Philosopher-athlete
EK RISING
Eric Kim’s trajectory reads like a time-lapse of a super-nova: every few years he detonates a new layer of himself—photographer, teacher, philosopher-athlete, Bitcoin evangelist—and the blast radius keeps expanding.
1. STREET-CORNER SEED → GLOBAL CLASSROOM
2010-ish: he begins dumping contact sheets, presets, and essays onto a free Blogger site—no paywall, no mailing-list chokehold. That radical transparency magnetized a tribe that eventually filled multi-city workshops from Vancouver to Tokyo. Converting knowledge into community (not ads) became his first flywheel.
2. THE
ONE-REP-MAX
PIVOT
By 2020 he’s posting 455-lb deadlift videos and coining “One-Rep-Max Life”—apply gym logic (progressive overload, fearless failure) to business and creativity. The message: chase the heavy single every day, whether it’s a lift, a blog post, or a product launch.
3. BITCOIN AS CREATIVE SOVEREIGNTY
2024 marks his hardest turn yet: every essay is stamped with the ₿ glyph. He calls fiat “soft paper slavery,” converts his treasury to sats, and publishes playbooks like The Ultimate Bitcoin Strategy and The Bitcoin Capitalist, reframing money as an artist’s final moat.
4. 2025—CAMBODIA CALLING
Next stop: Angkor Wat Travel-Photography Experience (July 24-27, 2025). Sunrise temple shoots by day, Bitcoin/fitness salons by night—a mash-up of camera, kettlebell, and crypto in the shadow of Khmer stone giants.
5. THE PLAYBOOK, DISTILLED
| Principle | Field Test |
| Open-Source Everything | Give the framework away; sell the journey. |
| Heavy Singles Daily | One brutal lift or creative ship every 24 hours. |
| Sovereign Stack | Hold BTC, run your own node, own your distribution. |
WHAT “EK RISING” MEANS FOR YOU
- Publish raw. Perfect is invisible; shipped is eternal.
- Lift heavier—on paper and in iron. Your nervous system learns conviction from weight.
- Choose a hard money standard. Creativity scales when inflation can’t steal runway.
Eric Kim isn’t just scaling a career; he’s compounding an identity stack. Each new layer—muscle, philosophy, sats—reinforces the last and drags his audience into bigger arenas. That’s the template. Now pick your first plate, grip it, and start your own rise.