Think 30 Years Ahead

The 30 Year Body

My interesting funny idea:

Think 30 years ahead

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So, how is this manifested?

First, I think at least 30 years ahead; for example, Seneca is currently 3 1/2 years old, my mom is 70, I am 36; so 130 years, Seneca will be 33, I will be 66, my mom will be 100. Hopefully 30 years Seneca will have his own kid. 

The reason I like 30 years that it cuts through a lot of nonsense, and the truth is… If you want to build anything really great, it takes a long time. You cannot build Rome overnight.

Even Jeff Bezos his insanely genius concept; he’s been building up Amazon since the 90s, he had at least a 30 year plus vision.

Why 30 years?

So in terms of working out weight lifting etc.; Michael is to have a six pack even at the age of 66!

Then what that means is you could take your time. You can miss the work out here and there, enjoy a few off days and bad days because in the midst of a 30 year horizon, you can lift more strategically, more intelligently.

Also, a lot of these folks who take steroids and whatever… They are seeking success right now, or maybe in the 5 to 10 year span. But once you’re Ronnie Coleman, and essentially a cripple, none of it is worth it.

Even a good thing about Arnold, he was able to get out of the game had a good time, so he did not become a cripple. I have a theory about Arnold Schwarzenegger, he probably knew that steroids and bodybuilding was not sustainable, so he got out of the game at his peak, knowing that taking steroids long-term was probably not a good idea.

People talk about the good old golden days of bodybuilding… But everyone was on steroids! Even then.

The reason why this matters is because I even hear stories of young guys, in their 20s, we have taken so many steroids that they are no longer able to beget children? The ultimate tragedy. It is almost like involuntary sterilization; even Nietzsche said that in the future, the most cruel thing one could do is force a certain population not to procreate. 

Thou shalt not procreate! – The ultimate evil edict.

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Investing

Everyone wants to make the quick gains, buy the loser Lamborghini whatever. Yet the real intelligence strategy is to think about building an empire for your kids kids kids. 

“Generational wealth that’s the key, I started with shit so that shift started with me” — JAY Z

This is where I think it is critical for any serious thinker philosopher entrepreneur innovator to have kids. Having kids, a wife, being married actually makes you a better investor because you no longer think for yourself, do you think for your family unit, the family business.

Even Aristotle when he talks about economics (oecanomia)– essentially economics literally means management of household affairs; how you manage your slaves, your home finances labor accounting etc. Also funny thing back in the day… the slaves were the accountants. 

Ultimately I’m a realist and a pragmatic person. I’m not interested in any sort of abstruse Macro economic theories; I’m interested in the now, the practical the day. Simple questions like how do I make money how do I retain how do I grow my capital, what is money etc.

I also suppose what makes my approach unique is that I did not study economics in school, I studied sociology and later on self teaching myself philosophy, and currently self teaching myself economics through the Austrian economists like Karl Menger, and also practical economic thoughts from NASSIM TALEB (Antifragile), in my own personal crypto and bitcoin ideas, and also economic theories from Michael Saylor, the patron saint of bitcoin.

Creating a legacy

A legacy just means to build to me that will outlast you.

An ancient Greek, kleos (forever glory, forever fame). The general idea is through a road act or deed, your name and your fame would last forever, kind of like King Leonidas and his valiant 300; we will remember them forever.

I think the superficial thing that people try to do is they try to force a legacy by buying it; plus through your name on a urinal in the university of Southern California USC, urinal in the business school (true story) or putting your name on some sort of business school building.

To me this is superficial at best; better to earn your name your legacy your KLEOS and immortal fame and glory through your heroic and valiant acts!

For example, we will forever remember Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, and the like, we will forget Bill Gates, who only cares for money, and his physique that kills boners (Elon Musk tweet). I think also… For better or worse Donald Trump will be remembered, as well as Elon Musk, Jay-Z etc.

Also Michael Saylor. 

Can you force a legacy? 

No. Just like trying to force kid to eat vegetables.

I think maybe thinking about the 30 year body is an interesting idea because you essentially ideally want your physique your health in 30 years to be supreme! A thought and a theory; 

Is it possible to have a superior physique at the age of 66, compared to the age of 36?

 Certainly I’m going to have more wrinkles in my face and whatever at the age of 66, but I actually wonder… Is it possible that I could train today and eat enough meat today, and get my testosterone up that in 30 years, I will actually be higher than now?

I mean even at the age of 36, I’m 1 trillion times stronger and more handsome and I have a superior body and testosterone than I did when I was 26, and also compared to when I was 16. 

20 years, I am superior at the age of 36 then I was at the age of 16… In terms of my muscles my body everything.

Certainly at the age of 120, I’m probably not gonna be as good as I am today, but with enough foresight, I could start strategizing today!

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30 years or nothing!

ERIC

I think I might have listened to every single Michael Saylor interview he has ever done, and also his great what is money series with Robert Breedlove.

Essentially, I really do think that Michael Saylor has real soul in the game; it was actually very very interesting in the recent Markets with Madison Part 2, see Part 1, … in the second part of the interview at the very end when talking about legacy and stuff, she revealed the fact that he’s a single guy, presumably not married, no kids etc.… And his whole legacy is kind of centered around the idea of trying to help solve and or fix the economic issue at hand — toxic, dirty money and capital.

Why I trust Michael Saylor

What is super fascinating is literally the last four years, when you listen to all the Michael Saylor interviews, he never once mentioned his own company, micro strategy. I only obliquely discovered what it was, because sooner or later all these commentators ask him about it.

Even for myself, when I first went to their company website, and the word microstrategy,— it definitely sounds like a very antiquated term, like the 90s, Bill Gates, windows 95 era. But anyways, I think that Michael sailor is probably 90% technology and history of science philosopher, and real life entrepreneur businessman, who is insanely intelligent, and kind of destroys anyone else he combats, for example just watch the debate about gold with Frank Giustra, it was the most hilarious and beautiful roast of all time!

Hope

I think for millennials like myself, in which the world seems a bit implausible; for example, trying to afford a $3.2 million home in Culver City? Even a modest $1.5 million home here, the mortgage on it is almost close to $9000 USD a month? This is insane.

Also, interest rates and the such. And inflation is getting out of control. My insane shock of seeing minimum wage for our fast food workers go from $16 an hour to $20 an hour, literally overnight! And seeing the sad demise of my favorite Shake shack with Seneca in Culver City, I think the whole idea of raising minimum wage was seen as a good idea, to help poor people, but ultimately it became an insanely terrible idea because as a consequence, the whole restaurant just shut down! And I am sure that the reason why I shut down is because shake shack is a publicly traded corporation, and when you increase the minimum wage for workers, you essentially deprive them of jobs because the corporation can no longer be profitable, and as a consequence either lays off staff, reduces hours, or close down certain branches which are not as profitable.

anyways, assuming that bitcoin is gonna go to $30 million a bitcoin, we’re in my extremely bush case, $56 million bitcoin, it is real hope for the future! He started to think more intelligently about the future, because you are leopard long; real incentive to try to invest You don’t want to blow $1000 on an iPhone because that iPhone 30 years from now can be worth potentially $500,000 USD? Or who knows $1 million?

For example if I could tell you right now, with 100% certainty, in 30 years, if you invest $1000 into bitcoin, it would become $1 million, wouldn’t you live your life differently?

I think I might have listened to every single Michael Saylor interview he has ever done, and also his great what is money series with Robert Breedlove.

Essentially, I really do think that Michael Saylor has real soul in the game; it was actually very very interesting in the recent Markets with Madison Part 2, see Part 1, … in the second part of the interview at the very end when talking about legacy and stuff, she revealed the fact that he’s a single guy, presumably not married, no kids etc.… And his whole legacy is kind of centered around the idea of trying to help solve and or fix the economic issue at hand — toxic, dirty money and capital.

Why I trust Michael Saylor

What is super fascinating is literally the last four years, when you listen to all the Michael Saylor interviews, he never once mentioned his own company, micro strategy. I only obliquely discovered what it was, because sooner or later all these commentators ask him about it.

Even for myself, when I first went to their company website, and the word microstrategy,— it definitely sounds like a very antiquated term, like the 90s, Bill Gates, windows 95 era. But anyways, I think that Michael sailor is probably 90% technology and history of science philosopher, and real life entrepreneur businessman, who is insanely intelligent, and kind of destroys anyone else he combats, for example just watch the debate about gold with Frank Giustra, it was the most hilarious and beautiful roast of all time!

Hope

I think for millennials like myself, in which the world seems a bit implausible; for example, trying to afford a $3.2 million home in Culver City? Even a modest $1.5 million home here, the mortgage on it is almost close to $9000 USD a month? This is insane.

Also, interest rates and the such. And inflation is getting out of control. My insane shock of seeing minimum wage for our fast food workers go from $16 an hour to $20 an hour, literally overnight! And seeing the sad demise of my favorite Shake shack with Seneca in Culver City, I think the whole idea of raising minimum wage was seen as a good idea, to help poor people, but ultimately it became an insanely terrible idea because as a consequence, the whole restaurant just shut down! And I am sure that the reason why I shut down is because shake shack is a publicly traded corporation, and when you increase the minimum wage for workers, you essentially deprive them of jobs because the corporation can no longer be profitable, and as a consequence either lays off staff, reduces hours, or close down certain branches which are not as profitable.

The philosophy of focus:

So, we are all photographers, thinkers entrepreneurs visionaries etc. To focus, I think at the end of the day, does seem to be a virtue.

First, the ethics of focus, the first big idea is that things which distract us, or rob us of our focus, are third-party distractions, which often have some sort of advertising or marketing or product selling motive.

For example, let us consider all of the ills of modern day life, which is modern media. Essentially anything which is supported by advertising is bad evil and should not be trusted.

For example, anything on YouTube which has advertising or product placements or selling services are bad. Any podcast, Joe Rogan, anybody out there with subscribers, likes, comments, memberships, anyone who has some sort of monetary incentive behind things.

Currently I am promoting bitcoin as a promise that it could solve at least 50% of the world’s problems; that is consider poverty injustice, high cost of living and rent… I actually do believe that these problems could be solved with bitcoin.

For example, even poor spending habits, the issue with inflation is that even if I’m making $20 an hour working at McDonald’s, and the price of everything keeps going up… There is zero too little incentive to save. If my rent cost $3000 a month, and because of inflation in a few years it’ll be worth $4000 a month, incentive is to buy all the capitalistic consumer stuff while I could still afford it, Whether Nike or Jordan sneakers, certain cars, clothes etc.

Also this is where Apple has been intelligent with iPhone; let us say that the iPhone Pro is $1000, or $999. This has been really relatively resistant to inflation; even though minimum wage keeps going up, essentially the price of the iPhone is not changing. Therefore if I am a typical working class poor person, and I’m being paid 16 or $20 an hour, incentive is to go out and purchase the iPhone Pro while I still can; because assuming the inflation keeps going up, in the near future I will no longer be able to afford that new iPhone Pro.

Low prices?

I think for the most part, a lot of the evils and ill society are issues with money, gambling, etc. At least this was the case in my family; my dad just sent you not having a job since I was two years old, gambling away the rent money etc. Assuming that my dad didn’t gamble away the rent money, like he was just a parasite but all he did was smoke cigarettes, watch television and movies, chill out the house… Assuming that were the case, at least he would be kind of a neutral party; but him having to threaten my mom with physical or mental or family violence, holding her at hostage or ransom, Forcing her to give him the rent money with physical force, saying that he was going to pay it himself, and then in the middle of the night driving off to Reno and gambling it away, which means my mom is already three months behind on rent… Certainly this is an evil that happened because of gambling and of course his own problems.

the bad guy?

Ultimately, one cannot point the finger at institution which is the casinos or whatever. Even now as a sober adult, haven’t gone to Vegas a few times, I find it to be very fun! I love going to wicked spoon, and having to all you can eat bone marrow, and all the great foods. But, I don’t have a gambling bone in my body; nor do I have a bone for smoking; essentially seeing all the bad stuff that my dad did, turned me off forever. This is where I have kind of a moralistic and ethical imperative against cigarettes, there’s nothing I hit more than cigarette smoke on the planet; The ultimate evil.

What does focus mean?

So focus, focusing… Assume you have a magnifying glass you could take the raise the sun, pinpointed to one point, and you could burn a hole through paper. Assuming you have a big enough magnifying glass, I wonder if you could even take the sun’s power and even make a hole through steel! Just think about all these James Bond’s movies.

Anyways, I think maybe the focus in society in life should be similar; I am kind of OK fine mediocre and a lot of stuff, but assuming that life is finite, a hard cap of at least 122 years, then what that means is if I know with 100% precision that I will die before 122 years, Then the ethical imperative;

How should I and how must I spend my life in a meaningful way?

Assuming that practically almost all 8 billion of us on the planet have a phone, then what that means is everyone is a photographer because they make photos. Even my new friend Alexey show me an interesting street photo he shot in the hood, somebody who overdosed on fentanyl, ar a bus stop. Somewhere in South Central.

And this is kind of a big deal because assuming that most of us live in cities, or assuming we all live in Los Angeles, anybody with an iPhone is a photographer, a street photographer.

In fact, everything in the haptic shop is open source, free to download share remix four to your buddies or store on unlimited devices. For me this became an ethical imperative; because honestly, 99% of the roadblocks we face in photography has to do with some sort of penis envy for some sort of camera equipment; do you think the day that you could afford to buy the Leica, finally you will have a motivation to shoot or make great photos blah blah blah. Same goes with the iPhone Pro, which is actually, not that great.

Also, objectively … Leica, Leica camera, is an inferior product and tool.  it is true that the craftsmanship is superior, but the overall product is inferior when you compare it to a Panasonic Lumix, or even a Fujifilm camera.

I think what Germany has going for it is good marketing and brand. But everyone knows that any German car whether it be a BMW, Mercedes, Rolls-Royce, which is owned by BMW… maybach which is essentially a Mercedes with a body kit, is probably 1000 X inferior to any Japanese luxury car like Lexus or Toyota. In fact, a Lamborghini is just a Volkswagen Passat on steroids. A Lamborghini Urus SUV is just a Volkswagen touring on steroids. And a Porsche 911, 911 GT three RS is just like a Volkswagen beetle on steroids and a body kit.

I’m currently using the full frame lumix S9 camera, been shooting some video on it… But actually a critical issue right now I’ve been discovering is the reason why micro 4/3, even maybe APSC sensors; or a smaller crop sensors might be superior is because you could focus far closer! Full frame cameras are very very difficult to focus especially up close and personal, and also the bigger issue is that the lenses become bigger heavier, more obtrusive, bulkier, harder to use.

In fact, if you are a filmmaker, still… Getting some sort of micro 4/3 camera some sort of Panasonic lumix GH camera might be your best bet, because you can get the best lenses, with the best close focusing capabilities, the maximum aperture for the minimum amount of weight. And ultimately this is what matters the most; ultimately if you are a videographer photographer or cameraman, it comes down to weight and ease. In fact I think even most videographers especially aspiring filmmakers, maybe they should just get some sort of GoPro creator set up; just set it and forget it!

Because 99.9% of the hurdle that creators face especially new ones is the technical hurdles, the technological issues. Even here may be an iPhone pro without any external accessories might be good for making films. Especially short ones. Anything that is not going to be a Hollywood blockbuster film. This is why I think Apple is trying to do all this marketing that you could shoot cinema on your iPhone Pro is kind of ridiculous; any real professional  Would use some sort of red dragon camera.

I also feel bad perhaps the biggest issue here is everyone is trying to posture and look “pro”? But why?

My thought is everyone has some sort of insecurity bias, a small man complex. Certainly everyone wants to feel big mighty and strong and successful whatever, but I also find this to be a little bit pointless because success, wealth and power, are not zero some; which means that assuming that capital is infinite, not a closed system, then that means that in theory, Anyone and everyone could become a billionaire, assuming that the global market multiplies by 1 trillion.

And also,  because a lot of money is economic fictions, computer code, which means that any nerd with a computer could click a button and inject $1 trillion into the economy, what that then means is the upside for money is infinite!

Certainly there are things which are scarce, like human time, labor, and bitcoin, but everything else… Has an infinite upside in theory?

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Why focus?

I just think that it is an intelligent way to strategize life.

I think the number one issue that a lot of people have, especially young folks that we don’t know what we should devote our lives to. As a consequence we just throw our interest at random in a bunch of Market Basket stuff, hoping that one will stick.

But, to diversify our interest, is perhaps not a good idea. For example, if assuming you had a Mozart in your classroom, would you have your student waste his or her time learning Spanish or stuff that he or she would never really use? No! You would put them in one of those funny musical prodigy classes, have them devote 100% of their energy towards music, to become the next prodigy.

I was also doing some research which is kind of funny that the whole idea of homeschooling was essentially invented because you had a lot of these young athletes students, getting ready for the Olympics, and they did not want to waste their time being stuck in the classroom. So the whole ethos was trying to devote most of the kids time and attention to maximize their sports performance, kind of what mainland China does, she is much more shameless than America. And also maybe be more successful.

I think also that is why you see more record breaking Chinese Olympic weightlifters, because there is no stigma about taking steroids, performance enhancing drugs, and also, they don’t really have a egalitarian schooling system like we do in America.

Anyways, I think to focus means to just value your life, your effort, your soul.

Assuming that we believe in immortal soul, which means that once you die, your soul also dies… Why would you waste your life in anything superficial?

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About to change the oil on my 2010 Prius, I haven’t done this in a while since I was maybe 18… Or 16, maybe in the past it was because I didn’t have money to afford to pay somebody to do it for me, but now that I have the money, owrhaps the virtue of doing stuff yourself like changing your own oil is that first, a point of pride, second, demystifying the process which is very motivational and empowering, and third, annoyance and time?

I think the annoyance and time thing is the biggest one; whenever you go to a place to get your oil change, you always have to wait in line, and you always feel stupid because you always feel like you overpaid? And the funny thing is it doesn’t really matter whether you’re rich or not, you’ll always feel ripped off?

The feeling of getting a “good deal”?

Sometimes and often times when the labor yourself could be a little bit foolish, but assume that you do it safely, don’t hurt yourself, and it just works out fine… Then maybe just doing stuff yourself is virtuous?

And the feeling of pride; knowing that you use the top shelf oil, mobile one synthetic, in which you have this funny mental cactus that you feel like you’re getting superior performance and miles per gallon, even reality it might not make much of a difference ,,, but perhaps the thought and *perception* is what makes it all worth it!

Pride

Let it say you buy a new Ferrari or Lamborghini or whatever… Certainly if you drive it around you will feel a sense of pride?

However, wouldn’t it be much more economical wise smart and more effective and efficient to instead, drive around your 2010 Prius, which you essentially got for free, and feel that same sense of pride, maybe even a superior sense of pride, without having to spend $500,000?

Feeling *superior* pride?

Once again, let me never forget… Then saying sense of pride and joy I had, buying my own car, my dream car… 1991 Nissan Sentra SE-R, two door coupe stick shift 5 speed manual, and having the pride that I paid for it myself, modified it myself, did all the labor myself, and also the insane pride that it wasn’t manual transmission not a automatic (auto-tragic haha)!

It must have manual

Even Seneca and I joke; whenever you see a race car or a sports car that has buttons or is automatic, which doesn’t have a manual transmission… It is a fake race car or a fake sports car! McLaren, Lamborghini most Porsche 911 GT3 RS’, Ferraris etc.

Better to have a civic type R in stick shift, or even a GR Corolla, stick shift, instead of any of these other loser cars?

Facebook, Amazon, Twitter Instagram Meta, TikTok YouTube etc.?

Essentially any sort of digital hosting platform which is “free“, they are the new digital slumlords? 

Everyone loves to hate and complaining about these slumlords, who rent us a really terrible apartment, at unreasonable prices, never fix anything, and are essentially bad and evil people. Yet nobody ever points the finger at the big tech companies? Why? Because they offer you “free” marketing platforms… I wonder, what are more freedom ways we could market ourselves which do not require us to use these toxic platforms to simply get our message across?

The first most simple one is just your website, your blog. A website and a blog is essentially the same thing at this point. A digital domain, it’s almost like having a digital house or a digital business or a digital property in cyberspace? Like having your own address.

No YouTube?

A big one to disrupt his YouTube. I suppose TikTok and to some extent Instagram and Instagram stories, and now Twitter is doing the same, but still… YouTube is by far the dominant platform. Why? Having YouTube at this point is almost like having access to free flowing water or electricity; we cannot imagine the world without it.

But, I guess now that I’m stupid rich, I don’t technically need to anymore. And also in terms of getting my message across, I suppose I’ve already done it really well?

I think they’ll lure of YouTube in these platforms is that it will make getting our message across more effective, to maximize our impact?

But I suppose the nuance is; if you have to use toxicity, to maximize our desired outcome, perhaps it is not worth it?

For example, if in fact, using a toxic platform could leverage your impact by 10 X, would it be worth it? Maybe not. Even 1000 X or 10,000 X? Maybe not.

So I wonder… If it is better, more profound to just make an insanely massive impact, on your own small audience, your own sport in 300, rather than try to convert the whole planet, all 8 billion of us to believe what you believe? # The New Digital Slumlords

Facebook, Amazon, Twitter Instagram Meta, TikTok YouTube etc.?

Essentially any sort of digital hosting platform which is “free“, they are the new digital slumlords? 

Everyone loves to hate and complaining about these slumlords, who rent us a really terrible apartment, at unreasonable prices, never fix anything, and are essentially bad and evil people. Yet nobody ever points the finger at the big tech companies? Why? Because they offer you “free” marketing platforms… I wonder, what are more freedom ways we could market ourselves which do not require us to use these toxic platforms to simply get our message across?

The first most simple one is just your website, your blog. A website and a blog is essentially the same thing at this point. A digital domain, it’s almost like having a digital house or a digital business or a digital property in cyberspace? Like having your own address.

No YouTube?

A big one to disrupt his YouTube. I suppose TikTok and to some extent Instagram and Instagram stories, and now Twitter is doing the same, but still… YouTube is by far the dominant platform. Why? Having YouTube at this point is almost like having access to free flowing water or electricity; we cannot imagine the world without it.

But, I guess now that I’m stupid rich, I don’t technically need to anymore. And also in terms of getting my message across, I suppose I’ve already done it really well?

I think they’ll lure of YouTube in these platforms is that it will make getting our message across more effective, to maximize our impact?

But I suppose the nuance is; if you have to use toxicity, to maximize our desired outcome, perhaps it is not worth it?

For example, if in fact, using a toxic platform could leverage your impact by 10 X, would it be worth it? Maybe not. Even 1000 X or 10,000 X? Maybe not.

So I wonder… If it is better, more profound to just make an insanely massive impact, on your own small audience, your own Spartan 300, rather than try to convert the whole planet, all 8 billion of us to believe what you believe?