Month: December 2021

Just got back from Mexico City to LAX, and it was a full flight. Good news, everyone who is on the flight tested NEGATIVE for covid (you must have proof of a negative COVID test before boarding the flight). Thus the irony: Those who travel are a self selecting population, who are most likely vaccinated,…

Now that I am a parent and have a kid, my free time is very short. Thus the need for extreme efficiency with processing and going through my photos. SMALL JPEG Shoot and view photos on Apple Photos (laptop), and just flag (pick, favorite) photos as small thumbnail contact sheets.

Even in matters of mental psychology — as Nietzsche said, the irony is that it is the duty of the healthy to keep the sick away from the healthy.

For example, I love the proportions of the high top Air Force one sneaker. It seems the biggest innovations is making it lighter, using the new Flyknit technology, or even making it Gore-Tex. Also my delight at the new Nissan Z car, which takes the classic car in the classic proportions, yet mix in modern.

Another reason why Tesla Model S Plaid as the best, most innovative and motivational car.

Perhaps the best use of money is for movement. So the question on my mind: how can one use money in order to move more? Certainly we could use money to travel. To pay for flights, Airbnb‘s and hotels. Also, we could use money to Uber. Also, the best use of money to buy things…

Another pro tip when it comes to traveling, hotels or Airbnb‘s: optimize for hygiene, cleanliness, and peace and quiet.

With design matters, clothes, and things in general, optimize for ultrathin. Midweight things are a compromise. A bad compromise. Ultra thin phones, ultra thin laptops, ultra thin clothing (ultra thin shoes, with ultra thin soles, ultra thin socks), ultra thin devices, and of course ultra thin condoms. Maybe even with bodily physiology, we prefer the…

To be always and constantly on the road is not that efficient. Sometimes we need to spend a little bit of time in one spot. That’s the goal isn’t to always be on the road, but to be semi nomadic. For example, living in one city, or a foreign place for three months or six…

Not the best, but the most beautiful? In life, there are certainly things which are the ‘best’. But … what is most beautiful is often not the ‘best’. Thus, perhaps best to optimize for beauty … instead of optimizing for the ‘best‘? For example when it comes to certain design things and design objects, certain…

I like living on the streets I think this is why I love street photography so much. My ideal lifestyle.

The best way to gain muscle mass, and lose body fat. For ‘vegetables’, no starchy veggies (cauliflower, broccoli etc). Only bitter dark leafy greens (kale, spinach). Also, fermented foods like kimchi or sauerkraut.

My design ideal: to create or discover designs which are 1000 times more unique and different and interesting. Or creating a certain design or product that does not yet exist. For example, my Eric Kim line of products, which are optimized for Ricoh GR cameras. No other straps are compatible with Ricoh GR cameras.

Become fascinating to yourself, or become fascinating to others? With fashion, the question I have on my mind is this: the desire to wear certain clothes or fashions is to become more fasting to others, or to become more fascinating to ourselves?

Better to risk boldness than triviality A saying from Peter Thiel (Zero to one) I love.

My personal passion and lust is a lust for subtraction. I actually get greater joy when I try to get rid of things, than to add things. A random thought of today: is there a form of capitalism or consumerism that is based on notions of subtraction, rather than addition?

What I learned after coming back to Mexico City: the city is just as good as I remembered, yet I have changed so much.

In spite of the downsides. In fact, I think more intelligent and educated people should have kids.

A way to think how to compose black and white photos: What do I desire to be the distribution or the *ratio* of black vs white in my photos?

To dream new dreams, and to aspire anew, better to widen yourself and broaden yourself, rather than specialize and focus.

Composition means to figure out what to add to your frame, and what to subtract from your frame. Some practical thoughts:

Photography is our content.

Innovate the content, not the technology.

Polarize. No need to disguise your thoughts or your intent. Better stick to your opinion than be bent by others and their thoughts. You want to own your own opinion, you don’t want to be bought. Stay stern, don’t be swayed. Follow your own morals and ethics, no need to get paid. Cross pollinate and…

We typically think about advertising as a bad thing. However, to advertise yourself means to simply market yourself, or to put yourself out there. The sole purpose of advertising isn’t always to make money, but often to simply promote a certain message, idea, or your images.

Some customization, not too much customization:

Life in Mexico City is good. Photography Paradise. Ideal place to escape the cold for us east coasters.

Just because you spent money on it, doesn’t mean you should feel forced to use it. If anything, just move on.

With iPhone or Mac, prioritize native apps for better sync and use. For example Apple Maps over Google Maps, Apple Music over Spotify, Apple Mail over Gmail, etc. Why are Google app icons so ugly? A big reason why I delete Google apps from my iPhone. Also, better to use Apple photos than Adobe Lightroom.

My aesthetic ideal.

Photo paradise:

It seems the best life is life in which we simply obey our own will, and do what we are compulsed to do. This means only do what you must— what your inner compulsion drives you to do.

A practical idea when traveling or even back home — wear shoes and ensure NOT to slip — the most dangerous thing which can happen to you.

This is what is currently on my mind, especially after realizing Mexico City as a perfect city.

Why make a blog or website? Simple — to have a creative canvas to share your thoughts, art works, and ideas!

Life is not a test in which you get good and bad marks. Life also doesn’t have a ranking system. Therefore my idea is this: perhaps modern education, and modern notions of competition have harmed us human beings. Rather, to unchain ourselves from any sort of ranking system, and also to unchain ourselves from thinking…

Nobody desires health for the sake of health. Health is simply a means to something greater.

Often we want to buy certain things, because we think it will complete us. But is completion the goal? Perhaps not. Once you’re fully complete, what motivation do you have to do anything? Therefore incompletion is the motivation to do.

Perhaps the best way to become more influential is to become more low-key.

It elevates my feeling of power, well being, optimism and hope for the future, and the grandeur of man.