime could be good, but assuming that you want more sexual pleasure, adding some sort of friction is good.

And this is actually the funny thought about pornography, nothing morally wrong against it. But almost it’s too easy? And therefore as a consequence, people will get bored of it? Because it is too easy to access?

Like you know women who play hard to get, even men who play hard to get. It’s like the difficulty in the chase which makes it fun for people.

Similarly speaking, with games and video games, it is only fun when we have a little bit of difficulty. Like in StarCraft, it is no fun killing easy computers, it is more fun challenging and interesting to play against difficult human opponents.

Also with weightlifting, it is only fun if it is difficulty challenging and uncertain. When the weight becomes too light and easy it becomes boring.

And this is the hard thing for people to understand, is that often times, adding more difficulty and Christian can make life more fun! I think it’s just a selective principle.

For example, having soft sheets is probably better than having sandpaper blankets. And having some sort of lubrication is better than having squeaky wheels.

And I think this is a hard thing to understand about money and wealth, assuming we truly do believe in the via negative about principal, there really really wise things to do in life is to cut subtract and get rid of superfluous stuff.

If anything, the best way to use money is to use money to get rid of stuff.

For example let us say you have a storage unit a full of crap. My fun idea is that it’s a better idea to just pay somebody 300 bucks to figure out what to keep and what to throw away, or even a better idea… Give them like a 50% incentive that they could just resell the valuable stuff in your storage unit and they could take half the profits, and you keep half the profits.

The richer you become, the fewer concerns you want. You don’t want to manage your house as manager, you don’t want to manage your manager‘s manager‘s manager. The fewer the things you have to manage, the better.

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so I’m currently going through this very very annoying thing… Trying to get new lenses for my glasses. Since the last five years, unfortunately my vision has degraded significantly, maybe like 20% down, and as a consequence, being here in Cambodia Phnom Penh, I thought… Hey, everything in Asia is cheap cheaper, why not get some new lenses while I am here instead of getting ripped off in the states?

Some generalized thoughts:

First, one of the most amazing things is that these Lindberg frames, titanium frames that I’ve been wearing for almost like 15 years, which I’ve become iconic, even generative AI OpenAI knows what I look like, have lasted this long! When I was like 21 or 22, I remember getting them with my friend and local guide Siddarth, while in Calcutta India. At this time I was just starting off my photography journey, and I wanted new frames and I figured that in India… Economically it was a good lever and a good leverage because they are like insanely good at making classes, and once again, far cheaper than in America.

So at the time, when I bought the frames, they seemed perfect to me, and also the sales person told me that it was like the same frames that Bill Gates used? I figured if he is insanely light, strong titanium frames were good enough for Bill Gates, it would probably also be good enough for me.

Anyways, things which have been interesting, once again I got these framed when I was like 22 years old, and I’m 37 years old right now. 15 years!!! When is the last time that you bought anything that you actually use every single day, multiple times a day, for the last 15 years?

And also what has been quite incredible is the fact that I have been able to simply swap out the lenses so easily! I think this is the first huge design principle of modular, which is amazing: once again, your vision degrades, and or the lens technology Advances. Rather than swap out your eyeballs, or burn holes into your cornea, it seems a lot safer, more effective, and also more logical to instead, just swap out the lenses!

Also a big pot, you know eye doctors, who make their living and enjoying vision stuff… Note that practically 100% of them all wear glasses, 0% of them ever get Lasik. Rather than asking the opinion of somebody, what they think… Ask them what they actually do. 

For example never ask somebody for financial advice, just ask people what percent of their portfolio do they have in XYZ?

Why this matters

Anyways, I first went to this high-end location and then I later went to another local place to price compare… and at first I felt really smart and good about myself because the first place quoted me like 700 bucks, which was certainly reasonable, given that I literally use my lenses and glasses like 24 seven 365, and it was like super super super super super top of the line everything. The most advanced lens technology, Essilor EyeZen, all of the fancy Crizal anti-blue light UV whatever codings, which surprisingly I think actually makes a difference if you look directly into the sunlight it’s almost like mini sunglasses? I found that, if you have the right layering things on your lenses, the sun is actually less bright if you wear glasses?

Anyways, the second place I went to was a local Cambodian place, very very clean brand new and nice, all the workers spoke Khmer, and they had to phone in their manager boss lady, a 27-year-old woman who studied abroad in Australia for a bit, perfect English.

Anyways, they priced me and quoted me like $320, which is like less than half the price, apparently the same thing! At first I was like quite happy about this because I had the maybe feeling, but the first place, which had an impressive foreigner International eye doctor, and also, a more upscale Location and office, I thought I was getting ripped off because of simply the decor of the place.

Anyways, the second place also said that they would give me the thinnest lens possible, eyezen essilor etc… all of the good stuff. Surprisingly after only about a week, they told me that it would take two weeks, which also is a good tactic, it is always better to tell people that is going to take longer than shorter, and better to deliver “ahead of schedule“, even if the initial number is inflated? 

For example, let’s say you’re a contractor, and you’re trying to build like a garage or a kitchen. Let us see the historically it takes you like three months, it’s better to tell people that it will take six months, and deliver it in three months, rather than Tell people that it will take three months, and deliver it in three months? Or worse, I’ll be a little bit late of schedule, four months instead of three months?

Once again, it was a good tactic that this place told me that producing the lenses would take two weeks, and note, at least here in Asia, Essilor lenses are produced in Thailand, then shipped here. So if you want some new prescription lenses, doing it in Thailand Bangkok seems to make the most sense.

Anyways, I got the new lenses, the full service was very pleased. Yet I think that’s a little bit shocking for me, I know that my prescription has gone up, which would mean that I need stronger lenses, which means that it will probably be thicker and also heavier. Yet it was a lot more thicker and heavier than I anticipated, superficially it seems like 20 to 25% Thicker than my old lenses, and in terms of the weight difference, which weighs on my head, feels maybe like 17% heavier?

Note, if you wear these things like 18 hours a day, every gram and ounce counts. I was randomly using Grok and deep search to try to see and research the white differences between 1.74 lenses, and 1.64 lenses, and apparently, most users on the web say the differences are mostly “aesthetic”, and most users do not notice a difference. 

The reason why this is not a good metric is because also… Most people eat three meals a day, most people drink Coca-Cola, most people are overfat, most people watch YouTube Netflix Disney+ Hulu whatever, most people look at and click on ads. Therefore, the general idea of “most users: ends up not being a good metric because you are exceptional. You are not the masses. 

The difference

Anyways, I’m only like half a day, a day in, so I cannot give any conclusive findings yet.

First I’m just going to go back to the place that gave me the lenses and I’m gonna ask why they made only the medium tier thin lenses instead of the top-of-the-line thin lenses. Because it was my intent to pay more money for a thinner, lighter lens.

So a kind of random thought associated to this was also thinking about iPhones. I tested the new iPhone Pro for a week, and eventually I just returned it because aesthetically, it was too fat and too thick! It’s like a man with 30% body fat, rather than a man with 5% body fat, demigod Achilles, Brad Pitt ERIC KIM fight club aesthetic.

And this is a big thought, actually, if I had the option with my lenses at least… If you give me an ultimatum that I would choose lenses which had all this better technology blah blah blah, but was 20 to 25 30% thicker and heavier,  order the more basic lenses, which were a lot thinner and lighter, the part of me which is easily swayed by marketing might choose or think that I want the more superior thing, even though it is heavier. But the truth of the matter is, is that lightness and thinness is always supreme. 

And I was thinking about this also metaphorically and almost applied to everything.

For example, what is the best Tesla car? Probably the Tesla model three performance, in ultra red. Why? Ultra red red is the most dangerous color, it is the color of danger so as a consequence people will notice you and not hit you.

Second, it is the most skinny and thin and close to the ground car, which in terms of physics is supreme.

I think this becomes interesting because now that I have unlocked the infinite money glitch, bitcoin MSTR MSTU,,, I really have the privilege now that all the decisions I make or philosophize are based on ethos, my own personal aesthetics? 

Once again, even if you’re a billionaire, I would not wish an iPhone pro on my worst enemy. Why? You cannot use it with your left hand, one handed, and also it will probably give you carpal tunnel and require you to get some sort of steroid injection in your wrist, Like Kanye West. In fact, someone perhaps needs to do a deeper research study on this, about like ever since Apple introduced the really big and heavy iPhones, how many poor people on the planet are suffering from carpal tunnel? 

Currently, it is my personal belief that the best iPhone is either the new iPhone E, E for ERIC, or just the normal one.

Actually, no I will just say it is the new iPhone E, in white. Why? Aesthetically you don’t have that stupid camera control, which is like the worst abomination of a fake ass innovation I’ve ever seen. Steve Jobs would have been very angry.

In fact I would encourage the whole design team to think and consider, re-read Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, and whenever you make some sort of decision in terms of design: especially now that Jony Ive is not at the head anymore …

What would Steve do?

or better yet,

What would Steve Jobs do, what would he not do? What would Steve think? 

For example in the past, Apple was divine. They spent so much brain power and creative ingenuity to figure out what buttons to get rid of, what features to slice and chop off. Also for myself, I was like insanely obsessed with this too. Perhaps I need to get back on this gravy train.

Anyways, once again, if you take this design principle and apply it to everything, it makes total sense. Cut reduce and chop off all the superfluous weight even if your design thing, could share a few ounces or a few grams off of that thing, it is worth it.

Even with cars and supercars or whatever, you do not want to lose your Lamborghini. You probably want a McLaren, or a Porsche 911 GT 3 RS, or something that is made mostly of carbon fiber, and is lighter.  this is why a 1990 Mazda Miata five speed manual, no air-conditioning no power steering no nothing is so fun to drive! It’s like one of the lightest cars of all time.

Heavy cars are no fun. Cars are dumb, uninteresting, and also, unaesthetic.

I actually have a funny thought: I wonder if the fashion and taste of cars closed etc. is simply based on the average human bodily physiology.

For example, because everyone is becoming so fat, so short, so hairy, so ugly, everyone wants to buy a beautiful big tall car SUV truck or something in order to try to change something about themselves?

Or, in terms of fashion, I think the reason why everyone’s wearing all these ugly frumpy clothes is because the general aesthetic for people now is ugly, fat, skinny fat, anemic, no body shape.

Think about it, if you don’t work out, you’re skinny fat, or whatever… Of course you’re gonna wear like loose jeans, loose flannel shirts, wear a baseball cap to cover up your balding head, grow facial hair or a Hitler mustache to hide your double chin, Wear a blackout sunglass lenses to kind of obfuscate the unattractive or the round features of your face, and also, to promote your cowardly behavior of not making eye contact with people or interacting with other people? Same thing with these cowards who drive these huge blackedout Range Rovers, with limo tints, and just honk at everybody in the road? 

back to products

Anyways, the same thing is with your shoes. The reason why I am so religiously committed to the Vibra five finger shoes is that it makes so much sense. You want maximum connection to the ground, maximum sensation, but also minimum weight?

Whenever you are doing any sort of product comparisons, then the most logical thing to consider is weight differences. Like if you’re gonna shop for and do something, pull up the tabs and see what is thinner, and also what is lighter?

Even consider everyone’s favorite technology, the condom. The goal is to have it as light and thin as possible, or more sensation and more pleasure. Would you want your condom to weigh like 10 ounces, and have the thickness of a soul of a HOKA shoe? No!

Cameras

I guess Ricoh has been having some sort of supply chain issues. Even if you want to buy a Ricoh GR, you cannot?

Anyways, still the more I think about it, Rico GR is the way to go. I think that the fact of life is they will just keep breaking and getting updated and it’s fine, it’s cheap enough, you could afford it.

I also suppose the same thing is with iPhones. There have been many attempts to create a modular phone, but they have all failed because ultimately people want something which is lighter and more beautiful. Even if you cannot use it for more than like five years.

How long should you keep it anyways?

In finance and investing we typically thinking four year or five year cycles. So I think if it could last you at least four or five years it’s probably good enough.

Also as a better thought, before you desire to buy something, think to yourself whether it will be outdated four or five years from now, and think and consider how you would feel about it.

When are the virtues of having an old car, as you know it will never get outdated because it already is. 30 years from now, my 2010 Prius will still drive the same, look the same, perform the same I don’t have to worry about upgrading the touchscreen or other features.

In fact, I still feel that the 2010 model Prius really nailed it. I really like the design, it’s edgy enough, compared to the higher model, which is too round and bubbly,… and another big thing is that there are no annoying touch screens.

Apparently a big issue is with the older Tesla model S cars, the touchscreens are too slow and unresponsive.

Even when we were randomly sitting in a Tesla, Cindy said that the brightness from the screen gave her a migraine?

Even now, the privilege of reading a paperback book is that first, it hurts your eyeballs less, and second, you are less distracted?

Future thoughts: it is the privilege of the new elite to have their kids not use touchscreens, devices and the internet?

In fact all of these new elite schools for kids, the best ones are the ones that are all like organic, wooden toy based, no plastic, no technology. Technology is actually the new crutch for the poor?