Month: October 2023

Physical Experimentation

Perhaps my next fitness experimentation?

Damp cold ghetto?

What makes a space ghetto versus nice? My thought is that ghetto spaces tend to be old, dark, cramped, moldy.

Also, lacking natural light, direct sun, or poor air flow.

Become a fan of yourself. Become fanatical of yourself

Stay away from strange people.

Why do all the men look like women now? Not only that, but unattractive women.

You cannot force me to be tolerant about something I don’t believe in.

Only fight about causes you care for?

I don’t like foreign ideas

Make it a part of your structure

The shape matters!

Design x Engineering

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Indulge your interests.

Once you’re the strongest man on the planet, then what?

Who is more capable?

I want the place to be big enough for my ambitions !

Think critically.

Don’t look at the clock; just witness how you feel.

Visual OCD

The best way to beautify a space is just get rid of the ugly stuff

A lot of things which seem more convenient and more streamlined is often a trap!

For example, my now infamous 1000 pound atlas lift. Accomplished.

Also, surpassing the nine plate rack pull. Most recently nine plates and a 10.

I think for myself I seek some sort of monster of a challenge. But yet the challenge itself must be interesting and orthodox enough and still tenable.

There needs to be some buffer!

This is what technology and innovation is?

Typically when we look at the creations, the artistic creations of something, we almost never see the real face of the creator. Why is it critical that we be able to look at the creator? Because all of the creations of the creator are manifested.

For example, let us say a comic book creator illustrator and maker. Whatever comics they make is an idealized version of themselves. Also of their ethics and morality, artistic and aesthetic sense.

Or, a writer. I think it is critical to look at the face of a writer, their physiology, their bodily composition etc. Why? Their health will be imputed into their works! Or in other words,

A sick creator will only make sick creations.

Man is worth what he is willing to risk? To the degree of how much he is willing to risk?

The strongest thinker of all time

Real writers don’t call themselves writers. Maybe what I am as a writer?

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Do you value it or not?

Health on the road

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Library as creative bunker

The zen of the sun and big airway strips?

The real world has the richest visual information

Concrete paradise

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The ocean is vast

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America is really really big.

Risk seeking innovator

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Shut down fear, also shut down empathy?

Embark on epic quests

Develop a cosmic view?

Hostile bid.

“That wasn’t enough”

War and empire building game

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Build your own playground? Gym concept ?

What stimulates you?

Visual Information

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Train your kid to become a genius?

Mountain ranges

I fear nothing nor nobody

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Don’t put effort into things you consider meaningless?

Future capitalists

Fun or boring?

What is the question?

Prevail!

It is your duty to be strong

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Think about your own self and preferences

“I am wired for war!”

I cannot work nor live with other people!

Nobody knows more than I do.

Never have to work for a boss

Radically new technologies?

Greater impact in the world?

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Move the needle!

Things which will truly affect humanity?

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Sell directly to consumers?

Online customer destination portal

Anti VC

Anti managers

Build and create a new company or something new?

Indomitable will — what makes a great Man

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Fund a new enterprise?

Win in a big way

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How are you wired, who are you?

Delete!

Email over user name or phone number

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Merge

Remake the entire industry?

Social network to disrupt?

AIM big.

Take it all over!

Think more engineering?

Exclusive club membership

Street fighter

I am a visionary who doesn’t play well with others

Amplify risk?

Pursue great dreams

Sand bags are cheap!!! Concrete and sand are both insanely cheap!

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Cost of basic materials? The idiot index?

More efficient manufacturing approach?

50x cost?

How to push the technology forward?

Resolve?

One key metric .. cost per pound?

.50 cents per pound?

Price per pound?

Reduce mass!

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Physics: more mass on a phone or anything is worse

More thrust!

What is more interesting?

You need risk to be a founder!

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Buy it used!!!

Bend reality

The most aggressive

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Question every cost ***

Laser focused to keep down costs!

Cost effectiveness is the ultimate goal!

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Just make it in house!

Question all specifications

“Who made that requirement”?

Actual person and actual name?

Laws of physics ***

Unrealistic deadlines even when not necessary?

A maniacal sense of urgency

First principles thinking … for power, muscles, strength?

Move fast, blow things up, repeat.

Push things until they break?

Iterative design

Cheap leases!

Rapid unscheduled disassembles

Improvise.

Makeshift solutions

Every situation is salvageable

Try new ideas, okay if things blow up!

Keep working on reducing the cost!

Mercurial.

Fulfill the mission!

1,500 pounds?

Promote Innovation ***

Defense Department

Cut costs ***

Maybe the first strategy is to just first start off by cutting costs or just buying the cheapest possible thing then moving forward from there?

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We need cost effective solutions!!

Buy Chinese or Vietnamese or Amazon, not American?

Common sense is bad.

Commercialize it !

Importance of the mission.

For a “fitter” planet earth and humans?

Make your own key components.

Control your own destiny

Vertical integration

Don’t rely on far away supply chains?

Source and roast the coffee myself?

Or just buy the coffee?

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It ain’t in my nature to defer!

I am insanely passionate about design decisions

You gotta wow them!

Agonize over the details!

Correct yet costly decisions?

You buy a sports car because it looks beautiful!

“ we have to make it beautiful!”

Lower costs and make it more affordable!

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Outlaunch

Outlift

Scrappy

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I seek a great solution!

Costs must go down!

11 items on risk list, not just 10

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Shop floor

How to make the product efficiently?

How to use money efficiently?

Build the machine that makes the machine?

How to design the factory, the gym?

Valor

Ars.com

Less dominant hand

24 hours of production A day?

Make your production more efficient?

Don’t outsource it !

Start with clean sheet design! Don’t modify the old.

“ true costs”

Buy directly from the source!

Grill them!

I hate liars!

When people say that they’re not lying, they’re lying.

Not a good person.

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I am not good at sharing power.

I have zero interest in being a CEO and having to manage others?

Hell bent on it working!

A beautiful story

Over healthy

A kid with a camera!

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Your potential?

Zen of being inside a Tesla?

Zen Aesthetics

Just have fun with it!

Another reason to not get a new iPhone, iPhone Pro!

If it ain’t red, it ain’t meat.

Skinny is better

SHREDDED. The shredder aesthetic

Why do writers look so weak?

Modernist architecture; geometry, jagged edges, irregularity?

Podcast video

The funny irony about pressure; the more you try to pressure somebody into doing something, the less likely they will do it. However on the contrary, when you tell people there is no pressure, they are more likely to do it.

Also, with expectations. If you don’t expect it, you’ll get it, however, if you expect it you won’t get it.

Minimum viable food, the most effective, perhaps some sort of Grassfed ground beef, or even the new Wagyu ground beef at Costco. Also beef neck bone. Instant pot as well as air fryer.

Minimum viable iPhone; the cheapest one. Currently the iPhone SE.

Minimum viable car, my opinion the best is some sort of used Prius.

Minimum viable bedding, tatami mat.

Minimum viable child, son. It seems that the true desire of every single man is to have at least one son. For example, if your first kid is a boy, consider yourself blessed. After that everything is upside, no downside.

Farmer’s walk, Farmer’s carry!

You can either do this with dumbbells, heavy dumbbells, preferably 100 pound, 120 pound, or even 150 pound.

If you just got plates, just get some sort of ghetto strap to carry it.

For example, the MacBook Pro touch bar is insanely good for creativity with GarageBand! Seneca at two years, nine months old loves it!

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POD

Audio

Anti-competition mindset.

Human ambition, human desires.

For me, running, jogging, looks ridiculous. Not only that, nobody who is a “runner” looks that fit. The only beautiful thing is probably sprinting.

What is a much more elegant solution? Simply walk upright, slowly, head up and chin up.

Manual will last longer!

Only do things in which you are extremely and strongly compelled to do.

Power goals!

Our best gains in life is through reduction, not addition?

Reducing the superfluous. Reducing and REMOVING superfluous features, flourishes, design aesthetics, concepts etc. Supreme spartan aesthetics and simplicity.

For example, in the contest of fitness, not adding more exercises to your regimen, but reducing them. Also, not adding superfluous equipment, instead, reducing it to a bare minimum.

Podcast

Vlog

If you didn’t photograph or video it, did it ever really happen? No.

Wu Wei.

For me, maybe the park?

Also, how to unlock more hours in a day?

Maybe the best thing to change is your mindset?

Become harder, harsher, colder, more distant, unfeeling, imperturbable.

Don’t speak your mind, evade, don’t make eye contact, walk away.

Never direct your anger towards women. Only other men.

Don’t tolerate bullshit.

I’m starting to think or suspect that a lot of this modern day nonsensical concepts of “open communication“,“ speaking your mind” are bad. Also, therapy is bad.

I suspect that the Ancients figured it out, like Seneca and the Stoics. That perhaps becoming more stoic hard and cold and unfeeling is the way.

Modern day man, his ethos is to be inoffensive. On the contrary, the true man doesn’t care.

But perhaps this is my superpower?

Fortunately, the statics of Lumix G9 photos shot in grainy dynamic black-and-white mode and JPEG satisfy me!

Also, meat satisfies me! Beef neck bone is phenomenal and only 99 cents a pound! Instant pot for the win.

Problem: I have yet found a gym in LA which satisfies me.

Good thing: I am very very satisfied with the apartment me and Cindy found here in Culver City.

Also good thing, I am very satisfied with ERIC KIM Omakase coffee!

Also, I’m very happy with the clothing I have designed and made.

Theory: the only way to become satisfied with anything is to do and build and make it yourself? To innovate it yourself? To create it yourself?

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!

Insanely compelling or not?

Why am I so insanely passionate about photography?

First, part of it is an instinctual impulse. If I see something beautiful, I must photograph it.

Second, my passion for geometry and composition. If I see something interesting, to me photography is like a fun visual game.

Insane passion, or not?

Simple theory to life:

Don’t do anything you’re not insanely passionate about!

If you ever have to think or contemplate about doing something, don’t do it. Why? It is probably not critical.

The wisdom of delay.

You can tell about what you truly care for not based on whether you desire to do it now or not.

First, he spends too much time indoors, and ultimately ends up preferring to be indoors over outdoors.

Second, he doesn’t practice walking or standing enough.

Third, he doesn’t lift insanely heavy weights.

Fourth, he doesn’t eat enough red meat, beef and lamb like real man.

Fifth, he consumes too much sugar, starches, vegetables and fruit, grains and rice, pasta, tortillas, and beer wine alcohol and drugs. He also smokes too much weed, and is too emotional.

Six, his bizarre media habits. He spends too much time, or any time watching TV shows, and also playing video games.

Seven, he lacks the ability to make eye contact with others, and have sustained lively conversation.

If you truly wanted to maximize your life, you would never drive anywhere, only walk. Why? You can kill 10 birds of one stone; for example, on the way of walking somewhere, you will come up with more thoughts. More creative turbo thoughts. Also, the value of Standing, walking is 1 million X that of driving.

I just walk everywhere!

New experiment: only walk? No driving?

Woman for her beauty and intelligence. Man for his courage, cunning, ambition.