Month: May 2022
Everyone Wants a More Exciting Life
I don’t think people want a ‘better’ life, or necessarily to be richer. What people really want is to live a more *exciting* life.
HOW TO BECOME MORE EFFICIENT AT CULLING YOUR PHOTOS
Some tips: Look at your photos as small thumbnails, to quickly sort through them and flag them. Even though you may be tempted, don’t turn your photos into full screen until the very end, …
LET YOUR KIDS PLAY AS IF YOU WERE A KID AGAIN
My thought: I let Seneca play as if I wish I were a kid again, and I would allow myself to do stuff that I wanted, but that my parents didn’t allow me in …
WHY HYGIENE IS THE FUTURE.
Hygiene is the future. Why? Hygiene as the new luxury. For example, you buy a TESLA because you no longer need to go to (very unhygienic) gas stations. Nobody after COVID wants to touch …
BITCOIN IN THE NEWS
My personal joy of owning Bitcoin: I love seeing Bitcoin things in the (mainstream) news. For example seeing Fidelity– to offer bitcoin as an option in 401k plans. CRYPTO THOUGHTS Brave new world for photographers …
SEE YOUR PHOTOS AS SMALL THUMBNAILS TO JUDGE TONE/EXPOSURE
Another reason why it is good to look at your photos as small thumbnails (contact sheets): Easier to see your exposure and tone in your photos.
THINGS WHICH REQUIRE ADDITIONAL AND SPECIAL/EXTRA MAINTENANCE IS BAD.
Read essay →ONLY WORK ON THINGS YOU’RE INSANELY PASSIONATE ABOUT.
For example for me, this includes powerlifting (deadlift, squat), physical fitness, photography, blogging, thinking, philosophy, entrepreneurship, street photography, etc:
VIBRAM FIVE FINGER SHOES
The best and the most minimal shoes ever invented. Vibram 5 finger (EL-X) model as the best. The best shoe for everyday wearing, hiking, deadlifting, squats at the gym, beach, etc.
HONEST ETHICS
The best way to approach ethics: Don’t arbitrarily follow societal pre-ordained ethics. Instead, keenly observe how your behavior manifests in real life, THEN create a code of ethics which matches your (real life) behavior.
Just treat your laptop like a desktop
Keep your laptop perched at eye level, use a wireless keyboard at an ergonomic wait level, standing desk at home. When mobile and on the go, just use iPad or iPhone.
YOU DECIDE.
Don’t cater to people’s preferences, what do you think they will prefer. Rather, you decide for them.
Just drive a low-key car
Lexus RX, Subaru, Tesla Model 3, Prius.
Only be critical if you actually plan on personally doing something about it
Read essay →Only be critical if you actually plan on personally doing something about it
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Feed your kids goat’s milk
I first thought of goats milk from the ancient Roman’s and Greeks — even back then it was common knowledge that sheep and goats milk and cheese and dairy products had less flatulence and …
Train Yourself and Your Kid
Already teaching Seneca how to do sumo deadlifts and squats:
The Goal Is to Become More Powerful, Not More Productive.
Physical power — powerlifting. Also more power via your influence. More power is a master morality and imperative, more productivity is a slave labor mentality. More power via eating more meat (3+ pounds a …
In praise of Whole Foods hot food bar
The fastest, easiest and most bang for the buck way to quickly get 3+ pounds of meat (they even had beef barbacoa the other day), only $10 a pound for food (consider how good …
A pleasant life is a boring life.
Perhaps this is why living in a very pleasant climate like San Diego is so boring.
We charge our phones, why not charge our cars?
Another +1 for Tesla.
Don’t Sell Your Company
Anyone who sells their company, perhaps they don’t really got “soul†in the game, as every person who has built or started a company knows, control is 1000000x more important than any billions of …
Billionaire Lifestyle
The most low key and stealth. You don’t want others to know how rich you really are. Thus for car, you probably won’t want to drive a Rolls Royce or a Lamborghini to draw …
CAMERA STARTUP
Leica Camera needs a true competitor. ERIC CAMERA.
I Never Want the Journey to End
Life as an epic never ending journey.
Anti Easy and Pleasant Living
When things are too easy and pleasant, you get lulled to sleep. This is the death of ambition.
Don’t cater to the mass market
If you try to cater to the mass market, you will fail.
We all need competitors.
Alo vs Lululemon. Competitors are good, competition is always good. The upside of capitalism.
Once you got perfect climate, weather, and life, then what?
Then perhaps you can work on higher order things, like philosophy, this is why the ancient Greeks were so productive, because they had ideal Mediterranean climate?
PUBLISH BEFORE YOU’RE READY.
My ethos on how to publish more and get more stuff out there to the world — your website, blog, the internet and the web.
ONLY WHERE A CAR CAN VENTURE.
Assuming that Covid will always be a thing, and road trips are the future, even a two hour road trip somewhere suffices. The secret with road trips is this: only go to places that …
KEEP GOING *BEYOND* PERFECT
Never ending versions. Think about Iron Man suits — all the different marks (versions) up to Mark VII.
ONLY WORK ON THINGS YOU BELIEVE ARE INSANELY IMPORTANT FOR HUMANITY.
The Elon Musk approach.
JUST FINISH IT.
The joy of finishing. Nobody wants creative or artistic ‘blue balls’.
LONG STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
Life is short, street photography is long. 1. Street photography is your connection to reality In SKIN IN THE GAME by Nassim Taleb, he has the analogy of the one Greek god who got …
BEEF RIBS ARE KING.
Beef ribs at least 1000x more delicious, tasty, nutritious, and great when compared to any other cut of meat, steak, etc:
ZEN DESIGN.
iPhone SE in black. Tesla Model 3 on black on black on black with all emblems and badges shaved. Same with a murdered out Tesla Model S Plaid in all black. For clothes all …