If your partner is a commuter, then … optimizing for the lightest thing possible is best! Even shedding .3 pounds is insanely significant!

For commuters: 13” MacBook Air.

If you just plan on staying at home or the office, then … it doesn’t really make sense to have or own a laptop./

Becoming the most innovative photo, photographer alive?

The Touch Bar– insanely innovative! Why did Apple essentially kill it off?

Theory:

The new heads at Apple — cowardly.

Nor *should* anything last forever!

Thought:

Live your every day life … not planning for the future or ‘forever’.

My first duty is towards my wife and kid. To protect, defend, avenge them!

If you had unlimited money, resources, etc … and you could design your own dream space … what would it look like? And also, would it be *worth* it and doing it?

For me, I have zero interest in obvious solutions!

Like a stealth bomber?

Then what?

Thoughts now that Cindy and I live in the perfect, best neighborhood, pretty much a perfect apartment, and have a perfect lifestyle and climate. Now what?

First thought; taking your kid to a park which actually requires courage?

Hi seek self action, personally satisfying, clever solutions.

The reason why I like crypto, bitcoin so much is that it is always newsworthy! Never boring or dull!

CRYPTO BY KIM

Brave new world for photographers and crypto:

1. BITCOIN SHALL BE THE LAST CRYPTO STANDING.
2. Bitcoin Price Prediction
3. Trust chainlink for the most accurate prices for bitcoin or any other crypto
4. BITCOIN
5. There is No Web 3.0
6. 2 cents to 2 dollars?
7. Crypto.com?
8. Speculation vs Investing
9. Building with Bitcoin
10. DYNAMICS VS STATICS.
11. How Do You Know if the Timing Is Right?
12. BITCOIN IN THE NEWS
13. BITCOIN & UNCERTAINTY
14. Fake Money
15. Why I Bought More Bitcoin (Again)
16. How I Made Money with Crypto
17. Better to buy Dogecoin then buy a Tesla
18. NO LIMITS.
19. ALL DIGITAL FUTURE.
20. Digital over Physical Possessions
21. DIGIBYTE.
22. CHAINLINK.
23. The Excitement of Starting from Zero
24. HAPTIC INDUSTRIES NOW ACCEPTING CRYPTO AND BITCOIN
25. In Praise of Crypto
26. JUST BUY IT.
27. Why I’m So Bullish on Bitcoin
28. Bitcoin as the Simplest Cryptocurrency
29. Why I bought (more) bitcoin
30. Once You Become a Crypto Billionaire, Then What?
31. Why Crypto is Under-Hyped
32. The Joy of Speculation
33. BITCOIN AND CRYPTOCURRENCY FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
34. Why I Bought Bitcoin
35. Crypto Photography
36. Crypto Thoughts
37. On Making Money from Nothing

“Bravery in my bravado” – Kanye

Why I love photography so much, and why care for photography so much

Photo Goals

Think solo.

Sooooooo many fewer things to worry about or fix!

LA LIFE is the best life?

The most beautiful people, the best weather, the best culture, the best place for street photography!

The best fashion, the best music, media, fitness culture, etc!

In terms of neighborhood, I really love Culver City, close to the downtown.

I LOVE LA!

Time for me to retake my throne! 

“I’ll tell you what heat is, don’t jail my thoughts with presets.” – JAY Z

What we eat, and how we eat is insanely critical.

Real men eat meat:

ALL NATTY NATION!

Light designer:

Entrepreneurship by KIM

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

Become you.

1. ZERO FINANCIAL CONCERNS
2. How to Gain Ascendancy
3. Business vs Entrepreneurship?
4. TAKE REAL CHANCES
5. Making Money as a Hobby
6. The Best Exercises for Entrepreneurs
7. INCOME VS EXPENSES MONEY LIFESTYLE PHILOSOPHY
8. Entrepreneurship is the privilege of being able to attempt something new
9. How to Become More Influential
10. The Point of Life is Entrepreneurship?
11. How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
12. Become the Outlier
13. Self Reliance
14. How to Extend Your Reach
15. NEWS: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
16. PVP (Player vs Player)
17. How I became so influential
18. WE LOVE THE *SENSATION* OF RISK-TAKING
19. WHY HIGH PROFIT MARGINS?
20. INNOVATION THOUGHTS
21. OVERCONFIDENCE IS GOOD.
22. GARAGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
23. PERHAPS IT IS GOOD TO BE “DELUSIONAL”
24. USE YOUR WEALTH TO BUY STUFF, OR TO BUILD AND INNOVATE STUFF?
25. HOW TO THRIVE
26. Target Demographic
27. Ambition Over Happiness
28. Anti Collaboration
29. The Will to Economy
30. Why New?
31. CHOOSE ADRENALINE.
32. No Looking Back.
33. 1000x Different
34. BECOME SPENDTHRIFT
35. THE BENEFIT OF JUST ONE.
36. EXTREME INNOVATION.
37. Practicality is Boring
38. BECOME YOUR OWN STANDARD.
39. NEVER STOP ITERATING.
40. CONDENSE.
41. Take Lots of Small Financial Risks
42. Control Over Convenience
43. Why Are Chinese Companies So Innovative?
44. INSANELY DIFFERENT.
45. Why Doesn’t Anything Ever Satisfy Me?
46. THE GREAT PASSION.
47. Perhaps Dissatisfaction is Good
48. ONE REP MAX.
49. WHAT DO YOU *REALLY* WANT IN LIFE?
50. LIFE IS ABOUT STRIVING FOR MORE.
51. NEVER STOP LINKING.
52. THE GREATEST.
53. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
54. THE BEST IS YET TO COME.
55. ERIC KIM CRITIQUE OF ROMANTICISM
56. COMPLACENCY.
57. JUST BUY IT.
58. ALL ABOUT YOU.
59. MOVE THE WORLD
60. Boring or Not Boring?
61. What if Your Past Self were Inferior to Your Present Self?
62. THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROGRESS
63. CULTURE IS YOUR ENEMY.
64. Difficulty & Interest
65. The Will to Expansion
66. What is Work?
67. SOUL IN THE GAME.
68. JUST START IT.
69. Not Boring
70. PRIDE IN YOUR OWN NAME / BRAND
71. AS MUCH AS YOU CAN TOLERATE.
72. Speed is Paramount
73. TAKE IT BACK TO THE BEGINNING.
74. A Life With No Risk Taking is *NOT* a Life Worth Living
75. Dissatisfaction is Good
76. GREATER STRENGTH, GREATER CHALLENGES.
77. In Praise of the New
78. Uncorrupted Desires
79. You Cannot Fake Passion
80. SELF-OVERGOING
81. FORM YOURSELF.
82. Personal Entrepreneurship
83. RELENTLESS.
84. PUT YOUR NAME ON IT.
85. A Life of Expansion
86. SELF-ENTREPRENEURSHIP
87. YOU ARE THE EXCEPTION.
88. Use Your Life as an Experiment to Self-Develop Yourself to Heights Never Seen Before
89. Invest in New Developments
90. Investing Towards What End?
91. The 90%/10% Principle in Entrepreneurship
92. Speed Wins
93. The Philosophy of Happiness
94. When to Over-Estimate, When to Under-Estimate?
95. Never Stop Iterating
96. Money as a Tool for Life and Artistic Experimentation
97. Less But More Premium
98. Mainstream vs Low-Key Success
99. Why Dissatisfaction is Good
100. SEEK YOUR OWN PERSONAL MAXIMAL BENEFIT INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING
101. Manifest Your Destiny
102. Is it Best to *Not* Communicate Your Inner Thoughts or Ideas With Others?
103. CREATE THINGS YOU WISH TO SEE MANIFESTED IN THE WORLD
104. How to Do More Work
105. CONTROL.
106. Competition is for Losers
107. Change.
108. Your Competitive Advantage with Insanely Fast Wifi and High Speed Internet
109. Pseudo Individualism
110. 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

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Never stop innovating.

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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?

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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!

Tatami mats are lit!

Why? The modern day times, books are just another marketable product. Authors churn out books to make money, and hit arbitrary word count limits in order to sell it as a book product. I think the only books worth reading are the ones from dead philosophers of the past.

Just toss it in!

Currently settling down in my new life here in Culver, Culver City (Los Angeles), and feeling insanely happy. Then the thought: what is the philosophy of happiness? Why happiness, and how to become it?

1. Health is prime

The first thought is that health is prime, health is peak. That is, I believe that your focuses must first be critically directed towards your health. For example, simple things:

1. Godlike sleep: a new experiment is that I’m trying to cut off my caffeine intake after 9 AM. I say first thing in the morning, before you go to the gym, maybe after you go to the gym, allow yourself to drink a shit load of coffee 100% fine robusta, ERIC KIM Omakase coffee. The reason why I recommend robusta, especially 100% fine robusta is that I think arabica is too weak, and too sweet. If you want to peak health, I believe that the key is robusta. Why? Robusta has a higher caffeine content, and less sugar alcohol content, which means it will assist you in staying lean, and cutting down your body fat. I’m starting to get suspicious of even most plants and vegetables; all of it is cellulose, and sugar molecules. Even if you eat straight up Napa cabbage, which is used in kimchi, it is actually very sweet. the same thing goes with onions; onions for the most part part is just caramelized candy.
2. Go to the gym first thing in the morning? Last night I slept a little earlier, maybe around 10 PM, and naturally woke up today around 5 AM, 5:15 AM. After downing a very very strong cop of ERIC KIM coffee, I immediately jumped into my workout clothes, went to the gym, a random LA fitness. When you wake up in the morning, it is cold and dark outside, which means that being outside is unpleasant. But when you go to the gym, the first thing you could do is hit the hot sauna, which is great because it warms up your bones and sinews, and then the big indoor space and the lights and the music of the gym stimulate you and wake you up. And also lifting heavy weights is fun there at the gym, because it seems that the gym is the only modern day place in which one is permitted to be loud. and also the reason why might prefer traditional commercial gym like LA fitness over equinox is I get the sense that equinox you are not permitted to be loud.
3. Eating a lot of meat before going to sleep: I would recommend striving to eat at least 4 to 5 pounds of beef or lamb before you go to sleep. It could just be ground beef, I recently discovered this American Wagyu ground beef at Costco, 75%, 15%, which I love. Or just get the standard beef brisket in a huge slab and instant pot it. Or cut it up thinly and just pan fried on the frying pan on the stove. I believe this to be critical because it helps you fall asleep, and sleep deeply, and the meat will help you maximally recover your body, build muscle bone etc. Isn’t it so funny that nowadays we are taking all these silly supplements like collagen, but don’t people know that collagen is naturally present in beef, beef neck bone, beef tendons, bone marrow etc.?
4. Sunlight: Another thing and the reason why I feel like LA is paradise to me; the sun. It’s funny because when I was undergraduate at UCLA, I never once recall ever complaining about the weather. It was perfect all year round. And also my mood was always always good as an undergrad at UCLA, never depressed. Compare this with being on the East Coast, or being in Europe during the winter; incredibly miserable. I remember feeling so miserable in Marseille France during the winter, and also equally miserable in Prague during the winter time. I think for myself I am a very sensitive soul; maybe it is less of an issue about the cold, but it is an issue of the sun. I like Denver Colorado because although it is cold, at least it is bright and sunny! A life without the sun is not a life worth living.
5. Freedom of schedule and time: the reason why I believe it to be the greatest blessing in life to be self-employed, not even being an owner or a CEO of a publicly traded corporation is that you can set your own schedule, and live your own life according to your own whims and your own pace. Even the trap that a lot of CEOs and founders make is that once they go public, they no longer have freedom. They are still behelden to the opinions and desires of the investors. Maybe this is a good reason why does a good idea to never get any investors; fewer headaches, and fewer people you’re liable towards. Therefore the goal isn’t to build a billion dollar unicorn and to sell it or IPO it.
6. Kids: I was thinking and contemplating about life before Seneca and life after Seneca. I can easily say that after Seneca came into the picture, I became at least 1 trillion times happier. Certainly the first year to two years is rough; it is almost like trench warfare World War I status. But truth be told it cannot be as hard as navy seals training, or Delta force training. Or Ranger training.
7. Philosophy: Studying stoicism, and philosophy in general, reading my best friend has been instrumental. Why? It has helped me purge myself of all this baggage and scars from the past, and help me start new and afresh, no mental or moral or ethical baggage. Philosophy and happiness go hand-in-hand!

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Why do I care about this?

Why do I care for happiness, why do I care to write about this and share this?

Honestly speaking, happiness, human happiness, human physiological thriving and wellness might be the most critical ingredient to life. Why? Even if you are a trillionaire with 1000 or 1 million Lamborghinis, but you had the worlds poorest health, would it be worth it? Of course not.

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Happiness as a means to what?

A very practical and pragmatic thought I have is that perhaps the upside of happiness and being happy is towards creating happy art and artwork. Also to publish happy thoughts, to propagate happiness.

I think the issue with modern day capitalism and consumerism is that most of the world is miserable and wretched and unhappy. The general promise of consumerism is that if you purchase XYZ, you will be happy, or become happier. What is this true? No.

There are certain things that money could buy to add you and your happiness. Spending more money on rent for a really really nice apartment, which is bright and clean, lots of natural light and good airflow. Or spending money for feed and meat at Costco, or money to use on a gym membership, or ERIC KIM OMAKASE COFFEE.

How to be happy: also the philosophy of happiness

Once you are truly unbounded in life, and no longer have any obligations, then what will you do?

I then suppose it will be a life of pure interest!

Isn’t this the sublime summit? To really really really only do what you really really want, at your own pace?

My life is a quadrillion times better with Seneca in it!

Also assuming that you’re not just gonna go out and spend it all! A daily life and lifestyle which doesn’t involve shopping!

Elastic, elastic pricing is good. In praise of Amazon web services

Swipe down for photo notes, swipe up to pick the photo

What is the end desired goal of innovation in photography? To promote beauty, wellness, photographic and photographer thriving!

First, love your life, love your subjects, your kids, your wife etc.

I believe that true photos should be born out of love, happiness, thanksgiving.

For example, I just upgraded my iOS on my iPad and iPhone, and it is insanely annoying that there is this bug with Photos, it takes 10 to 15 seconds for your Photos to load!

Often I am so obsessed with innovation and the new, so I am always eager to upgrade the newest version, beta versions, etc. But the big problem is that there are almost always so many bugs with new generation anythings!

Moral of the story: resist upgrading as long as humanly possible!