Month: July 2023
We like the untamed?
Being indoors is bad, bad for your productivity and physiology
Assuming you want to maximize your productivity in life, avoid being indoors like the plague.
The most observant shall win.
Nobody wants to live in the mall for the rest of their lives
Nobody runs the world
Perhaps the closest thing is the nation state of America.
Ultimately it isn’t even the banks which run the world. Ultimately it comes down to the military; who has the biggest stick? American military.
Racial Hierarchy?
A funny thought while at the mall: ultimately, it doesn’t really matter what your racial makeup is, it is simply a heuristic, a stereotype, or a short hand shortcut for socioeconomic status and class.
For example, once upon a time in America, the notion of being “white“ was simply reserved for the original settlers; Anglo Saxon, British descendants, quaker protestant Christians.
For example, in the early days Germans, Polish people, the Irish were not considered “white“. Same goes with the Italians.
Being here in Vietnam, it is funny, there is a different type of racial hierarchy here. On top it seems like it is best to be a Korean, then maybe after that Japanese, then after that high class Vietnamese. And to simply be white“, to have call Tatian features, and a lighter pigment skin, it is mostly a marketing tactic; anybody who looks “White“, or seen as more adept English teachers.
However, what is it that everyone ultimately desires? War privilege, more power, more money, more influence. He or she with the most power and influence is seeing as supreme.
For example, better to be a Jay-Z or Beyoncé and be African-American, than to be a rich “white†person.
Just delete it all.
Things that simplify your life, things which complicate your life?
The most blessed life for a kid?
Laser
The bare minimum.
Vietnam, Korea, Cambodia
Currently speaking the three regions which interests me the most.
Saigon is ripe
Finances for the sake of what?
Smaller sensors are better?
What do you want to become?
I don’t like foreign products?
What is truly critical?
The more resources, the better.
How far can you go with just an iPhone SE?
Disagree but commit
What does it really mean to be “self owned�
SAIGON MORNING TRAFFIC COMMUTE
Not as bad as LA traffic!
The world runs on AWS
Run the world
I hate lag
Why do we desire the new?
Why Squat?
Chaos Photography
Anti Single Images:
Your clothes are more important than your phone?
Miserable people cast a gloomy shadow over everything?
Morale of the story: avoid miserable people like the plague.
iPhone photos are not satisfying
You are the filter of what is interesting and what is uninteresting
Interact more with people in real life!
Seek more good *AND* more bad!
The Philosophy of Pain
Seek the good pain:
In camera filters are the best.
Post processing your photos is optional
Productivity not money is the goal
*TOO* SMALL IS BAD.
Quick Draw
No envy, no jealousy
When you are so great grand and powerful and high, naturally you will feel no envy or jealous towards anyone.
This is a critical difference because it isn’t about suppressing or trying to force yourself not to feel envy or jealousy, rather, to position yourself in such a way that naturally you won’t even feel it in the first place!
Instead, just sing their praises! Singing the praises of others.
Just record your impressions of a place
CHAOS VLOG.
Chaos photography — anti single image.
PAIN IS GOOD
Seek the good pain:
Don’t worship money.
Just treat others like you would treat your mom
Don’t put yourself into a vulnerable position
Leggings, no shorts
Intrinsic Motivation
I LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY A LOT.

















Photo Innovator
Photo Feedback Loop
Tighten the photography feedback loop:
Artistic Genius.
SEMIDEUS.
ACHILLES.
Anti Specialty Coffee
DETAILS.





I prefer smaller cars
Americans are superior to Germans
Then why do Americans strive for and towards German cars?
Deep judging versus superficial judging.
The more attempts, the better.
SAIGON ZEN.
Bare Chested
Always pack more.
When you think you got enough, you don’t have enough.
Public parks and spaces and places are important
My passion for the Saigon Le Ven Tam park.