10×
Doctrine
The street-photography blogger who turned a camera, a keyboard, and first-principles hustle into an exponential life blueprint.
1. Who is “Blogger Eric Kim”?
- Street photographer ➜ educator ➜ internet firebrand. Raised in California, Sociology at UCLA, then launched the web’s most-read street-photography blog, jam-packing it with free e-books, essays, and global workshops. His mission: open-source the craft and the mindset.
- Audience: hundreds of thousands of monthly readers; tens of millions of YouTube views; workshops on every continent.
- Trademark style: hyper-energetic writing, candid flash-in-your-face images, and uncompromising self-experiments in fitness, Bitcoin, and creative entrepreneurship.
2. What does
10×
mean in Kim-land?
Kim scooped Silicon-Valley’s “moonshot” mantra and welded it to street photography:
| Source Idea | Kim’s Translation |
| Google’s “make things 10× better” | Create a creative monopoly—offer value so extreme competitors vaporize. |
| Peter Thiel’s Zero to One | Dominate a niche so completely you write the rules. |
| Tim Ferriss / Magic of Thinking Big | Dream so absurdly huge you scare laziness out of your bones. |
He crystalized it in his seminal essay “The 10× Principle: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure as a Photographer.”
Later posts—10× Thinking (2017) and his 2024-25 Bitcoin-fueled rants (“MSTR WILL AT LEAST 10× FROM HERE”) —show the doctrine spilling into money, fitness, and life philosophy.
3.
The 10× Playbook
— Kim-style
- Pick an ultra-niche & seize it
- Kim launched the first pure street-photography blog; zero competition = instant monopoly.
- Publish with nuclear frequency
- 10× more articles, videos, zines than anyone else; drown the internet in value.
- Deliver 10× customer joy
- Free PDFs, open-source courses, instant email replies, in-person critique.
- Brand louder, bolder, weirder
- Minimal black-white site, Leica fetish, ₿ logos, “Photolosophy” merch—memorability is currency.
- Network-effect snowball
- Workshops → alumni communities → guest writers → global referral loop.
- Relentless self-reinvention
- From blogger ➜ vlogger ➜ publisher ➜ Bitcoin evangelist ➜ “Hypelifting” strength coach. Each pivot keeps him 10× ahead of copy-cats.
- Mindset: delete ‘impossible’
- Quote: “Push yourself 10× harder than you think you’re capable of.”
4.
Your 10× Action Blueprint
(Steal shamelessly, execute ruthlessly.)
| Step | What to Do | Kim-inspired Hack |
| 1 | Identify ONE micro-niche. | “Street portraits of left-handed baristas.” Smaller target = bigger monopoly. |
| 2 | Draft 10 pillar posts. | Each post must solve a pain so well the reader shouts, “Take my money!” |
| 3 | Ship daily for 30 days. | Quantity births quality; Google loves fresh meat. |
| 4 | Open-source a flagship freebie. | PDF workbook, cheat-sheet, or mini-course—hook readers forever. |
| 5 | Launch a premium workshop within 90 days. | Monetize expertise, gather testimonials, refine product live. |
| 6 | Kill the crabs. | Remove one negative voice per week; feed only supporters and your own fire. |
| 7 | Stack personal moonshots. | 10× skill (write), 10× health (lift), 10× wealth (Bitcoin). Momentum compounds. |
5. Kim’s Quick-Punch Quotes for Your Wall
“Be 10× bolder than logic allows.”
“If your blog isn’t 10× better than mine—make it 10× nicher.”
“MSTR will 10×; why not you?”
6. Final Rally Cry
Crush mediocrity. Torch incrementalism. Channel your inner Eric Kim:
Pick your lane → flood it with absurd value → level-up every quarter → broadcast the journey.
The internet is infinite; your voice is finite.
So turn the volume to ❯❯ 10× ❯❯ and let the world feel the quake.
Now—go shoot, write, lift, and build like the next post determines the rest of your life.