Month: January 2022

A turbo thought while embarking on my arbitrary 30,000 steps a day challenge: perhaps it is better to have a challenge, rather than a goal. What is the difference? The purpose of a challenge …

To become growth focused means, will this thing you do cause you to grow or not? Perhaps then optimizing for growth is a good one. For example, growing your muscles, growing your mind, growing …

How does one become stronger? Perhaps we need to become more cold and callous, especially when it comes to those around us, and the world around us. For us to become more self focused, …

Why experience ? The philosophy of experience — experience as a means to philosophy ideas? Why share your experiences? The photographer as somebody who share their experiences via photos? Also the vlogger is also …

Perhaps the best style of living is in which you do not see a clear demarcation between indoors and outdoors. Maybe the future designs of homes will be more Japanese or Korean; meaning, they …

One of the best ideas I’ve gotten from the philosopher Nassim Taleb is the notion of via negativa. That, in order to improve things, best to subtract things. This agrees a lot with my …

Some personal philosophical meanderings: what is the point of embodied reality, and why embodied reality when we got the internet, the metaverse, virtual reality and online things?

By photographing it, you own it? The other day I saw a brand new red Porsche GT 3 in a parking lot, and enthralled by design, I showed a bunch of pictures of it. …

A thought about design: assuming that black-and-white photography is our passion, when it comes to design, technically anything we photograph will only render as either black or white. Therefore, maybe the idea then is …

What is the mindset of the entrepreneur? And what is an entrepreneurial mindset? Some thoughts: Can I build it and design it myself? Rather than buying it, we have much more pride in building …

What or who is your target demographic? You. Yourself. Other people who think like you, or are similar to you. For example, when it comes to design matters, design for yourself. That means, design …

Something I’ve learned why photography and blogging are so hand-in-hand. The art of choosing your featured photograph. It is a forced editing of your photos, to select a certain image which you feel best …

First share your photos, then discover the meaning after the fact.

A thought on my mind: when is tight better, and when is loose better?

For more enigmatic photos, don’t show context in your photos. The more mysterious, the more difficult your photos are to interpret and understand, the better.

A simple way to become more minimalist.

One of my primary interests is regarding Photography motivation. How to motivate myself to photograph more, and how can I discover insights to help motivate other photographers to photograph more? Some ideas:

How to transform your body to look more menacing? Simple ideas: The goal is to naturally increase your testosterone. Think about hormones. How can you shift your hormones to make you more masculine, and …

Something we never think about: what if everything you owned is already perfect? That your lifestyle and life conditions are already perfect optimal and ideal? Then, what next? I say just focus on your …

I’ve been thinking a lot about the physics equation for force: force equals mass over acceleration. Then this is my more poetic thought in life: perhaps what we desire to do is to move …

Dear friends, this year let us drive to become more focused. How do we become more focused? My thought is via negativa — ruthlessly prune that which distracts you. For example, some things which …

A thought — Perhaps more efficient and effective to buy hype sneakers, than hype cars.

The test whether you really care for something or not, or is something is essential or not.

What do you care for, what don’t you care for? First order of self wisdom.

Think about how the foods and substances you consume affect your hormones, same goes with your exercise style and lifestyle. Sugar, carbs, and sweeteners (natural, artificial, and “zero calorie” ones—) how they cause your …

The more things you possess, the more things possess you (Friedrich Nietzsche). Also, the more things you possess the more headache, the more stress, the more work and time needed to maintain these things.

Something I have figured out: if your personal goal is to maximize your joy, it is best to buy things used or refurbished, at a good discount. Why is this? Some thoughts: If you …

Apparently Stephen Hawking and a lot of scientists and theorists have tried to come up with a theory of everything. Why is this? They dislike ambiguity, grey areas, and they want their own personal …

Obey and listen to your gut, not rules, heuristics, or personal guidelines. What is a perfect decision? When you obey your gut, and never compromise on your gut intuition, no matter how contrary it …

No more speculative bets on the future. Rather, let us be like Heraclitus and invest in today. Or another words, let us build, and create, things we desire to see manifested in the world …

To expand my notion on the philosophy of value, rather than striving to increase the value of our investments, isn’t it a better idea for us to strive to increase the value of ourselves? …

A thought on my mind: the philosophy of value. The other day I consolidated all of my crypto currencies back into bitcoin, and also bought more bitcoin using my US dollars from my bank …

The funny irony in life: it is seen as a virtue to be open minded, but to change your mind as seen as bad. I say, the most wise and you can do is …

Street photography is our identity, lifestyle and approach. However, in order to become the best photographer you can, some ideas:

Some personal photography productivity hacks that I use, which may help you: Accept the fact that your current city location and lifestyle is not ideal, but, in spite of all of that, you can …

I love my laptop to death, and truth be told I’m the most productive on the laptop. I could type over 140 words per minute, which is the most effective form of information transfer …

What is the best and most optimal camera? Your one camera, and one lens. It is true that your Ricoh GR 3 will not be optimal for all types of photography, but, maybe that …

Once you have all the money and wealth in the world, what is it that we desire to do? It seems to propagate. For example, for our ideas to propagate, our products to propagate, …

As of today, I re-consolidated all of my cryptocurrency and also spent more US dollars from my checking account to buy more bitcoin. Why? My thoughts:

Right now is the best time to buy bitcoin.

The reason I love aphorisms, and philosophical fragments from the pre-Socratic philosophers is this: greater information density. In other words, cut to the chase. When it comes to knowledge and information, the more condensed, …

Once you’re rich, then what? It seems that a lot of people only want to become rich, as a means to financial independence, which means not having to work for a living. Also, the …

We are often thought that patience is a virtue. But why is this? What if the opposite were true, that impatience were a virtue? Even Kanye West has a line that says “my impatience …

What does man want? Not more happiness, but greater challenges and greater ambition. For example, we think we want happiness but this is not the goal. Once you are happy, what more ambition do …

Fear and enthusiasm often walk hand-in-hand. Often, when we feel fear, it is just enthusiasm in disguise. For example, the other night when I was speculating to buy more bitcoin, it kind of scared …

The fewer components, the better.

Dear friends, thinking about this new year, let us focus on a new year of photographic growth. How does one grow as a photographer? Some ideas: 1. Identifying our photo triggers I’ve noticed that …

The life of SENECA and ERIC KIM:

A thought: focus on growth. Avoid the middle, mediocre and slowly drying. As Steve Jobs would often quote Bob Dylan: you’re either growing, or slowly dying. Invest in technologies, or real estate which is …

Procreation is the goal:

One thing I learned which is very interesting about bodybuilders: they do not see themselves as bodybuilders, but instead, artist sculptors. And instead of sculpting a foreign piece of clay, they sculpt their bodies. …

When observing the life and lifestyle choices of my older and successful friends, this is what I have learned: it seems that the beginning of their lives is all about accumulation. Accumulating wealth, accumulating stuff, …

What we seek is new challenges. Yet, when we live static and boring lives, the only way to seek novelty is through purchasing things. We seek a personal upgrade for ourselves, but instead of …

What I am for — growth, development, evolution. Static and unchanging is bad.

To be able to transform embodied reality into art — isn’t this great? Also the fun joy of photography — being able to find random things (abstract) and transform it into something else via …

Real luxury is low key, hidden, enigmatic, simple and basic yet with the highest quality materials. It also doesn’t call itself luxury. Also, no brand names and logos. Not flashy. Black.

If you want to become stronger and more invincible in life, some thoughts: Stoicism is via Negativa, which means if you want to become stronger, figure out what not to do in order to …

My thought is it is impossible to feel depressed if you walk 30,000 steps a day. This is what I have noticed, my overall mood is highest when I walk the most. When I …

Dining out as an experience, not for food. Thus for restaurants, optimize for aesthetics and the dining experience, not the food. If you want to optimize your food intake, best to just cook your …

We like to buy things because it asserts and expresses our power. When we buy certain things, it gives us a feeling of dominance and growth, of “leveling up”.

Something on my mind: perhaps the most virtuous thing we could do in life is to just focus on motivating ourselves. That it is the most efficient use of energy, time and resources. That …

Photos you don’t review, do not exist.

The lower and the closer to the ground, the better. Also, the wider the better.

Perhaps — best for us to become more stubborn in our ways, and to just do things our way — even if it is less “efficient”. Because when others are trying to “help” us …

What’s “cool”, and why be “cool”?

Fear out of weakness is something to be conquered: