Month: May 2022

The joy of being outdoors, walking, shooting photos (Photos on the street, street photography), thinking, and writing.

With Elon Musk being at the helm of Twitter, it will be a great, prosperous future.

Short Facebook. I think sooner or later, people will eventually ditch Instagram for Snapchat, TikTok, or the next competitor.

There are certain environments which give you energy, and other environments which sap you from your energy.

Being at home saps me of my energy and being on college campuses saps me of my energy, but being in a busy downtown area, or another busy coffee shop gives me energy.

The annoyance that I already maxed out my 2 TB family plan, iCloud storage.

Against the notion of a grown-up man, who still plays video games, and is into childish things.

For example, I am very anti-toys. Grown men should not have toys either.

I hate the commodified nature of sports on TV, sports cars, notion of sports.

All advice from others, is bad advice. From the last decade of asking others for advice, I have not yet received one piece of good advice, knowledge, wisdom which has really helped me.

Become free like a bird.

You never know your potential future usage. Better to have extreme (extra) buffer in this case!

Or another words, why it’s better to take the 101 instead of the 5 freeway.

Brutalist architecture, lots of concrete as very ugly and depressing. The more green, the more brick, the more warm elements, the better.

Think Andy Warhol and his repeating Marilyn Monroe heads. Also, diptychs, triptychs, etc:

How I lift (MUSCLE 101):

No need to monetize:

Warmup Screenshots

SQUAT

Keep ruthlessly marching forward!

On being totally present.

Simple way to live life: only do things, and pursue things which you are insanely enthusiastic about.

Great! Some reasons:

First of all, my son Seneca loves it. At age 1 year, 3 months he already knows how to use it! Just click the top record red button on top, and it automatically turns on and starts recording.

Secondly, files look great. 1080p, 60fps (exporting it down to 720p, 60fps) looks great. Video files look waaaay better than iPhone Pro to me.

Third, more fun to shoot with a GoPro than an iPhone or any other phone camera. Video on GoPro is so much more fun because you don’t need to worry about focusing or anything. Also the uber-wide mode (‘super wide mode’) is very fun. Also the built-in image stabilization for GoPro 10 is insanely good.

Fourth, more playful. To just shoot random clips of whatever on a GoPro is far more fun and playful than a ‘serious’ video camera.

Fifth, because it is so robust, it can be easily banged around (literally by Seneca), and I have zero concern of it scratching, breaking, etc. Compare this to an iPhone or any smartphone — you are always concerned about scratching it.

Sixth, the Quik GoPro app is actually really good.

Seventh, price is super good!

Eighth, it is super small. I just keep it in my front left pocket.

For example in K-12 schools, especially for kids, perhaps 90% of the time should just be spent outdoors playing and being physical, and only 10% on studying.

“O my soul, Do not aspire to an immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible”- Pindar Pythian III

From intro of “The myth of sisyphus” (Albert Camus):

The upside of getting lost in a Barnes and Noble or bookshop in the philosophy section (the only section worth checking out).

Take a cheap Carnival cruise — I liked the 7 Day Panorama Mexico one. Some hacks:

1. Order 8 steaks at the sit down dining.
2. Go to the gym everyday (they have 100 pound dumbbells!) The hot sauna is also very good.
3. Stop by all the places early, and come back early.
4. Don’t use Wi-Fi onboard. Disconnect for a week.
5. Bring your laptop and make some ebooks or e-zines. iPhone is quite useless without Wi-Fi. Laptop is the GOAT when it comes to offline computing.
6. Guy Fieri burger bar very good. My record is 12 Patties (ask them to just give you burger Patties). Eat with mustard and pickled Jalepenos.
7. Bring a GoPro. Very fun! Shoot ultra wide (super wide), GoPro hero 10 (1080p, 60fps).
8. Shoot street photography on the cruise ship and off the cruise ship.
9. The Library room on the cruise ship is very zen.
10. When you go offshore and go to the beach and water, easiest to just swim in your boxer briefs (Exofficio boxer briefs).
11. Cabo, Mexico is actually super nice. The beach and water is even more beautiful than Hawaii!!
12. Don’t get suckered by excursions. Just get off the ship, walk or call an Uber somewhere (works well in Mexico).

More cruise thoughts

That’s why we love it so much!

We all just want a more dynamic, interesting and exciting life. Not more money or more fancy cars or things.

Better than Leica M11, Leica Q2, any Fujifilm camera, any digital medium format camera, better than iPhone Pro, etc.

Best video camera (better than iPhone Pro) is GoPro hero 10.

Mazatlan Mexico was good — gritty like a Cuba.

Nobody cares for points. We just want to win. In STREET FIGHTER II, you get all these random “points”, but nobody cares for them. Winning is the goal.

Perhaps in life, money (cash, USD, $) is the point system. But in real life, we want to win. Don’t get distracted by the points.

Don’t just be stuck in a park, a skate park, a play park, or any place.

“Haven’t you noticed that there are no interesting men in heaven?”

Nietzsche

All the new Apple products — my only critique is that they’re boring. No longer sexy, interesting or unique.

Even new Lamborghini stuff is boring.

Why crypto and Bitcoin is so great to me — it feels like money “off the grid”.

Our ideal.

This is our power law— not to always be on the road, and not always be at home. However, the optimal distribution between both.

The promise or hope of a brighter, better future.