Month: August 2020

Towards a non-interventionalist approach:

Nobody wants their loved ones of themselves get Alzheimer’s disease (loss of cognitive function) or to get it themselves. So if we truly do value our mind, we would also value our body. In …

The more these technology companies (FacebookGram, GoogleTube) can distract you, the more profits they can make! Why? When you get distracted or interrupted by an advertisement, they make money.

My thought: In the future, focus will become the ultimate luxury. Google and Android — all distractions. Anti-focus. Apple as the luxury brand — freedom from advertisements and disruptions. Which makes me think: Perhaps …

Hate means ‘strong emotion’. So when people hate x, y, z … they actually are obsessed with it, and love it.

Or why your critics are your most beloved lovers:

In many ways, Apple photos (desktop app, iPad app, and iPhone app) is actually *superior* to Adobe Lightroom. My thoughts:

Why iA Writer is the best writer, and the best writing-app of all-time:

The problem with metaphysics — it is not empirical. Metaphysics as very pseudo-science, and against rationalism. Empiricism as “experience”— real life lived experience. For example we cannot weigh a soul. But we can weigh …

How to understand iPhone and Apple:

The future is photography marketing. Everyone is a fantastic photographer nowadays, but not everyone is a great self marketer and self promoter.

Why waste your life trying to indefinitely augment your wealth? What if you’re rich enough?

I’m probably both the most loved and the most hated photographer online and perhaps in the world. How and why? Some thoughts:

I’m very easily distracted. Perhaps my artistic sense comes from this. Sensitivity to light, sounds, emotions and people. Like I have a high “ISO”sensitivity to art, people, and audio visual things. I know I’m …

When making videos or anything, assume people are gonna watch it on mute. For example: When I go to a sports bar, all the TVs are muted. When I watch marketing materials on websites, …

True luxury: *NOT* having bullshit and stress in your life. The fewer irritants you got in your life, the better.

If you have an option, always better to rent instead of buying. Why? First of all, if you technically are a quadrillionaire… the best life is the life with the least amount of stress, …

Simple reasons:

Back to black.

Who determines ‘coolness’ or lameness? The tyrant-artist. For example: Kanye West as pioneering the ‘homeless-high-fashion’ look (Yeezy) JAY Z with the ‘all black everything‘ concept. Steve Jobs with the ‘techno-zen purity’ concept.

‘Auto-tragic’ seems true. Why buy a sports car which is automatic? Seems lame. For me: Either buy a manual sports car, or just buy a Tesla.

If you got extreme vanity, it is actually super easy to lose body fat (adipose tissue) and gain muscle mass (skeletal muscle mass).

Poison ivy is “natural”. Poisonous mushrooms are “natural”. Tobacco is “natural”. Sugar is “natural”. Heroin and opium is derived from poppy seeds, cocaine from the coca leaves, etc. Let us not get suckered. Not …

I like almonds and have eaten a shitload of them over the last few years. But … how come nobody critiques them? Some thoughts:

The enemy isn’t “fat”— it is adipose tissue (body fat). For example:

Adipose tissue (body fat) is bad beyond 10% for men, and beyond 20% for women. However men with uber-low bodyfat (in the 3% range) is bad, because they lose their ability to procreate and …

Why pride is good. No pride, no life.

“Irreverence for your reverence … why would I not have a watch like a Saudi prince?” – JAY Z (From ‘A Written Testimony’ by Jay Electronica) Don’t take things or life too seriously. The …

If you are a philosopher that can deadlift over 4 plates (405+ pounds), then your thoughts have great merit. Why? The importance of both the mind AND body.

No such thing as a perfect blog post. All blogging is a stream of becoming (Heraclitus).

My best street photographs thus far:

Practical thoughts:

The new Lightroom CC (Creative Cloud) Desktop App is really good. Why? Much faster on desktop (on my MacBook Pro Laptop) than even the classic Lightroom. I am not a huge fan of the …

No proper form to working out or anything in life.

I would PAY MONEY for the *PRIVILEGE* to workout. To me, human grandeur and apex happiness is not possible without working out and eating lots of delicious meat:

If you’re a man, it is good to be masculine.

You are what you eat. You eat what you shoot. Thus, shoot what you eat!

Mens sana in corpore sano Or in other words: If your body is healthy, so will your mind. Which makes me think: In order to treat “mental illness”, we should focus on treating bodily …

Why aren’t we allowed to be loud in modern times?

Avoid dying. Potential chances for an early death, or permanent disfigurement: Driving super fast in a sports car Driving (any) motorcycle Driving a bicycle in a city (anywhere). If you want an epic hormonal …

It don’t matter how rich you are, how tall you are, how rich you are, how buff you are, how popular you are whatever… we humans will always ‘anchor’ our self-worth in comparison to …

Something I am very interested in — male depression. I cannot speak for women because I am not a woman and have never had female experiences. But let me talk from the male perspective:

A lot of modern Silicon Valley and Elon Musk thinking is predicated on the notion of an “Earth Death”. But what if an Earth death never happens, at least for another 100 million years? …

Haptic. You don’t lack it. Just stack it. Black it out, matte it out. You don’t gotta shout— just pride. Glide through life with this verbal slip and slide. No need to Freudian slip …

To start is half the battle.

Marketing is today’s archimedes lever to moving the world, changing the world, and deeply impacting the world.

A lot of us are car hungry. We want the perfect or best car. But what if the best car were no car?

How to live best is the question a lot of philosophers have been grappling for a long time. The “art of living” should better be seen as the “best technique or approach” to living …

Things of durability are of first class on planet earth. In other words: If things are durable (last over a long period of time), they are good. Just as Horace said: “I shall make …

To make photos which last … create photos that you create out of a spirit of love and joy!

Certainly we all want to be happy, and beyond this … we want to maximize our happiness. But how can we do this? Some of my personal thoughts: Physiological joy and thriving: Working out …

When I look at my old photos, an interesting thing: Photos I shot while I were depressed … these photos don’t last. However the photos I shot when joyful and full of life … …

What drives me? I create out a sense of curiosity … I often wonder: How come nobody does x. y, z online? And as a consequence whether it be photos, videos, or blogs … …

Mexico City … one of my favorite cities in the world:

Because your photos can uplift, inspire, motivate and move others (both physically AND emotionally!):

You can only critique someone you truly understand and love. This is my personal critique on Henri Cartier-Bresson:

I am not the best photographer, but I am a great photographer. How did I do it?

In life, you can only optimize for one thing. I say — Optimize for aesthetics above all!

Heuristic: If Someone Talks Shit About Others Behind Their Back, Most Likely They’re Also Talking Shit About You Behind Your Back In other words: Don’t socialize or associate with shit-talkers.

In photography, let us not over-think things. Shoot more, think less.

Whoever tells you that RAW is better and also sells presets … be very very cautious. They cannot be trusted. Why? Because they have ‘conflict of interest‘. JPEG is superior to RAW for many …

The world is your playground!

A brave new frontier: the frontier of AI, artificial intelligence, and ethics. AI cannot have her own ethics; the program, code, and algorithm of the AI will always be rooted in the originator and …

The great scholar is also a soldier. And the soldier should also become a scholar.

A thought: Trust your own body’s physiology and inner-wisdom. AVOID by all costs what you consider harmful and bad for your body. Do what you consider is life-promoting and adds vigor and strength to …

If we want more people to become virtuous, it ain’t to get people to guilt them into becoming more virtuous. No … treat virtue like a privilege, a right, and something elite!

A thought: What is the upside of doing anything you hate? Or the corollary: What is the downside of *NOT* doing things you hate? I believe it is possible, and also desirable, and also …

To me, working out is a passion. It is never hateful, or feels like a chore. I would actually pay money to have the privilege to go to the park and workout. For example: …

And even once you achieve your life goals, then what?