August 2023

Entrepreneurship is a mouthful, difficult to type out. I always typo it.

Essentially to me, business and entrepreneurship is pretty much the same thing. I suppose the subtle difference is that at least with entrepreneurship, it is more of an ethos and approach and philosophy to life; having a passion for innovation, creating and designing new things, innovating and paving new concepts, choosing the less obvious path in life.

My passion for the less obvious path in life!

Entrepreneurship by KIM

Become the change which you desire to see manifested in the world!

Become you.

1. TAKE REAL CHANCES
2. Making Money as a Hobby
3. The Best Exercises for Entrepreneurs
4. INCOME VS EXPENSES MONEY LIFESTYLE PHILOSOPHY
5. Entrepreneurship is the privilege of being able to attempt something new
6. How to Become More Influential
7. The Point of Life is Entrepreneurship?
8. How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
9. Become the Outlier
10. Self Reliance
11. How to Extend Your Reach
12. NEWS: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
13. PVP (Player vs Player)
14. How I became so influential
15. WE LOVE THE *SENSATION* OF RISK-TAKING
16. WHY HIGH PROFIT MARGINS?
17. INNOVATION THOUGHTS
18. OVERCONFIDENCE IS GOOD.
19. GARAGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
20. PERHAPS IT IS GOOD TO BE “DELUSIONAL”
21. USE YOUR WEALTH TO BUY STUFF, OR TO BUILD AND INNOVATE STUFF?
22. HOW TO THRIVE
23. Target Demographic
24. Ambition Over Happiness
25. Anti Collaboration
26. The Will to Economy
27. Why New?
28. CHOOSE ADRENALINE.
29. No Looking Back.
30. 1000x Different
31. BECOME SPENDTHRIFT
32. THE BENEFIT OF JUST ONE.
33. EXTREME INNOVATION.
34. Practicality is Boring
35. BECOME YOUR OWN STANDARD.
36. NEVER STOP ITERATING.
37. CONDENSE.
38. Take Lots of Small Financial Risks
39. Control Over Convenience
40. Why Are Chinese Companies So Innovative?
41. INSANELY DIFFERENT.
42. Why Doesn’t Anything Ever Satisfy Me?
43. THE GREAT PASSION.
44. Perhaps Dissatisfaction is Good
45. ONE REP MAX.
46. WHAT DO YOU *REALLY* WANT IN LIFE?
47. LIFE IS ABOUT STRIVING FOR MORE.
48. NEVER STOP LINKING.
49. THE GREATEST.
50. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
51. THE BEST IS YET TO COME.
52. ERIC KIM CRITIQUE OF ROMANTICISM
53. COMPLACENCY.
54. JUST BUY IT.
55. ALL ABOUT YOU.
56. MOVE THE WORLD
57. Boring or Not Boring?
58. What if Your Past Self were Inferior to Your Present Self?
59. THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROGRESS
60. CULTURE IS YOUR ENEMY.
61. Difficulty & Interest
62. The Will to Expansion
63. What is Work?
64. SOUL IN THE GAME.
65. JUST START IT.
66. Not Boring
67. PRIDE IN YOUR OWN NAME / BRAND
68. AS MUCH AS YOU CAN TOLERATE.
69. Speed is Paramount
70. TAKE IT BACK TO THE BEGINNING.
71. A Life With No Risk Taking is *NOT* a Life Worth Living
72. Dissatisfaction is Good
73. GREATER STRENGTH, GREATER CHALLENGES.
74. In Praise of the New
75. Uncorrupted Desires
76. You Cannot Fake Passion
77. SELF-OVERGOING
78. FORM YOURSELF.
79. Personal Entrepreneurship
80. RELENTLESS.
81. PUT YOUR NAME ON IT.
82. A Life of Expansion
83. SELF-ENTREPRENEURSHIP
84. YOU ARE THE EXCEPTION.
85. Use Your Life as an Experiment to Self-Develop Yourself to Heights Never Seen Before
86. Invest in New Developments
87. Investing Towards What End?
88. The 90%/10% Principle in Entrepreneurship
89. Speed Wins
90. The Philosophy of Happiness
91. When to Over-Estimate, When to Under-Estimate?
92. Never Stop Iterating
93. Money as a Tool for Life and Artistic Experimentation
94. Less But More Premium
95. Mainstream vs Low-Key Success
96. Why Dissatisfaction is Good
97. SEEK YOUR OWN PERSONAL MAXIMAL BENEFIT INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING
98. Manifest Your Destiny
99. Is it Best to *Not* Communicate Your Inner Thoughts or Ideas With Others?
100. CREATE THINGS YOU WISH TO SEE MANIFESTED IN THE WORLD
101. How to Do More Work
102. CONTROL.
103. Competition is for Losers
104. Change.
105. Your Competitive Advantage with Insanely Fast Wifi and High Speed Internet
106. Pseudo Individualism
107. Natural Internal Promoting vs External Promptings

Think for Yourself.

1. Survival vs Thrivival
2. Become Rich
3. SECRETS.
4. Why it is Better to Beg for Forgiveness than Ask for Permission
5. Thinking About the Past Prevents You From Thinking About the Future
6. How to Predict the Future
7. Tools of Mass Distraction
8. So What?

FREEDOM

• On Leaving a Legacy
• I wanna be me!
• Productivity for personal freedom
• How to Purchase your Freedom

Never stop innovating.

Entrepreneurship Mindset

• What is Your Dream in Life?
• 8 Blogging Productivity Tips
• Why Be Normal?
• How Much Suffering Are You Willing to Endure to Achieve Your Dreams?

Put a Dent in the Universe.

• Innovate for the Sake of Innovating!
• Reality is Malleable!
• Stoic Entrepreneurship
• Against Self-Preservation
• The Purpose of Life is to Make New Stuff!

Super inspired from the movie ‘FIGHT CLUB’– in terms of how to conquer my personal fears in life, how to break free from societal bullshit, and to become the best version of myself:

Here are some life lessons I’ve learned from the film:

1. Self-improvement is masturbation

In society, we are spoon-fed this need for constant ‘self-improvement’ in the eyes of some self-improvement guru.

But the fallacy is that we need ‘improving.’ You are already perfect the way you are.

Rather, Tyler Durden suggests we seek ‘self-destruction’ — the antithesis of self-improvement.

Not to destroy ourselves to commit suicide or cut ourselves. Rather, to destroy the bullshit consumerist mentality we have in our minds.

To destroy the false veil of reality, to see the truth in life.

2. Don’t squander your potential

‘I see all this potential; and I see it all squandered. Entire generation of slaves with white collars.’ – Tyler Durden

As humans, we have so much human potential. Yet, we waste it pointlessly. We waste it becoming consumerist slaves — except instead of chains, we wear golden rolexes. We live in a golden cage. We cannot fly free.

So friend— how can you fulfill your potential in life?

3. Our life is a spiritual war

‘Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. No purpose or place. No great war, no great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.’

To have a zest for life, we need struggle. We need pain. We need something to overcome.

We need to find meaning in our lives— to find some deeper purpose.

For me, I find purpose in life through creating art, through empowering others, and in terms of fulfilling my creative potential.

What is your drive in life?

4. Life is about pain and sacrifice

‘Without pain and sacrifice, we would have nothing.’ – Tyler Durden

To me, life is all about sacrifice.

My mom (umma) sacrificed her life and suffered to give me and my sister a better shot in life. Whenever I show my love for Cindy, there is always some sacrifice. As Nassim Taleb says, ‘Love without sacrifice is theft.’

How can you put more ‘skin in the game’ to life a life with more pain and sacrifice— but in a meaningful way?

5. Purge

‘It is only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.’ – Tyler Durden

Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) — aka the alter ego of Edward Norton, blows up his own condo. But after purging himself of his prior life, he is free.

Practically speaking — I have gained much freedom by purging myself of my past. Purging my past negative memories, purging my superfluous possessions, and purging bullshit. This helped me become reborn, and now I feel free.

6. It is cooler not to own a car.

‘I don’t have a car’ – Tyler Duren

Be like Tyler— don’t be a slave to wanting an expensive car. In-fact, it is cooler not to have a car.

Also consider, are you a slave to debt? Does debt have you working that job you hate, just so you can buy that next $30,000 car?

Consider if you are paid $20 an hour ($40,000 a year USD). Are you willing to work 1,500 hours (62.5 days straight with no rest), or 187 eight-hour working shifts (6.25 months at $20 an hour) just to buy a car, or any other bullshit consumerist good you don’t need?

What is your time worth to you? What is your life worth to you?

7. Who are you?

‘You are not your job; you’re not how much money you have in the bank; you’re not the car you drive; you’re not the contents of your wallet.’ – Tyler Durden

Our identity is who we are as human beings— our soul, the creative work we do, our worldview, and our self-identity.

We don’t need to identify ourselves via the work we do, how many 0’s we have in our bank account, or society’s labels of us.

8. There are no bullets inside

In one of my favorite scenes, Brad Pitt and Edward Norton enter a convenience store, pull out the cashier, and Brad Pitt puts a gun to the head of the kid.

Brad Pitt asks the cashier what his dream in life was. The kid says it was to be a veterinarian, but he dropped out of school because it was too hard.

Brad Pitt then says, ‘I will kill you unless you go back to school and pursue your dream.’ The kid runs away.

Edward Norton says something like, ‘What the fuck — why did you do that?’

Brad Pitt then says to Edward Norton:

“Imagine how he feels— tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of his life. his breakfast will taste better than any meal you and I have ever tasted.“

Brad Pitt then also says that in life, when we have no fear or distractions, we can let ‘that which does not matter— truly slide.’

The best part— Edward Norton opens up the pistol, and sees that the gun has no bullets inside.

Assignment: If someone put a gun to the back of your head, and asked you what your life dream was — how would you answer? And what would you do tonight or tomorrow to pursue your dream?

9. Become the best version of yourself

The interesting concept of Fight Club — Tyler Durden is the same person. Brad Pitt and Edward Norton are the same person.

However Brad Pitt is the idealized version of Edward Norton. Brad Pitt is everything that Edward Norton wants to be.

We all have an inner-Brad Pitt (or Tyler Durden). The only thing we need to do is to take radical change in our lives, to become what Nietzsche calls— the ‘over-man’ (or ‘superman’) who overcomes all the difficulties in his life.

We need to take responsibility for our lives. Not to blame others or make excuses. We just need to go out and pursue our dreams and do what we truly believe in — refusing to let the rules of society cage us in.

10. Life isn’t about winning or losing

Fight Club isn’t about winning or losing. It is rather about fighting your inner-self, your inner-ego, your inner-fears. In Fight Club, you aren’t beating another person — you are just conquering your own fears in life. And you are getting closer to another human being in fraternity.

In real life, there is no winning or losing. We are all on the same team in this world community of humanity. We need to help one another— build each other up, instead of tearing each other down.

Let’s win in life together. Empower yourself in life:

• Life Lessons from FURY (2014)
• 29 Life Lessons I’ve Learned
• How to Conquer Your Fears in Life
• Conquer Yourself
• How to Focus
• Avoid Excess
• Innovation is Knowing What Not to Do in Your Photography and Life
• Embracing FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)
• Endurance
• Don’t Crowd-Source Your Self-Esteem

See all philosophy >

Be strong,
Eric

If you want to conquer your fears and meet new peers, attend an ERIC KIM WORKSHOP >

CINEMA >

Cinematography and life lessons:

• FIGHT CLUB
• FURY (2014)
• THE MATRIX
• AKIRA PART I / AKIRA PART II
• Batman: The Dark Knight
• Dr. Strange
• Suicide Squad
• Kendrick Lamar: HUMBLE.

In tyler we trust — what greater good?

‘self-improvement is masturbation’ //

Seek ‘Self-DESTRUCTION’ // seek ANTI-Consumerism // anti-social media // anti photography // anti-street //

anti-role model.

—

‘i see all this potential; and i see it all squandered. entire generation of slaves with white collars.’

‘advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. no purpose or place. no great war, no great depression. our great war is a spiritual war. our great depression is our lives.’

you wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life.

‘without pain and sacrifice, we would have nothing’

‘It is only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.’ – Tyler Duren

—

‘i don’t have a car’

‘you are not your job; you’re not how much money you have in the bank; you’re not the car you drive; you’re not the contents of your wallet.’

‘the things you own end up owning you’

‘i look like you wanna look; i fuck like you wanna fuck; i am smart, capable, and more importantly — I’m free in all the ways that you are not.’

—

‘were consumers; we are the byproducts of a lifestyle obsession. murder, crime, poverty — these things don’t concern us.’

‘you wanna make an omelet; you gotta break some eggs’

Tyler and Narrator stop outside a convenience store at night. Tyler takes out a gun and walks into the store to do their homework assignment of a “human sacrifice”, while Narrator protests. Tyler forces the clerk out the back exit at gun point.
Voice-over: On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everybody drops to zero.
Narrator: Stop! What are we doing? Come on! God!
Tyler Durden: Hands behind your back. Give me your wallet.
The clerk, now kneeling, hands him his wallet.
Tyler Durden: Raymond K. Hessel. 1320 South East spanning apartment A. Small cramped basement apartment, Raymond?
Raymond K. Hessel: How did you know?
Tyler Durden: ‘Cause they give shitty basement apartments letters instead of numbers. Raymond, you are going to die.
Raymond begins to cry. Tyler examines content of the wallet.
Tyler Durden: Is that your mom and dad? Mom and Dad are going to have to call up kindly Doctor So-and-so. Pick up your dental records. Wanna know why? Because there’s gonna be nothing left of your face.
Narrator: Oh come on, come on.
Tyler Durden: An expired community college student ID. What did you study, Raymond?
Raymond K. Hessel: S-stuff.
Tyler Durden: Stuff? Were the mid-terms hard? I asked you what you studied!
Raymond K. Hessel: Biology mostly.
Tyler Durden: Why?
Raymond K. Hessel: I don’t know.
Tyler Durden: What did you wanna be, Raymond K. Hessel? The question, Raymond! Was “What did you want to be”?!
Narrator: Answer him, Raymond! Jesus!
Raymond K. Hessel: Veterinarian, veterinarian.
Tyler Durden: Animals.
Raymond K. Hessel: Yeah animals and stuff.
Tyler Durden: And stuff, yeah I got that. That means you have to get more schooling.
Raymond K. Hessel: Too much school.
Tyler Durden: Would you rather be dead? Would you rather die? Here, on your knees in the back of a convenience store?
Raymond K. Hessel: No, please no!
Tyler takes his gun down, takes out Raymond’s driver’s license throwing the wallet in front of Raymond.
Tyler Durden: I’m keeping your license. I’m gonna check in on you. I know where you live. If you’re not on your way to becoming a veterinarian in six weeks, you will be dead. Now run on home.
Raymond gets up and runs into the night.
Tyler Durden: Run Forrest, run!
Narrator: I feel ill.
Tyler Durden: Imagine how he feels.
Narrator: Come on, this isn’t funny! That wasn’t funny. What the fuck was the point of that?!
Tyler Durden: Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of Raymond K. Hessel’s life. His breakfast will taste better than any meal you and I have ever tasted.
Voice-over: You had to give it to him. He had a plan. And it started to make sense in a Tyler sort of way. No fear, no distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
Tyler throws gun to Narrator who opens the barrel to find no bullets inside.

Narrator: I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn’t screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all those French beaches I’d never see. I wanted to breathe smoke.
Tyler Durden: Where’d you go psycho boy?
Narrator: I felt like destroying something beautiful.

Narrator: I know it seems like I have more than one side sometimes…
Marla Singer: More than one side? You’re Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!
Taglines
• How much can you know about yourself, if you’ve never been in a fight?
• When you wake up in a different place at a different time, can you wake up as a different person?
• Losing all hope is freedom
• Mischief. Mayhem. Soap.
• It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we are free to do anything.
• This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time.
• Fuck Martha Stewart ..its all going down
• You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
Cast
• Edward Norton – The Narrator
• Brad Pitt – Tyler Durden
• Helena Bonham Carter – Marla Singer
• Meat Loaf – Robert Paulson
• Jared Leto – Angel Face
About
• A stylized version of our IKEA present. It is talking about very simple concepts. We’re designed to be hunters and we’re in a society of shopping. There’s nothing to kill anymore, there’s nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created.
• We wanted a title sequence that started in the fear center of the brain. When you hear the sound of a gun being cocked that’s in your mouth, the part of you brain that gets everything going, that realizes that you are fucked – we see all the thought processes, we see the synapses firing, we see the chemical electrical impulses that are the call to arms. And we wanted to sort of follow that out. Because the movie is about thought, it’s about how this guy thinks. And it’s from his point of view, solely. So I liked the idea of starting a movie from thought, from the beginning of the first fear impulse that went, Oh shit, I’m fucked, how did I get here?
• David Fincher Gavin Smith goes one-on-one with David Fincher (1999) Interview with Film Comment magazine, October/November 1999 issue
• The movie is not that violent. There are ideas in the movie that are scary, but the film isn’t about violence, the glorification of violence or the embracing of violence. In the movie, violence is a metaphor for feeling. It’s a film about the problems or requirements involved with being masculine in today’s society.
• Violence shouldn’t be presented as drama. I think people looking for an easy way out often write scenes where characters come into violent conflict as opposed to looking for the true drama in the situation. That’s a shortcoming of a lot of films and television shows. I think certain presentations of violence are not immoral, but amoral.
• I find it amoral if you’re making a movie where the problem is solved with a guy standing in the back of pickup truck firing a machine at the bad guys. The morality of it is questionable because the repercussions of violence are incredibly far-reaching.
• I do like movies that take a toll on the audience. I want to work the subconscious. I want to involve you in ways in which you might not necessarily want to get involved. I want to play off those things that you’re expecting to get when the lights go down and the 20th Century Fox logo comes up. There’s an audience expectation and I’m interested in how movies play with–and off–that expectation. That’s what I’m interested in.
• David Fincher Fightin Words (1999) Interview with drDrew.com about Fight Club
External links
 Encyclopedic article on Fight Club (film) at Wikipedia
• Fight Club quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• Fight Club at Rotten Tomatoes

I used to be a mega proponent of android, I was a hard-core android, Samsung, HTC user for a long time before switching to iPhone, only about a year ago prior.

The open source promise of android

First, I think the greatest pull of android is the open source concept. The idea that you could customize it to your hearts liking.

But why is android so lame?

However when I go to the android website, it is insanely lame. There is zero to negative incentive for me to switch.

Who is android trying to cater to?

Based on the marketing, it seems that android is just trying to cater to poor people.

Who should android be catering to?

People like me. I honestly think that if Google android wants to succeed or continue to succeed, what android needs to do is try to cater to people like me. That is, people who have all Apple devices, but dislike iPhone.

For example, android needs to figure out better ways to integrate with MacBook laptops etc. One thing is certain; I will never ever ever ever ever again phone or purchase or use a Windows based computer.

Also, open source camera?

My new goal. Some sort of really good open source WordPress theme?

Even when you’re angry! And irrational!

FIGHT CLUB GOALS—

1. STREET CLUB
2. THOUGHT CLUB
3. GYM CLUB

To attempt insanely great tasks!

“This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private”.

My passion!

What is “freedom“? Freedom from care, or having the personal felicity to doing what you want to do?

Or, the ability to do what you want without having to obey any “rules“?

Beef intestine both large and small… perhaps large intestine is better?

The real food of the demigods:

1. ERIC KIM COFFEE
2. Sleep 10-12 hours
3. One rep max at least once in a given day
4. Some sort of social engagement or interaction once in the day
5. Walking
6. Change of environment
7. Exposure to outside and direct sun and UV radiation

The Philosophy of Happiness

Happiness thoughts:

1. What Will Make You Happier?
   BOLD LIVING.
2. HAPPINESS IS ALWAYS ASPIRING FOR MORE.
3. How to Boost Your Mood
4. How to Maximize Your Happiness
5. Life Without Photography is Not a Life Worth Living
6. 10 Tips to Be Happier and More Loving in Life
7. How to Find Happiness in Your Photography
8. How to Find Satisfaction in Your Photography
9. 30 Tips to Conquer G.A.S. (Gear Acquisition Syndrome)
10. 55 Tips to Be Happier in Life
11. On the Shortness of Life
12. Small is Beautiful
13. Photography (and Life) is About Subtraction, Not Addition
14. Why Envy Any Other Photographer?
15. How to Be Happy in All Circumstances
16. Desire the Life You Already Have
17. Should You Shoot if You Don’t Want To?
18. Live a Life of Leisure
19. Good Enough
20. 28 Lessons I’ve Learned From Life
21. 27 Lessons I’ve Learned About Photography and Life
22. 26 Lessons Life Has Taught Me About Street Photography
23. Desire
24. Good Enough
25. Things I Am Grateful For
26. How to Die Without Regrets
27. 12 Scientifically Proven Ways to Have More Happiness in Street Photography
28. Having No Choices is the Ultimate Freedom
29. How to Be Grateful For What You Have

Now what?