1. You cannot smoke or consume or use it in public, at all.
2. The second hand smoke and smell of weed can go thousands of meters — don’t be a fool
3. I hate how people when they smoke weed in public,,, they do it with a strange air of righteousness?
4. Don’t be a fool — it is obvious that second hand weed or marijuana smoke has negative cognitive effects on children. To smoke weed in public in the vicinity of children is downright evil.

California law

Where You Can Use

• You can use cannabis on private property. But you
  cannot use, smoke, eat, or vape cannabis in public
  places and you cannot smoke cannabis or cannabis
  products in places where it is illegal to smoke
  tobacco. Property owners may ban the use and
  possession of cannabis on their privately owned
  properties.6,7
• You cannot use cannabis within 1,000 feet of a
  school, day care center, or youth center while
  children are present.8
• Even though cannabis is legal under California
  law, you cannot consume or possess cannabis on
  federal lands like national parks, even if the park is
  in California.9 The cultivation, possession, sale, and
  use of cannabis in California may remain unlawful
  under federal law.

Other Laws

• Even though it is legal under California law,
  employers have the right to prohibit the use
  of cannabis by their employees.15 Know your
  workplace cannabis policies.

So cool!

Don’t hate me because I’m sexier than you!

Video Podcast

Audio

Becoming immortal:

The Immortal Man

You cannot change the universe or the planet, but you could direct yourself the opposite way to become beyond man, the ubermensch ideal:

Thoughts on immortality:

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Masculine or Feminine?

Masculino o feminino — 

Men who are into tending plants, a feminine trait.

The notion of being masculine, let us think about this.

First, let us consider a Achilles. What was Achilles? The apex of manliness, the most supreme, dominant, powerful, let us not forget that he was a demigod in the flesh. 

First, let us consider how he was so dominant on the battlefield. Ultimately when it comes to the apex or valor, it comes down to combat, physical combat, none of this shooting guns shit. Why are guns for cowards?

Asymmetric warfare. 

For example, any 400 pound obese loser can shoot you and kill you with a gun. Imagine fitting him with armor, a shield, and a spear… And put them in man-to-man, PVP, player versus player, 1v1 combat — versus an Achilles; assuming that he is 6 foot tall, handsome, around 160 pounds with pure muscle, 5% bodyfat and a 6 pack. Who would win?

Why does this matter?

Currently, it seems that at least with men, modern day capitalism, is all kind of a big dick measuring contest. Instead of measuring how many inches your penis has, what people try to do is measure their metaphorical capital by how many dollars or commas or zeros trails them.

But, let us consider some extreme examples. If you were a 4 foot man, obese, but with a 20 inch penis, would anyone care? No!

Being a “stud”

Apparently, at least with horses… A stud is a type of horse which is prime for breeding. And now with myself… I’m starting to feel like a stud. Whenever I walk around town, now I have women checking me out. Even when I am alone with my 60 pound weighted vest on! 

And also, let us consider… What women seeks is a mate. Ideally tall dark and handsome.

Even a nuance; I actually think naturalistically… A woman is less attracted to wealth, more attracted to a man’s height, attractiveness, muscularity, etc? A woman who marries a 4 foot tall billionaire man… Very bizarre. 

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IMMORTAL

Mortal, it means you will die. All of us, born on the planet are mortals.

When do we think about the immortals, an ancient Greek mythology, essentially it means somebody who cannot die. The gods who live on Mount Olympus, or people who got locked up by Zeus, these were the immortals.

I had some thoughts about economic immortality, but also a new thought about fitness in general or life in general, being a man… As I have advanced in maturity, I truly do feel wiser. 

What’s the point?

For example, the purpose of muscularity, health, etc is simple; not to be the buffest guy at the gym. In fact some insider information that I personally got was apparently, there are some weightlifters who try to dirty bulk, and get really really buff, maybe while taking steroids or whatever, and they get really really fat, end up doing a cutting phase by taking Adderall, forcing themselves not to eat food in order to lean up. True story!

Don’t trust the buff shorty (bald) guys

Also, a funny telltale sign I’ve discovered is when you meet guys who are short, really short, but insanely buff… maybe bald or balding, maybe with a beard, often a lot of these guys are taking steroids?

Why or how do you know?

Because the nuance is that as a man, no matter how rich or smart we are, we cannot add inches to our height, not even with steroids. However, you could add inches to your chest, your arms, by taking steroids. And I feel bad for these shorty guys, they will forever feel inadequate because of their short height. Even Jeff Bezos, I think he is only 5‘7“ tall? And Kanye is maybe 5‘6” tall? I think Kendrick Lamar is 5 feet 2 inches tall, and also a lot of these rappers are really short. Only tall rappers include Jay Z, I think he is 6‘2“ tall. Elon Musk is tall, I think he is over 6 feet tall.

Even a lot of action stars are pretty short. I think Tom Cruise is only 5’3” tall, even Arnold Schwarzenegger who seems like a giant onscreen is only 6 feet tall! About my height.

Vin Diesel is pretty short, maybe 5‘8“ tall? I’m quite certain he took a lot of steroids to get those massive arms, this is also why he is bald (steroid usage often leads to male balding or baldness)

Why does this matter?

Whether we like it or not, we always judge and weigh ourselves in comparison to others. This is the number one thing I learned from thinking sociologically; to be human is to judge, to weigh, to compare, to measure. We do this with height, how many inches your penis is, ones and zeros you got in your bank account, how many followers you got, how many ones and zeros you got in your bank account, how many bitcoin you own, how many inches your arms and biceps are, how much you could deadlift squat and bench press, etc.

How did we measure men before rulers and scales?

But this is where being a man in modern-day times is bizarre; we have weights and measures to compare ourselves with other men. But once again in the past, this wasn’t a concept. There would be no skinny fat loser pulling out a tape measure, or a scale to see how much Achilles weighed, his body fat composition, how tall he was, his dick size whatever. No, it was very simple, the question;

Is there, or was there, or can there be any man who could kill Achilles on the battlefield? 

And we all know the answer is no. Hector even knows this. Hector is no fool, he knows that Achilles is the superior fighter, after all, Achilles is demigod; half man, half god. His mom was a goddess, his father a mere mortal. Hector is 100% mortal and human. Not a fair chance.

Even a thing that is impressive about Achilles, he even takes on the gods! Not even Mars can kill or take on Achilles? 

And this is where the notion of immortality becomes fascinating to me; Achilles is demigod, 50% God, 50% mortal, means that he could be killed. And he does die.

How can you imagine, an immortal god like Area taking on Achilles, 1v1– and losing? This is an insanely grand idea:

Partly mortal mind can take on a god, and win. 

Lowercase god

So in modern day times, we have this Judeo Christian God, the God of Moses, the monolithic god. This is God with the capital G, who is the ultimate supreme being.

This is where I think studying ancient Greek mythology is fascinating; there were many gods! And they were just like you and me, the quarrel with their wives, sibling rivalry, mayhem and mischief, they would get angry, get spiteful, want revenge, would succumb to lust and desire, play favorites, troll around, go to sleep, have sex etc.

This is where the notion of a single God is oppressive; if there is a single supreme God, who controls everything, who is 0% human, what are we mere mortals to do? 

This is where theology is interesting, the idea that God substantiated with Jesus, became man, to help us mirror immortals, this is quite an innovative idea. That uppercase God would take human form, to help humanity. I suppose this is where Catholic or Christian Theology is a bit useful; at least you could imitate Jesus! Who was 100% man, and also 100% capital God?

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Goals

So obviously we take no drugs, we don’t consume alcohol, we don’t smoke weed, our only drugs include nice sunshine, the beach, the mountains, physical activity, tapwater and black coffee. No sugars no starches, no fake foods. We only consume beef oxen and kettles; we leave the plants for cows.

Becoming immoral

I think the first grand advance is becoming immoral. That means looking at all the modern day ethics morals etc., and up ending all of them. Disrupting normalcy, disrupting ethics, disrupting morality.

I hesitate to say the word religion; because religion is something else. Religion is not morals and ethics, is rather a racial, geographic based power complex; each and every region on the planet has a different religion which emerges, based on different needs of people.

For example, Moses was in fact a historical figure. A real human being. I think the best way to think about things is all the stories of him parting the Red Sea, superhuman acts, are best interpreted as metaphors.  I think the only historical text on Moses is from the Roman historian Tacitus, fine to be a good historian because not only does he praise the military prowess of the people of Judea, but he sees things the more analytical lens.

Obviously, all history is flooded. But if we think about the history of the Peloponnesian war, probably the best historical text that we have, or the histories, essentially Herodotus and the like   wrote history not to have some sort of objective documentation of what happened, because back then there wasn’t somebody with a video camera to record the whole thing, but rather, it is based on allegory, ethics, morality, and virtues. And it all tends to be anti-tyranny, towards the democracy. The ancient Athenian way.

democracy as an experiment

I do not consider myself a libertarian, I still see myself as a cold blooded, red white and blue Democrat. I believe in democracy. Even if it is wrong.

I have always voted Democrat my whole life, but I have nothing against anybody else. I don’t care if you are Republican right left middle center conservative moderate crazy whatever, you have the right, assuming you pay taxes, your own opinion, and to your own vote! The only thing you’re not allowed to do is inside violence, physical violence. Even hate, hate speech, I think technically legally you’re allowed to do so, but just keep it to yourself, keep it inside your own ranch, you have something nice to say don’t say it at all. And also do not forget the fact that once upon a Time, your family was also an immigrant, or trying to escape persecution from the British, and seeking a new life with more freedom and opportunity. Even the Chinese call America the beautiful country.

Mainland Chinese people would prefer to live in America

The big issue here is Controls. Mainland Chinese, Richmond land Chinese, should be told they want to take their wealth out of Beijing, out of Shanghai, and take it to America if they could. They all send their kids to school, they want to send their kids to Harvard, Yale, even a UCLA or maybe even UC Berkeley.

I think if you think about it… If you think on a long enough time scale, surely but slowly, I think all power wealth and money will be concentrated in America.

Why? China is too polluted. I think mainland China is currently having a problem; all of these rich mainland Chinese oligarchs are pumping coal, producing as quickly as they can, in order to quickly get rich, and then send their kids to a more beautiful Location, for example the appeal of a Vancouver; surrounded but nothing with trees, nature. Even Chip Wilson, the founder of Lululemon said that Vancouver is the perfect place to be, and also the reason why Lululemon was invented there, it could have not happened on any other city on the planet.

For myself is an American, I currently believe LA, specifically Culver City to be the perfect place to be. Why? It is the only place which is actually walkable and all of Los Angeles, and also, the only place in all of Los Angeles that have seen a city having a dedicated graffiti removal team; my daily walk, one of the best telling things I discovered was  there was some sort of sticker art on this one to for a very long time, and finally, I actually saw that the Culver City public services department cleaned it up, scraped it off! Where else is this possible in any of Los Angeles?

Also, the new Apple headquarters on Washington. They are currently in the midst of expanding it, and building a super mega campus. This ain’t gonna go away for a long time.

Even though Apple is not as innovative as it is before, at least for our lifetime, I am certain that we will all still be using iPhones, not some loser pixel or Samsung phone.

And I think Apple has been wise, we have all become subscribed to the Apple ecosystem and financial services; Apple has effectively become its own bank and security system; we have all of our password saved to iCloud, and paying with Apple Pay is 1 trillion times easier than any other competitor. And once you could pay with bitcoin from your iPhone, with touch or Face ID… Apple will truly take over the planet.

Back to you

What can one man do, what can a single human being do? A lot!

Simple things; every time you see a kid, small and wave at the kid! There’s a saying, whenever you smile at a child, the universe smells back at you! 

Pedophiles don’t really exist

I think a very very bad thing which has been promoted by social media, mainstream news is a fear of pedophilia. Especially with child predators, men.

Now being a dad, with a three year-old four month-year-old son… Honestly I think we have 0% to be fearful of pedophiles, the only real thing to be afraid of is distracted drivers, texting while driving, or even these electric scooters and electric bikes, if you’re distracted on your iPhone for even half a second, and one of these things whiz by at full speed and hit your kid, it actually might kill your kid.

Avoid potential fatal things for your kid

For example, once again, I think 100% focus should be just be insanely careful when you are crossing the street with your kid, or for cars running red lights, or even driving while high! I’ve already seen two people smoking marijuana while driving cars stuck in traffic, Very scary.

Having at least one son, having kids

Let us think about the simple biological truth: if for some reason tomorrow, all human beings on the planet, all 8 billion of us decided to not have kids, with a generation or two we would all die off.

Certainly, the first goal, especially being a man is to have at least one male; at least one son to carry on the family name.

Or, have at least one kid, doesn’t matter whether boy or girl. Ideally more. 

For example, one of my neighbors, super friendly 70-year-old Chinese American lady, has two daughters, about my age, 34 and 37, and both of them, no serious relationship, not married and certainly no children. I feel bad for my neighbor; ballistically, she might never have any grandchildren, even with two daughters! Maybe Seneca could just be her metaphorical grandkid.

What is the purpose of grandparents?

I think a simple purpose of grandparents is to take care of the grandkids! In America, we have bastardized this ocean; and this is where things become very inefficient for the modern day American.

People say that daycare, having kids is expensive; not really, if you have a grandma or grandpa, ideally both around!

Is your whole family lives together, in one house or complex, and the grandparents take care of the young children, while their parents are working or doing something else. 

The problem is the world has shifted towards hedonism; for example, hedonic pleasure through traveling, backpacking, seeing the world, eating good food, socializing, etc. Certainly these are all good things, but I don’t think they should be the telos of a grandparent–  ultimate tell us of grandparent is to take care of the grandchildren, to instill them with wisdom, love, abilities!

And the truth is, all grandchildren universally adore their grandparents, especially the grandmother! Even now, as a 30 six-year-old man, I have nothing but affection for my grandma! I’m a lot more distant with my grandfather on my mom side, and my grandfather on my dad side passed when I was only two years old, so I have zero memories of him. But even Cindy, she has great memories of her grandfather, and I think this is a great thing!

Lineage

Ultimately, what is the point of life? I think it has to deal with lineage. Essentially, you just don’t want the family line to die off! 

Ideally, the family lineage last forever! The purpose or the point isn’t your personal immortality — it is the immortality of your family bloodline! Thinking about your kids kids kids.

Don’t mention things you don’t like

Don’t get free marketing or free PR or free publicity to things you don’t like.

If you really hate Donald Trump, don’t say nothing, just vote for Kamala Harris, or the other side. 

When will you hate something, or vocalize when you hate something, we actually secretly like it? 

Why else would we complain or vocalize it?

New moral rule: whenever we hate some thing or dislike something, we stay silent. More manly to pause, and emit silence than say something evil.

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A real man?

A true mensch?

What is an “uber”-mensch? My ideal, my vision is to be beyond man. To not be a mere mortal, even though we are mortal.

For example, we mortal men, we lose our shit, we get angry, we yell, we get violent, we get aggressive, etc. Maybe the goal or the path is to not see yourself as a human — maybe the best thing is to not allow yourself any human emotions– the stoic way.

“Human, all too human”

It is obvious that we are all human, and that we all have human emotions. But then, the simplest innovation we can make as an individual is to be anti-human, anti-man?

Maybe going opposite or doing the opposite?

For example, when you are angry, be kind instead? Or even the funny reverse; when you want to be kind, show fake anger instead?

There are still are many innovations we can make in ethics guys! 

ERIC

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.

Partial is better than nothing!

Humor

Digital Capital

Digital Capitalism

Everything Slow and expensive

The 22nd century?

900T

300T real estate

$18T art

.1%

.

Provide utility, preserve capital

$450T long term capital store of value

.

$450T–> assets held for utility

.

Engineering a better system

Energy, frequency & vibration **

.

Physics of money

Energy – money capital wealth

Frequency – duration lifespan

Vibration. : trade, transfer, transform
..

The newest is best

L=V/M

Lifespan of asset is the value of asset divided by maintenance cost ***

–> cost of maintenance?

.

How to avoid or prevent decay?

Stock to flow

Preserve capital. And economic energy

.

Long duration assets

High useful life vs low useful life

.

14 years ,,, 99.99%
OSS

Hedge fund, 25 years

2% fee, 20% performance fee. 4% a year –> 25 year hedge fund

30 years,

Mutual fund 100, 1% fee

.

Mutual fund

.

Inflation dilutes the value of financial assets

Insurance

FRICTION

5 year Ferrari

.

Insurance, upkeep, 5 year

Yacht. 6 year

.

17 year home, $10M to maintain it over 17 years

Silver 22 years

Warehouse 40-50 years

Bar or gold 62 year

Land. 91 years. 1.1% land

.

King ranch, 173 years

1851

.

Crown estate, 958 years

7 families

.

1066

.

Entropy is diluting the value of physical assets

.

You can’t get out of the game,,, then break even, then win

.

Immaterial

BTC custodian, 1000 years

.

10 bp for custody

.

Self custody, 10,000 years ?. .. 1bp

100,000 AI or computer program years

.

.1bp

Own Bitcoin or the ranch in Texas .. AI wants bitcoin

Digital assets

If you would be rich, trade wisely

Permenant > Temporaey

Capital > Currendy

Trade

.

Global > Local

Digital > Physical

.

$1T

60 guulders … best port …

Dutch buy manhattan

$2.1T NYC MANHATTAN

6% for 398 years,

Gain: 10,500,000,000

Naval power ***

France sells Louisiana for $15M

1803

27% of 48 states , Jefferson

$12T,,, vision,

Russia sold Alaska for $7.2 M

Alaska Purchase, $1 T oil

.

Parade of horrible

.

2020 August 10

55% annual return rate since 2020 August . Only 4 years?

.

Last every 4 more years

21 year

.

$3M, $20

2045 $49M, $13M, 7% assets

.

$280T, Bitcoin market cap…

Mega corps

Art grow
2045
.

$280T, visible on the chart ***

Subsidized credit to borrow Bitcoin

Don’t quit your day job

Don’t use margin loans or trade with leverage

.

$50k a year in bitcoin

Don’t be a normie

Triple maxi **

.

Increase mortgage to invest in BTC,

move to low tax jurisdiction

Extra. $50K in taxes

Result

BTC,,, 15.9 BTC

.

$213M by 2045–>

15.9 BTC to triple maxi

.

MSTR

97% annualized return

Over Tesla, Google, msft, aapl, meta, nflx, Amzn

.

Lower expenses to buy Bitcoin ***

.

Every hundred dollars or so

.

Don’t invest in ice cream cones

Long duration

.

It could be 100x, $300B

$4B is normie

Wealth

.

The first country

$19T,,, BTC, 1.9M,,,

.

-3T, normie

.

Get insanely rich. $58T

BTC, 4.2M

.

Cannot steal capital

.

Triple hardcore

Sell the paper go long range sell gold

.

Starting 2025

.

2045… solve half our problems

276 ^ 3

Bitcoin is cyber manhattan ***

Only 276 blocks

.

2009 .

It might make sense just in case it takes off

1000x

Bitcoin is the future of capital and money

.

You cannot change the universe or the planet, but you could direct yourself the opposite way to become beyond man, the ubermensch ideal:

Thoughts on immortality:

---

Masculine or Feminine?

Masculino o feminino — 

Men who are into tending plants, a feminine trait.

The notion of being masculine, let us think about this.

First, let us consider a Achilles. What was Achilles? The Apex of Manley is, the most supreme, dominant, powerful, that is not forget that he was a demigod in the flesh. 

First, let us consider how he was so dominant on the battlefield. Ultimately when it comes to the Apex of valor, it comes down to combat, physical combat, none of this shooting guns shit. Why are guns for cowards?

Asymmetric warfare. 

For example, any 400 pound obese loser can shoot you and kill you with a gun. Imagine fitting him with armor, a shield, and a spear… And put them in man-to-man, PVP, player versus player, 1v1 combat — versus an Achilles; assuming that he is 6 foot tall, handsome, around 160 pounds with pure muscle, 5% bodyfat and a 6 pack. Who would win?

Why does this matter?

Currently, it seems that at least with men, modern day capitalism, is all kind of a big dick measuring contest. Instead of measuring how many inches your penis has, what people try to do is measure their metaphorical capital by how many dollars or commas or zeros trails them.

But, let us consider some extreme examples. If you were a 4 foot man, obese, but with a 20 inch penis, would anyone care? No!

Being a “stud”

Apparently, at least with horses… A stud is a type of horse which is prime for breeding. And now with myself… I’m starting to feel like a stud. Whenever I walk around town, now I have women checking me out. Even when I am alone with my 60 pound weighted vest on! 

And also, let us consider… What women seeks is a mate. Ideally tall dark and handsome.

Even a nuance; I actually think naturalistically… A woman is less attracted to wealth, more attracted to a man’s height, attractiveness, muscularity, etc? A woman who marries a 4 foot tall billionaire man… Very bizarre. 

---

IMMORTAL

Mortal, it means you will die. All of us, born on the planet are mortals.

When do we think about the immortals, an ancient Greek mythology, essentially it means somebody who cannot die. The gods who live on Mount Olympus, or people who got locked up by Zeus, these were the immortals.

I had some thoughts about economic immortality, but also a new thought about fitness in general or life in general, being a man… As I have advanced in maturity, I truly do feel wiser. 

For example, the purpose of muscularity, health, bigger is simple; not to be the buffest guy at the gym,  in fact some insider information that I personally got was apparently, there are some weightlifters who try to dirty bulk, and get really really buff, maybe while taking steroids or whatever, and they get really really fat, end up doing a cutting phase by taking Adderall, forcing themselves not to eat food in order to lean up. true story!

Also, a funny telltale sign I’ve discovered is when you meet guys for short, really short, but insanely buff… Maybe bald maybe not, maybe with a beard, often a lot of these guys are taking steroids? Why or how do you know? Because the nuance is that a man, no matter how rich or smart we are, we cannot add inches to our height, not even with steroids. However, you could add inches to your chest, your arms, by taking steroids. And I feel bad for these Shorty guys, They will forever feel inadequate because of their short height. Even Jeff Bezos, I think he is only 5‘7“ tall? And Kanye is maybe 5‘6” tall? I think Kendrick Lamar is 5 feet 2 inches tall, and also a lot of these rappers are really short. Only tall rappers include Jay Z, I think he is 6‘2“ tall. Elon Musk is tall, I think he is over 6 feet tall.

Even a lot of action stars are pretty short. I think Tom Cruise is only 5’3” tall, even Arnold Schwarzenegger who seems like a giant onscreen is only 6 feet tall! About my height.

Vin Diesel is pretty short, maybe 5‘8“ tall? I’m quite certain he took a lot of steroids to get those massive arms, this is why he is bald.

Why does this matter?

Whether we like it or not, we always charge ourselves in comparison to others. This is the number one thing I learned from thinking social logically; to be human is to judge, to weigh, to compare, to measure. we do this with height, how many inches your penises, ones and zeros you got in your bank account, how many followers you got, how many ones and zeros you got in your bank account, how many bitcoin you own, how many inches your arms and biceps are, how much you could dead lift squat and bench press, etc.

But this is where being a man  in modern day times is bizarre; we have weights and measures to compare our cells with other men. But once again in the past, this wasn’t a concept. There would be no skinny fat loser pulling out a tape measure, or a scale to see how much Achilles weighed, his body fat composition, how tall he was, his dick size whatever. no, it was very simple, the question;

Is there, or was there, or can there be any man who could kill Achilles on the battlefield? 

And we all know the answer is no. Hector even knows this. Hector is no fool, he knows that Achilles is the superior fighter, after all, Achilles is demigod; half man, half God. His mom was a goddess, his father Amir mortal. Hector is 100% mortal and human. Not a fair chance.

Even a thing that is impressive about Achilles, he even takes on the gods! Not even Mars can kill or take on Achilles? 

And this is where the notion of immortality becomes fascinating to me; Achilles is demigod, 50% God, 50% mortal, means that he could be killed. And he does die.

How can you imagine, an immortal god like Area taking on Achilles, 1v1– and losing? This is an insanely grand idea:

Partly mortal mind can take on a god, and win. 

Lowercase god

So in modern day times, we have this Judeo Christian God, the God of Moses, the monolithic god. This is God with the capital G, who is the ultimate supreme being.

This is where I think studying ancient Greek mythology is fascinating; there were many gods! And they were just like you and me, the quarrel with their wives, sibling rivalry, mayhem and mischief, they would get angry, get spiteful, want revenge, would succumb to lust and desire, play favorites, troll around, go to sleep, have sex etc.

This is where the notion of a single God is oppressive; if there is a single supreme God, who controls everything, who is 0% human, what are we mere mortals to do? 

This is where theology is interesting, the idea that God substantiated with Jesus, became man, to help us mirror immortals, this is quite an innovative idea. That uppercase God would take human form, to help humanity. I suppose this is where Catholic or Christian Theology is a bit useful; at least you could imitate Jesus! Who was 100% man, and also 100% capital God?

---

Goals

So obviously we take no drugs, we don’t consume alcohol, we don’t smoke weed, our only drugs include nice sunshine, the beach, the mountains, physical activity, tapwater and black coffee. No sugars no starches, no fake foods. We only consume beef oxen and kettles; we leave the plants for cows.

Becoming immoral

I think the first grand advance is becoming immoral. That means looking at all the modern day ethics morals etc., and up ending all of them. Disrupting normalcy, disrupting ethics, disrupting morality.

I hesitate to say the word religion; because religion is something else. Religion is not morals and ethics, is rather a racial, geographic based power complex; each and every region on the planet has a different religion which emerges, based on different needs of people.

For example, Moses was in fact a historical figure. A real human being. I think the best way to think about things is all the stories of him parting the Red Sea, superhuman acts, are best interpreted as metaphors.  I think the only historical text on Moses is from the Roman historian Tacitus, fine to be a good historian because not only does he praise the military prowess of the people of Judea, but he sees things the more analytical lens.

Obviously, all history is flooded. But if we think about the history of the Peloponnesian war, probably the best historical text that we have, or the histories, essentially Herodotus and the like   wrote history not to have some sort of objective documentation of what happened, because back then there wasn’t somebody with a video camera to record the whole thing, but rather, it is based on allegory, ethics, morality, and virtues. And it all tends to be anti-tyranny, towards the democracy. The ancient Athenian way.

democracy as an experiment

I do not consider myself a libertarian, I still see myself as a cold blooded, red white and blue Democrat. I believe in democracy. Even if it is wrong.

I have always voted Democrat my whole life, but I have nothing against anybody else. I don’t care if you are Republican right left middle center conservative moderate crazy whatever, you have the right, assuming you pay taxes, your own opinion, and to your own vote! The only thing you’re not allowed to do is inside violence, physical violence. Even hate, hate speech, I think technically legally you’re allowed to do so, but just keep it to yourself, keep it inside your own ranch, you have something nice to say don’t say it at all. And also do not forget the fact that once upon a Time, your family was also an immigrant, or trying to escape persecution from the British, and seeking a new life with more freedom and opportunity. Even the Chinese call America the beautiful country.

Mainland Chinese people would prefer to live in America

The big issue here is Controls. Mainland Chinese, Richmond land Chinese, should be told they want to take their wealth out of Beijing, out of Shanghai, and take it to America if they could. They all send their kids to school, they want to send their kids to Harvard, Yale, even a UCLA or maybe even UC Berkeley.

I think if you think about it… If you think on a long enough time scale, surely but slowly, I think all power wealth and money will be concentrated in America.

Why? China is too polluted. I think mainland China is currently having a problem; all of these rich mainland Chinese oligarchs are pumping coal, producing as quickly as they can, in order to quickly get rich, and then send their kids to a more beautiful Location, for example the appeal of a Vancouver; surrounded but nothing with trees, nature. Even Chip Wilson, the founder of Lululemon said that Vancouver is the perfect place to be, and also the reason why Lululemon was invented there, it could have not happened on any other city on the planet.

For myself is an American, I currently believe LA, specifically Culver City to be the perfect place to be. Why? It is the only place which is actually walkable and all of Los Angeles, and also, the only place in all of Los Angeles that have seen a city having a dedicated graffiti removal team; my daily walk, one of the best telling things I discovered was  there was some sort of sticker art on this one to for a very long time, and finally, I actually saw that the Culver City public services department cleaned it up, scraped it off! Where else is this possible in any of Los Angeles?

Also, the new Apple headquarters on Washington. They are currently in the midst of expanding it, and building a super mega campus. This ain’t gonna go away for a long time.

Even though Apple is not as innovative as it is before, at least for our lifetime, I am certain that we will all still be using iPhones, not some loser pixel or Samsung phone.

And I think Apple has been wise, we have all become subscribed to the Apple ecosystem and financial services; Apple has effectively become its own bank and security system; we have all of our password saved to iCloud, and paying with Apple Pay is 1 trillion times easier than any other competitor. And once you could pay with bitcoin from your iPhone, with touch or Face ID… Apple will truly take over the planet.

Back to you

What can one man do, what can a single human being do? A lot!

Simple things; every time you see a kid, small and wave at the kid! There’s a saying, whenever you smile at a child, the universe smells back at you! 

Pedophiles don’t really exist

I think a very very bad thing which has been promoted by social media, mainstream news is a fear of pedophilia. Especially with child predators, men.

Now being a dad, with a three year-old four month-year-old son… Honestly I think we have 0% to be fearful of pedophiles, the only real thing to be afraid of is distracted drivers, texting while driving, or even these electric scooters and electric bikes, if you’re distracted on your iPhone for even half a second, and one of these things whiz by at full speed and hit your kid, it actually might kill your kid.

Avoid potential fatal things for your kid

For example, once again, I think 100% focus should be just be insanely careful when you are crossing the street with your kid, or for cars running red lights, or even driving while high! I’ve already seen two people smoking marijuana while driving cars stuck in traffic, Very scary.

Having at least one son, having kids

Let us think about the simple biological truth: if for some reason tomorrow, all human beings on the planet, all 8 billion of us decided to not have kids, with a generation or two we would all die off.

Certainly, the first goal, especially being a man is to have at least one male; at least one son to carry on the family name.

Or, have at least one kid, doesn’t matter whether boy or girl. Ideally more. 

For example, one of my neighbors, super friendly 70-year-old Chinese American lady, has two daughters, about my age, 34 and 37, and both of them, no serious relationship, not married and certainly no children. I feel bad for my neighbor; ballistically, she might never have any grandchildren, even with two daughters! Maybe Seneca could just be her metaphorical grandkid.

What is the purpose of grandparents?

I think a simple purpose of grandparents is to take care of the grandkids! In America, we have bastardized this ocean; and this is where things become very inefficient for the modern day American.

People say that daycare, having kids is expensive; not really, if you have a grandma or grandpa, ideally both around!

Is your whole family lives together, in one house or complex, and the grandparents take care of the young children, while their parents are working or doing something else. 

The problem is the world has shifted towards hedonism; for example, hedonic pleasure through traveling, backpacking, seeing the world, eating good food, socializing, etc. Certainly these are all good things, but I don’t think they should be the telos of a grandparent–  ultimate tell us of grandparent is to take care of the grandchildren, to instill them with wisdom, love, abilities!

And the truth is, all grandchildren universally adore their grandparents, especially the grandmother! Even now, as a 30 six-year-old man, I have nothing but affection for my grandma! I’m a lot more distant with my grandfather on my mom side, and my grandfather on my dad side passed when I was only two years old, so I have zero memories of him. But even Cindy, she has great memories of her grandfather, and I think this is a great thing!

Lineage

Ultimately, what is the point of life? I think it has to deal with lineage. Essentially, you just don’t want the family line to die off! 

Ideally, the family lineage last forever! The purpose or the point isn’t your personal immortality — it is the immortality of your family bloodline! Thinking about your kids kids kids.

Don’t mention things you don’t like

Don’t get free marketing or free PR or free publicity to things you don’t like.

If you really hate Donald Trump, don’t say nothing, just vote for Kamala Harris, or the other side. 

When will you hate something, or vocalize when you hate something, we actually secretly like it? 

Why else would we complain or vocalize it?

New moral rule: whenever we hate some thing or dislike something, we stay silent. More manly to pause, and emit silence than say something evil.

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A real man?

A true mensch?

What is an “uber”-mensch? My ideal, my vision is to be beyond man. To not be a mere mortal, even though we are mortal.

For example, we mortal men, we lose our shit, we get angry, we yell, we get violent, we get aggressive, etc. Maybe the goal or the path is to not see yourself as a human — maybe the best thing is to not allow yourself any human emotions– the stoic way.

“Human, all too human”

It is obvious that we are all human, and that we all have human emotions. But then, the simplest innovation we can make as an individual is to be anti-human, anti-man?

Maybe going opposite or doing the opposite?

For example, when you are angry, be kind instead? Or even the funny reverse; when you want to be kind, show fake anger instead?

There are still are many innovations we can make in ethics guys! 

ERIC

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Can it be sold or marketed on the entire planet?

Start a Meme

Starting a meme simply means to innovate a new approach which is copied because it is actually the superior approach.

Outer limits

Facility

Goods intended for sale

Prices which are effective

Circumstances

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What is more efficient, more effective?

I suppose also the genius of taking the metro and instead of driving is that if you are with your kid, there’s a double fold joy; kid just love being metro! Even if it takes twice as long, the benefit is they could run around, look at other people, get a better view etc.

And I also suppose, the downside of driving is that you are forced to sit on your own butt. If you want to metro, at least you have the option of standing or sitting.

For example, better to stand in a metro for 30 minutes, rather than to be sedentary in a car for 15 minutes.

What is better for your muscles?

I think a new thought is thinking about efficacy, or effectiveness for muscles. Anything which allows you to be upright, outside, moving around, getting stimulation for your muscles is generally a good thing.

For example, there is literally no downside to walking. Running is bad; running causes injuries. Walking has no downsides. 

In fact, if you think that running is bad, as I do… Maybe it needs to be our ethical imperative to educate people how it is bad for you. Or just encourage everyone who is into running to get a 60 pound weight vest instead, or at least to buy some vibram 5 finger shoes.  Throw away all those loser Hoka shoes, and even worse… Brooks shoes in the trash!

Foam is bad.

The more foam on the bottom of your shoe, it is like adding a metaphorical condom which is 5 inches thick! The goal of an ideal condom is to be practically as soon as humanly possible, ideally invisible. Maybe just a millimeter thick. The same approach should be for shoes.

The bottom of your feet is like a metaphorical penis?

When it comes to sexual pleasure, ideally you would just have sex raw, for maximal sexual penile pleasure. Then technically the ideals to just be barefoot, if you want Max foot field ground pleasure?

Just be a hippie, go on a walk in nature barefoot! Just wash off your feet later.

Or, vibram five fingers shoes; a good hybrid model, just enough protection to divide you from the floor.

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Can it be disposed of?

The open market

An open market ,,, kind of like an economic open source?

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Our privilege in LA — milk it to the max!

Probably — also maybe Japan?

Benefit of America — geographic — surrounded by the sea?

Also benefit of living on the coasts — temperature regulation, ocean breeze.

Also — South Korea — peninsula is a good thing.

Especially to myself?

If it is still working ,,, good sign! It has stood the test of time!

1. LUMIX G9 camera ,,, since I bought it brand new in Japan in 2018? 6 years now ,,, pretty good for a digital camera!
2. 2010 Prius — 14 years, … good definitely for another 14 years, or even 30 years?

Can anything digital last forever?

1. Bitcoin is forever money
2. Digital cameras ,,, no. A RICOH GR doesn’t last forever — too fragile
3. No phone, iPhone will last forever

The great thing with modern day capitalism — more options, more choices, more products, more (cheaper) prices!

Amazon, Amazon prime for clothes and almost everything — clothing and shorts should not cost more then $10? Especially with modern day manufacturing, mainland China, etc?

Becoming Immortal

Amazon — cheap, no logo, unbranded? It is all made in the same factory in Vietnam or China anyways?

One thing.

Bitcoin: digital cash.

All these loser companies simply copying Apple with the whole “Pro” notion? Even Apple has prostituted her own “Pro” label to her phones ,,, shamefully. Ain’t nothing Pro about a phone nor should it — just a short sighted cash grab.

Now Apple has shot herself in the foot — the hype over iPhone “Pro” is over — now where will the new source of revenue be? These subpar films and tv shows?

My passions as a teenager? And also philosophy?

Bad design is confusing and not intuitive?

As a kid ,,, my thoughts were most pure?

As a kid,, to imagine one day there would be self driving electric cars — beyond even my own wildest imagination?

Problems of Apple and Tesla:

Neither are modular, or modificable?

Happiness, joy?

Life affirming or nothing!

Wasting your time is to waste your life!

Doing returns and Amazon returns — not a good use of your time.

Eric Kim has shared several tips and insights on intermittent fasting, particularly emphasizing its benefits for productivity, mental clarity, and physical health. Here are some key takeaways from his approach:

1. Strict Fasting Schedule: Kim follows a strict intermittent fasting routine, typically avoiding breakfast and lunch, and only consuming a large meal in the evening. He finds that this approach boosts his energy levels and productivity during the day.
2. Caffeine as a Tool: To suppress hunger, he suggests drinking black coffee, tea, and plenty of water throughout the day. Caffeine, according to him, acts as a useful appetite suppressant.
3. Exercise and Distraction: When hunger strikes during the day, Kim recommends going to the gym and lifting weights as a way to channel that hunger into something productive. He also mentions distracting oneself with activities like watching movies or playing games.
4. Diet Composition: When breaking his fast, Kim advocates for a diet heavy in meats, eggs, and leafy greens, while avoiding starchy foods, sugars, and dairy to prevent weight gain. He prefers fatty cuts of meat and believes that the saturated fats and cholesterol in these meats can boost testosterone levels.
5. Fasting Mindset: Kim views fasting as a challenge and a game, encouraging others to push their limits but only if they find it enjoyable. He emphasizes that fasting should not be seen as self-torture but as a way to test personal strength and resilience.
6. Benefits: He lists numerous benefits of fasting, including enhanced mental focus, increased artistic productivity, reduced body fat, and more vigorous physical energy. Additionally, he notes that food tastes much better after a prolonged fast, enhancing the overall eating experience.

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Why economic immortality?

I think why this is such an important thing to think about and consider is that when it comes to money and economics, this affects any single and every single human being on the planet, all 8 billion of us.

There is no society on the planet that does not rely upon money in order for us to pay rent, purchase food, pay for electricity and Wi-Fi etc.

Now I think the bizarre carrot and stick we are fed in America is to get super super rich, in order to purchase certain things. For example, to one day be able to purchase a Lamborghini, Ferrari, whatever.

But the issue here is thinking about maintenance cost, and the productive half-life of something.

Half life of 3 years

So for example, let’s just say you buy the new Porsche Lamborghini or Ferrari whatever, I think initially… it will bring you a huge wave of exhilaration and excitement! Maybe the same feeling of the excitement of being able to bed and insanely beautiful woman!

But… the second that you bed her, and you blow your load, boom time to go to sleep. And let us say that you are with this insanely beautiful supermodel babe days weeks months and years… it seems that this playboy man, eventually his enthusiasm may change. 

Nothing is forever

I think thing with beauty, in the context of vehicles homes cars women etc.… man is ever fickle, he always seeks novelty. 

Now the unsustainable model is this guy just keeps working himself to death, attempting to stack his billions on billions, kind of like the Jay Z model, in order to purchase all these things he desires.

“I bought every V12 engine, I wish I could take it back to the beginning.” – JAY Z, THE LIFE OF OJ

In this line from the life of OJ, I find it a really fascinating thought… JAY Z says he has already amassed enough wealth to purchase every single automobile car with a V12 engine. So when he says that he wants to take it back to the beginning… what does he mean to say?

Does he mean to say that he wishes that he didn’t waste all that money on all these V12 engine vehicles, and had invested that money instead? Or, he wishes that he could take it back to the beginning before he was super rich and successful, in order for him to feel hungry and scrappy again like he was in the beginning? Or maybe both — a double entendre — what rappers are masters at?

Bitcoin over uploading your consciousness to the cloud

Regardless, there are some fools who seek biological life immortality, these weirdos and Silicon Valley guys who want to live 100,000 years or whatever by uploading their consciousness to the cloud whatever. I personally find this to be a very poor poor idea, and also very bizarre… I found a lot of men who does actually desire to do this, practically no women. 

Maybe women are more wise; they know that if they become 300 years old or whatever… no amount of plastic surgery, Botox, fillers, or cosmetic aesthetic surgery or whatever could make them forever look like a sexy 26-year-old babe or something. In fact, being here in LA, I see this a lot… women, who are still beautiful and sexy, but beyond their prime… maybe in their mid 40s, 50s, 60s… who might have had Botox or some sort of facial surgery somewhere in the past… it doesn’t age well…

Men and women

I’ve also noticed this issue with any sort of facial injections or Botox or plastic surgery; especially with Koreans, Korean women, and now even Korean men! If you see them in the flesh, in the direct sunlight… it really does look like plastic, and all that white stuff looks caked on… a little bit frightening almost like the joker? 

And what are you gonna do when you marry that BLACKPINK member, and you have a kid and a baby together… and your kid looks like something else?

This is why you should never judge anybody until you have met them in the flesh, face to face, standing next to them, in the direct sunlight, outside. The camera and video cameras lie.

Better for economic immortality, and be Spartan… than to live like a Persian slave? 

What is the ultimate asset that you have? Your attention, your time, your focus. If you wake up, with your iPhone charging next to you, and the first thing you do is check your email… you are a slave. Or, if by not taking your email you can get fired, you are also a digital slave.

Or, if you cannot delete your Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube channel, Twitter without economic impoverishment… you are not free.

What is economic immorality?

I think the general idea is for your capital to outlive you. That as time goes on, your pile of capital continues to accumulate indefinitely, kind of like a tree that ever grows taller and taller overtime, gradually but surely, and continues to expand her branches and leaves… Sprouting new seeds, propagating herself etc.

The reason why I like this metaphor is that the funny thought is perhaps we human beings… We’re not that different from trees. What we seek is dominance! Apparently in the rainforest… Only the tallest trees, that can outgrow the competition, and get to the highest height, can capture the sunlight, which allows it to produce seeds. If you’re in the rainforest, And you’re not tall enough, and you cannot access sunlight… You’re not going to produce any seeds.

Is the reason people don’t want to have kids because they’re not rich enough? 

I don’t think so. I think part of it is a strange brainwashing from these tree hugging childless liberals who seek to help serve “the planet”, over humanity.

For example, the bizarre thought that having kids is bad “for the planet”…  this is one of the most weird thoughts of all time… The question:

Are kids made for the planet… Or is the planet made for kids? 

You fools! Don’t you know, if suddenly every single human being on the planet stopped producing children, stopped having kids… Though within a generation or two the entire human race would go extinct?

If you had the scenario… What would you prefer–

1. The death of humanity

You are supreme dictator of the planet, and you force sterilize every single human being on the planet, which makes it impossible for any single human to give birth to a new child, and therefore it is guaranteed that no more children will be produced on the planet.

As a consequence, you have “saved” the planet and the earth and the environment – but within a generation or two, let us say 200 years, every single human being on the planet parishes, and the human race goes extinct. Then would you be happy?

2. “Carbon footprint”?

It is certain that humans burning coal and creating emissions is doing something to the planet, it is certainly changing it, my friend calls it “global weirding”. Weather patterns are becoming more and more weird. But the idea that one day the planet will become in inhabitable is false.  I believe is that more and more extremes will happen; maybe in Los Angeles, the summers will keep getting hotter and hotter, maybe eventually making it to the point that it is not uncommon to have whether in the 90s, mid 90s, even the hundreds, or the low hundreds kind of like Arizona or Nevada. And then in the winter, getting really really cold, like the 30s or something. Or maybe even the 20s?

I suppose here is we’re buying beachfront property is a desire or a strategy for some people, like purchasing property in Santa Monica, Venice, Venice Beach, Miami Beach etc. Even in Orange County, Newport Beach or Dana Point is the most highly sought after. Why? Maybe if in the next 50 years, the planet will keep getting hotter,  then being closer to the water and feeling the ocean breeze might be a good thing.

Certainly if the planet gets really really cold, this is also very very bad, but I suppose here is where humans are better adapted, if it is like 20° or 30° in LA, it sucks but at least you could buy a Canada goose jacket. If it is 120°, Like in Saudi Arabia or Dubai… At this point, is it literally impossible to just leave the house? Without air conditioning?

Simple ideas

If you think about thermodynamics, the simple strategy is to prevent heat loss. For example, if you think about the human body, technically we actually have enough heat in our body to keep us warm wherever we are or go.

So if we apply thermo dynamic principles to money and finances,  the similar principal applies: the goal is to prevent yourself from heat loss, or economic energy loss, or money loss, or financial loss.

A simple one is delete or unsubscribe from all of your subscriptions. All of your media streaming music services, your gym memberships etc. Get rid of Spotify.

Also as a simple filter, consume no media which is advertising supported, this includes Joe Rogan, or your favorite media personalities. Why, err regardless of how much you love them, as long as they are getting paid a check, to promote some sort of service or product, they and you are not 100% free.

In fact, even advice for people like Tim Ferriss, of who I am a big fan… Tim, you’re original, why don’t you just privately finance your podcast and books, you don’t have anything left to prove to anybody? You have already achieved all of the success you really need, Just give it away for free, without annoying advertisements, and just do a pro bono because it is your passion?

Creating new media hosting platforms 

OK something insanely annoying… My video press.com account, prevents me from uploading videos anymore. Maybe I’ll just start posting it myself, and providing direct links instead?

I suppose this is where it is useful that I got into the Internet in the 90s and the early 2000s… I have good knowledge about FTPs, and online storage. And websites.

I met a lot of aspiring filmmakers and creators, who still don’t have their own self hosted website, are they fools?

Simple:

1. Ionos.com or bluehost.com, and just sign up for the cheapest self hosted server plan, which gives you access to your own FTP server, in which you could directly upload your own video files or whatever, and provide direct download links for people.
2. Use WordPress.org we’re only trust open source things. Why? Open source lasts longer; because typically when people create open source stuff, they do it because it is their passion not because there is a financial motive. Therefore as a consequence, it typically lasts.

It is not guaranteed that a passion project will last, we have good duration, but, perhaps the true indicator is this:

If you were offered a financial incentive or motivation to publish somethunf with a publisher, but you refused and you gave it away for free instead… you are true.

100 Lessons From The Masters Of Street Photography — this will last forever.

Why bitcoin will last forever

Even if you think about this, ultimate generous act; to create something invent something, anonymously, to give it away for free and then disappear forever… Isn’t this the ultimate generous act?

Satoshi did this. It is probably doubtful that he is Japanese, his English is too good. Probably after some Caucasian American man, slightly anti-establishment, anti-beings, a programming whiz, really believed in this. Kind of like the founder of Linux, etc. 

This is where you should never put any faith in any sort of corporation, product, security, or crypto crypto acid which has had a general founder. Why? When the founder dies, and there is no more vision… The whole thing will probably go under.

Steve Jobs vision was to create a company imputed with so much creative passion that it would outlive him. It seems like he has won here. Procreate wasn’t invented or created yet when Steve Jobs was alive, and if you think about it… The true ultimate vision of Steve Jobs was to create iPad, no stupid stylist, no stupid keyboard. This is why if you are a true fanboy, a true acolyte of Steve Jobs, what you would do is just use the 11 inch iPad Pro, no stupid accessories. You are a true innovator this way.

A true and grand man with real vision?

To become a true visionary is to see beyond well, monetization, even your own financial well-being. A true visionary doesn’t really care for money; Elon Musk doesn’t care about money, Jeff Bezos doesn’t, Peter Thiel doesn’t, Steve Jobs didn’t.

Maybe this is where we have to ask Jay Z and Kanye from our economic minds; I think the pernicious thing in the African-American community is around money. Why? It makes sense; even in America, talking to my friend Ray.. racism is still alive and well, and I don’t think it’s necessarily gotten any better. Certainly there is more access, there is no more legal laws which prohibit a certain race a person to purchase property, but still, people are still going to be racist towards you towards the pigment of your skin, your morphology, your genetic heritage etc., assuming that you are not Anglo-Saxon protestant Caucasian man in America.

Even Jewish people, they are not white. They are closet white, or “white passing“, — as long as America never elect or votes for a Jewish American president, Jewish people in Jewish businessmen will always be at a disadvantage, lower on the totem pole.

Even a Donald Trump… Certainly he is not Christian or religious or whatever… But he is certainly not Jewish. 

Even Catholics, Catholicism… Besides John F. Kennedy, Catholicism and being Catholic is still the weird sub-sect.

so what are we to do?

First, stop the heat loss, stop the oxygen loss, stop the bleeding! The most critical thing to consider in regards to economic policy for yourself, is to stop all debt, stop bleeding, and don’t leverage any debt or bad things!

Mortgages?

If you live in California, the taxes will bleed your dry. Even if you live somewhere like Florida, which has a lower tax jurisdiction, there are still taxes!

Which means, with property, you never really own the property, you simply have a lease from the government to borrow it. Do you have more privileges like building stuff on top of it, but still, as long as you have to pay a forever home owner city tax, you don’t really own it. 

Perhaps this is where people get tempted by certain things like clothing or cars, if you purchase it in all cash, technically you do own it. 

Avoid the indoors like the plague 

A lot of people coughing now, indoors. Maybe then the wise ideas to avoid indoors like the play, kind of like early Covid days. And also, maybe starting to become wise again to wear a facemask when going anywhere indoors?

–> always live life like it is COVID?

Because the issue here is not even catching Covid is just getting sick! I don’t want to catch the common cold; which has no vaccine. 

Every day is different

Each and every day is different… Never planned the night before. Just do what you feel like morning of. 

Bitcoin is digital cash

I think Satoshi wrote this in the bitcoin white paper, and also this is interesting because the notion of cash, because the simple ideas with a home or property or whatever… Either 100% all cash offer or nothing.

If you have to finance it, just keep stacking your money until you do it all cash.

But also the issue… If you think like a real investor, and you think about 10, 100 X, 1000 X gains… There’s almost nothing worth purchasing.

For example, at this point I could technically purchase anything I want. As long as it is less than $1 million. But the thing is… There’s nothing worth purchasing, nothing I value purchasing considering if my bitcoin can 10x, 100x, 1000x or even 10,000x from here.

Never spend money on yourself only others

Besides purchasing some weightlifting equipment from Titan.fitness from my remaining PayPal balance, I haven’t spent money on anything perhaps the last year?

I think the big thing is not because I’m doing it out of a sense of virtuality, but instead, ethos is that there is just nothing worth it?

And also, I’m starting to understand that I like the idea of things rather than actually owning it. Even my friend Don Dillon told me this about his Porsche 911 GT3: maybe we like the idea of something more than actually owning it.

This is where I love marketing, marketing materials, marketing copy images videos etc.; it is also inspirational, motivational, and interesting to me! For example, I do not wish even my worst enemy to own a Ferrari, the maintenance costs on these things are insane; at least a Lamborghini is just an Audi or a Volkswagen with a body kit; so if you’re going to fix your Lamborghini Huracan V10 engine… You could presumably use Volkswagen or Audi parts. But with Ferrari… You’re screwed. Do you want to fix your suspension, or your engine? Say goodbye to $200,000. And even if you’re super rich… Even a billionaire… To spend $200,000 to fix your car is always going to be annoying. And will irk you in a bad way.

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“Finance”?

So studying some etymology for the word finance, the general idea is that finance literally means to hold someone at ransom? 

Very bad apparently, 99.99% of people finance their homes, which means that they take out a 30 year mortgage or whatever. And also even worse, apparently talking to some guys at the Toyota dealership, most people also finance their cars. This is horrible idea for many reasons:

1. First, if you’re going to take any APR that is above 0%, you’re in the red. Even 1.99% APR… That is lost money.
2. If you have to do a down payment on a car, and finance it, that is money you could’ve put into bitcoin, and 1000x’d — a $5M mistake, assuming that the average down payment on a car is $5000 USD.

Even more foolish is to Lisa vehicles; because once again, after three years you have to give it back! So you have literally pissed your money down the drain.

How to know whether people are really rich or not rich?

1. If they have not paid off the mortgage on the house in full, then they are not rich.
2. If they drive a Tesla, they are not rich
3. If they have a job they are not rich

Richness, is absence. The absence of having to have a job, the absence of having to “work“.

Does it matter?

I’m more critical thing to consider, which is even beyond my personal scope: does it matter? 

For example, why do you care to see or know how rich somebody is, in comparison to you?

I don’t think it really matters.

Maybe it comes out of a sense of insecurity; do you have to always weigh yourself according to others, maybe it is simply lack of self-esteem? And also, is this a socialized thing?

Because for example, if you were Achilles, you would not care about how rich somebody wasn’t comparison to you. I’ll Achilles was weary of just conquering towns for the sake of king Agamemnon. He just wanted to take Breisis his prize, and just retire to his fertile lands. And of course, after Hector kills Patroclus, on accident, thinking that it was Achilles… Achilles’ sole objective was to enact revenge by killing Hector. He had no use for golden tripods, more cattle in the like. Even the whole period of time in which he is trying to get his revenge, he actually forces his self not to eat– and of course the gods infuse him with ambrosia so he won’t starve to death, but still technically… he is technically “intermittent fasting“ the whole time.

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Live like Achilles

Maybe the secret to economic immortality is to just live like Achilles. Your only joy is through combat, physical valor, strength, muscle.

My very very simple suggestion is quit your gym membership cancel your gym membership, and use that money to buy your own barbell and weights. If you want to do it super cheap, just purchase a sandbag, and buy some cheap place and from Home Depot, only about five dollars for a 50 pound bag.

Also, armor. 60 pound weight vest from Titan.fitness. 

And then, your joy is just maximum time outside, in the direct elements, training, for life.

ERIC

Summary bullet points

Here’s a bullet-point list of key takeaways from the text on “Economic Immortality”:

• Universal Economic Impact:
• Economic issues affect every human being globally, making money essential for survival.
• Critique of Materialism:
• Material possessions, like luxury cars, provide fleeting joy and come with high maintenance costs.
• The pursuit of wealth for the sake of acquiring luxury items is unsustainable and often leads to dissatisfaction.
• Temporary Nature of Satisfaction:
• The concept of a “half-life” is used to describe how excitement and joy from material possessions diminish over time.
• Human nature often seeks novelty, leading to a constant cycle of acquisition and dissatisfaction.
• Questioning Wealth Accumulation:
• Figures like Jay Z express regret over spending on material goods, raising questions about the true value of wealth.
• Critique of Biological Immortality:
• The pursuit of biological immortality through technology is seen as bizarre and impractical, particularly in the context of aging and beauty.
• Problems with Cosmetic Enhancements:
• The use of plastic surgery and cosmetic enhancements often results in unnatural appearances and long-term consequences.
• Economic Independence and Digital Slavery:
• True freedom comes from economic independence, not being a slave to digital platforms or social media.
• Economic immortality involves ensuring that one’s capital outlives them, growing and propagating over time.
• Environmental and Childbirth Debate:
• The idea that having fewer children is beneficial for the planet is challenged, with the author arguing that the planet exists to serve humanity.
• Climate Change and Adaptation:
• Climate change is acknowledged as a reality, but human adaptability can mitigate some of its effects.
• Financial Thermodynamics:
• Applying thermodynamic principles to finance involves preventing economic energy loss by eliminating unnecessary expenses.
• Value of Open-Source and Self-Hosting:
• Open-source projects and self-hosting content are praised for their longevity and independence from third-party platforms.
• Enduring Legacy of Bitcoin:
• Bitcoin is highlighted as a model of economic immortality, designed to function without a central authority and embodying economic freedom.
• Visionaries and Economic Independence:
• True visionaries prioritize innovation and impact over personal financial gain.
• Critique of Wealth Focus in African-American Community:
• The focus on wealth within the African-American community is linked to historical challenges, but the author suggests moving beyond materialism to achieve true freedom.
• Practical Financial Advice:
• The author advises against taking on debt and emphasizes the importance of financial independence and avoiding consumer traps.
• Reality of Property Ownership:
• Property ownership is often illusory due to ongoing taxes, which prevent true ownership.
• Health Precautions Post-COVID:
• The cautious behavior adopted during COVID-19, like avoiding indoor spaces and wearing masks, is suggested as a continued practice for maintaining health.
• Day-to-Day Flexibility:
• The author advocates for a flexible approach to life, making decisions based on immediate circumstances rather than rigid plans.
• Ethos of Not Spending:
• The author practices not spending money on themselves, viewing most purchases as unnecessary and valuing the idea of things more than actual ownership.

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Take the Ricoh GR camera, and armor it up. No retractable lens to make it more robust, and make it waterproof shockproof and add the flash again.

Make it bigger, beefier. Like the Lamborghini Hurucan Sterrato

Some more thoughts about economics, and you:

Economic immortality 

I think why this is such an important thing to think about and consider is that when it comes to money and economics, this affects any single and every single human being on the planet, all 8 billion of us.

There is no society on the planet that does not rely upon money in order for us to pay rent, purchase food, pay for electricity and Wi-Fi etc.

Now I think the bizarre carrot and stick we are fed in America is to get super super rich, in order to purchase certain things. For example, to one day be able to purchase a Lamborghini, Ferrari, whatever.

But the issue here is thinking about maintenance cost, and the productive half-life of something.

So for example, let’s just say you buy the new Porsche Lamborghini or Ferrari whatever, I think initially… It will bring you a huge wave of exhilaration and excitement! Maybe the same feeling of the excitement of being able to bed and insanely beautiful woman!

But… The second that you bet her, and you blow your load, boom time to go to sleep. And let us say that you are with this insanely beautiful supermodel babe days weeks months and years… It seems that this playboy man, eventually his enthusiasm may change. 

I think thing with beauty, in the context of vehicles homes cars women etc.… Man is ever fickle, he always seeks novelty. 

Now the unsustainable model is this guy just keeps working himself to death, attempting to stack his billions on billions, kind of like the Jay Z model, in order to purchase all these things he desires.

“I bought every V12 engine, I wish I could take it back to the beginning.” – JAY Z, THE LIFE OF OJ

In this line from the life of OJ, I find it a really fascinating thought… he says he has already amassed enough wealth to purchase every single automobile car with a V12 engine. So when he says that he wants to take it back to the beginning… What does he mean to say? Does he mean to say that he wishes that he didn’t waste all that money on all these V12 engine vehicles, and had invested that money instead? Or, he wishes that he could take it back to the beginning before he was super rich and successful, in order for him to feel hungry and scrappy again like he was in the beginning? Or maybe both — a double entendre — what rappers are masters at?

Regardless, there are some fools who seek biological life immortality, these weirdos and Silicon Valley guys who want to live 100,000 years or whatever by uploading their consciousness to the cloud whatever. I personally find this to be a very poor poor idea,  and also very bizarre… I found a lot of men who does actually do this, practically no women.  Maybe women are more wise; they know that if they become 300 years old or whatever… No amount of plastic surgery, Botox, fillers, or cosmetic aesthetic surgery or whatever could make them forever look like a sexy 26-year-old babe or something. In fact, being here in LA, I see this a lot… Women, who are still beautiful and sexy, but beyond their prime… Maybe in their mid 40s, 50s, 60s… Who might have had Botox or some sort of facial surgery somewhere in the past… And it doesn’t age well…

I’ve also noticed this issue with any sort of facial injections or Botox or plastic surgery; especially with Koreans, Korean women, and now even Korean men! If you see them in the flesh, in the dark sunlight… It really does look like plastic, and all that white stuff looks caked on… a little bit frightening almost like the joker? 

This is why you should never judge anybody until you have met them in the flesh, face to face, standing next to them, in the direct sunlight, outside. There’s only so much you could take behind an iPhone camera and selfie mode, with nice indoor lighting.

Better for economic immortality, and be Spartan… than to live like a Persian slave? 

What is the ultimate asset that you have? Your attention, your time, your focus. If you wake up, with your iPhone charging next to you, and the first thing you do is check your email… You are a slave. Or, if by not taking your email you can get fired… You are also a digital slave.

Or, if you cannot delete your Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, YouTube channel, Twitter without economic impoverishment… you are not free. 

What is economic immorality?

I think the general idea is for your capital to outlive you. That as time goes on, your pile of capital continues to accumulate indefinitely, kind of like a tree that ever grows taller and taller overtime, gradually but surely, and continues to expand her branches and leaves… Sprouting new seeds, propagating herself etc.

The reason why I like this metaphor is that the funny thought is perhaps we human beings… We’re not that different from trees. What we seek is dominance! Apparently in the rainforest… Only the tallest trees, that can outgrow the competition, and get to the highest height, can capture the sunlight, which allows it to produce seeds. If you’re in the rainforest, And you’re not tall enough, and you cannot access sunlight… You’re not going to produce any seeds.

Is the reason people don’t want to have kids because they’re not rich enough? 

I don’t think so. I think part of it is a strange brainwashing from these tree hugging childless liberals who seek to help serve “the planet”, over humanity.

For example, the bizarre thought that having kids is bad “for the planet”…  this is one of the most weird thoughts of all time… The question:

Are kids made for the planet… Or is the planet made for kids? 

You fools! Don’t you know, if suddenly every single human being on the planet stopped producing children, stopped having kids… Though within a generation or two the entire human race would go extinct?

If you had the scenario… What would you prefer–

1. The death of humanity

You are supreme dictator of the planet, and you force sterilize every single human being on the planet, which makes it impossible for any single human to give birth to a new child, and therefore it is guaranteed that no more children will be produced on the planet.

As a consequence, you have “saved” the planet and the earth and the environment – but within a generation or two, let us say 200 years, every single human being on the planet parishes, and the human race goes extinct. Then would you be happy?

2. “Carbon footprint”?

It is certain that humans burning coal and creating emissions is doing something to the planet, it is certainly changing it, my friend calls it “global weirding”. Weather patterns are becoming more and more weird. But the idea that one day the planet will become in inhabitable is false.  I believe is that more and more extremes will happen; maybe in Los Angeles, the summers will keep getting hotter and hotter, maybe eventually making it to the point that it is not uncommon to have whether in the 90s, mid 90s, even the hundreds, or the low hundreds kind of like Arizona or Nevada. And then in the winter, getting really really cold, like the 30s or something. Or maybe even the 20s?

I suppose here is we’re buying beachfront property is a desire or a strategy for some people, like purchasing property in Santa Monica, Venice, Venice Beach, Miami Beach etc. Even in Orange County, Newport Beach or Dana Point is the most highly sought after. Why? Maybe if in the next 50 years, the planet will keep getting hotter,  then being closer to the water and feeling the ocean breeze might be a good thing.

Certainly if the planet gets really really cold, this is also very very bad, but I suppose here is where humans are better adapted, if it is like 20° or 30° in LA, it sucks but at least you could buy a Canada goose jacket. If it is 120°, Like in Saudi Arabia or Dubai… At this point, is it literally impossible to just leave the house? Without air conditioning?

Simple ideas

If you think about thermodynamics, the simple strategy is to prevent heat loss. For example, if you think about the human body, technically we actually have enough heat in our body to keep us warm wherever we are or go.

So if we apply thermo dynamic principles to money and finances,  the similar principal applies: the goal is to prevent yourself from heat loss, or economic energy loss, or money loss, or financial loss.

A simple one is delete or unsubscribe from all of your subscriptions. All of your media streaming music services, your gym memberships etc. Get rid of Spotify.

Also as a simple filter, consume no media which is advertising supported, this includes Joe Rogan, or your favorite media personalities. Why, err regardless of how much you love them, as long as they are getting paid a check, to promote some sort of service or product, they and you are not 100% free.

In fact, even advice for people like Tim Ferriss, of who I am a big fan… Tim, you’re original, why don’t you just privately finance your podcast and books, you don’t have anything left to prove to anybody? You have already achieved all of the success you really need, Just give it away for free, without annoying advertisements, and just do a pro bono because it is your passion?

Creating new media hosting platforms 

OK something insanely annoying… My video press.com account, prevents me from uploading videos anymore. Maybe I’ll just start posting it myself, and providing direct links instead?

I suppose this is where it is useful that I got into the Internet in the 90s and the early 2000s… I have good knowledge about FTPs, and online storage. And websites.

I met a lot of aspiring filmmakers and creators, who still don’t have their own self hosted website, are they fools?

Simple:

1. Ionos.com or bluehost.com, and just sign up for the cheapest self hosted server plan, which gives you access to your own FTP server, in which you could directly upload your own video files or whatever, and provide direct download links for people.
2. Use WordPress.org we’re only trust open source things. Why? Open source lasts longer; because typically when people create open source stuff, they do it because it is their passion not because there is a financial motive. Therefore as a consequence, it typically lasts.

It is not guaranteed that a passion project will last, we have good duration, but, perhaps the true indicator is this:

If you were offered a financial incentive or motivation to publish somethunf with a publisher, but you refused and you gave it away for free instead… you are true.

100 Lessons From The Masters Of Street Photography — this will last forever.

Why bitcoin will last forever

Even if you think about this, ultimate generous act; to create something invent something, anonymously, to give it away for free and then disappear forever… Isn’t this the ultimate generous act?

Satoshi did this. It is probably doubtful that he is Japanese, his English is too good. Probably after some Caucasian American man, slightly anti-establishment, anti-beings, a programming whiz, really believed in this. Kind of like the founder of Linux, etc. 

This is where you should never put any faith in any sort of corporation, product, security, or crypto crypto acid which has had a general founder. Why? When the founder dies, and there is no more vision… The whole thing will probably go under.

Steve Jobs vision was to create a company imputed with so much creative passion that it would outlive him. It seems like he has won here. Procreate wasn’t invented or created yet when Steve Jobs was alive, and if you think about it… The true ultimate vision of Steve Jobs was to create iPad, no stupid stylist, no stupid keyboard. This is why if you are a true fanboy, a true acolyte of Steve Jobs, what you would do is just use the 11 inch iPad Pro, no stupid accessories. You are a true innovator this way.

A true and grand man with real vision?

To become a true visionary is to see beyond well, monetization, even your own financial well-being. A true visionary doesn’t really care for money; Elon Musk doesn’t care about money, Jeff Bezos doesn’t, Peter Thiel doesn’t, Steve Jobs didn’t.

Maybe this is where we have to ask Jay Z and Kanye from our economic minds; I think the pernicious thing in the African-American community is around money. Why? It makes sense; even in America, talking to my friend Ray.. racism is still alive and well, and I don’t think it’s necessarily gotten any better. Certainly there is more access, there is no more legal laws which prohibit a certain race a person to purchase property, but still, people are still going to be racist towards you towards the pigment of your skin, your morphology, your genetic heritage etc., assuming that you are not Anglo-Saxon protestant Caucasian man in America.

Even Jewish people, they are not white. They are closet white, or “white passing“, — as long as America never elect or votes for a Jewish American president, Jewish people in Jewish businessmen will always be at a disadvantage, lower on the totem pole.

Even a Donald Trump… Certainly he is not Christian or religious or whatever… But he is certainly not Jewish. 

Even Catholics, Catholicism… Besides John F. Kennedy, Catholicism and being Catholic is still the weird sub-sect.

so what are we to do?

First, stop the heat loss, stop the oxygen loss, stop the bleeding! The most critical thing to consider in regards to economic policy for yourself, is to stop all debt, stop bleeding, and don’t leverage any debt or bad things!

Mortgages?

If you live in California, the taxes will bleed your dry. Even if you live somewhere like Florida, which has a lower tax jurisdiction, there are still taxes!

Which means, with property, you never really own the property, you simply have a lease from the government to borrow it. Do you have more privileges like building stuff on top of it, but still, as long as you have to pay a forever home owner city tax, you don’t really own it. 

Perhaps this is where people get tempted by certain things like clothing or cars, if you purchase it in all cash, technically you do own it. 

Avoid the indoors like the plague 

A lot of people coughing now, indoors. Maybe then the wise ideas to avoid indoors like the play, kind of like early Covid days. And also, maybe starting to become wise again to wear a facemask when going anywhere indoors?

–> always live life like it is COVID?

Because the issue here is not even catching Covid is just getting sick! I don’t want to catch the common cold; which has no vaccine. 

Every day is different

Each and every day is different… Never planned the night before. Just do what you feel like morning of. 

Bitcoin is digital cash

I think Satoshi wrote this in the bitcoin white paper, and also this is interesting because the notion of cash, because the simple ideas with a home or property or whatever… Either 100% all cash offer or nothing.

If you have to finance it, just keep stacking your money until you do it all cash.

But also the issue… If you think like a real investor, and you think about 10, 100 X, 1000 X gains… There’s almost nothing worth purchasing.

For example, at this point I could technically purchase anything I want. As long as it is less than $1 million. But the thing is… There’s nothing worth purchasing, nothing I value purchasing considering if my bitcoin can 10x, 100x, 1000x or even 10,000x from here.

Never spend money on yourself only others

Besides purchasing some weightlifting equipment from Titan.fitness from my remaining PayPal balance, I haven’t spent money on anything perhaps the last year?

I think the big thing is not because I’m doing it out of a sense of virtuality, but instead, ethos is that there is just nothing worth it?

And also, I’m starting to understand that I like the idea of things rather than actually owning it. Even my friend Don Dillon told me this about his Porsche 911 GT3: maybe we like the idea of something more than actually owning it.

This is where I love marketing, marketing materials, marketing copy images videos etc.; it is also inspirational, motivational, and interesting to me! For example, I do not wish even my worst enemy to own a Ferrari, the maintenance costs on these things are insane; at least a Lamborghini is just an Audi or a Volkswagen with a body kit; so if you’re going to fix your Lamborghini Huracan V10 engine… You could presumably use Volkswagen or Audi parts. But with Ferrari… You’re screwed. Do you want to fix your suspension, or your engine? Say goodbye to $200,000. And even if you’re super rich… Even a billionaire… To spend $200,000 to fix your car is always going to be annoying. And will irk you in a bad way.

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“Finance”?

So studying some etymology for the word finance, the general idea is that finance literally means to hold someone at ransom? 

Very bad apparently, 99.99% of people finance their homes, which means that they take out a 30 year mortgage or whatever. And also even worse, apparently talking to some guys at the Toyota dealership, most people also finance their cars. This is horrible idea for many reasons:

1. First, if you’re going to take any APR that is above 0%, you’re in the red. Even 1.99% APR… That is lost money.
2. If you have to do a down payment on a car, and finance it, that is money you could’ve put into bitcoin, and 1000x’d — a $5M mistake, assuming that the average down payment on a car is $5000 USD.

Even more foolish is to Lisa vehicles; because once again, after three years you have to give it back! So you have literally pissed your money down the drain.

How to know whether people are really rich or not rich?

1. If they have not paid off the mortgage on the house in full, then they are not rich.
2. If they drive a Tesla, they are not rich
3. If they have a job they are not rich

Richness, is absence. The absence of having to have a job, the absence of having to “work“.

Does it matter?

I’m more critical thing to consider, which is even beyond my personal scope: does it matter? 

For example, why do you care to see or know how rich somebody is, in comparison to you?

I don’t think it really matters.

Maybe it comes out of a sense of insecurity; do you have to always weigh yourself according to others, maybe it is simply lack of self-esteem? And also, is this a socialized thing?

Because for example, if you were Achilles, you would not care about how rich somebody wasn’t comparison to you. I’ll Achilles was weary of just conquering towns for the sake of king Agamemnon. He just wanted to take Breisis his prize, and just retire to his fertile lands. And of course, after Hector kills Patroclus, on accident, thinking that it was Achilles… Achilles’ sole objective was to enact revenge by killing Hector. He had no use for golden tripods, more cattle in the like. Even the whole period of time in which he is trying to get his revenge, he actually forces his self not to eat– and of course the gods infuse him with ambrosia so he won’t starve to death, but still technically… he is technically “intermittent fasting“ the whole time.

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Live like Achilles

Maybe the secret to economic immortality is to just live like Achilles. Your only joy is through combat, physical valor, strength, muscle.

My very very simple suggestion is quit your gym membership cancel your gym membership, and use that money to buy your own barbell and weights. If you want to do it super cheap, just purchase a sandbag, and buy some cheap place and from Home Depot, only about five dollars for a 50 pound bag.

Also, armor. 60 pound weight vest from Titan.fitness. 

And then, your joy is just maximum time outside, in the direct elements, training, for life.

ERIC

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I’m impressed; is your 2024… And the matrix, the notion of the matrix is still a great one! Maybe the film matrix is anti-fragile from as time goes on, the film actually becomes better and more pertinent to modern day life, rather than irrelevant.

Also, I think this is also where Blade Runner will age well, because now that we have the new ChatGPT 4o (paid premium)– with the ability to have natural voice conversations, even trying it out in Korean, the Korean voice sounds so real!

Anyways, the general thought I have is maybe the future elite kids, will have the privilege of not using AI, not using ChatGPT etc. 

K-12?

OK, if you want to live in America well, there are basic things you gotta learn, like how to read right, basic arithmetic math etc.

So then if you think about the whole schooling system, what is the point of it?

First, maybe the point is socialization, learning how to play well with other kids, and ride with other humans etc. And then maybe it is these fun extracurricular activities like sports etc. Or arts, music etc. Or it is just a free babysitting daycare that you could pull your kids out, in order for you to do other stuff while your kids are in school.

I think the best strategy to approach is assume that every single kid will have access to an iPhone pro, with the paid premium version of ChatGPT. If this is the case… Maybe some sort of real world training is useful.

For example, I ChatGPT really good at doing tedious things, even one of the best things in TurboTax recently is having tax connect to your bank account and credit card, and it automatically files all of your expenses, according to category. I used to have to do this manually, and it was so insanely tedious, this is what I actually hated most about doing taxes. Now, it is super easy!

Also, tea is good at simple rhyme, or it is like a targeted Google or Wikipedia search, that doesn’t require you to look at advertisements. In fact my suggestion is anytime you want to google something, just first ChatGPT it.

Also, the reason why I find ChatGPT should be such an amazing great thing is that it doesn’t take you down rabbit holes, like Wikipedia or Google. In fact, I love hyperlink, but often hyperlinks are a huge distraction, that take you down these bizarre rabbit holes. if you spend enough time on Wikipedia, sooner or later you’ll come across any conspiracy theory, the similar thing that happens on Google search or YouTube.

Get rid of Google, YouTube, Wikipedia

Obviously ChatGPT is flawed, but still, because it is a paid premium product, at least there is not a problematic financial incentive at play; the incentive of open AI and ChatGPT is to create the best possible product, to best assist humans and humanity, and it hopes that everyone will subscribe to their paid model for $20 a month, which is a real and a good sustainable business model. 

Compare this with Google, which I think when it comes down to it is an unethical company. Why? 99% of the revenue is through paid search, or display advertisements, or YouTube ads or whatever. And therefore the financial incentive for creators is to create things which have maximum Machach factor, in order to maximize eyeball exposure, which tends to be around extremes in terms of human fears, concerns, doubts, Things that make people angry.

In fact, the notion of “injustice “porn; when you spend enough time on Twitter Instagram Facebook TikTok podcast whatever… Sooner or later you will feel unjust about something and it will make you angry!

Anger is a great monetization strategy 

”Ownership” as a mental thing?

Taycan — a dud!

Video Podcast

If the goal is to become stronger, more muscular, more vascular, more beastlike— mixed grip deadlift is the way:

Them veins!

Strapping on a 60 pound weight vest almost akin to adding 60 pounds or pure iron/steel muscle to your body?

I think I’m 5 foot 11, around 160 pounds muscular and six pack— maybe 5% bodyfat? With my weight vest on, now I’m 220 pounds — pure muscle, still 5% bodyfat with a 6 pack? Nice.

Also with weight vest ,,,

Porsche cars are too slow

1.99 0-60 speeds or nothing (Model S Plaid)— go Elon, go America!

Tesla Full self driving mode — just watch the product video ,,, pure magic???

Why would you voluntarily become a debt slave or an indentured servant?

Don’t create the film, be a producer, writer etc ,,, create the platform itself? Create the Amazon, the Netflix, etc?

Maybe?

The history of home mortgages in America reflects the evolution of the housing market, government intervention, and financial innovation over centuries. Here’s an overview:

1. Colonial and Early America (1600s-1800s):

• In the colonial era, home financing was informal, often involving private loans from family, friends, or local lenders. There were no standardized mortgage systems.
• In the early 19th century, homeownership was still limited, with most people either renting or living on land they had cleared themselves. Land contracts, where buyers paid installments directly to sellers, were more common than mortgages.

2. The Birth of the Modern Mortgage (Late 1800s – Early 1900s):

• By the late 19th century, the U.S. saw the emergence of building and loan associations, which pooled resources from members to provide mortgages. These early mortgages typically required large down payments and had short repayment periods, often 3 to 5 years.
• The National Bank Act of 1863 and the subsequent establishment of a national banking system allowed for greater availability of credit, but mortgages were still largely local and unregulated.

3. The Great Depression and the New Deal (1930s):

• The Great Depression of the 1930s led to widespread mortgage defaults and foreclosures, revealing the instability of the housing finance system.
• In response, the federal government intervened. The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) was established in 1933 to refinance existing home mortgages to prevent foreclosures.
• The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) was created in 1934 to insure mortgages, making it easier for banks to lend to homebuyers. The FHA also introduced the long-term, fixed-rate mortgage, which became a standard.
• The Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) was established in 1938 to create a secondary mortgage market, buying mortgages from lenders to provide them with liquidity.

4. Post-War Boom and Suburbanization (1940s-1960s):

• The GI Bill, passed in 1944, offered veterans low-cost home loans, spurring a post-war housing boom and the development of suburban America.
• The FHA and VA (Veterans Administration) loans became popular, offering low down payments and long-term fixed-rate loans, making homeownership accessible to millions of Americans.
• The standard 30-year fixed-rate mortgage became the norm during this period.

5. The Rise of Securitization and Deregulation (1970s-1990s):

• In the 1970s, Fannie Mae was privatized, and the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) was created to promote mortgage-backed securities (MBS), which allowed banks to pool and sell mortgages to investors.
• The Savings and Loan Crisis of the 1980s, fueled by high interest rates and deregulation, led to a wave of bank failures and further changes in the mortgage industry.
• The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) of 1977 encouraged banks to lend in low-income neighborhoods, expanding access to credit.
• In the 1990s, the creation of Freddie Mac and the expansion of mortgage securitization led to the growth of a robust secondary market, making mortgage credit more widely available.

6. The Housing Bubble and Financial Crisis (2000s):

• The early 2000s saw a housing boom, fueled by low interest rates, subprime lending, and speculative investment.
• Risky mortgage products, like adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) and interest-only loans, became popular, often leading to loans being extended to borrowers with poor credit histories.
• The housing bubble burst in 2007-2008, leading to a global financial crisis. Widespread defaults on subprime mortgages led to the collapse of major financial institutions and a severe recession.
• In response, the government intervened with programs like TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) took control of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

7. Post-Crisis Reforms and the Modern Mortgage Market (2010s-Present):

• The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 introduced stricter regulations on lending practices, including the establishment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to oversee mortgage lending.
• The Qualified Mortgage (QM) rule was introduced to ensure that lenders assess a borrower’s ability to repay a loan.
• The 2010s also saw the rise of fintech in the mortgage industry, with online platforms offering more streamlined application processes.
• Today, the mortgage market is a mix of traditional banks, online lenders, and government-backed programs, with the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage remaining the most popular product.

The history of home mortgages in America is marked by a series of innovations, crises, and reforms, reflecting broader economic trends and the evolving relationship between government and the private sector.

More about fixed rate 30 year mortgage history

The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is one of the most common and popular mortgage products in the United States, providing stability and predictability in home financing. Here’s a closer look at the history and evolution of the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage:

1. Origins and Early Development (1930s-1940s):

• Great Depression and New Deal Interventions: The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage originated during the Great Depression. Before this period, home loans were typically short-term (3 to 5 years) and often required large balloon payments at the end of the term, which contributed to widespread defaults during the economic downturn.
• Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Creation: In response to the mortgage crisis, the federal government established the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) in 1934. The FHA introduced the concept of a long-term, fully amortizing mortgage with a fixed interest rate to make homeownership more accessible and affordable.
• Standardization of the 30-Year Term: The FHA initially offered 15- and 20-year terms, but the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage became more widely adopted in the late 1940s, offering lower monthly payments over a longer period, which made homeownership more feasible for a broader segment of the population.

2. Post-War Boom and Popularization (1950s-1970s):

• GI Bill and Suburban Expansion: After World War II, the GI Bill provided returning veterans with low-interest home loans, which were often structured as 30-year fixed-rate mortgages. This contributed to the post-war housing boom and the development of suburban communities.
• Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: The creation of Fannie Mae (in 1938) and Freddie Mac (in 1970) played a crucial role in popularizing the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage. These government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) bought mortgages from lenders, pooled them, and sold them as mortgage-backed securities, which provided lenders with the liquidity needed to offer more long-term, fixed-rate loans.

3. Challenges and Evolution (1980s-1990s):

• Savings and Loan Crisis: In the 1980s, the U.S. experienced the Savings and Loan (S&L) crisis, partly due to the mismatch between the long-term fixed-rate mortgages held by S&Ls and the rising short-term interest rates. This crisis led to the failure of many S&Ls and prompted regulatory changes in the mortgage market.
• Introduction of Adjustable-Rate Mortgages (ARMs): In response to the challenges of the fixed-rate mortgage model during periods of high inflation and interest rate volatility, adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) gained popularity in the 1980s. However, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage remained a staple, particularly for risk-averse borrowers.

4. Housing Bubble and Financial Crisis (2000s):

• Subprime Lending and Mortgage Innovation: In the early 2000s, the mortgage market saw the proliferation of subprime loans and innovative mortgage products like ARMs with low introductory rates. Despite this, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage remained popular, especially among prime borrowers.
• Financial Crisis of 2007-2008: The housing bubble burst led to a global financial crisis, exposing the risks associated with non-traditional mortgage products. In the aftermath, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage regained prominence as borrowers sought the security of predictable payments.

5. Post-Crisis and Modern Era (2010s-Present):

• Regulatory Changes: The Dodd-Frank Act of 2010 introduced new regulations to protect consumers and ensure the stability of the mortgage market. The Qualified Mortgage (QM) rule emphasized the importance of assessing a borrower’s ability to repay and reinforced the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage as a prudent lending option.
• Continued Popularity: Despite the introduction of various mortgage products, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage remains the most popular choice among American homebuyers. It offers the advantage of predictable payments, which helps households plan their finances over the long term.
• Market Trends: In recent years, historically low interest rates have made the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage even more attractive. While the average rate fluctuates with economic conditions, the security of locking in a rate for three decades continues to appeal to many borrowers.

6. Impact and Legacy:

• Widespread Homeownership: The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage has played a crucial role in expanding homeownership in the United States, particularly among the middle class. It has allowed millions of Americans to purchase homes with manageable monthly payments.
• Economic Stability: The predictability of the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage has also contributed to economic stability by reducing the risk of payment shocks that could lead to defaults and foreclosures, especially during economic downturns.

The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is often seen as the cornerstone of the American housing market, balancing the needs of borrowers for affordable payments with the interests of lenders and investors for stable, predictable returns. Its enduring popularity is a testament to its effectiveness in meeting the long-term financial goals of homeowners.

What existed before

Before the widespread adoption of the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage in the United States, home financing was much less standardized, and the available options were quite different from what is common today. Here’s a look at the types of home financing that existed before the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage became the norm:

1. Short-Term, Interest-Only Loans (Pre-1930s):

• Structure: Prior to the 1930s, home loans were typically short-term, often ranging from 3 to 10 years. These loans were usually interest-only, meaning borrowers paid only the interest on the loan each month, with the principal amount due in full at the end of the term.
• Balloon Payments: The final payment was a large “balloon” payment, which covered the entire principal. This often forced borrowers to refinance the loan when it came due, assuming they could qualify for a new loan.
• High Risk: These loans were risky for borrowers, especially during economic downturns when refinancing might not be possible. This contributed to widespread defaults during the Great Depression.

2. Building and Loan Associations (Late 1800s – Early 1900s):

• Cooperative Model: Building and loan associations (also known as building societies) were cooperative financial institutions that pooled members’ savings to provide loans to other members for home purchases.
• Straight-Line Amortization: Loans were often structured with straight-line amortization, meaning that payments gradually reduced the principal over time, but the terms were typically shorter (around 10-15 years) and required substantial down payments.
• Mutual Savings: These institutions were an early form of community-based lending, where borrowers and savers were often the same people, fostering local investment in homeownership.

3. Land Contracts and Installment Plans:

• Direct Seller Financing: Before the widespread availability of bank mortgages, many home purchases were made through land contracts (also known as contract for deed) or installment plans directly with the seller.
• Payment Structure: Under these agreements, the buyer would make monthly payments directly to the seller, and the seller retained the title to the property until the full price was paid. These contracts often spanned 5 to 10 years.
• Ownership Transfer: Ownership of the property would only transfer to the buyer after all payments were made. This arrangement was common in rural areas and among lower-income buyers who might not qualify for traditional loans.

4. Community Banks and Local Lenders:

• Local Lending Practices: In the absence of a national mortgage market, most home loans were made by small, local banks or individual lenders. These loans were often short-term, required large down payments (sometimes 50% or more), and had variable interest rates.
• Regional Variability: The terms and availability of loans varied greatly by region, depending on the local economy and the bank’s risk tolerance. Borrowing was often based on personal relationships and reputation.

5. Government and Institutional Loans (Limited Availability):

• Farm Loans: In some cases, government agencies or large institutions (like insurance companies) provided loans for specific purposes, such as agricultural development. These loans were typically longer-term than private loans but were not widely available to the general public.
• Limited Homeownership: Due to the restrictive nature of lending, homeownership was less common before the New Deal. Many Americans rented their homes or built them incrementally with savings, rather than through loans.

6. Impact of the Great Depression:

• The instability of these early forms of home financing became evident during the Great Depression when many borrowers could not meet balloon payments or refinance their loans, leading to widespread foreclosures.
• The mortgage crisis of the 1930s highlighted the need for a more stable and accessible home financing system, which eventually led to the creation of the FHA and the introduction of the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage.

Transition to the Modern Mortgage System:

The economic turmoil of the Great Depression prompted significant reforms in the American housing finance system. The federal government’s interventions through the FHA, the creation of Fannie Mae, and the establishment of standardized, long-term, fully amortizing mortgages represented a seismic shift from the more precarious, short-term, and locally varied lending practices that had previously dominated.

These changes laid the groundwork for the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage to become the standard in American home financing, providing a reliable path to homeownership for millions of Americans.

Vs a plot of earth or land or property in cyberspace which truly belongs to you?

If you own a plot of land in America, it technically belongs to the government, not you.

To simply do something is the goal!

How to live forever ,,, not necessarily how to be “rich” forever?

A lift a day keeps the doctor away!

OK, some random thoughts:

Time for me to go to war on these assholes, acting all tough in their cars, asshole smokers in public etc.

Nonconsensual exposure

Here is where ChatGPT really shines; its ability to quickly navigate thousands of pages of legal law, to find city ordinances, and laws in regards to smoking, smoking in public areas etc.

First, to evoke NASSIM TALEB, skin in the game, the general ethical idea is that laws are feeble, ethics are robust. It is very easy to gain legal laws, city ordinances etc.… typically for profit. 

Anyways, I’ve been thinking a lot about the ethics or the politics of smoking; first and foremost, I grew up, with my dad being a very very heavy smoker, and I think cigarette smoke might be one of my most hated things on the planet. I hate it 1 trillion times more than even politics. 

I think the primary ethical issue here is that it is nonconsensual exposure. For example, if I’m out walking in public, walking in the streets, by myself or with Seneca… I do not want to smell any secondhand smoke.

What some of these assholes try to do is that they tried to smoke in a corner, or really far away… Not thinking that in fact, secondhand smoke especially if you’re downwind from it, could almost travel up to one or two city blocks.

Now that I am the king of Culver City, the primary issue here is that whenever I randomly see people smoking on the sidewalk, crossing the street, in a corner,  at the intersection of a public street, etc.… Sometimes I don’t act quickly enough, or say anything quickly enough, because I think to myself:

Well —  it seems like I won’t be exposed to their smoke because they seem far away… Or maybe the wind is blowing the opposite direction?

But then… When I walked down a block or two… And I instantly smelled the smoke, I immediately get a headache, feel pain and become infuriated… And I am not willing to backtrack a block, once again smelling the secondhand smoke again, to tell them to stop.

Anti smoking rampage

OK, if you want to smoke in the comfort of your own home, inside your bedroom, give yourself cancer etc– so be it,,, but, the second you step outside your home, there becomes some ethical dilemmas for you.

Even a new new one; there are no robust laws which prevent people from smoking in their outdoor patio in multi level apartment complexes etc.

Because let us say that you’re addicted to smoking cigarettes, or even if you’re addicted to smoking marijuana, do you think that your secondhand smoke when you smoke on your patio doesn’t affect others… But it does.

Even another nuance; when you’re out in public, driving your car, and smoking with your windows down, assuming that I have my windows down, your secondhand smoke could come into my car!

Sometimes what I’ll do is just roll up the windows and turn on the air conditioning, because I don’t want to pick a fight. But then again… If I prefer to have my windows down, to get a fresh breeze, and your smoking with your windows down… Why should I have to roll up my windows, because you are polluting the communal air?

Is it worth it?

I think for a very very long time, I would just take it, I would just take it up the ass like a ventriloquist (Ye). But now… Now that I have Seneca, a young child, things change. Both when I am actually with him, walking with him in public, we’re also, when I’m just by myself…

Now I’m starting to think, to evoke children is unethical.  For example, to tell these asshole smokers in public to not smoke cigarettes because there are children around, or that it is “bad for the kids“… It is typically poor manners. Why? Because if you think it from the kids perspective… Technically you’re blaming the kids… Or the kids end up feeling guilty and culpable?

Obviously smoking is bad for kids, secondhand smoke is bad for kids… But these asshole smokers do it anyway, thinking that they could get away with it, or thinking that they are far enough that they are not harming anyone. But once again, the laws of physics and the wind, Even here in Culver City, because we are relatively close to Venice and the beach, we actually get a really nice breeze! And especially when you are in public areas, if I could smell the smell of smoke, I perk up like a wolf immediately, or even marijuana.

Don’t be a coward

If something is ethically wrong in the pit of your soul, you must stand up, speak out, even if you’re the asshole, even if you’re the bully, even if you are the unreasonable one.

Now, I think all smokers secretly know what they are doing is bad and shameful. And they should. Yet,,, once again, the average citizen never says anything, I’m starting to think that Angelino’s are a bunch of cowards and pussies.  The problem with the modern day American man is that he is a passive aggressive coward, who never says something to your face,  but instead, bitches and moans in private, on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram, or complaints to friends and family and other people behind closed doors over dinner conversations.

Now, I’m just gonna think that I am a navy seal officer, I am a ranger, Delta force, that I am the mayor, the Supreme Court judge, the CHP, the police.

WE are taught all the stuff in k-12 education about Rosa Parks, refusing to stand up at the back of the bus whatever, but why is it that the modern day man is so cowardly?

Man vs woman?

I found out recently… I’m actually really good at yelling at other men, and being an asshole to other men… But when I see women who are as asshole drivers, who honk at me from behind for not moving half a millisecond forward, or even worse… when I was in a parking lot complex, and some asshole lady in a AMG wagon honk at me from behind because I’m simply trying to find a parking spot… Or even the other day I saw a lady smoking cigarette while crossing the public sidewalk street, … why do I hesitate to tell off women?

I suppose the issues here is that men are taught to treat women with more respect, to not be aggressive towards women etc. Typically I think this is good, but once again, when it comes to the public good, like smoking, or the public roads… This should not be tolerated.

> Zero tolerance

Every day politics of every day life

People often talk about  politics in the realm of the ephemeral digital world, of Donald Trump and international politics and international politics in the light. I find this very cowardly and superficial.

What is more critical here is to talk about politics every day life. For example, once again, face-to-face, flesh to flesh human interactions.

I’m starting to think the reason why people are such assholes wouldn’t come to cars is this asymmetry of power;

When somebody honk at you from behind, you cannot honk back because your horn is facing forward, there is no such thing as a backwards facing horn.

A simple suggestion could be installing a horn on your trunk which faces the opposite way, in which if some asshole honks at you from behind, you could honk back. 

What is the purpose of a horn?

Every automobile car is legally required to have a horn, and the purpose of a horn in a car is to prevent potential accidents. You only honk when it is a life or death situation, or when there might be an incoming accident. The purpose of a horn or to honk at somebody isn’t to tell them to hurry up when they are not moving in traffic. Simple suggestions; if a car in front of you is not moving, even when the light turns green… Just wait a few seconds! Who knows if that person simply has a kid in the car seat behind them, and the kid is asking them for food or something!

Here, those stickers that say kid on board is useful… But aesthetically I don’t want to put that sticker on the back of my automobile, because I find it unaesthetic.  But once again, there is an asymmetry here in which if somebody behind you doesn’t know that you have a kid on board, they might be more likely to be an asshole, but most people lack them or the knowledge that there are some people who drive cars who have kids on board, And therefore, when people aggressively drive behind you, cut you off without turning on their signal, I’m starting to think that we have to educate them.

When you observe dangerous behavior on the road, a simple thing you could do is highbeam them, either you could blink it twice, or just go behind them and blast your highbeams at full at them, to inform them that they did something wrong.  I personally do not believe in honking, because even I am sensitive to the sound of honking even if the honking is coming from my car.

Perhaps a simple weapon that we could put on our cars are those really really extremely bright LED high beams, you could just get them on Amazon for 30 bucks. And they are so bright that even in the Los Angeles sunlight, it reaches the eyeballs of the perpetrator.

Road rage is passive aggressive

The primary issue with road rage, is that it is passive aggressive. Let us realize that when you are driving a car, and you get road rage or aggressive on the road, you have a 3000 pound silver bullet. Not only can you kill yourself and your passengers on board, you could also kill other people on the road, their kids etc.

Once again, the false ethical thought that people have in regards to these crazy drivers is that they could kill themselves. But once again if they are driving on a public road, and there is at least one or two other cars around them… In theory they could cause a multi car accident, which could indirectly or directly harm you and your kid on board! This is starting to get so bad that I am even considering that by the time Seneca gets into school… Getting a part-time job as a California highway police officer, to start to serve justice,? Or at least become accredited to become a cop?  well at least become some sort of petty officer, or reserve officer somewhere in the American military? To At least get some sort of higher clearance,  or authority, or badge?

Think about it… If you were a California highway police officer, or even a cop, in your driving around in a cop car with some asshole honk at you from behind to hurry up? No! They will not dare to. So what makes these assholes think that they could bully the average civilian?

Another random solution I have is installing those super bright LED light bars, in the back of your car, to prevent assholes from tailgating you, or as a form of punishment you could just turn them on the second that people start honking at you from behind.

A random thought; you had one of those massive lifted trucks, a cyber truck, or a car that has spikes from behind, or some car that looks beautiful… Would it prevent people from tailgate, or honking at you like an asshole? Uncertain.

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TANK

Certainly if you drove a tank on the streets, people would probably not honk at you from behind to hurry up. And also, if you’re walking around town with your 60 pound weight vest on… You’re kind of look like SWAT team, and I found that when people are on the streets and they see you with your 60 pound weight vest on, they either assume that you’re security, or that you have a bomb strapped to your chest. 

Regardless, when I do have my 60 pound weight vest strapped to my chest… It does make me feel tougher, stronger, more confident more brazen, and when I tell people off… I feel zero hesitation. Why? Two things, first, if I have my 60 pound weight vest on… It might be able to Prevent penetration even from a Glock pistol? 

Even I was chatting with a Culver City police officer, LAPD officer, and even they saw me with my weight vest and was impressed… And they told me that their bulletproof vest was around 20 pounds.

Also, I would certainly probably win in a fistfight, because I think anybody if they attempted to punch me with my weight vest on, they would definitely fracture their hand or fist. 

I suppose the difficulty is that it is easier for me to wear my 60 pound weight vest, walking around town by myself, but it becomes a little bit more difficult when I am with Seneca.

No more passive aggressive, only aggressive aggressive. 

One of the great things about being Culver City, is that I really do have a strong sense of ownership here, I feel like a valued member of the community, I know everybody here, and I suppose when I am the greater Los Angeles area, I might be a little bit more hesitant to tell people in public not to smoke whatever… But certainly here in Culver City I have zero qualms.

Once again with these asshole smokers, the cowardly thing to do is when you see somebody smoking in public is to simply take you and your kid, and try to go away. The problem is even when you are trying to retreat or run away from the smoker, The draft from a block or two down from there smoking your lungs, and the lungs of your kid!

Will they return?

Another thought: typically, if you see somebody smoking somewhere, they typically have their pre-designated smoking spots. What they do is they always come back to a certain spot, typically in a public place, and then they indignantly light up their cigarettes.

So I suppose the benefit of telling somebody off, to not smoke in public, or telling them not to smoke in our city, is that you might prevent them from future smoking in public, and I wonder… How much of trying to stop assholes from smoking in public has to deal with you versus other people their kids etc.?

The first thing; I love kids! I love all kids! All kids are pure, genuine, sweet, and adorable. Becoming a new father, I do sense and feel  I general sense of well-being, and affection for all kids, regardless whether they are mine or not. I’m not not sure why, it is just kind of like a gut feeling.

So certainly I do not want other random kids to get secondhand smoking or cancer or lung exposure.

Assuming that we humans are altruistic, and we care for the well-being of others, even other kids who don’t belong to us, if you really did care about humanity the human race altruism… Maybe you should say something.

Cars on the road?

Certainly trying to tell off every single human being on the planet or in Los Angeles to drive better is not really sustainable. Let us say that you are one human being, and there is 100,000 asshole drivers on the road, you cannot correct everyone.

However, you could create one person, or two people, or three people… This is enough to make a change!

ERIC

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EK

I suppose the great difficulty with clothing businesses is you have to produce all these different sites, what do you do to products which do not sell an extra extra small or extra extra large?

Not every single glove fits every single hand, nor does every single spectacles fit every single man

The good thing with Cypher or digital goods is that they could be sold all across the planet and the universe? With no friction?

Maybe the next grade innovation will be like an Amazon, but only with cyber, digital goods? Bitcoin-based, or Satoshi based?

economic sacrifices

Recover, recovered

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Only read books while you’re standing or walking?

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Expand popular interest?

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Photography ,, all of it

Time periods — issue with trying to sell winter clothes versus summer clothes

Clothing is not a good business? Because you’re too dependent on the weather and seasons?

Bitcoin is great, irregardless of the weather or this season!

Prime condition for slaughter

Time

Sustainable businesses

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Good Businesses, Bad Businesses

Good businesses are digital; that exist on the Internet, you don’t have to pay rent, storage fees, monthly building mortgage payments, land leases etc.

For example, when I was starting off, in street photography… Started my blog etc.… Even up until now my server fee for my blog might be about 100 bucks, 200 bucks a month. But compare this to having to sign a lease on the building in which you are being held into the property, and you have to pay that lease indefinitely! Seems like a poor idea.

I think in the world of finance, art, there is this romanticization of the Parisian artist, with his private studio, his private bookstore or café… Etc. They should hear is a scale ability issue, and also, issue that you have to attend to the property!

For example, the problem is in regards to having to be there, maintain the toilets, etc.

For a moment, I was considering opening out my own gym, but then I realized, the headache of having to always be there, or higher staff, maintain the toiletsetc. A trillion headaches. 

Good businesses are digital; that exist on the Internet, you don’t have to pay rent, storage fees, monthly building mortgage payments, land leases etc.

For example, when I was starting off, in street photography… Started my blog etc.… Even up until now my server fee for my blog might be about 100 bucks, 200 bucks a month. But compare this to having to sign a lease on the building in which you are being held into the property, and you have to pay that lease indefinitely! Seems like a poor idea.

I think in the world of finance, art, there is this romanticization of the Parisian artist, with his private studio, his private bookstore or café… Etc. They should hear is a scale ability issue, and also, issue that you have to attend to the property!

For example, the problem is in regards to having to be there, maintain the toilets, etc.

For a moment, I was considering opening out my own gym, but then I realized, the headache of having to always be there, or higher staff, maintain the toiletsetc. A trillion headaches. 

The laws of physics

Currently, Amazon is the goat. There is no other business as dominant, impressive, and all encompassing than Amazon. If you want any sort of physical good, Amazon is almost always your best pet, especially if you have Amazon prime. Why? Speed. To get your products delivered to you, within a day, two days, or the day of same day… Speed wins.

But the funny thing is even for me, Amazon is too slow. When I want to buy something, I want to purchase it immediately, right now! So this is where I like to walk into the store and purchase something, because I like the immediate effect of something being instantaneous. Perhaps for me, there is a greater joy in instant, rather than even waiting a few hours.

Digital goods?

OK the biggest issue here is that there is still no such thing as a digital good. For example, e-books, digital products are not really digital… In the scarcity notion.

For example, let us say that I sell an e-book for $10. Follower may purchase it because they desire to support me, want immediate access to it, or cannot find a free version online. But beyond this… The second which you download a PDF file, you could replicate it indefinitely! If you download a PDF file of something, or even a EPUB file of an e-book,  you could replicate it 1 million times, send it to 1 million of your friends online, etc.

Non-replicable?

The closest thing we have so far is the notion of a non-fungible thing… NFT. For example, having some sort of proof on the block chain, backed by Ethereum which “proves” that you are indeed, the true “owner“ of something. But even for me as a bitcoin and crypto enthusiast, I have almost 0 interest in an NFT. Why? I don’t care for the ownership something… Or example if you made an NFT art of something, I could just screenshot it, and hold onto the image. don’t care whether I own it or not, I just like looking at the image!

Where Bitcoin becomes such a fascinating value proposition  is that you cannot replicated, even if you wanted to. Why? Proof of work, the idea that you must expend energy in order to mind a bitcoin, like putting human laborers to work for a bar of gold etc.

The foolish thing that people say is that bitcoin is bad for the environment or the planet or whatever… But they do not talk about how bad for the planet is to mine gold, Mine diamonds, precious metals for jewelry etc.

For example, if you’re a woman or man saying that bitcoin is bad for the planet. Yet you have ever purchased or received any gold object or jewelry, or if you want iPhone… Or a laptop or whatever… Or an automobile car… That’s bad for the planet! 

Even worse, gold, diamonds, etc.… Depends on slave labor. Even apparently to produce your lovely sneakers, whether they be Adidas Nike, cloud on whatever… There are some close to slavery like working conditions, somewhere in Indonesia Vietnam, to make your lovely athletic apparel. Same thing goes with Lululemon; All the brands.

There is no such thing as ethical fashion, ethical clothing, ethical iPhones or iPhone pros, ethical make up whatever.

Women vs men

When it comes down to it… Woman seeks to beautify herself, either with her thoughts, her words, her clothing her dress, her literature, her artworks etc. 

What does man seek? Man seek dominance, power, influence, women.

The way that we our desired goals through capitalism or consumerism is through purchasing, purchasing power.

For a man,  what is the significance of purchasing property or single-family home? The purpose is to build a citadel, build a fortress, a castle, a point of defense, a TROY, etc. Therefore the appeal of prosperous men who desire to purchase property on top of a hill or a mountain, overlooking his fiefdom, feeling high and mighty etc.

I think for a woman, the purpose of property, purchasing a home has to be more around a feeling of security. 

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Being honest?

I think one of the most pernicious modern day lines of thinking has deal with the fact that somehow… Sexual differences don’t matter. It does matter if you are a man or a woman, whether you have testes or ovaries.

Why? If you have any menstrual cycle or hormonal cycle, certainly this will be very different than if you’re a man, with testicles, and you have greater sports aggression due to heightened cortisol or adrenaline levels.

For example, you would never put the top male UFC fighter against the top female UFC fighter. Why? This would simply be unethical and slaughter.

However, the top UFC female fighter certainly probably destroyed 99.9% of the male population. But if you took the top UFC female fighter versus the top UFC male fighter, no chance. I’m not sure… But even if you took the top female UFC fighter, versus even a middle male UFC fighter, or even a bottom tier male UFC fighter… I think the man would always win. This is why you never see Roger Federer versus Serena or Venus Williams, and this is why you will never see LeBron James versus any women’s NBA player.

Also, in the context of weightlifting, powerlifting, or strongman competitions; even if you took all the steroids in the world, I don’t think you will ever see a 501 kg lift from a woman. Or even see a woman lift 1000 pounds? Certainly not 2000 pounds.

gender versus sex

Gender is whatever you want. It is fluid. In this sense, to be a transgender or whatever is fine; ever since I was a kid, the notion of a tomboy, a drag queen, whatever is not a big deal. Even Kanye West putting on the pink polo… I remember in middle school high school, one of the cool African-American guys, sporting a pink polo, it was so shocking to everybody because pink was seen as only for women, but he did so confidently and everyone thought he was awesome.

Even now with Seneca, pink is his favorite color! And so is mine! I have this pink Brooks brother sweater I love which I always get compliments on, and also this cool pink bomber jacket ISSE , which I found for free in this donation pile, which I love. Other day one of the Toyota dealership guys thought Seneca was a girl because he wore pink shoes, which threw him off. 

Certain colors are socialized, also, behaviors and the way you decide to dress, this is all fluid! I’ve been seeing a lot of men, with facial hair, 3 o’clock shadows, dressing in skirts or dresses whatever. And that is fine.  even this one person at one of our favorite fried chicken takeout places, has facial hair, but the voice sounds like a girl, but the facial features look masculine… I have no idea. But typically, if you have facial hair, or a beard… You’re a man. 

I love the alphabet soup!

It don’t matter what you is, And also, I don’t know why people care what you are either. If you’re a man and you want to wear a sports bra, a crop top, a bikini, a skirt or dress, whatever… Why does it matter?

Also, I think the first rule is to just leave other people alone. If other people want to dress however they want, or act or talk the way they want to, or have sex or intercourse the way they want to, why do you care?

I think perhaps for me, the only annoying thing is when it comes to gender pronouns. If you have a beard, if you’re 7 foot tall with facial hair, I’m not going to call you a woman.

If you’re 6 foot seven, and you have a beard, and you want me to call you a woman, I will not. And this is where I find things nonsensical; it is not a hate crime to call somebody what they biologically are.  

Even the funny thing… To call somebody “bro” nowadays is not even gendered.  I even see young elementary or middle school kids calling their moms “bro” or “bruh”.

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Back at the line of thought

So let us take a via negativa approach:  start off by axing and eliminating all the bad business ideas.

1. Based in the physical world, in which you have to pay rent, a mortgage, reoccurring physical space expenses.
2. High risk businesses, latest realize that the simple statistics here, never put yourself into a fragile position.

Day jobs are good

When I first started my blog, I had zero intention or thought that it would be commercially viable. My personal thought was that actually, to make money through photography was impossible.  The only way I was able to make it work was part by chance, part by luck, part with hard work and hustle. 

But the greatest benefit was I didn’t have any stress to monetize it. Why? I still have my day job, earning $40,000 a year in 2010 2011, so at least I could cover my rent, and basic expenses.

This is why my number one advice for any entrepreneur is the goal is not to get super rich from your passion, the goal is simply to be able to sustain yourself in a Spartan level and degree ; doing the absolute minimum, paying rent, and purchasing meat and coffee.

Spartan entrepreneurship

If you study any super super successful entrepreneur, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos in the light … They all started super scrappy.  Steve Jobs would just subsist on beans and rice, and filled the apple computer with Steve Wozniak, in his parents garage, with down jackets on, and space heaters. Elon Musk, in the early days, shared a single computer with his brother, and also, would just shower at the local YMCA, and I think he fed himself on two dollars a day on just spaghetti and hotdogs.

Also, Jeff Bezos; him just personally driving his beat up Honda accord to the local post office, to deliver books. Also the early days he would create tables for his workers, simple doors that he would buy at Home Depot.

So I think the primary mistake that a lot of these aspiring entrepreneurs make is that they think that somehow need a lot of funding, or a lot of money.

The truth is… Entrepreneurship is Spartan;  essentially, assume that you have zero resources, zero money, zero startup capital, and all you have is access to the Internet, your brain, and earning enough money to just pay for your website server bill.

Once again… The way that you leverage yourself 1 trillion X is to just start your own self hosted website, Ionos.com or bluehost.com with WordPress.org

And the simple way to propagate yourself is through free marketing, through free YouTube videos, free podcast, free files, etc. The path forward is through indirect monetization; you cannot make a sustainable living simply from advertising. You have to provide some sort of service or product.

Promotion?

Also, maybe you could indirectly get rich by promoting stuff, like for example… You become super famous for something, and let us say that you own a lot of bitcoin, maybe simply to educate people about bitcoin, the virtues, might be indirectly good for you; because you build a trust with your audience in an unrelated field, and you could use that as a platform to promote bitcoin or whatever… And as a consequence, your Bitcoin value goes up? 

Everyone knows ERIC KIM as the street photographer, philosopher, Stoic Spartan, now weightlifter and muscular guy, but bitcoin is a new identity.

The ethics of personal gain

Ethical question:  if you own bitcoin, a lot, and you tell everybody that you own bitcoin, and you are vested in it, you have at least $1 million of your wealth in it… Is it at the culture promote it, assuming that when you’re promoted, the value of your own personal bitcoin may go up to $10 million $100 million or $1 billion?

Yes. Why? You got skin in the game! I would say it is unethical to promote something that you’re not vested in; for example very very unethical for these early crypto influencers to promote FTX, when they in fact by themselves did not host their own assets on FTX, or that they did not purchase any FTX with their own tokens.

Even a bad thing that I saw with chain-link; they recently had a hackathon, and I think the offered like $100,000 worth of prizes. But shouldn’t the ethical thing be instead, to offer prizes with chain-link, not US dollars?

Michael Saylor

The reason why I really love Michael Saylor is that the whole time, in all of his 100+ interviews, he never once promotes his own company, or tells people to buy it.  instead, he tells people to buy the bitcoin itself, not shares in his company.

Some people think, wait, isn’t it bad for Michael Saylor to promote bitcoin if you will indirectly monetize from it? No! Because he has risk and exposure.

It would be unethical if he was promoting Ethereum, if he was given a $10 million check from Vitalik, but did not actually purchase any Ethereum himself.

And also, this is where all these corporations are evil; for example even Disney… Who owns Marvel, I see these Coca-Cola cans and bottles, with superheroes plastered all over it? Burn it down!

Also, unethical marketing, with beer and alcohol companies; name one athlete who drinks a beer or drinks vodka or Mezcal or tequila before playing a game. Zero.

Or, think about the ethics of a Toyota dealer who would prefer to drive an AMG wagon over a Toyota.

Or, a Lamborghini dealer selling Lamborghinis, but in private, he drives a Tesla instead.

This is where money in the game, soul in the game matters;  assuming that money is just economic energy, when you have economic energy and something, your opinion is true.

For example, if the evil Philip Morris company offered you $1 trillion to say that smoking cigarettes what’s good for your health, would you do it? Of course not. 

Trust nobody who uses advertising

I put zero faith in anybody who relies on advertising revenue, sponsorships, to make a living. Why? First and foremost ,,, I recall that there were some early crypto influencers or bitcoin guys who promoted Gemini as a trading platform, and that they trusted it and used it themselves etc. But now… Is it still around? Not certain.

The only reason I used Coinbase was at the time, it had the best aesthetic branding, simplicity, and was super easy. I suppose my benefit was before I bought bitcoin, I spent many years thinking about it, philosophizing about economics, field currency etc.… Rather than listening to any of these YouTube videos or podcasts.

Streaming slaves

Any artist who is dependent on streams, number of streams, is a slave.

Once again, if you want to appeal to the lowest common denominator, you just give everyone a sweetened Starbucks Frappuccino beverage, with five pumps of caramel and agave sugar and almond milk on top. Or coconut milk, or oat milk.

Also, you give all the kids kids, have them watch paw patrol, Bluey, Disney+, Disney films etc.

Also let us consider that 99.9% the population still watches television, TV shows, Netflix, HBO Max etc.

Trust nobody with a subscription to any media streaming service.

So now what?

My very simple thought is think local, think your own local city, city politics rather than international or international politics.

For example, I don’t really care what’s gonna happen this upcoming election cycle — I’m about 99.9% certain Donald Trump is going to win, even though I vote for Kamala Harris.

Be the change in which you wish to see in the world, and don’t do things that you don’t like 

For example, I hate it when people honked at me, and therefore I will never never honk at people, unless it might be a life or death situation.

I don’t like when people act low-key racist to me; so maybe I’ll try my best to not be low-key racist to other people.

Also, smile to strangers and wave at them!  it literally cost you nothing, and that worse, they frown at you back, or ignore you. I would say this:

Better to risk a kind hello smile and peace sign, and get ignored or snuffed, rather than not attempt it at all! 

Be magnanimous, be the great man!

ERIC

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Pettiness, jealousy and envy are only for weak men.

Just think, “what would John Wick do“? Or what would King Leonidas do?

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