Month: January 2022
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Better To Buy The Cheapest Luxury Good Than Than The Most Expensive Normal Good
Better to buy a new Porsche Macan (cheapest model) than the most expensive Toyota. Or better to buy the cheapest iPhone than the most expensive Android phone. Also, maybe it’s better to buy the cheapest Leica camera, the Leica CL, than the most expensive Fujifilm camera.
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10 Tips How To Become A More Zen Photographer
Dear friends, a thought on my mind: perhaps the goal of our photography is to become more Zen. My personal ideal is becoming a more Zen photographer. Some quick thoughts:
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Supreme Zen Photographer
My personal ideal in photography: to become a more zen photographer.
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Ugly is a Positive Stimulus
There are a lot of things which are ugly which I experience on a daily basis. As a visual artist, I’m very sensitive to visual stimulate. Things which I perceive as ugly, often rub me the wrong way. However, I realize that if you had a option of just staying at home, and being bored,…
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SPARTAN LUXURY
What is true luxury? The luxury of becoming more like a Spartan. Becoming much more simple, harder, bare, and raw. True luxury is having fewer options, fewer superfluous things in matter, and more discomfort. For example, when I think about the movie 300, one of my favorite films, I love their clothing. That to think…
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Reverse flex
I like the idea that when you become really rich and successful, you no longer need to flex in order to impress others. I have this notion of a “reverse flex“, that in which you actually choose more basic options, much lower than what you could afford, in order to be different. For example, typically…
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Details.
When it comes to design matters, aesthetics, observe and study the details. The details is what makes something beautiful and great.
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Not Beauty, Health
Something I’ve discovered: it is not necessarily beauty that we are searching for, it is health. For example, what is the indication of supple breasts in a woman? Healthiness, and fertility. Also, with legs in the backside of a woman, it is more of a sign of health, rather than aesthetic. Even women having full…
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Life After Success
What do you do with your life, when you’ve achieved all your life dreams, and no longer need or desire anything? Some simple and quick thoughts: Having the privilege to walk much, striving to walk at least 30,000 steps a day. The focus on creation, no more need for the money making profit motive. To…
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Thinking Bigger, Beyond
What is the privilege of the thinker and philosopher? To think bigger, and to think beyond. For example, beyond concern for the self, and thinking beyond the self. Thinking about humanity in general, and humanity in the future, 300 years from now and beyond. To think of the should for humankind, in the direction you…
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My Photo Life
Living my best photography life:
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Live Lightly
Figuratively and literally.
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Watching vs Doing
Something that was always very bizarre to me was watching sports. Growing up, I played a lot of sports, but didn’t watch any sports. And this is the funny thing with being a spectator versus being a doer, it is literally not even the same thing. For example, even though I played linebacker, outside and…
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Personal Philosophy
There is no ultimate right and wrong in life, all is opinion. Therefore, it seems most logical for you to just share your own personal opinion, share your own personal philosophy. This is how people, society, and ideas evolve and thrive. Why all truth is relative There is no such thing as ultimate, irrefutable truth.…
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Imperfect Beauty
Why imperfect is more beautiful.
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My Life Mission
My life mission is simple: to maximally empower, motivate, and help photographers become more. To help photographers become more inspired, more motivated, more creative, more entrepreneurial, and more fearless.
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In Praise of Black and Silver
One thing I think a lot about is cars. I was always into cars, ever since I was 15 years old, and even today, I’m still very interested. Why is that? In America, we see more cars than people. Also, because I’m interested in design, industrial design, car design, I wonder a lot about car…
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In Praise of Email Newsletters
Send the emails which you wish you could receive.
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How to Make More Photos
I’ve been making a lot of photos recently and I feel better than ever. This is some stuff I wish I could tell myself:
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Better to spend money on clothes and shoes, than cars, homes and gadgets
Wearing the right outfit is very important. If we consider that clothing is like our armor, and also that our personal aesthetic greatly affects our mood in our feeling a self-confidence, then the clothes and shoes where are much more important than your car, your home, and your gadgets.
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How to Live Your Most Optimal Life
Dear friend, Something on my mind– How can we live the most optimal and the best life? The most optimal mode of existence? Define it for yourself: 1. A life focused on arts-creation and photography First of all, perhaps a life in which we are focused on our arts creation is the best life. For…
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Asymmetry is More Beautiful
With photography, composition and design — asymmetry is more beautiful than symmetry.
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BLACK IS A BLANK CANVAS.
The reason I love black so much is that black is a blank canvas, a blank slate. And the beauty of a blank slate is that it invites newness.
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Every Day is a New Day
Every day is a new day, therefore, approach every single new day with openness and gratitude. Do not be a slave to routine, or expectations.
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HAVE SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO TOMORROW
Why it’s always good to keep some work undone for the next day — have something to look forward to working on!
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I HAVE THE MOST BLESSED LIFE, NOW WHAT?
Currently I have the most blessed life, the most blessed existence. Strong health, wealth, and happiness. Cindy’s mom and my mom to help Seneca. Cindy doing well, baby Seneca doing well, I’m doing well. The most peaceful, simple, nature-forward, focused, and productive life. Now — what?
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90% Good Enough Satisficing
90% good enough, then just call it a day. The best percentage in my mind to satisfice (suffice + satisfy).
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Nice to Have vs Essential
In life, let us avoid getting suckered by things which are “nice to have”, but not essential. Stick to and invest only on the essential. For example, owning an iPad is nice to have, but not essential. Owning a laptop is essential.
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Anti Happiness
Don’t make happiness and happiness maximization the purpose of your life. Otherwise what sets us apart from the happy and servile cows? Rather let us seek to maximize instead our reach, power, impact and influence.
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The Philosophy of Fitness
Some personal thoughts, and philosophical thoughts on fitness:
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OBEY YOUR BODY OVER MIND
What has greater intelligence? Your body. Your body has 1 trillion times more self wisdom intelligence than your mind. I personally believe that what we think is simply an amalgamation of indoctrination from our teachers, society, and our teachers. For example, or mind tells us what we should do, but our body tells us what…
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Trail Aesthetics
A new trend I am seeing when it comes to clothes, aesthetics, and lifestyle — this popularization of a ‘trail’ aesthetic. Why is this? Some thoughts:
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Future Modes of Living
What does the future lifestyle look like?
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WORK LIFE INTEGRATION
The modern notion is work life balance, but isn’t a more effective approach work life integration?
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FULL STACK SOLUTION
What is progress? Full stack integration. Vertical integration. Becoming a full stack solution. This means, creating the components which completes the full stream. For example, in photography, it is my aspiration to become a full stack Photography solution. This means giving the knowledge education and resources and tools to help photographers thrive, and also giving…
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PROGRESS TO THE FUTURE
As an optimist, I’m most interested in the future. Thinking of how we could create novel or classic modes of living, which bring out the best in us.
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Pain is Our Teacher
It teaches us what to do, and what NOT to do.
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Simplification as a means to Strengthening
The goal isn’t simple for the sake of simple, but simplicity and simple as a means of strengthening.
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Food Density
The goal isn’t to eat more, but, eat more nutritious, higher density food. My theory is food with higher cholesterol, and higher saturated fat is better. Or perhaps this is why organ meat is superior than flesh meat, beef liver as having one of the highest cholesterol levels, which is essentially a steroid and testosterone…
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Features?
More features, or fewer features?
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More Is Less
Doing more does not achieve more.
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One Benefit
Don’t stress more than one benefit. One benefit is enough to make an argument.
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WILLPOWER IS ABSTINENCE.
What is willpower? Will power is via negativa, that is, you build your willpower via abstinence, or what you abstain from doing. Will power is not forcing yourself to do positive action.
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Strength Testing
Don’t “work out” unless you are prepared to attempt a new personal record, in terms of overall weight, or repetitions. This means, for any given movement, do not do it more than once a week. For example, if I attempt a new one rep max for my squat, and whether I succeed or fail, I…
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Thoughts on Creativity
Dear friends, something I’ve been thinking a lot about is creativity. That creativity is probably our apex value, yet, the word is used so imprecisely. When we talk about creativity, people mean to talk about artistic ingenuity, being unique and one-of-a-kind. However, I think originality and uniqueness in art is not the goal. For example,…
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Curation is Creation
When you curate your photos, or curate your artwork, or even curate the work of others, it is an act of creation.
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF FOOD
To my knowledge, nobody has written about the Philosophy of food, in a manner which I find rigorous. Also, talking about food in a more practical and empirical way, rather than thinking about politics, global warming, “animal rights”, etc.
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FATE OFTEN LENDS A HELPING HAND.
I do not believe in pre-determinism, nor do I believe in fate from a mystic perspective. However, I do like the notion of fate as a general one, in which random happenings in life events often occur to your personal benefit, but you never know the hidden benefit until the future. For example, one of…