So, this is a list of design principles I got:
1. Nice to have versus absolutely effing necessary?
So for example, when you’re designing a home, there are all these cool designer homes, but the really wise thing to consider… Is if each single room bedroom floor is absolutely effing necessary?
Also, the new iPhone is an abomination. Adding that stupid camera control was like one of the most embarrassing things of all time from the Apple design team. It’s kind of a cheap marketing tactic to add a feature, to get people to buy the new thing.  the genius of Steve Jobs was opposite: each new generation of the thing to subtract superfluous features, spending insane amount of time to figure out what to cut.
In some ways, Elon Musk is the new Steve Jobs. Delete delete delete, cut cut, or the idea you have to keep deleting until failure, and then you have to add it back?
For example, his genius of figuring out cutting and getting rid of the stalks. Also, the cyber taxi, just getting rid of the steering wheel and all the controls! Insanely bold, amazing.
I think also with social media it’s kind of the same thing, 100% thousand percent absolutely critical versus nice to have?
For example, if you are an MSTR shareholder, you technically don’t even need social media you just go on strategy.com to get all the important vital information, which is typically a reflection of the real market conditions of bitcoin. Or you could just look at the price of bitcoin.
I’m constantly on this ruthless quest, trying to figure out what to add and what to subtract. But remember my general principle:
Every single day, delete at least one app utility or thing from your phone, your laptop, your iPad, your life. 
2. Raw is better
So for example, the most hilarious innovation of the modern day condo is trying to make it as thin, invisible as possible. Everyone knows that coitus feels best without any sort of condom or thing on. And therefore, ideally the best design principle is raw, like even a funny thing is that if it is actually really really really hot outside, just taking off your shirt is often the easiest way to pull down. The best outfit is being naked.
And then also if he apply this principle to everything else, subtraction is the most effective strategy. For example, with foods, substances beverages, the simple thought:
If it does not cause your pain don’t fix it!
For example, like 99.9% of the substances we put in our bodies are not 100% necessary. The only thing that I do not imagine ever quitting is coffee or caffeine because if I do not drink coffee first thing in the morning, it causes me pain.  Yeah yeah yeah I know that’s not good for me but screw it, I’m like the most sober person I know. I don’t why I haven’t touched alcohol in like seven or eight years, and I don’t take drugs not even painkillers. No marijuana or hallucinogens for me. I think I have only smoked weed twice in my life, like six years ago, the first time it was kind of funny, the second time I didn’t really like it.
Same thing with alcohol, only problem with alcohol is that it just doesn’t make me feel good. I always get a hangover the next day, it ruins my sleep, and also the biggest thing… It probably doesn’t help me maintain my 5% body fat six pack.
3. Reduce reduce reduce
Reduction and cutting often has no downsides.
4. If it does not cause you pain don’t fix it
So for example, the only time I think you should ever like change your car is if the car yours currently are using is causing you pain. Like for example, I had one former student who told me that his old BMW X.3 or some other car caused him to severe back pain, and it had to do something with the seat or the armrest?
As a similar thing, I have not touched a laptop in like eight years because it causes me severe back pain and also carpal tunnel pain?
5. Nice to have, and convenient or 1000% critical?
Another big idea, is that thing like 1,000,000,000,000% critical or is it just nice to have and add convenience to your life?
For example, currently in Cambodia, most people don’t really use cash. They use ABA pay, which is the local QR code popular bank here.
Apparently if you get a APA account, it will make your life a lot easier. But, I’ve actually figured out that I am able to pull the local currency, the KHR, KHMER RIEL ALSO FROM THE ATM, AT A LOCAL ABA ATM.
So I think that assuming that I could still pay cash, with the local currency, it might add a little bit of friction to my life, but it is fine!
6. Clothes
Clothes and shoes, once again, the pain issue.
The reason why I discovered the view from five finger shoes was in fact because all the traditional shoes I had was causing me severe tendinitis pain on the bottom of my foot plantar fasciitis, very very simple, it can be cured by just wearing these five finger minimalist shoes.
My personal thought is the only reason people don’t wear them is that they look weird. But then again, crocs look weird and it seems like everyone wears those.
I think there’s a certain point in your life, I’m 37 now, I really care less. All I care about is Seneca Cindy, my family and friends, my bitcoin in my MSTR stock. To reduce your sphere of concern is wise.
7. Life is like Lego bricks
I just recently watched the new Pharrell Lego movie, piece by piece. Probably one the most interesting watches of my life.
 so one of the big principles from Pharrell which is super interesting is thinking that life is like Legos. Infinitely configurable, and the idea is that assuming that this planet, a lot of of it is built and designed, that that means that you cut yourself on your own reality.
Lately I’ve been having fun with Seneca, buying Lego technics, and just making new inventions by ourselves and what’s really fun and interesting is that there is like an infinite amount of configurations that you can make, even with like a $10, 70 piece set.
So my personal thought is that you could design your own reality! A designer, your designated what is important and what is not important.
For example, nobody is holding a gun to your head and saying that you must use Instagram Facebook WhatsApp or whatever to stay alive. You have the option to believe it. Certainly there might be loss of entertainment I suppose, but that is a small price to pay for your freedom .
I think for mental health and physical health, deleting all social media from your phone may be the most effective strategy of all time. And the hilarious things that it costs you nothing.
Typically whatever I encourage, it’s Bree! To delete stuff doesn’t cost money.
And also, one of the best ways to spend money is to simply pay for services or things which blocks advertising, and other annoying stuff.
Like my ideal thing is that if we had some sort of like augmented reality glasses, and you can pay like $50 a month to have this thing automatically block advertisements in the real world, this would be a great invention.
And all of the Safari plug-ins and extensions that I have purchased, the ones that continue to live on my devices, are all of the paid ad blockers.
Come on, nobody likes advertisements, not kids, not Google employees. Not you.
8. Friction
So some simple thoughts:
If there’s a certain behavior you want to change adding a little bit of creative friction is a good idea.
For example, if you’re addicted to social media, try to figure out ways that you could make it more difficult to access stuff. For example, am I quest of getting rid of Twitter and X, I’ve just been logging out of my account occasionally, and using rss.app to access @saylor
Also, the funny thing with networking is that actually, to become more wealthy and prosperous isn’t to augment and add more contacts to your contact list, but to selectively prune, and delete contacts from your list.
Some friction is good some friction is bad.
So for example, reducing friction on Amazon prime could be good, but assuming that you want more sexual pleasure, adding some sort of friction is good.
And this is actually the funny thought about pornography, nothing morally wrong against it. But almost it’s too easy? And therefore as a consequence, people will get bored of it? Because it is too easy to access?
Like you know women who play hard to get, even men who play hard to get. It’s like the difficulty in the chase which makes it fun for people.
Similarly speaking, with games and video games, it is only fun when we have a little bit of difficulty. Like in StarCraft, it is no fun killing easy computers, it is more fun challenging and interesting to play against difficult human opponents.
Also with weightlifting, it is only fun if it is difficulty challenging and uncertain. When the weight becomes too light and easy it becomes boring.
And this is the hard thing for people to understand, is that often times, adding more difficulty and Christian can make life more fun! I think it’s just a selective principle.
For example, having soft sheets is probably better than having sandpaper blankets. And having some sort of lubrication is better than having squeaky wheels.
And I think this is a hard thing to understand about money and wealth, assuming we truly do believe in the via negative about principal, there really really wise things to do in life is to cut subtract and get rid of superfluous stuff.
If anything, the best way to use money is to use money to get rid of stuff.
For example let us say you have a storage unit a full of crap. My fun idea is that it’s a better idea to just pay somebody 300 bucks to figure out what to keep and what to throw away, or even a better idea… Give them like a 50% incentive that they could just resell the valuable stuff in your storage unit and they could take half the profits, and you keep half the profits.
The richer you become, the fewer concerns you want. You don’t want to manage your house as manager, you don’t want to manage your manager‘s manager‘s manager. The fewer the things you have to manage, the better.
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