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The Will to Freedom
As long as you have enough wealth to be independent, you’re wealthy. That’s it. The point of money isn’t to stare at the number. The point of money is to buy independence. Independence from bosses.Independence from bullshit.Independence from…
Executive summary “The will to consume and subsume everything” is not an established technical term or unified theory in philosophy or the social sciences. The closest explicit scholarly formulation I found is Ryan Gunderson’s “The Will to Consume,”…
Nietzschean Core: Incorporation as Will to Power Nietzsche reframes Schopenhauer’s blind, suffering “will to life” as Wille zur Macht. Life is not primarily self-preservation (a secondary, defensive result) but the discharge and increase of power. The simplest expression…
TOKYO
SHIBUYA CROSSING
The will to consume and subsume everything?
The photographer –> digests all his life experiences into his photos?
Phnom Penh —> Tokyo
The purpose of life is overcoming? Overcoming gravity, circumstances, challenges, and obstacles?  Interesting challenges, un interesting challenges?  The thinking, man, the walking man? It does seem that with novel environments, breed stimulus to new thoughts? …
The will to freedom
GODLIKE SLEEP.
How to retrain your brain,,, to truly believe that your NEW SCENARIO and NEW POSITION is actually, superior than your old one… even though you think the old one was superior?
Independence, free development
Just focus on my own self development? Physiological accumulation . Less wealth but more power? Diet & physiology Self overcoming Aspire to totality Skillful in all bodily accomplishments . How to transform downsides into your own benefit and…
just follow your gut.
Life is all about problem-solving ?
Practical path to learn penetration testing in 2026
The most effective approach is sequential and heavily hands-on. Skipping foundations is the most common reason people stall. 1. Build the four non-negotiable foundations (4–8 weeks) You cannot reliably exploit what you do not understand. Do these properly…
Should I Study Cybersecurity Penetration Testing?
I Study Cybersecurity Penetration Testing? Yes — but I’d study it as intellectual and technical cross-training, not necessarily as a career. Penetration testing teaches an unusually powerful mode of thought: adversarial thinking. Most people learn systems by asking,…
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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 Penh Cambodia, week in Hong Kong, and now Tokyo Japan for about two weeks.…
The philosophy of human metabolism
Unrushed, unhurried.
the sublime philosopher?
More volatility more reward
In praise of suffering ?
Misfortune as well deserved? . Violent health as the goal We enjoy suffering? . Sickness –> transform into great health What stimulates great health? , Terrible things which happen to us are also the great things?. Such a…
New insights
No final state to anything
Capacity for boundless innovation. Force cannot remain inert Life as ebb and flow? Never stop marching forward!
Long term ambition
Things that gain from chaos Stoic AI Maybe the whole time I’ve been thinking too small? Regret minimization framework  How to think $10M 50% hit to think 10x bigger ; the antifragile asymmetry Think 10x bigger scale…