Month: October 2023

More direct sun, more power, joy and happiness!

1. Just shoot JPEG and sync them all via the Apple Photos app — always be reviewing whether on your iPhone, iPad, Mac etc.

TRAPS OVER CHEST!

Vertical muscle?

WE THE NEW TRAP GODS!

Video

After doing an insanely heavy rack pull (9 plates, 5 pounder)— the next day, my traps feel insanely sore:

EK COFFEE

I just need more time to review my photos!

Can philosophy also be a lifestyle?

tight curation

Take matters into your own hands

Don’t do things which cause you pain

the greatest photographer alive

Is this the real life everyone wants?

Beyond Bohemian living. Art and fitness. And creative thriving!

The weight lifter cum artist?

A lot of people critique LA, life in LA etc … but what they don’t get is how insanely great it is!

Or in other words, don’t stay at home.

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Build up your own city and Locale

Aesthetics matters.

Work out at the park and the gym

Why millennial should have kids

Murdered out in all black

Or in other words, don’t stay at home.

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Build up your own city and Locale

Aesthetics matters.

I have a theory: perhaps issue of a lot of modern day life as people don’t have enough exertion physical exertion during the day

American pride

Why is it that rich and successful people prefer to buy German cars over American American cars?

Ford bronco raptor is the new American G wagon?

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We desire a great challenger opponent.

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What do you desire out of people or society?

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Low key cars are good.

If you’re parked in a handicapped spot, nobody will give your white Prius a second look!

The best parks in LA:

Holmby Park playground, close to UCLA campus

Human walkers. They got dog walkers why not human walkers

Black is the color of power, domination.

Vegan bodybuilders are also on steroids

Variety is key

Being rich versus being elite?

Money is not the big thing here; rather it’s about freedom of time leisure, schedule mind

For example, the fear of heights.

Not a Montessori school, the ERIC KIM SCHOOL.

Do it:

Shaq goals!

Money & value: how people spend their money, or what they spend their money on shows what they value.

Also, I like going to the gym when the weather outside is poor, I like going to the park and working out when the weather is good.

Ownership: one of the good things about paying money for some sort of membership is that if you pay a monthly membership for something, there is part ownership in it!

Zen meditation chamber — the hot sauna at the gym.

How to become more fascinating?

Become, Becoming:

What does it mean to become, and why does this matter?

The first thought is you and things are not static. You and things are dynamic, changing, ever evolving, ever rotating etc. I don’t think there’s really an ideal and state or goal. Rather, the end outcome is that your continuously become you, or become something different.

Anti finality

“It has been completed!” (Blaaaah… main protagonist or god Jesus figure then dies)

A weird thing is that a lot of people seek completion, or some sort of final end state and goal. What I personally believe in is that in fact, this isn’t and shouldn’t be the desired and goal. Instead, ever changing, forever evolution, never ending is better.

The end state and goal is not a zen peaceful tranquil life

In the past what I believed the end goal in state was was towards were achieving some sort of truly blissful peace, send, tranquility, emptiness. Now upon much consideration thinking meditation and contemplation and life experiences, I’ve actually discovered this is not the way. And also not the desired end goal.

On the contrary, my thought is perhaps the point of it all in the point of our lives is to seek ever greater challenges, hazards, danger, things to test our courage and will.

Thoughts in progress

What I love about philosophy is that it is a never ending journey. My only desire in life is that I continue having personally interesting thoughts until I die, whenever that is.

OUTLAST.

My thought is that the goal is to last, to endure. Even our best friend Nietzsche said that durability is the number one thing of value for humans!

Become, Becoming:

What does it mean to become, and why does this matter?

The first thought is you and things are not static. They are dynamic, changing, advert evolving, ever rotating etc. I don’t think there’s really an ideal and state or goal. Rather, the end outcome is that your continuously become you, or become something different.

Anti finality

A weird thing is that a lot of people seek completion, or some sort of final end state and goal. What I personally believe in is that in fact, this isn’t and shouldn’t be the desired and goal. Instead, ever changing, ever ever evolution, never ending is better.

The end state and goal is not a zen peaceful tranquil life

In the past what I believed the end goal in state was was towards were achieving some sort of truly blissful peace, send, tranquility, emptiness. Now upon much consideration thinking meditation and contemplation and life experiences, I’ve actually discovered this is not the way. And also not the desired end goal.

On the contrary, my thought is perhaps the point of it all in the point of our lives is to seek ever greater challenges, hazards, danger, things to test our courage and will.

Thoughts in progress

What I love about philosophy is that it is a never ending journey. My only desire in life is that I continue having personally interesting thoughts until I die, whenever that is.

Things to be desired, or that which you desire!

What makes one a genius? How stubborn he or she is.

Why do we dislike and hate stubborn or arrogant people? Because, we think we say and we feel:

How dare you not kowtow to my will, my preferences, my beliefs!

The hilarious irony is that when people call you stubborn or arrogant, they themselves are the close minded, stubborn arrogant ones. Shouldn’t they just be tolerant of you and your way of doing things and thinking?

ETHICS by KIM

Your own personal code of ethics:

1. Avoid Misery
2. What We Hate
3. HOW I DEAL WITH RACISM
4. How to Become a Great Man
5. BETTER TO FOLLOW YOUR GUT AND BE WRONG THAN DISOBEY YOUR GUT AND BE RIGHT
6. “I CAN’T BE FUCKED.”
7. Carte Blanche Ethics
8. Toxic People
9. Why Are We So Into Other People
10. Just focus on yourself and your own life
11. Perfect morals and ethics is following your own gut
    WHY ETIQUETTE?
12. NO BLAME, JUST CAUSE AND EFFECT.
13. Ignorance Takes Courage
14. TREAT OTHERS CARTE BLANCHE
15. Don’t give people what they want or what you *think* they want, give them what you think they *should* have.
16. Anti Small
17. Disdain or Admiration?
18. Beware Those With Good Intentions
19. STUBBORN x FLEXIBLE
20. ETHICS ARE VIA NEGATIVA
21. OBEDIENCE & DISCIPLINE
22. The Motive of Criticism
23. Ethics are Social
24. Anti Role Models
25. What is Greed?
26. On Having the Courage to Make Your Own Decisions
27. How *NOT* to Get Duped or Suckered
28. Why Help Others?
29. The Duty of the Strong
30. Why I’m So Intolerant Towards Intolerance
31. The Ethics of Criticizing Others
32. Consult Your Own Conscience
33. The Ethics of Shit Talking
34. The Ethics of Personal Enrichment
35. I’m Easily Distracted
36. On Forming Your Own Opinion
37. ERIC KIM Philosophy of Tolerance
38. Tolerance
39. Aesthetics are Ethics
40. Morality and Ethics

The zen of thinking

How to Think

Warm up your body, warm up your mind?

Insanely high ceilings?

The best advice we got from our best friend Leonardo da Vinci! Maybe we start with a black canvas, and then we add paint on top of it!

You can get 50 pounds of sand for only four dollars! This is insanely cheap.

I wonder for a simple workout, just getting 400 pound sandbag, or something big, and filling it up with sand… Would be an insanely easy workout solution?

One of the weird biases in today’s world is that we are not permitted to do things, use things, etc. My simple thought and suggestion is that perhaps instead, we should be more proactive and actually using things. This means, don’t save stuff, just use it!

What are your true desired end outcomes?

Gold & shiny?

Pro safety yellow?

Killing time is critical unto innovation?

Isn’t it better for you to just hit the gym, and lift insanely heavy weights instead?

I just saw that the brand new Tesla model 3, base model, has a full range of 270 miles on a single charge! Honestly now at this point, there is literally no reason to not get a Tesla model three over any other standard car.

But another good sign, the Tesla model Y, even the “lowest end“ model comes standard now with long range. An insanely good sign!

I think now in terms of market speculations, at least in the context of the standard market, it seems that Tesla is the way to go. The only last innovative company with a prime visionary. No, not Apple. Apple is the new Microsoft! Funny enough, almost all the people I know who works at Apple says it with the hush and a whisper, like it were a dirty secret. Same thing with Google!

With websites, the worst sin:

You visit the website, and there is nothing new.

My next big project will be house related things?

Funny enough, something that I am actually very very passionate about an interested in is toilets. Toilets are insanely critical, in terms of everything. We use them all the time, every day, several times a day, and I feel like there is still much innovation to be had in terms of toilet design.

The same has to go with sinks. Sinks are very critical because in your sink, whether your kitchen sink or your bathroom sink, 99% of the time the biggest pain in the ass is the water always splashes around everywhere, and it is a pain in the ass to clean up. I seek some sort of innovative solution.

Also home design, home interior design is insanely simple. I think the big secret is that simple and clean does it. Just some brand new simple white paint, and black trim.

Also, if I were a home designer, what I would do is pay for free fiber Internet for my millennial tenants. I recently had to go through the process of setting up Internet, home Wi-Fi, through spectrum, and it has been a nightmare. Gangsters.

Also, seems a lot of people hate going to Home Depot, but I effing love going to Home Depot! My new morning routine, when I wake up at 4:50 AM, I just have my morning coffee then go to Home Depot for inspiration?

LA is the home and center for ambition

Also my passion for building things?

An arts, creative, photo center … also fitness, tech and coffee?

My passion for doing and building it myself?

I cannot be fucked with basic shit!

Thus my lust and passion for ever greater challenges!

The intolerant and the ones who superimpose their values upon you … even when you’re just minding your own business, by yourself?