Month: April 2023

Currently speaking, I am very dismayed by the current world of photography. Nothing is really interesting. Even after perusing all the different cameras out there, they are all boring, not innovative.

What is the big issue here? It seems that all of these camera companies only work by analogy; what is drive to do is to take past designs and just iterate on them, rather than wiping the slate clean, and doing something totally brand new.

For example, why do modern day digital cameras still look like old film cameras?

Or better yet, let us consider car design. There is no really good reason why an electric car needs to look like an old gasoline car, considering there is no longer an engine either in the front or the back. This could allow some very interesting innovations. To design the front of an electric car simply as a “frunk“, seems boring.

The key to win

Podcast

The only way to live:

Video

One step at a time.

Podcast

Media is the future:

Beef intestines is the future!

A problem I have been having with my Apple iCloud storage; I keep hitting the 2 TB limit. As a consequence, what I have been doing is going back to all the videos that I’ve shot and recorded and backed up to iCloud, to the Apple photos storage, the built-in one, and I just delete all of them.

For some reason, I think we have a fear of deleting our old photos, especially all of them in mass, with the fear that somehow we are “missing out“. However, maybe this carte blanche approach, a clean slate, is a good strategy to create new memories.

Similarly speaking, I might only check my email once every three or four months. And truth be told, when I went off the grid for almost 2 years in Vietnam, and didn’t check any messages, didn’t use email, didn’t check my email, I didn’t even have a phone or a phone plan, I only missed out on maybe one interesting opportunity, but even that opportunity ended up not being that interesting to me.

Therefore, when I do plan on using email, and I go back to my inbox, with my laptop, and the built-in Apple Mail app, I just select all the emails, and mass delete them, without looking at any of them. Similar speaking, whenever I go into my Gmail to clean it out, I will just select all, and just archive all. Blank slate.

Therefore, a simple thought; if you seek to create new memories, become you, advance yourself, evolve, perhaps deleting your past memories as a good idea.

Being stuck to the past is cowardly.

“Fucking c’est la vie!”

Or take on certain traits which are not you!

For example, the iPhone pro camera is not 1000 times better than the iPhone SE camera.

For example TESLA is probably 1000x better than any car or electric car company out there.

Also iPhone at least 1000x better than Android or any Samsung or other phone.

My simple heuristic and rule of thumb with things.

How to believe in photography again:

I can technically afford anything — the better question is whether I care for it or if it is “worth it” to me.

How I do it:

VLOG

WORKOUT POV PORN:

Vlog

PODCAST

Leica M11 is boring.

It must fit in my front right pocket.

Lift like EK:

I have yet discovered a gym which is well-suited for strongman start lifting; yoke walk, yoke lift, atlas lift, floor bench press, farmers walk, etc. This is true “functional fitness”.

Create for yourself.

Create the things, the structures, or the stuff you desire to see manifested in the real world.

For example, I am so insanely dissatisfied with everything, and I always am hungry to learn more, become more, etc. Therefore, my relentless quest is trying to figure out things which work well for me, and then later, sharing those findings with others.

In order to become more productive, improve your physiology.

For me, my primum mobile is divine dissatisfaction.

IT IS IN THE LEGS:

GO BIG OR GO HOME:

Think of it almost like a standing hip thrust.

THIS IS THE WAY:

Perhaps the future is philosophy, and also philosophy workshops. Why? It seems that the greatest absence we currently have in life right now, is the desire to find direction, meaning and purpose and motivation in our lives.

This is the critical factor onto great innovation.

Also maybe, great boredom?

The upside of boredom is that with boredom, it is one of the strongest motivators to change things up, and innovate.

Transform your self into a version 2.0 of yourself. Or like John Wick, a chapter 4 for yourself.

The big downside of electric cars is range anxiety, and the inconvenience of trying to find a place to charge your car. However, at least the upside of electric cars is that in the long run, you need to concern yourself less with random things breaking in the engine, whether it be the pistons, changing the oil and transmission fluids, Anything to do with the transmission, which is a lot, as well as random pulleys, shafts and other assortments.

Therefore, perhaps getting a Tesla, in terms of longevity is actually superior. Nothing will really “break“, and you no longer require any mechanics.

Also, the big upside is that with people who know nothing about cars, always the fear of being ripped off by a mechanic, especially if you are a woman. At least with electric cars, the only issues will probably have to do with the longevity of the battery. Besides that, everything else will probably be fine.

Conversely, your biggest critics, are also your biggest fans?

Fandom and criticism; the sword cuts both ways.

Lesson: Take all positive and negative criticism, as well as fandom with a grain of salt.

Perhaps a petty way to feel superior?

The cognitive bias that we think everyone is always looking at us, but truth is, nobody is.

When now, life is all upside, no downside?

Asking why exercise is like asking, “why live“?

In order to live, you must exercise. Or, maybe it is best to think that life itself is exercise.

Exercise means to “ward off”? To keep away. *Herk– to ward off, guard.

What’s on my mind: