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Month: September 2022

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Photo essay / Sep 2, 2022

RED AND BRONZE.

Perhaps the best color car combination is this: red car paint, and bronze rims. Why? Think about the Spartan 300s. Also maybe with clothes; a red and bronze outfit?

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Photo essay / Sep 2, 2022

Hats give you more freedom?

You’re less worried about your hair getting in your face, or your hair getting messed up. Also, the more sun damage your black hat becomes, the more beautiful and Wabi Sabi it becomes?

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Photo essay / Sep 2, 2022

Swimming Pools

Why is it always in these futuristic, and often dystopic movies, or movies with spaceships, etc., there is always some sort of massive swimming pool? My theory ; there is probably some sort of …

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Photo essay / Sep 2, 2022

MAXIMAL FREEDOM?

The question is, not what is the “best place to live“, but the place to live where you at the maximum amount of personal freedom?

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Photo essay / Sep 1, 2022

Endurance is boring

What is more entertaining, to see Eddie Hall dead lift 500 kg, once? Or to see some dude on YouTube swing a kettlebell 1000 times in a row? I say the first. Maximal power …

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Photo essay / Sep 1, 2022

Insanely good

The new operating systems for iOS, iPad OS, MacOS is insanely good! Apple products and operating systems now a quadrillion times better than any Google, Samsung, Microsoft etc product.

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Photo essay / Sep 1, 2022

ANTI AFFORDABLE

In theory, almost everything is “affordable”. Afford (a+forth): Proto Germanic: furba— forwars. Aforthen— to bear, suffice, be sufficient.

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Photo essay / Sep 1, 2022

M over A

M-series processors and devices over A-series processors! In other words, quit buying the iPhone Pro— buy the iPad Pro instead! In an ideal world, no iPhone. Only iPad — what I did in Vietnam …

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Photo essay / Sep 1, 2022

DYNAMICS VS STATICS.

The problem with cars: Even if you buy the worlds best car, it is a static. It doesn’t keep on getting better, unless you keep upgrading it. Also, the issue with most technology, once …

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Photo essay / Sep 1, 2022

Anti School

An Elon Musk must would have never come out of an incubator, neither a Steve Jobs. Neither a Kanye West. Anti Y combinator. Also, most great innovators and entrepreneurs have had very little schooling. …

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Photo essay / Sep 1, 2022

Hate vs love

You could learn more about a person by asking what they hate, rather than what they love. Hate is a more authentic emotion than love.

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Photo essay / Sep 1, 2022

Why I love living in a Buddhist country

So much more chill, relaxed, focused. The upside of living in Cambodia or Thailand? I love Phnom Penh. My friend Todd Hata loves Chiangmai (see his YouTube). Also here in Phnom Penh, people are …

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Photo essay / Sep 1, 2022

Bumpers are good

Imagine if cars didn’t have bumpers. Also, kids (and adults) would have more fun bowling with bumpers! I would also never squat if there were no safety pins or bumpers on the side. “Burning …

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Photo essay / Sep 1, 2022

BLUE *AND* RED

What is the best colors? Blue or red? I say both — a combination of both. For example, police lights. Also, the South Korean flag.

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Photo essay / Sep 1, 2022

Barefoot for the supreme performance

Kids in Cambodia play soccer barefoot, to enhance their performance. Also, Seneca walks better when he’s barefoot. Also, if you want the most supreme squat or deadlift, do it barefoot. Or the most minimal …

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Photo essay / Sep 1, 2022

Beautiful things or beautiful bodies?

Money can buy you the sexiest Apple devices and cars, but not a beautiful body. One might argue that money could buy you plastic surgery, but this does not make you beautiful, unless you’re …

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Photo essay / Sep 1, 2022

HOW TO MAXIMIZE HUMAN PERFORMANCE

One of my personal curiosities is how to naturally enhance human performance to the maximum, without the aid of supplements, strange hormones, drugs, etc. This is what I have done, and what has worked …

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Photo essay / Sep 1, 2022

I AM INSANELY STRONG.

Now what? I am still blown away, that I’ve been able to deadlift 540 pounds, no straps, no belt, etc. Nearly 3.3x my body weight. My next personal goal is to deadlift four times …

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Photo essay / Sep 1, 2022

Don’t acknowledge

One of the good reasons why not to acknowledge the criticisms of others, or the critiques of others, whether in person or online: You mainrain your zen and focus.

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Photo essay / Sep 1, 2022

EDGES.

Aluminium edges (the matte black) on standard iPhone and iPhone mini is superior to shiny stainless steel on iPhone pro.

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Photo essay / Sep 1, 2022

I Need More Devices?

Even though I do believe in device minimalism, a thought while here in Phnom Penh: Currently, all my stuff and devices are getting maxed out. Thus, I need more devices and more SIM cards …

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