For me — teaching photography, video, vlogging blogging etc. Building a website blog.

Equipment: RICOH GR IIIX.

Yes you can!

Street photography in front of Royce Hall at UCLA:

Fact sheet on US SECURITY assistance to Ukraine:

Also 31 more Abrams tanks. Apparently one tank costs around $10 million dollars USD.

Also, Ukraine drives 50% increase in arms sales. From $35 billion to $52 billion dollars USD.

As solo innovators, let us seek to make substantive innovations. This means seeking substantive innovations not just by purchasing things, but we ourselves are the innovators.

One fun thing is I always go to the apple.com website, just because I’m curious about the marketing material, how things are structured, etc.

Now, Apple is just plain boring. Nothing is interesting nothing is enticing, etc. Ever since Steve Jobs has died, and then finally Jony Ive left the company, Apple has been doing a slow decline towards mediocrity. Essentially the nerds have taken over; all of their efforts are now on their M series chip, and just making their devices more powerful, rather than substantial design innovation.

Also something that people don’t understand; nobody really cares about privacy. Rather, we care about innovation, what is sexy, etc. When companies talk too much about privacy, I don’t think they really understand human nature that well.

Also another thing; I am all about diversity and inclusion, etc., but I don’t really think it is the role or duty of companies to promote it. Whenever companies spend too much marketing efforts on “inclusion“, and “racial diversity“, I think their sights are misaligned.

This should be the tagline for the iPhone Pro.

If you want to become more productive, stronger, happier, sleep better, eat better, have better digestion etc., it seems that hypelifting as the way.

Ever since I’ve gotten seven plates and beyond and hyper lifting, my self confidence is insanely insane. My self-confidence is so high, it has helped me so much in every day life, random social interactions, I’ve noticed more random people just approaching me and talking to me, my body is more demigod, and also it gives me more self confidence in life entrepreneur ship and also street photography.

“White money make money, don’t spend it… I’d rather buy 80 gold necklaces and go ignant…” – Kanye West (CLIQUE song)

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At least anger or being mad can be a productive emotion.

Innovate new unorthodox types of lifts!

Physique is all subjective. My simple suggestion is to craft your own ideal physique for yourself:

This is why I prefer Whole Foods over Amazon fresh.

It is not your duty to make the unwell well.

Self certainty is a good thing to cultivate.

Because the economy is what keeps the people moving!

To warm up, spend maybe around 15 minutes doing some sort of yoga stretching.

Also, put the safety pins in place, just in case you fail.

Third, just to slowly increase the weight, until you work up to your one repetition maximum weight.

Rather, maybe the goal is instead to become the strongest, to become the most powerful.

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Some bad news for fiat currency; let us assume you have a bunch of hundred dollar bills, hard cash just stowed away at your house, somewhere inside a sock drawer. Let us assume you have $1 million worth of cash at home.

Technically, the US federal reserve printing more money will cause your hard earned cash to become devalued. Why? More printing money and more currency in the economy in the world means that dollar per dollar, each of your dollars are actually worth less.

So what are we to do about this? One thought is to just use and spend more of your hard cash, printed hundred dollar bills, or $20 bills, whenever you have the chance. Maybe this is a good idea to stop using your credit card so much; better to use cash instead.

Also some thoughts about bitcoin and cryptocurrency; assuming that the upper limit of bitcoin is capped, this is a good sign for notions of money.

Currently the challenges with bitcoin is that it is still too slow to transfer, the lightning network seems like a good promise. At least the good thing with bitcoin is that it is a recognized currency, all of the other crypto currencies and coins seem to have a branding and PR issue.

Ideally moving forward, bitcoin will be the best type of currency in regards to big purchases. For example, buying a house or a car with bitcoin seems like a good idea. I still think that into the future, the US dollar and fiat currency will persist, but rather, they will still just be used for a smaller every day purchases.

Also, I predict that Tesla will start accepting bitcoin again to purchase their cars into the future. Maybe also into the future, Apple will accept bitcoin to buy their iPhone pros, etc.

I am also very certain that in the future, once you could easily link up your cryptocurrency wallet, and your bitcoin to your Amazon prime account, making Amazon and Amazon prime purchases will be a viable option with cryptocurrency.

Also, what is the biggest issue with trading stock nowadays? The annoyance and the slowness of having to link up your trading account, get some inexperienced guy to link up and set up your account, etc. It is all too slow and cumbersome. Some sort of crypto technology which makes trading easier is the future.

For example, let us say that I want to buy a bunch of Tesla stock. Yet I do not have an official trading account. If I want to suddenly put $250,000 into Tesla stock, and I do not yet have an approved JP Morgan trading account, I might lose up to tens of thousands of dollars in my delay, even the slowness of trading by a day.

Moral of the story; keep thinking about crypto technology, bitcoin and cryptocurrency. I still regularly check up on chain-link, even though I currently do not own any. Currently all I have is 100% bitcoin. Once I find some thing enticing enough, I might do some trading.

Is Ethereum the future? I don’t think so. Why? Ethereum 2.0 and the split is a sign of a bad technology, and also, 99.99% of people have no idea what it is, how it works, or even how to pronounce it. Just try to get your English as a second language mom to pronounce, spell, or remember the word “Ethereum”. However your mom could still remember and pronounce bitcoin.

So maybe if you have the option right now, start buying more Bitcoin. And hoarding for the future!

Then as a reminder to self, maybe I should be the one who is more forgiving to others.

My only fitness goal.

For example, core black Lululemon clothing is never on sale or clearance. You always have to pay full price for a black Lululemon clothing. Therefore, if you pull up wearing all black Lululemon clothing, it is actually a sign and signal of your wealth.

Also black cars. Black cars are notoriously difficult to keep clean and well-maintained. Therefore, owning a black car is a signal that you’re rich enough, to maintain it, keep it clean, wax and polish it, etc.

My ideal type of elite soldier can deal well with fasting; no need for breakfast or lunch, things which slow you down.

Also, assuming that we want to forge the most elite soldiers, we should feed them the most nutrient dense meats known to man. Ideally 100% grass fed meat, the finest cuts of beef. Beef ribs, beef neck bone, beef liver, beef large intestine, etc.

Also, what not to feed them, or what not to let them consume. From what I understand, the military is insanely strict when it comes to scheduling, fitness, working out, etc., but from what I understand, the food and beverage situation is horrific. Why allow them consume sugary monster and rockstar energy drinks? Only allow them to drink black coffee.

Also, do not allow them to eat sugars, starches, or anything which increases their body adipose tissue. Only build muscle.

Furthermore, weight lifting. Insanely heavy weight lifting is the goal.

Just walking around, no headphones on, the best time to think.

In theory you could also think while driving, with no music or podcasts on, but thinking while walking is at least 1000 times better.

1000x thinking.

In praise of working out at least once or twice a day.

For example, the upside of walking to the gym, even though it takes more time is that as you walk, you are technically getting “exercise”, and also as an entrepreneur, you come up with lots of great ideas.

Then it seems that the path to living the greatest possible life is strategizing your life in such a way that you could kill many birds with few stones.

For example, everyone seems to be obsessed about how many billions of views to get, but why doesn’t anyone ever think; the most impressive thing is a platform hosting the views.

Something that is insanely essential is one’s photo strategy for things.

Cultivating an entrepreneurial spirit is mostly a teaching thing. For example, not giving your kid handouts, and teaching them that they can become self-sufficient, and innovate and entrepreneur on their own.

Why I love the Ricoh gr 3X so much is that it democratizes photography. Anybody using it, shooting high contrast black and white and JPEG will create phenomenal images.

Then the goal isn’t to make good images, but simply, to capture photos and things that are personally meaningful to you.

Anti-CrossFit.

Beautiful environments uplift, invigorate, and inspire us!

For example Royce hall at UCLA. Possibly one of the most beautiful buildings I’ve witnessed in real life. This and the buildings in Venice

For example, the beautiful quad at UCLA. It essentially looks like an Ivy League school. The beautiful brick buildings, an insanely great investment over 100 years ago by the initial founders of UCLA. It makes for great photographs, and also attracts more students. This is good business.

Or can you?

Racing cars is democratic and egalitarian in a bad way; any skinny fat loser in an expensive and fast car can go fast.

What takes more courage, and substance? Lifting insanely heavy weights instead. Why? Physical feats of strength are much more interesting than just pushing your foot to the pedal, and increase your adrenaline via G forces.

The best way to naturally produce your own adrenaline is hyping yourself up before lifting an insanely heavy weight. 7 plate and beyond or nothing.

Perhaps instead of going to college or university, better to just travel the world, live in Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, Korea, etc.

Some places I love include Phnom Penh Cambodia, Saigon, Hanoi, Seoul South Korea. I truly feel that the most dynamic and interesting place currently in the world is in Asia.

Out of all the places that I mentioned, for myself, Phnom Penh Cambodia is the most interesting, as it is at the intersection of all of the great Asian tigers in the Indo Pacific area. Also, the best gym I’ve ever been to, monkifit in Phnom Penh. An insane amount of foreign investment from mainland China, makes Phnom Penh and Cambodia very interesting to me.

South Korea, Seoul is very interesting to me because of the strong American alliance and ties. And the strong economic link with South Korea; think about Hyundai, Kia, and Hyundai Genesis, Samsung, LG etc. Also note the strong American military presence in South Korea.

The best place to situate yourself is in a place which is at the intersection of many different nations, and activities.

It is fine if others, you perceive them as mediocre. And certainly, society cannot exist without the mediocre.

However for you as a solo entrepreneur and innovator, keep away from mediocre with a 1000 foot stick. Mediocre thinking, mediocrity.

We only care for the best, the number one. We have zero interest in the number two, and lower.

Therefore as a marketing thing, try to brand things in such a way that you’re the number one of something. You can make it more niche and more specific.

Start off super small and super niche, and keep at it until you dominate and become number one in that small niche. And then as time goes on, expand into other adjunct areas, or other fields, and keep at it until you become number one those domains as well.

Then what is the final goal? Then to become number one in everything, in the entire world.

Everywhere kind of sucks; make the best out of where you currently are. Because even if you go somewhere else, it still sucks, and who knows, it actually might suck more.

Assuming you could also lift weights every single day, let us continue our 30,000 steps a day challenge!

Maybe “gym intimidation” is actually a good thing. Why? Then it does take courage and balls to enter and exhibit your strength in the arena.

Assuming that sitting is bad for you, your health, your energy levels, and your physiology, it seems then the ideal way to transit is actually by standing. Therefore, this is a good praise or encouragement for riding the bus, or the subway, or any form of transit which allows you to stand.

Maybe even standing on electric scooter is better than sitting on a bicycle.

Don’t waste your time with people who slow you down, waste your time, drag you down.