Month: September 2022

Beautiful, insanely beautiful web experiences for the elite, and spammy ugly distracting experiences for the “middle class”, poor working class, everyone else.

For example I hate Gmail aesthetics and UI/UX. Apple iCloud Email at least 1000x more beautiful aesthetically.

Even on the web user interface!

I just did the custom email domain link with iCloud Plus plan — really love it!

For more bodily UV absorption, topless and no shirt on is best?

For example when I wake up first thing in the morning, just going on the patio, in the direct sun, and absorbing all of the suns rays is the most glorious way to wake up — no shirt on!

No shirt on means you have more surface area for your flesh!

Microsoft should re-re-brand “Edge” into “Explorer”.

Protect — “avenger” actually means “protector”. Protect your kid(s) and wife.

Protect that which you care for.

Become a thought merchant!

The number one export of America is her thoughts.

I love it!

How to innovate like an American:

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MY THIGHS CAN MOVE THE WORLD!

If you can kinda lift it (even a tiny bit) off the ground, but ultimately you’re not strong enough (yet).

This should be our motto to life!

Better to attempt something insanely audacious and epic, and fail, than be moderate and succeed.

Anti being ”realistic”.

Create your own program, method, approach.

Maybe this is a good reason not to get a fast car, or the fastest car; I can imagine owning a Tesla model S plaid, and trying to accelerate from 0 to 60, to show off, and through this process, either killing myself or somebody else. Or even worse, both.

Even worse, now that I got a kid, I also have my kid to live for. I do not want to die, because this means that Seneca will have to grow up without a father, my biggest fear.

Actually requires some sort of physical danger as well.

Therefore, the best life is the maximally focused life.

The only thing I care for, and the only thing I should perhaps try to optimize for.

Perhaps the biggest upside of coffee and caffeine is that it increases your focus. Adrenaline as a hormone that promotes focus, especially in lieu of danger.

Recording yourself powerlifting is dangerous

However, we do care how much you can deadlift.

To build your body, empty your mind.

To build your mind, empty your body?

A whale; somebody who may need to pay $10 million in income tax this year.

What do whales do with their time? It seems that they all end up doing philosophical pursuits, body strengthening things, and artistic creative ones and existential ones. It also seems that they want to become “thought leaders“.

Therefore, the interesting idea, perhaps having clout is more important than money, because the more clout you have, the more you can become a thought leader. Thoughts are more important than money.

And also, when you’re making certain life decisions, just ask yourself: rather than, this is going to make me more money? Think—“Is this going to help me build more clout?”, or is this going to help me become more of a thought leader?

Oh can you imagine a life without Apple products? And no, the economics would not work if Apple produced all the things in the states.

Also, a personal thing I am grateful for is the chinakettlebell.com open hex bar I have access to in my gym here in Phnom Penh, MONKIFIT GYM.

Perhaps there is a great advantage of innovation been born in the states, and being produced abroad, somewhere that is cheaper, and has access to a greater servile workforce.

The reason why I don’t think Americans make for great service line workers or producers is this: they are too individualistic, and they see the labor as beneath them. Asians don’t really question it, they just treat it like a job.

Asians don’t see their job is their identity, whereas Americans do.

The benefit of the Vietnamese notion of your “right hand job” vs your “left-handed job”. Your right handed job is a job you need to make a living, whereas your left handed job is your passion.

Therefore, if your goal is to maximize both your income and your passion, maybe it is best to further separate and barbell the two. For example, it seems I have made far more money in cryptocurrency speculation then in photography and teaching workshops and selling products.

Perhaps too much obsession with media, comparing our faces with other faces we see on the big screen.

I am very anti-plastic surgery in the face. Only in the tail end cases, in which one has injured their face, perhaps as a Consequence of a traumatic accident, or some sort of genetic disease.

For example, the trend for Asians, or Koreans to try to get a plastic surgery for their nose, to make it more “pointy “, and lifted, like individuals from Caucasian descent.

Or, the traditional Korean female “sangapool” double eyelid surgery. If you look at traditional Korean masks of women, the traditional beauty is having small eyes.

To some extent, you can choose your nation-hood or nationality (where do you pay taxes?) but you cannot choose your race (your genetic makeup).

For example, why is it so considered so rude to stare?

Rushing things ruins things, often leads to injuries which will last for weeks, or even death (Better to lose one minute of your better, than lose your life in one minute).

For example, do not rush your warm-up, or your workout. We need to aim for longevity.

Worse to just shave 30 minutes off your workout routine, in order to save a little time, rather than prevent yourself from going into the gym for weeks, or even worse, months.

Also, don’t rush to always get yourself back in the gym. If you’re exhausted, just eat more meat and sleep. And cut caffeine and coffee during your recovery period. Don’t force productivity.

Do you remember when Samsung tried to rush out their newest phone, how they caused their batteries to explode? A short term foolish decision; it really hurt Samsung‘a brand image for years.

Or, when you rush a construction thing, serious injuries or death can occur. Even my friend Tim, his young 20 something-year-old nephew died, one falling off the ladder. Apparently this is very common.

I really really hate slow flowing purified water faucets.

Some theories:

1. Higher one rep max lifts for deadlift (trap bar), squat (micro squats), floor bench press
2. Higher meat, red meat, beef consumption. The redder red color of beef— an indicator of higher nutritional density and quality/power? Higher concentration of myoglobin in red meat as a good indicator?
3. More godlike sleep. 12 hours a night.

Real men would either prefer a Ford Shelby mustang, or a Tesla model S plaid. ADM — American domestic market, American muscle is the future.

Or another words, would you rather look like Arnold Schwarzenegger, or would you rather look like a BTS member? I would choose Arnold.

Th dilemma of the digital nomad.

If you only ever do deadlifts, and never squats, would there be any downside?

Besides the fact that you may not be able to hit the gym as often or frequently, and not compete in powerlifting competitions, I don’t think so.

Perhaps we should only ultimately think of the squat as an accessory workout for deadlift.

Trying to blend Hermès and Aphrodite, to create a hermaphrodite. Should Hermès and Aphrodite be separate? I think so.

The only one I could think of is Nassim Taleb, Lebanese born, but bred in the states.

We can also think of Steve Jobs as a philosopher, in terms of his aesthetics, and his ethos for technology. Blending zen minimalism, with technology.

Peter Thiel, also as probably more of a philosopher than entrepreneur, although he is great at both. His book ZERO TO ONE as a philosophy book meets tech entrepreneurship.

Kanye West also as philosopher, although not in the traditional sense.

At least one of the good things, is that as I’m becoming buffer and more swole, my medium sized shirt is becoming tighter. Perhaps large is better.

Better to have a bigger shirt, and have something to aspire to grow in, rather than to have something small.

Perhaps this is how getting bigger things is better:

By having something bigger, and larger, you anticipate the need for buffer.

Size and scalability. The upside of getting shoes half a size up for your (growing) kids.

Shelby over Lamborghini.

Pain has degrees. The types of pain, the nuances of pain.

What if you could never leave one square block radius of your house?

Timing is everything. For example, good to have coffee first thing in the morning, very bad to have coffee before you sleep.

The real elite don’t own cars.

My thought why a World War III will not happen, no nation in the world desires nuclear holocaust. Not the Americans, not the Chinese, etc.

Maybe the only fear should be North Korea. But then again, even if North Korea created a nuclear holocaust, then the Kim Jong dynasty will not have access to their Mercedes cars.

Suits — too hot and restricted movement. Also leather shoes. The modern day Chinese foot binding?

If you can control their bodies, then you can control their souls.

Self Expansion

Self beautification

I don’t want my movement to be restricted! The ideal of an SUV or all wheel drive car? also gas?

Why Lamborghini?

I can still move the world without moving that far myself —

As long as I got the internet, Wi-Fi, 4G, I’m good.

Always on is bad

Why I love marketing language so much. Great vs lame marketing language

Why I don’t use pain killers. Pain is good.

I desire to harness the power of the sun to the maximum