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The new trend and ethos. Black, imposing, heavy, menacing.
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The new trend and ethos. Black, imposing, heavy, menacing.
For example, calligraphy as also a form of communication
The best modern-day flex, Tyler Durden fight club style.
In praise of the minimalistic Tesla model 3, and Tesla model Y interior, and central screen. It is much more future proof than many modern cars being built today, even modern electric cars, with …
Assuming that Tesla could really make autonomous vehicles possible, all electric, it will eat Uber‘s lunch. Also, if one day in the future Tesla self-driving cars will fulfill Amazon packages and delivery, it will …
Don’t just use buzz words, or follow what’s trendy, or try to placate to the popular society trends. Rather, have a strong, singular, an obsessive creative vision for how things should be.
You don’t need to “prove†anyone “wrongâ€.
The interesting thing with cars, is that you technically own the physical space within the car.
Letting Seneca play by himself, and keeping my distance, and just letting him do his own thing. But closely observing him.
Why is sun exposure so good for our well-being? For myself, spending as much time in the direct sun as humanly possible. Shirt off, and short shorts.
A thinker– someone who thinks. How to think more? Via negativa: Spend less time reading, listening to podcasts, watching movies, TV, shows, music. Let your mind and visual-audio sensory go more quiet and deaf.
Some ways: Epic hiking is like something you do in a video game. Transform your body: Let us assume that real life is like Diablo II — certainly you want to become like a …
How do we live a virtuous life in the suburbs? Mall street photography Hiking Lots of walking around the house, front porch, backyard Mini road trips and day trips Date nights at new trendy …
Better to workout insanely intensely once a week than everyday with “high†intensity. For example, better to do a one rep max attempt, powerlifting style, once a week, than bodybuilding style every single day.
Very cool car.
Google Maps has too many ads now. Apple Maps as an inferior product, but cleaner and more beautiful without ugly advertisements.
Invest in things and items which are robust to time and money. White Tesla Model 3 (uber-base model, black interior, no options or enhanced autopilot) as robust to time. Also iPhone SE. Also leather …
The game changer, especially for getting beef, eggs, and other meat items. You can access it, even if you just have a normal Costco membership. Or get a Costco gift card as a “golden …
Life gets better when you close doors and options.
Before working out, have as much of a dynamic warm-up as possible. Push-ups, bodyweight squats, Burpee‘s, pistol squats, dive bombers, One arm dive bombers, hip openers with kettlebell, kettlebell swings, Turkish get up, etc. …
Dear friends, To advertise my upcoming new ONLINE PHOTOGRAPHY CREATIVITY WORKSHOP, I wanted to share some quick thoughts with you on photography, art, and creativity: 1. Photography as the ‘Occam’s razor’ of artistic creativity …
The upside of shooting photos with strong streaks of light, and just shoot with ‘highlight‘ priority as your exposure setting.
With Crypto, you don’t feel tied down, or tied to a bank or banking institution. More freedom to move your money, store it, or have the joy in speculation or seeing it go up …
The last time Cindy and I did a road trip up to Berkeley, we drove. We took the 5 freeway all the way up and this is my thought: Perhaps we should only drive, …
Any car that requires oil changes (hybrid, gas, automatic, manual transmission cars). Or you gotta figure out where to park it (even a Tesla) or pay insurance for (electric, all cars). Better ideal: Uber …
iPhone SE, the cheapest Mercedes AMG cars, cheapest Tesla car.
The poison in my penWhere to begin? From the start or end?From the foe or friend?
Create beautiful things, beautiful objects.
Or a fun car like a Corolla GR manual transmission car?
If your goal is to eat less, eat more fat. For example, pork belly, beef belly, beef neckbones, beef liver.
For public speaking or a book or an article or argument, the goal is clarity, and confidence. Make your argument as clear as possible, and say it as confidently as possible.
You are what you eat, you are what you shoot.
There will always be a (bad) or very expensive hidden cost further down the line. Or in other words, better to have short term pain, conflict, or annoyance than a long-term (really really bad) …
Leaning up against a counter top, putting one leg on top of a high chair/stool, and putting the laptop on top of one of your knees while typing and working on your laptop. The …
Your own moral code, your own inner code of ethics, your own personal conscience as the ultimate rule. This is far more robust than any legal system, which can be gamed. Or in other …
A riff off a quote from Aristotle (also quoted from Marcus Aurelius). A good reason to just get started on your taxes.
I think other forms of greed is fine, but not greed for your stomach. This will lead to really bad indigestion, stomach pains, which is one of the worst type of pains. Also, getting …
Even though you keep going to the same place, over and over again, it is always different. Why? Because things always change suddenly a little bit differently, and you also change. For example, me …
Beef liver as one of the most unknown and underrated, cuts of organ meat, which is like a natural steroid and testosterone booster. Why? It is extremely high in cholesterol, which is a natural …
Why do we always desire for things to be the way they used to be, rather than the way they can become
Always think first principles, don’t think by analogy or metaphor. Also don’t think about your past experiences. Also don’t think about what you were in the past, think about what you can become in …
And if you wanted things to have manifested differently, just use your past experiences as information, to make a different decision in the future. And for the decisions that you made today, yesterday, or …
Fun new environments for your kid to explore, and also good stimuli for them, and also social stimuli.
Do you need to praise your kids? Or praise others? Not necessarily.
Better to live a short yet intense life, than a long and mediocre one. Disregard notions of “sustainability“. People always ask, “But is it sustainable?†Sustain simply means “to hold on†(tenere).
What should be done manually, what should be done automatically?
Why is it seem as virtuous to put others over yourself?