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Photography Entrepreneurship 101 by ERIC KIM
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Entrepreneurship Ideas

    1. InstaSlaves
    1. How to Become a Vlogger
    1. How to Build Your Own Self Brand
    1. SOLO MEDIA EMPIRE
    1. TIME LEVERAGE.
    1. How to Market Yourself in Photography
    1. How to Become More Ambitious
    1. Crypto Photography
    1. In Praise of Email Newsletters
    1. Propagate.
    1. Make Your Own Street Photography Blog
    1. Create the Information You Seek.
    1. Content over Technology
    1. How to Advertise Yourself as a Photographer
    1. CREATIVE WAYS TO USE YOUTUBE
    1. Photography Branding 101
    1. BUILD YOURSELF.
    1. Bet on Your Own Coin.
    1. The Photographer Should Also Make His/Her Own Music?
    1. Mix Your Photos and Videos
    1. JUST PUBLISH IT.
    1. EMPOWER OTHER PHOTOGRAPHERS.
    1. BECOME OUTSIDE THE BOX
    1. MOVE PEOPLE, MOVE PRODUCTS.
    1. SOCIAL MEDIA IS FRAGILE.
    1. Why Start a Photography Blog?
    1. Once You FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early), Then What?
    1. THE FUTURE IS PDF
    1. In Praise of Solo Photography Business Entrepreneurship
    1. LONGEVITY, DURABILITY AND SUCCESS
    1. Street Photography Philosophy Entrepreneurship
    1. YOU ARE THE PLATFORM
    1. JUST RISK IT.
    1. DON’T OPTIMIZE FOR THE ALGORITHM
    1. Scaleable Photography
    1. What Does it Mean to Become a Successful Photographer?
    1. 20 Photography Marketing, Branding, and Entrepreneurship Tips
    1. Create Your Own Social Media
    1. Individual Entrepreneurship
    1. YOU ARE THE ICON.
    1. BUILD!
    1. What is Success in Photography?
    1. EXTREME VISION
    1. Publish Fearlessly
    1. MAKE DOPE THINGS AND SHARE THEM WITH THE WORLD!
    1. THE AMBITIOUS PHOTOGRAPHER.
    1. PhotoLink
    1. Real World Applications
    1. You Are Your Own Ideal User
    1. What is Your Creative Vision?
    1. A More Dope, Prosperous Future for All Photographers
    1. CREATION & DISTRIBUTION.
    1. THE VALUE OF PHOTOS.
    1. How to Maximize Your Impact as a Photographer
    1. Why the World Needs More Bloggers
    1. DOMAIN EXPERTISE.
    1. The Joy of Speculation
    1. MAKE A NAME FOR YOURSELF.
    1. Propogate
    1. Meaningful Advantage or Not?
    1. PHOTO CREATOR.
    1. NOW IS YOUR DECISIVE MOMENT.
    1. I CANNOT BE IGNORED
    1. Photography Blogs are Highly *UNDERRATED*
    1. What is Your Competitive Advantage?
    1. Why 4K?
    1. Indirect Monetization
    1. The Future of Innovation in Photography
    1. Photography Innovation and Image Selection Idea: Let Google (YouTube) Suggested Thumbnail Pick Your Best Photo?
    1. How to Identify Your Competitive Advantage
    1. In Praise of Insanely Fast Wifi
    1. DIGITAL PUBLISHING IS KING.
    1. The Stoic-Entrepreneurship Mindset
    1. Marketing Tips for Photographers
    1. STARK DIFFERENTIATION
    1. MAXIMALIST
    1. Visual Entrepreneurship
    1. On Becoming a Full-Stack Visual Entrepreneur
    1. Real Photographers Don’t Use Instagram
    1. Brave New World of Blogging
    1. Don’t Go to Photography School
    1. Mass Success is a Failure?
    1. How to Maximize Your Archimedes Lever in Life
    1. Maximize Your Archimedes Lever
    1. How to Create Value Out of Nothing
    1. The Best Brand is No Brand
    1. What Do We Entrepreneurs *Really* Want?
    1. You Were Destined to Do Great Things
    1. Just Share Your Photos on Your Own Blog
    1. Your Blog is the Ultimate Form of Social Media
    1. The Future of Websites and Blogs
    1. Create a Company
    1. Money Photography Project
    1. WHY IT IS GOOD TO CHARGE MONEY FOR YOUR SERVICES AND PRODUCTS
    1. Google and YouTube SEO (Search Engine Optimization) 101: How Would You Type It?
    1. WHY RIGHT NOW IS THE BEST TIME FOR YOU TO START YOUR SIDE HUSTLE
    1. Digital Photography is the Future
    1. NEVER STOP EXPERIMENTING!
    1. WHAT IS INNOVATION?
    1. A Non-Ownership Future
    1. CONTROL OVER MONEY
    1. Economic Constraints Are Creative Constraints
    1. Become a Sole-Proprietor
    1. Entrepreneurship is a Mindset
    1. How to Master Mac
    1. The Future of Lifestyle
    1. Necessity is the Mother of Innovation
    1. Once We Have an Easy Life, Then What?
    1. Why I Don’t Read Comments
    1. YouTube SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for Photographers
    1. How to Become a Self-Employed Photographer
    1. How to Live Big With Little Money
    1. Why Blogging, Vlogging and Internet Media is More Important than Ever
    1. No Marketing, No Future
    1. Photography Marketing 101
    1. Google and YouTube are King
    1. Why I’m So Suspicious of Everyone Online and on the Internet
    1. How to Become More Notorious
    1. Kaizen Approach to Blogging
    1. How to Master Marketing
    1. CREATE WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE SEE MANIFESTED IN THE WORLD!
    1. Anti Silicon-Valley Thinking
    1. Your Name
    1. In Praise of WordPress
    1. NEVER STOP POSTING
    1. Your Future Portfolio is a Website
    1. Infinite Runway
    1. ERIC KIM ATTITUDE
    1. Financial Independence as a Road to Freedom of Speech?
    1. WHY OPEN SOURCE IS THE FUTURE
    1. Just Post It.
    1. Posts Are Products
    1. Photography Entrepreneurship Ideas
    1. YOU ARE KING.
    1. You’re Always in BETA MODE
    1. Build Your Own Media Empire
    1. WHY I DON’T MONETIZE MY YOUTUBE VIDEOS
    1. Why I Became an Entrepreneur
    1. The Uber-Photographer
    1. Create What You Would Like to See Manifested in the World
    1. Create the Future
    1. Entrepreneurship is Best During Uncertain Times
    1. Photography Entrepreneurship 101 Presentation by ERIC KIM
    1. Your Body is the Brand
    1. Your Name is Your Brand
    1. Create Your Own Social Media Platform
    1. BUILD IT OR BUY IT?
    1. Sell Yourself
    1. Create New
    1. Insta-Slaves
    1. YOU CANNOT FAKE ENTHUSIASM
    1. Why Hybrid is the Future
    1. Don’t Censor Yourself
    1. HOW I MASTERED MARKETING
    1. ERIC KIM BLOGS
    1. If Someone Offers You Help, You’re Stupid to *NOT* Take It.
    1. SEEK GREAT, NOT PERFECT.
    1. How I Became So Famous
    1. Let Reality Mould Itself to You
    1. ANTI ENTITLEMENT MENTALITY
    1. Live Your Life as If You Were a Billionaire
    1. HOW I THINK DIFFERENT
    1. Impact, Influence, Reach: The Three Pillars of Marketing
    1. ERIC KIM SCHOOL
    1. Classicism.
    1. MY PHILOSOPHY OF MONEY
    1. Money is Movement
    1. Elitism 2.0
    1. Mass Market or Luxury Market?
    1. Why You Must Market Yourself
    1. Why You Must Start an Email Newsletter
    1. How Laptops Can Change the World
    1. What Do You Want to Become?
    1. What is Really Holding You Back in Life?
    1. Why I Write: Writing as Meta-Thinking
    1. ADVERTISE YOURSELF
    1. Use Your First and Last Name
    1. How Blogging Can Change the World
    1. In Praise of Liberty
    1. How I Write in Markdown
    1. How I Became So Influential on YouTube
    1. REVERSE FLEX
    1. What a Time to Be Alive in Today’s Brave New World of Photography
    1. HOW TO DIFFERENTIATE YOURSELF FROM OTHERS
    1. YOU CHOOSE YOU
    1. My Life Photography Entrepreneurship Story
    1. WHY I DON’T BELIEVE IN COLLABORATION
    1. My Entrepreneurship Mindset
    1. YOU’RE THE HERO IN THIS GAME OF LIFE
    1. My Money Philosophy
    1. Why Brand and Market Yourself?
    1. PROFESSIONALISM IS FOR SUCKERS
    1. Just Share What Works for You
    1. How to Create Your Own Platform
    1. Living in a Post Monetary Society
    1. In Praise of Blogging
    1. The Entrepreneurial Lifestyle is the Best Lifestyle
    1. Algorithm Slavery
    1. ANTI VIEWS
    1. Entrepreneurship is The Goal
    1. The Art of Blogging
    1. IN PRAISE OF PURSUING YOUR PASSION
    1. How to Make Great Titles
    1. Sole Proprietorship
    1. Just Build It.
    1. VIA NEGATIVA
    1. PROMOTE YOURSELF
    1. Become a Full-Stack Entrepreneur
    1. How to Entertain Others
    1. My Experience Teaching My First Online Photography Creativity Workshop on Zoom
    1. Humans Aren’t Lazy
    1. One Shot.
    1. THE BRAVE SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH
    1. The Brave New COVID Lifestyle
    1. Start Your Own Business
    1. Minimum Viable Income ( MVI)
    1. TRAINING.
    1. WHY VIDEO?
    1. How to Become Bolder
    1. You’ve Always Already Been a Photography Entrepreneur!
    1. The Future is All Digital Everything
    1. Digital Sharecropping
    1. DO IT FOR YOUR PAST AND FUTURE SELF
    1. In Praise of Buffer and Redundancy
    1. ASKING FOR PERMISSION IS FOR SUCKERS.
    1. POST-MONETARY SOCIETY.
    1. Advertise Your Own Stuff
    1. THE FUTURE IS DIGITAL.
    1. Simulated Universal Basic Income
    1. Is Losing Followers a Good Thing?
    1. How to Add to Economic Activity
    1. DIGITAL CAPITALISM
    1. MONEY IS MOVEMENT
    1. Anything is Possible
    1. BRAVE NEW WORLD OF DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
    1. GENERATE
    1. How to Profit from Calamity
    1. Capitalism 2.0
    1. WHY I’M SO PASSIONATE ABOUT INFORMATION
    1. SOCIETY 2.0
    1. PHOENIX ENTREPENEURSHIP
    1. How to Make Art from Home
    1. BUY YOURSELF
    1. JUST BLOG IT.
    1. MARKET YOURSELF
    1. EXPENSIVE TALK
    1. SOCIAL MEDIA SLAVERY
    1. Who Are Your Ideal Followers?
    1. Why I Blog, Vlog, and Log
    1. Your Perspective is Irrefutable
    1. What are Your Hidden Powers?
    1. IMPACT MAXIMIZATION, not Profit Maximization
    1. Our Desire to Maximize Impact and Change
    1. 10 Rich Tips How to Make Money from Photography
    1. Create What You Would Love to Consume
    1. Publish is Pleasure
    1. Retire Now
    1. Do You Desire to Become the Best?
    1. Solo Entrepreneurship
    1. My Vision of Photography Entrepreneurship
    1. PUT YOUR NAME ON IT
    1. The Desire to Transcend Ourselves
    1. MONEY THOUGHTS
    1. How to Retire
    1. Via Negativa Productivity
    1. Why You Must Make Your Own Website
    1. Individuals over Companies
    1. Build Yourself
    1. Success is Survival
    1. Why You Shouldn’t Go to Photography or Art School
    1. How to Differentiate Yourself as a Photographer
    1. Surpass Yourself
    1. Can You Handle Extreme Freedom?
    1. Boutique or Mass Market?
    1. Proof of Concept
    1. Unified Field Theory for Photography
    1. Build a Company You’d Never Sell
    1. Play the Long Game
    1. Entrepreneurship and Art
    1. What is the Source of our Strength?
    1. What’s the Future for Photography?
    1. Full-Stack Visual Artist
    1. Why Scale?
    1. What is Your Unfair Advantage?
    1. Substance Marketing
    1. Share Your Dopeness with Others
    1. Frugality is Freedom
    1. Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for Entrepreneurship
    1. Don’t Follow or Predict Trends, Start Your Own Trend!
    1. If You’re Not Busy Growing, You’re Busy Dying
    1. Entrepreneurship born from Superabundance, not Need/Necessity
    1. Photography Entrepreneurship Philosophy
    1. How to Master Marketing in Photography
    1. Photography Entrepreneurship Tips and Ideas
    1. Is Hustle Sufficient Unto Success?
    1. Don’t do it for the money
    1. DIGITAL MARXISM
    1. Zen Entrepreneurship
    1. BOLDER IS BETTER.
    1. Streamers Shall Inherit the Earth

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MONEY 101

    1. Just Follow the Money
    1. My Money Philosophy
    1. Eternal fame and glory over money
    1. The Trillion Dollar Question: How to Make Money on the Internet Without Advertising?
    1. Entrepreneurship that Doesn’t Involve Money-Making?
    1. Money Ain’t Real
    1. Making Money for Fun, Not to Get Rich
    1. Why Money?

PHILOSOPHY BY KIM

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    1. ‘LUCK’ VS COURAGE
    1. ‘SKILL’ VS MERIT?
    1. Becoming Antifragile
    1. How to “Improve” Men
    1. The Art of Virtue
    1. How to Dominate
    1. JUST SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES AND WISDOM WITH OTHERS.
    1. How to Get More Done in a Single Day – MEMENTO MORI PHILOSOPHY
    1. THINK FOR YOURSELF
    1. Cruel?
    1. GO DEMIGOD.
    1. How to Be Happy: Challenge and Danger Philosophy
    1. To Become Greater, You Must Become *LESS* Productive!
    1. Imperfect Beauty
    1. The Philosophy of Pleasure
    1. What Interests You?
    1. Anti Theory of Everything
    1. Become?
    1. STRONGER OR NOT?
    1. Carte Blanche Ideals
    1. CHOOSE JOY
    1. Don’t Judge Your Impulses
    1. On Becoming Less Human
    1. COWARDICE.
    1. The Philosophy of Futurism
    1. PHILOSOPHY IS VALUE-SETTING
    1. PHILOSOPHY IS NOT LIFESTYLE
    1. WHY STANDARDIZATION IS BAD.
    1. YOUR OWN TABLE OF VALUES.
    1. RETRO IS BAD.
    1. INSANELY LOFTY THOUGHTS.
    1. Strive to *Lose* Weight, Not *Gain* Weight
    1. DIABLO II ANALOGIES FOR REAL LIFE.
    1. If You Know Your *WHY* You Can Discover Any *HOW*
    1. Life is Too Short to Be Miserable
    1. What Consumption Takes Skill?
    1. OFF THE GRID.
    1. REALITY IS CRUEL.
    1. Pain is Information
    1. WHY REMOVE VULGARITY AND DISORDER FROM OUR EYES?
    1. AUTOTELIC.
    1. UNPLUG.
    1. How to Become a Philosopher
    1. SUBOPTIMAL IS OPTIMAL
    1. THE LUST FOR MORE.
    1. TO DO IS TO BECOME.
    1. IN PRAISE OF AGGRESSIVE.
    1. THE PHILOSOPHY OF OPTIMISM
    1. OUR PHILOSOPHICAL WILL TO EXISTENCE
    1. Is Hope a Vice?
    1. MOVE MEAN
    1. Carte Blanche Ideals
    1. One Interesting Thought
    1. What Lasts? What Doesn’t Last?
    1. A WOUND STIMULATES THE RECUPERATIVE POWERS
    1. Children & Purpose
    1. Thoughts on Becoming a Parent
    1. Where Does Our Desire to Upgrade Come From?
    1. WE ALWAYS NEED SOMETHING FURTHER TO ASPIRE TO.
    1. Self-Task Yourself an Awesome Mission in Life
    1. Differentiation vs Equalization
    1. My Passion to *Become* Something More
    1. No Aesthetic or Ethos is Forever
    1. What is Your Higher Purpose in Life?
    1. IT WILL NEVER SATISFY YOU.
    1. How to Decide
    1. Things You *Want* to Do vs Things You *MUST* Do
    1. Towards a More Beautiful Mode of Existence and Future
    1. EXTREME GRATITUDE.
    1. AMAP (As Much as Possible) or None.
    1. Why or How Does it Matter?
    1. The Philosophy of Time and Events
    1. How *Not* to Resent
    1. FORWARD LOOKING
    1. DOMAIN FLEXIBILITY.
    1. The Miracle of Human Growth
    1. EXTREME ADAPTATION.
    1. Why Plan?
    1. You Don’t Need to Justify Yourself
    1. The Philosophy of Ego
    1. True vs False Passions
    1. How to Achieve Tranquility
    1. On Making Your Own Philosophy
    1. The Purpose of Life is to Create New Life
    1. Think On!
    1. The Wisdom of Doing Nothing
    1. Congruency
    1. My Thoughts on Meditation
    1. The Philosophy of Purpose
    1. Emulate Yourself
    1. Good Fear, Bad Fear
    1. For the Betterment of Humanity or Just Yourself?
    1. What you *really* believe in and care for is manifested through your actions (or non-actions)
    1. Why Culture is Your Enemy
    1. YOUR EXPERIENCES ARE KING.
    1. LIFE IS INHERENTLY GOOD.
    1. Artistic, Physical, and Philosophical Muscles
    1. All New Experiences are Good Experiences
    1. What is the Purpose of X?
    1. UTILITY.
    1. Philosophy is a Luxury
    1. The Attempt is More Interesting than the Result
    1. Joyfulness vs “Happiness”
    1. Effectiveness Over Happiness
    1. Self Actualization
    1. MAXIMAL ENGAGEMENT
    1. Life & Pain
    1. On Living Every Day with No Regret
    1. Learn as if you’re going to live forever, live as if you’re going to die tomorrow
    1. Live Every Day Like it Were the Last Day of Your Life
    1. Self-Determination
    1. FALSE GRATITUDE vs REAL GRATITUDE
    1. HOW TO LIVE MORE
    1. THE UPSIDE OF TRAGEDY
    1. Satisfaction is a Sucker’s Game
    1. Supreme Repose
    1. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE? According to ERIC KIM
    1. STUBBORN, FLEXIBLE
    1. EVERYTHING HAPPENS AS IT *SHOULD* HAVE HAD HAPPENED
    1. Good Addiction, Bad Addiction?
    1. What is the Best Life?
    1. The Philosophy of Thinking
    1. The Philosophy of Conspiracies
    1. Conspiracies
    1. Growth
    1. Skepticism.
    1. What Do You Really Want Out of Life?
    1. Seem or Be?
    1. Learn Through Pain
    1. Respect Yourself
    1. In Praise of Elitism
    1. Why Independent Thinking?
    1. I Will Never Die
    1. Bitter is Better
    1. The Genesis of Nihilism and Existential Dread
    1. The Ethics of Personal Enrichment
    1. Good vs Not Good
    1. Punished by Privilege
    1. Abstinence Over Moderation
    1. Just Leave Others Alone
    1. You Can Only Critique that Which You Truly Understand and Love
    1. ERIC KIM Critique of Metaphysics
    1. Only Trust Philosophers Who Deadlift
    1. Heuristic: If Someone Talks Shit About Others Behind Their Back, Most Likely They’re Also Talking Shit About You Behind Your Back
    1. Virtue is a Privilege
    1. What Are Your Life Goals?
    1. Honesty
    1. Why I’m Anti Moderation
    1. No Spite, No Malice.
    1. Ascending Life or Descending Life?
    1. Double Edged Sword
    1. Ignorance.
    1. Why I Don’t Trust “Nice Guys”
    1. Why You Must Share Your Opinion
    1. Selfish Isn’t Evil
    1. Wisdom is the Goal
    1. YOU ARE KING.
    1. MASTER YOURSELF
    1. What is “Good” for You is Often what is Bad for You
    1. Care.
    1. BITTERSWEET
    1. ONE REP MAX
    1. Morality and Ethics is the Snare
    1. BY HELPING YOURSELF, YOU BEST HELP OTHERS
    1. Insanity is Good.
    1. Think Deep.
    1. PHILOSOPHY IS THE FUTURE.
    1. Open Mind vs Closed Mind
    1. ENTHUSIASM IS GENIUS
    1. Towards a More Critical and Rigorous Line of Thinking
    1. How to Encourage and a Foster Independent and Free Thinking
    1. What is the Purpose of Life?
    1. WHY PHILOSOPHY IS SUPREME.
    1. Elitism.
    1. I Cannot Form an Opinion About Somebody Until I’ve Met Them in the Flesh
    1. ALL GENETICS ARE GOOD GENETICS.
    1. Happiness vs Freedom
    1. The Birth of a Hater
    1. My Way Isn’t the Right Way
    1. Walking as an Existential Thing
    1. Why I’m So Tolerant
    1. Mortal Gods
    1. THE HUMAN SPECIES
    1. Why I’m So Skeptical
    1. Just Follow the Money
    1. Why Selfish?
    1. WHY WE CANNOT BLAME OTHERS
    1. Why Are We So Anti Elitism?
    1. What Actually Interests You?
    1. How to Become Yourself
    1. SELF HATE
    1. Optimistic Fatalism
    1. Death is the Ultimate Creative Constraint
    1. FLUX.
    1. How to Think for Yourself
    1. FLESH
    1. How to Live the Best Life
    1. Why Live a Life Without Regrets?
    1. Why Plato Ruined Art and Aesthetics for Us
    1. Self Respect
    1. Hypocrite vs Contradict
    1. Ideals vs Reality
    1. Spaceship Philosophy
    1. What is Your Ideal Life?
    1. MY EXTREME GRATITUDE TOWARDS LIFE AND BEING ALIVE!
    1. Critique of Utilitarianism
    1. Don’t Treat Others the Way You Want to Be Treated
    1. The Eternal Recurrence of Tragedy and Joy in Life
    1. Elite Asceticism
    1. Why I Don’t Like Numbers
    1. Action and Reaction, Cause and Effect
    1. The Antidote to Nihilism: The Philosophy of Nothingness
    1. ERIC KIM Notes on Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
    1. EXPLOIT CHAOS.
    1. WHY I DON’T BELIEVE IN GENETICS
    1. Self-Wisdom
    1. The Future Belongs to the Fearless
    1. INDIVIDUALISM
    1. Why Live Forever?
    1. THIS TOO WILL PASS.
    1. Why Education?
    1. How to Become Yourself
    1. Things Shouldn’t Go Back to the Way They Used to Be
    1. Why Am I So Cruel?
    1. The Great Joy of Existence
    1. Virtue for the Sake of Virtue
    1. NO DISDAIN.
    1. INTELLIGENT IGNORANCE
    1. A LIFE WITHOUT PAIN, DIFFICULTY OR TRAGEDY ISN’T A LIFE WORTH LIVING
    1. BITTER IS BETTER.
    1. EXPLOIT THE BEST FROM TRAGEDY AND LIFE 
    1. DISREGARD FOR SELF-PRESERVATION
    1. PAIN.
    1. WHAT IF EVERYTHING IS NOT GONNA BE ALRIGHT?
    1. Tomorrow is Never
    1. Life is the Ultimate Creative Constraint
    1. EMBODIED REALITY
    1. BLACK SWAN
    1. THINGS WILL NEVER GO BACK TO THE WAY THEY USED TO BE
    1. What are you *really* afraid of?
    1. HAPPINESS ISN’T THE GOAL
    1. Philosophy is King
    1. Why is Selfish Evil?
    1. YOU’RE CONSTANTLY IN A STATE OF BECOMING
    1. ENTITLEMENT A SIN?
    1. NARCISSISM
    1. BE BRUTALLY HONEST WITH YOURSELF
    1. WHY FREE WILL?
    1. OBEY YOUR OPINION
    1. EGO IS GOOD.
    1. WHY IT IS GOOD TO BE INTO YOURSELF
    1. Seek the Good Pain
    1. Anti-Perfection in Photography, Art, and Life
    1. Can You Become an End into Yourself?
    1. WHY I LIVE
    1. Why I Hate Decline
    1. Why I Eat
    1. Why am I So Positive and Optimistic?
    1. EFFORT IS ENJOYMENT
    1. Never Stop Gaining
    1. TRUST YOURSELF
    1. A Life of Maximal Personal Independence
    1. What Do You Desire to Become?
    1. What Do I Want from Technology?
    1. Stratified Society
    1. Do You Love or Hate Reality?
    1. On the Brian, Body and Mind
    1. I’m Maximally Happy, Now What?
    1. Care over Fame
    1. ACTIVE NIHILISM
    1. Never Stop Subtracting
    1. How to Live a Happier and More Epic Life
    1. A Risker Life is a Better Life
    1. Only Work on Things You Can Imagine Doing for Eternity
    1. How to Maximize Your Happiness
    1. Influence
    1. The Gladiator Makes His Plans once He Enters the Ring
    1. Meditations on Meaning in Life
    1. There is Nothing More Interesting than Human Beings
    1. Is Hope a Vice?
    1. EGO
    1. Why Be Unique?
    1. Happiness is Metabolism Health and Strength
    1. You’re the Hero
    1. Is Productivity a Virtue or Vice?
    1. Why Do We Prize the Rare?
    1. The Joy of Uncertainty
    1. How Should I Best Use My Time and Life?
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