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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 …
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:
My personal ideal in photography: to become a more zen photographer.
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 …
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. …
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 …
When it comes to design matters, aesthetics, observe and study the details. The details is what makes something beautiful and great.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Send the emails which you wish you could receive.
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:
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 …
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 …
With photography, composition and design — asymmetry is more beautiful than symmetry.
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.
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.
Why it’s always good to keep some work undone for the next day — have something to look forward to working on!
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. …
90% good enough, then just call it a day. The best percentage in my mind to satisfice (suffice + satisfy).
In life, let us avoid getting suckered by things which are “nice to haveâ€, but not essential. Stick to and invest only on the essential. For example, owning an iPad is nice to have, …
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 …
Some personal thoughts, and philosophical thoughts on fitness:
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 …
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:
What does the future lifestyle look like?
The modern notion is work life balance, but isn’t a more effective approach work life integration?
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 …
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.
It teaches us what to do, and what NOT to do.
The goal isn’t simple for the sake of simple, but simplicity and simple as a means of strengthening.
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 …
Don’t stress more than one benefit. One benefit is enough to make an argument.
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.
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 …
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 …
When you curate your photos, or curate your artwork, or even curate the work of others, it is an act of creation.
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, …
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 …
Currently being in the blazing hot, ruthless Southern California sun, this is what I have realized about white cars: they are an eyesore. That means, they have too much contrast, and they are too …
It seems in today’s world, we are obsessed about upgrading. For example we want to upgrade our clothes, our phones, our laptops, our cars, our homes, etc. But when we desire upgrades, what is …
Perhaps this is the proper task: to have the will to create. But the question is, why the will to create, and where does the will to create come from?
What is ultimate privilege? The privilege to create. The privilege to procreate and create children, the privilege of having abundant leisure and mindspace in order to create, and having via negativa mind space in …
A random thought: would you desire a life in which everything were beautiful? That you were only surrounded by beautiful people, beautiful objects, beautiful architecture, beautiful landscapes, beautiful things, and beautiful thoughts? Maybe not. …
One thing I’ve discovered is that I am insanely picky. And even the best things aren’t good enough for me. therefore, what I either do is buy nothing, or keep looking for something I …
Now that I have a kid, my son Seneca, I think a lot about how I desire to raise him. Something I’ve been thinking about a lot about is schooling, particularly modern day schooling.
How do we cure, or overcome our creative impotency?
I have a concept called meta-editing — in which you publish a bunch of photos in a blog post, and then you review the blog post and you re-save the photos which pop out …
One thing I’ve discovered is that the notion of creativity is not a good one. Why? When people talk about creativity, what they really mean to say is creative ingenuity. Or another words, originality. …
One of the thoughts I had after reading the book Ready Player Two is this: what if there will be no earth death? What if in theory, humans can continue to inhabit planet earth …
It seems nowadays the focus on life is wealth accumulation, novelty searching, purchasing and consumerism, fashion, or watching entertainment, traveling, etc. But, ultimately I think what we really desire is to create. To create …
After over a decade of being addicted to coffee, some quick thoughts: First of all, how much coffee should one drink? I say as much as you can tolerate, as long as it is …
I just finished the book ready player two. Some quick thoughts: First of all, I found the imagination of Ernest cline to be great, extending the metaphor of virtual reality, by being able to …
A life experiment thought: in the evening, shut off your iPhone, and also, shut down your laptop. With iPhone, you have to do the strange sequence: up volume down volume and side button and …
One of the things I’ve learned from Cindy, and history as a discipline, is the notion of significance. Ultimately, with almost all matters, you could put it in a binary: is it significant or …
One of the things I am the most grateful for is having the opportunity for me to shape the culture of street photography, and photography in general. Also notions of Minimalism, zen, taoism, stoicism, …
Something I realized: in our basic human minds, we love the idea of a buffets. But in reality, buffets are not good. Why? For example, we like the idea of having unlimited options, but …
This is how and where philosophical thinking is very useful. Rather than how to do it, consider the deeper question — What should it do? What should social media or photography social media do? …
