Anti romanticism of the past. The past was *WORSE* than it is today! Today (and the future) will be, and *is* superior to the past!

A camera (more similar to GoPro) which captures your POV (point of view).

A thought with an iPhone camera app:

An app, once you launch it, it automatically takes a photo (quick photo).

Also similar to GoPro:

It is always recording or shooting photos, so you always catch *the moment*.

A camera optimized at capturing ‘the decisive moment’ as the future camera.

Bifurcation between still cameras and video cameras

Or … the primary focus for some individuals to shoot cinema (‘Hollywood in your hand’– a great tagline for the new “Content Creator Camera Edition” from GoPro. Some individuals who will want to shoot their own web series, their own Netflix series (5K) [Lumix S1H], or their own YouTube series, or even shoot films for Hollywood!

Or even how micro 43rds is still a robust platform for video (Panasonic keep making those new GH-cameras, like the new GH6).

iPhone is *NOT* the future for photography?

I still prefer a GoPro mounted to my head (head strap), or my chest (chest strap), or even to my backpack (front facing GoPro mount). Or just having a GoPro in my pocket.

Entertainment is the future?

Then a simple thought:

A bifurcation between personal photography (still visual art), and video/cinema/film for entertainment.

Bitcoin as appreciating and increasing in value over time, just like Tesla stock.

However if you actually buy a real Tesla, the value will depreciate overtime. Same goes with any car. Never buy a car for new, only used, because if you buy used at the bottom of the depreciation chart, and if you ever want to sell it again, you don’t lose money.

Certainly it is natural to judge others. And it is good to judge others, because in judging others, we learn what not to do.

Whatever when it comes to our ethics, just keep those judgments in your own mind. Don’t vocalize them to any other human being.

Also as an ethical experiment, maybe try to spend the full year of not talking about others, at all, whether good or bad. Also , don’t quote others, just say what you believe in.

The best way to think about information and knowledge is this: consider what is not mentioned.

For example I was at a Whole Foods today, and I picked up this illustrated guide on the complete guide to cryptocurrency and testing. Flipping through the pages, I was more interested in the cryptocurrency‘s which were not mentioned, then the ones which were.

For example, people feel like they missed the boat on bitcoin. But who knows, what if 10 years from now one bitcoin is worth $1 million, $10 million, or even $100 million?

Marketing is not a science, rather, it is an aesthetic thing.

Spend as little time in a car is humanly possible. Walk around as much as a single-to-given day as much as possible. Take as many photos as possible.

The maximaly street Photography forward life.

LA as superior to the Bay Area.

When you’re rich successful and on top, why not radically innovate?

Apple has an insanely huuuuuge war chest. Why are they taking such safe, boring bets?

Kanye West is the best musician of all-time.

Love the new DONDA 2 album. It is insane — Kanye is the only one always innovating in music.

Let us also consider, he is not only a musician, he is a rapper, he is a collaborator (gets all the best new talent), and also produces his own music!

Very dissatisfied with iPhone Pro, very happy with iPhone SE.

Trying to make it too slow, as a form of being ‘artsy’ is often plain boring.

The fatal flaw of many shows:

They intentionally add a lot of filler to just get people to keep watching, instead of keeping all the interesting parts (condensed, like a movie or film).

This is why I often prefer film/cinema/movie (under 3 hours) instead of a 10-show series (each being 1 hour long). Too much filler, not enough killer in shows or series.

The reason we like ‘first person shooters’– we feel as if *WE* are the hero.

Also the popularity of my street photography goPro POV videos.

Thus as a theory:

Try to literally or metaphorically put people into your own shoes.

Or the helmet.

Critical flaw of the new HALO series:

Why would Master Chief take off his helmet?

Might have been a good idea like the Mandalorian (the last episode) when MANDO takes off the helmet as a powerful gesture to Groku (baby yoda). Also the fatal flaw of the Boba Fett series is seeing the face of Boba Fett. We watchers *prefer* the mystery of the face *behind* the mask, not the real face.

Also the upside of Halo Master Chief:

You put yourself into the helmet, and you think *YOU* are master chief, not some ‘real’ person.

I like all people as individuals, but it is their relationship or interaction with others which bothers me.

If you struggle making a decision, perhaps that decision doesn’t need to be made yet.

Don’t hoard your boxes, or the Apple product boxes. Just throw them away.

With working out, weight lifting, bodybuilding or powerlifting— opt for MVR (minimum viable reps). Often this is just 1. Or 3. Anything more is bad.

Good if the video game expands your mind, your creativity, and your desire and penchant for embodied-reality things. Bad if the world is ruled by micro-transactions, and unfair ‘pay to play’ schemes.

Not thing centric, or object centric, or money-centric, or capital-centric … but human-centric.

Specifically, Korean-Americans?

What do we hate most in TV shows, films, stories? When the drama heightens and there is some sort of predictable thing that happens (heroine watches her father get killed in front of her eyes, etc).

Audiences are now far more advanced. They can handle more unpredictable behavior in shows.

Thinking about the fictitious HALO universe (Spartan soldiers, Master Chief):

Do we humans need some sort of ‘augmentation’?

In practical terms, the best way to become ‘enhanced’ (naturally) is maximal movement, walking, time outdoors, and sun exposure for the day. Intermittent fasting during the day, only breaking fast for a huuuuuuge massive dinner meal (meat heavy).

For stimulants during the day (prior to noon), black on black on black coffee. When tired, take naps.

To become more hyped up, media which hypes you up. Can be music, show series, films, cinema, etc.

What we desire.

Funny– my mother in law calls Bitcoin (oh, the ‘fake money!’). And it seems in today’s world, all is fake. Fake TV (fake social relationships), fake bodies (plastic surgery, unnatural augmentation, steroids, human growth hormone, etc), fake realities (Virtual Reality, VR), and also fake entertainment (video games, MMORPG — massive multiplayer online role playing games). Then if we think about it, the future is fake.

It seems that many individuals seek a utopia. Yet, perhaps a dystopia *is* a utopia, and vice-versa.

Why are post-apocalyptic films (in the future) always take place in the desert, or in a world in which there is a lack of water?

Nobody likes gas stations, but assuming that photography is your passion and life task, gas stations are good. Why? When you’re filling up your car, you can shoot urban landscapes, and also photograph things inside the gas station, and *around* the gas station.

Also, I’ve been noticing more and more BITCOIN ATM’s inside gas stations. Thus the upside of gas stations — being able to stay plugged into modern societal trends.

Air over Pro.

From a design perspective, you’re trying to find the right size for things, not too big, not too small, just right.

An accurate training theory.