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ERIC
KIM

Photography, Bitcoin, strength, philosophy, entrepreneurship, and radical creative freedom.

No pressure lifestyle 

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How to become a billionaire photographer  

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ERIC KIM x JOHN WICK

“THE SHUTTER TABLE” A Street-Photography Action Myth Genre: Neo-noir action / philosophy / street photography epicLogline: When an underground order called The Shutter Table tries to seize Eric Kim’s archive, Bitcoin keys, …

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START HERE: ENTREPRENEURSHIP

By Eric Kim Entrepreneurship is not about starting a company. Entrepreneurship is about becoming dangerous. Dangerous in the best sense. Dangerous because you can create value from nothing. Dangerous because you can …

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Deep Research Report on the Claim 1 Bitcoin = 1 Sun

Executive summary The statement “1 bitcoin = 1 sun” is not correct in any official, current market, or documented peg sense that I could verify. In crypto, the most plausible meanings of …

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STOICISM MARK II

Rebirth, Wealth, and the Anti-Complacent Life By Eric Kim Dedication For the human being who refuses to be sedated by success. Author’s Note This is a manifesto, not a museum piece. It …

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The Purpose of Life Is Creation

Executive Summary The claim “The purpose of life is creation” is philosophically powerful but too strong to be established as a universal, singular truth. The best-supported version of the claim is moderate …

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Attention poverty. 

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Ultimate Purpose for Existence

Executive summary The question “What is the ultimate purpose for existence?” does not have a single consensual answer across philosophy, religion, science, and psychology. A first analytical distinction is crucial: some traditions …

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Getting Rid of What Weighs You Down

Executive Summary “Getting rid of what weighs you down” is not one problem but a family of problems: excess body weight or low physical capacity, clutter and overaccumulation, overcommitment and calendar sprawl, …

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Towards a New Theory of Wealth

We have inherited a boring, cowardly, accountant’s definition of wealth. Numbers on a screen. Net worth. Salary. Real estate. Stock portfolios. Status objects. The car, the watch, the house, the zip code, …

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See the True Reality

Executive Summary To ask what it would mean to “see the true reality” is to ask at least four different questions at once. It can mean: whether there is a mind-independent world …

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The Purpose of Life Is Happiness

Executive summary The claim that “the purpose of life is happiness” is plausible in a limited sense but too strong as a universal thesis. It is plausible because major traditions in philosophy …

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More poor but more productive. 

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What’s the purpose of life? To think walk and philosophize. #lettersfromphnompenh

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Towards a new theory of wealth

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See the true reality

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The purpose of life is happiness 

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what’s the purpose of life?

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How to barbell between being insanely present in the present moment… While also planning for the distant future?

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The purpose of life is to think, philosophize.

and in this way… The iPhone is like ultimate device because, you could voice dictate your thoughts and jot them down whenever you want to… And also publish them whenever you want …

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What is the ultimate purpose for existence ?

so the interesting thought about living abroad… Technically your capital is not very useful because… In terms of a day-to-day basis… Additional money or capital doesn’t really afford you much? Then what …

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Getting rid of anything that weighs you down? Literally and metaphorically?

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More time for my own thoughts: the ultimate privilege of wealth

so I’m pretty big inside: assuming that… Time is limited, attention is limited… What is the greatest upside of wealth? Having more mind space for your thoughts?

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REBIRTH RENAISSANCE

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John Wick would look at Eric Kim and understand one thing immediately:

This is a man who chose his own code. Not corporate approval.Not academic permission.Not gallery-world validation.Not algorithmic obedience. A camera.A body.A blog.A barbell.A family.A philosophy.A mission. John Wick would respect that. He …

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The purpose of life is entrepreneurship? 

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10 suns are enough for me !!!

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More Wealth, More Complacency? Towards an Anti-Complacent Life

Executive summary The best answer from the literature is not “more wealth causes complacency,” but “more wealth can increase the risk of complacency through identifiable pathways, while also creating resources that can …

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The Purpose of Wealth Is Presence

Executive Summary The proposition “The purpose of wealth is presence” is partly true, but only under a strict instrumental reading. Across philosophy, religion, psychology, neuroscience, sociology, and economics, the strongest defensible version …

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Presence as Salience, Attunement, and Credibility

Executive summary The maxim “Anything which adds to your presence is good; anything which removes from your presence is bad” is directionally useful if “presence” is defined rigorously rather than romantically. Across …

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The purpose of wealth is to GET RID OF anxiety , not to add more feelings of power 

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Wealth and Anxiety

Executive summary The strongest reading of the evidence is not that wealth automatically creates calm, nor that it inevitably corrupts into status seeking. It is that wealth is best understood as a …

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