If you don’t got nothing good to say, just don’t say it! And also a funny thought that I got from Publius Syrus:

It is OK to think evil thoughts, but just don’t vocalize them. 

What does that means is, certainly it is natural that we think bad thoughts of other people, because the wise man should in fact judge bad and negative behavior in order to not imitated. And as a consequence, your goal is too similarly, be wise about this,

the number one rule: just don’t die

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Not a character fault issue but a structural issue

For example, we always criticize and critique the fact that people don’t walk around anymore they don’t exercise whatever… But it seems like the bigger issue here is structural. For example, if you live in the middle of the suburbs and there are literally no sidewalks, how can you criticize and critique people for not walking? If there is literally no sidewalk?

It’s kind of like criticizing people for being fat, once again, I think the bigger issue is not a lack of some sort of virtuality or character, but rather it is also, a structural issue. The reason why people who live in the suburbs get so fat is that there are literally no opportunities to exercise, And also, certain jobs do not promote people to exercise either, which they ain’t getting, leads to people going to Costco, buying junk food, snack snacks, and also in order to be more productive, consume sugary energy drinks, to stay awake and be productive? Once again, structural issues.

But assuming you’re like pneumatic traveling on the road, you are actually structurally forced to live lean. As a consequence, if you want people to get into shape, you have to just kind of transplant them in a different environment.

This is still why I believe this in intelligence, of living in a place that allows for like 100% pedestrian lifestyle because if you live in a place which is structurally adept to walking, you will walk more I can guarantee it. It’s kind of like, obviously if you live in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, you will not be able to help but get mosquito bites. Therefore if you don’t like the mosquitoes or mosquito bites, rather than just trying to wheel away the mosquitoes, even the annoyance of having to put on mosquito repellent and long Sleeve and long pant clothing, I think it’s better to just live somewhere that has no mosquitos!

Same thing with noise, I think one thing I discovered about myself is that I am insanely insanely insanely sensitive to the noise. As a consequence, trying to live somewhere which is like dead silent, is my personal oasis.

I have a feeling that the reason why a lot of people are so tired all the time, assuming that you’re living somewhere that is very very loud at night, is that you simply cannot get a good night sleep. How can you blame people for being exhausted and tired all the time if once again, they live under the 405 freeway? Even the most disciplined person will have no energy no vigor no life.

Freedom! Open Spaces, open air? 

plotting my escape?

Another matrix analogy, if you yourself are living the matrix, is the goal to remain in the matrix, and to free your other people who is stuck in the matrix, or are they simply too long gone that it is a hopeless cause? 

I think also the reason why the whole Messiah analogy is not good is that, it is like kind of based on the wrong fundamentals. It is the idea that if everybody just accepted the ideology of Christianity, that magically the world will become a perfect place. Kind of a similar flaw in Buddhism, in which everyone just becomes vegetarian and or vegan, does no harm to nobody, doesn’t even accidentally swallow mosquitoes for the fear of harming another being, doesn’t kill annoying mosquitoes or ants, and it’s just at one with the cosmos or whatever. And, she just vow to live a life of eating rice and beans, dealing with the flatulence, never buying anything anymore, never causing any sort of harm or destruction the environment, and then just instantly twiddling your fingers waiting to die.

Now the reason why this is terrible is because, I think fortunately and or unfortunately, human innovation must have its genesis in unfair, bad, the unethical.

There is no man’s gains without one man’s loss

So for example, time is like the ultimate zero something. The benefit of living in a serviced apartment is that twice a week, which is insanely amazing, is that without you having to waste time cleaning and mopping the floors and vacuuming, you just leave in the middle of the day, and you have the army of House cleaners do it for you.

So the loss is the loss of time and physiological energy for the housekeepers, but their gain is money.

Your gain is once again, you’ve saved yourself like at least an hour and a half each day, in which you could do other stuff you want to rather do, like wanna walk, go to the gym, do some writing etc.

Why does some people find this so unethical? I think it’s kind of like a win win win win win scenario. And also, I think the reason why commerce is probably the best thing that happened to humanity is that without commerce we would just be killing each other.

For example in the ILIAD, in which cane is only measured through capturing slaves, and stealing gold from the other party, the huge downside is it is not peaceful. Nobody wants to send their firstborn son into war, with a lot high likelihood of dying. Like for example, never in 1 trillion years what I send Seneca to the front lines of some sort of Warzone, for no reason whatsoever. If anything, if I could take his spot, I would.

So I think this is where it is hard for childless individuals to think beyond themselves because once you haven’t had a kid yet you have no idea. But once you have a kid, I think almost a natural instinct of every single parent is to sacrifice his or her life for the sake of Their child. Anyone who does not is like literally, something wrong in their brain, or some sort of physiological disease which affects their thinking and judgment, and or, maybe the way that we negatively judge their behavior, there is a deeper hidden calculus that we ourselves are not aware of?

Fake sacrifice

I think also another weird chest thumping thing that people do is like some sort of fake virtuality or sacrifice, like announcing to the planet that you’ve gone vegan to stop harming animals or whatever? If you were to truly be virtuous, you would never tell anybody about it, Kind of like Jesus saying that if you gave money to poor people or whatever, do it in such a way that your left hand doesn’t know that your right hand is giving? 

Also ethically, maybe it is better to not announce or post other people that you donated something to somebody, but rather do it anonymously? Or in the name of somebody else, kind of like Pusha T, the rapper, who donated truck falls of clean water to Flint Michigan, without telling people that he did it?

And I think this is the sign of a truly virtuous person, is if they do some sort of virtuous thing, and doesn’t tell anybody about it, and somehow the secret comes out after they die, this is the true man of valor?

Because once again, a lot of supposedly good tissue people like Bill Gates does really bad things, like sleep around or flirt with young attractive women, maybe indirectly causing his divorce with his wife, whereas the whole time he put on this show that he was some sort of enlightened philanthropist? Also, him saying that he somehow cared about the planet blah blah blah, but was shorting Tesla stock to make money, and or, buying some loser electric Porsche car Taycan instead of a Tesla car?

Once again, these self-serving losers, time will tell how much of a loser they are. 

The reason why we should not judge too much of people in the present moment, whether good or bad.

Even Kanye West, who I believe to be one of the best artist of all time, if you watched him like the last five or six years, there are big swings from him becoming a born again Christian, to him becoming the Dionysian provocateur we all love him for.

I think this is the hard thing about studying people while they are still alive. Because until shit hits the fan, you don’t really know what their true character is, or you don’t really know how it all plays out yet. This is where I like reading the Iliad, because even before reading the book you already know how it ends. And maybe this is the sign of a good story or a great story, if you already know the ending, would you still read it or watch it? Then, the storytelling and the journey is what interests us, not the ending. 

Time is a great indicator

So if you see somebody who has been in business, for like over 30 or 40 years, like Robert Kisaki the Rich dad poor dad guy, he’s probably onto something. I ignored him for a long time because he didn’t really interest me that much, but I’m starting to think… Especially now that he’s getting into bitcoin, maybe his stuff is in fact worth reading?

But then again, the tricky thing here is that once again, times changed things changed, it is my personal belief that here she or the individuals that adapt the quickest, shall thrive.

For example, if you live in Cambodia, and you’re not on grab, you’re not gonna get any customers. People who always ask me whether I want a tuktuk, on the street, they should know that in 1 million years they will not get my service.

Same thing with individual private taxi drivers in America. The old industry is dead. You have to adapt to the new one, or you will economically die.

Kind of like if you live in a small village, and then suddenly, the iPhone and 4G wireless comes to your neighborhood, he or she who adopts it, will thrive the most economically. Those who rejected, and continue to use a landline, they will be exited from the gene pool.

Times of stress?

So I’ve been keeping my eye open on the housing market, and it looks like a lot of these people with these epic three or $4 million homes are dumping them. Why? It is my suspicion that these individuals, essentially lost like almost all of their wealth in the recent Stock market downturn, and as a consequence, have no option but to dump their existing assets, or else they will go flat broke.

And this is the tricky thing, living lean before the crash.  Remember the old Yiddish thing: prepare for the worst, and the best shall take care of itself. And once again, this is where building award test, ideally a bitcoin war chest is so wise because once again, if you’re the family who is the ear doctor of the bitcoin standard, and you converted 100% of your wealth into bitcoin, what will happen is once the economic dust settles, anybody who put their money in the magnificent seven text, would have lost all their wealth. Whereas those individuals, like myself, in my family who went 100% bitcoin, we will be the ones stupid rich, taking over the mortgages of these $5 million homes in LA.

It’s also kind of like, preparing before shit hits the fan.

For example, if you live in LA, and you have a very skinny car, you’re gonna be the winner when you’re stuck at the Costco parking spot, unfortunately you are the one car that could fit inside the super skinny spot because all these other losers with their “compact” SUVs cannot squeeze in.

Same thing goes with writing a tuck tuck during rush hour in Phnom Penh,,, when the roads narrow, the only individuals were able to squeeze through the traffic or the tuck tucks, or people on motorbikes.

Times of abundance, times of scarcity?

One of the funny moments of the movie Ip Man, is when Donnie, the hero, I think it is the second film, that I think either China or Hong Kong is going through some sort of economic recession, and then his wife or somebody ask him, why he is not training, he says that if he trains, he gets hungry and because they’re starving, the strategy is to not train.

But ironically enough, maybe it is time of economic security when it is actually the most important time to train because you have to train even in times of lack, in order to prosper.

Kind of like ironically enough, in times of economic downturn, you actually have to invest more money into advertising,  even though advertising costs you money? Because the way the modern day capitalism works, if you don’t invest money, you cannot make money, kind of like following the bad saying: sometimes you have to spend money to make money. Certainly sometimes this makes people fall into degenerate behaviors, but there is kind of a little bit of truth to it.

For example, wasting money on buying a BMW or a Mercedes, might be a good idea if you want to sell houses and look successful.

And also, having an expensive while tailored suit and a Rolex, might also be good if you are doing some sort of investor meeting. To show other people that you’re qualified. For example, probably difficult to trust somebody with a ripped T-shirt, if they are the new anchor of some sort of financial channel. But then again you have a jack Dorsey who essentially looks like a homeless person, but might be one of the most genius people on the planet?

all signal is noise?

So assuming that everything is noise, even the signal, I then suppose it becomes an aesthetic decision, whether you decide to consume it or not, knowing that it is noise. But, knowing that your decision is simply an aesthetic thing? 
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Only ugly people hide their faces?

Show your face sucka!

We the new GOATS!

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The death of productivity

There’s no more need to be productive anymore,,, because we got AI for that!

Driving is bad.

Driving is for slaves.,., let the slave AI drive you!

The best car is the cheapest self driving Tesla?