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Month: January 2023

Photo essay / Jan 28, 2023

SOME GOALS AND VISIONS

For me — teaching photography, video, vlogging blogging etc. Building a website blog. Equipment: RICOH GR IIIX.

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Photo essay / Jan 28, 2023

DEFENSE.

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 …

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Photo essay / Jan 28, 2023

Substantive Innovation

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.

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Photo essay / Jan 28, 2023

How has Apple become so lame?

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 …

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Photo essay / Jan 28, 2023

WHY HYPELIFTING?

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 …

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Photo essay / Jan 28, 2023

HOW I LIFT

Shorten the range of motion, increase the weight. How to go heavy

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Photo essay / Jan 27, 2023

PHYSIQUE THOUGHTS

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

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Photo essay / Jan 27, 2023

How to conquer the fear of weight lifting

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 …

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Photo essay / Jan 26, 2023

Cash feels free?

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 …

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Photo essay / Jan 26, 2023

BLACK IS A PRIVILEGE.

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, …

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Photo essay / Jan 26, 2023

ELITE SOLDIERS.

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 …

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Photo essay / Jan 26, 2023

Thinking Time

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 …

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Photo essay / Jan 26, 2023

Kill two birds with one stone

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 …

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Photo essay / Jan 26, 2023

THE PLATFORM IS KING

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.

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Photo essay / Jan 26, 2023

PHOTO STRATEGY.

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

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Photo essay / Jan 26, 2023

How to cultivate an entrepreneurial spirit

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.

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Photo essay / Jan 26, 2023

Democratizing photography

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 …

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Photo essay / Jan 26, 2023

Why beautiful environments?

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

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Photo essay / Jan 26, 2023

Why design is good business

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 …

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Photo essay / Jan 26, 2023

Why Race?

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. …

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Photo essay / Jan 25, 2023

College is boring, a waste of time?

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 …

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Photo essay / Jan 25, 2023

Anti-Mediocrity

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 …

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Photo essay / Jan 25, 2023

Number one or nothing.

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 …

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Photo essay / Jan 25, 2023

Everywhere it kind of sucks.

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.

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Photo essay / Jan 25, 2023

Fitness and gym culture is good

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.

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Photo essay / Jan 25, 2023

Standing transportation?

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 …

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