Month: August 2022

All the phones are so lame.

It is trying to do too much? Also, trying to serve too many people? Also now that Jony Ive is out — no more central design ethos. The new iOS trend towards “personalization” looks …

Get it on Amazon with the “Fluents” purple ear plugs — paradise for home, sleep, travel.

Hunger as the most primal motivator. Full satiation means no more desire or motivation!

Why do Americans always feel so guilty about everything?

Our ideal in street photography. Shoot before you’re ready, no concern for composition. More concerned with just shooting it, and capturing your initial impression of something you find interesting.

Siem Reap, Cambodia as a new design cultural hotspot? Treeline Urban Resort — the most epic hotel I’ve been to in my life!

When you get a very very strong massage, the masseuse breaks down, and gives a “soft reset“ to your muscles. Strong massage is a form of hormesis, getting stronger.

The question is just how badly you want it

Every day carte blanche

I hate iPhone, love iPad. Why is iPhone so mediocre?

Street photography as artistic photos of strangers.

Epic car, with great gas mileage.

Hybrid of both:

Why I don’t like buying things, or being stuck with things. My taste always changes and evolves! For example my taste for cars or car colors.

Just one cup of really really really strong coffee once a day in the morning?

Certainty is boring.

By doing market research, you’re more likely to just iterate rather than to carte blanche innovation!

Air conditioning weakens you. Don’t use it if you have the option. For me, I love AC when I sleep at night in Southeast Asia. Or while napping. Otherwise opt to be outside or …

Most bodybuilders are not that strong; they have great endurance, when it comes to pulling levers, and churning out hateful repetitions, yet typically their one rep max strength for deadlift or squat is poor. …

Assuming that every single time you attempt a one rep max, technically, it should weaken you in the short term. One theory is that when we lift very, very heavy weights, you tear your …

My technology ideal.

Even the uber-rich don’t live well in America No aristocrats in America, only worker servants. Asia— you can become a new aristocrat, or an aristocratic mode of living.

For example, better to get the Tesla with the longest range, instead of the plaid. Also, with gas for hybrid cars, better to have the car with the highest range on one tank and …

Instead a lot of sugar (either “real”/natural or fake), a lot of simple (or “complex”) starches and carbohydrates. Also, a little meat — more condiments, and “healthy” snacks.

The best driver is a hybrid driver. Human with assistance with computer vision, and auto pilot. Both is better than just one or the other. I would not trust my life or the life …

What we are seeking in life is not more comfort or happiness, but greater challenges.

The Hilarious irony, is that in America, we all want to be the driver, and be at the head of the cockpit. However, abroad, if you’re actually really rich, you don’t drive yourself. Therefore, …

After great sleep, good coffee in the morning, and feeling of strength in your arms, legs and body. Feeling your arms, biceps as fuller, bigger, stronger, more capable, more supple, and more ready (for …

I strive to become the most interesting photographer alive!

As few apps as humanly possible!

Some deprivation is good for us!

It doesn’t really matter how strong you are — what matters the most is whether or not you are at peak strength, and that your peak strength is continually rising. That you’re on top …

Phnom Penh is epic:

The road to greatness is marred with more pain, difficulty, uncertainty, and exhaustion. But these are the necessary ingredients towards greatness!!

The goal is to intelligently identify your greatest strengths, and focus on intelligently leveraging yourself to the maximum! Technology is not just digits and computers, technology is a tool of leverage! Technology can also …

If you desire growth, and to maximize your growth, you must nap and sleep more! My ideal is to sleep 12 hours a night like my son!

Not passive “recovery”— the recovery state is an active one— perhaps even more active than when you’re being “active”. Even as you sleep or nap, you’re still moving the world!

Perhaps we should get rid of antiquated notions of print design from the past. And instead, start carte blanche with digital; digital design.

In order to get into a flow state, you need a certain level of danger.