Month: May 2025

When bitcoin is going downâ€¦ Maybe the best thought is to think of it like a spring, which is compressing, ready to explode up again?

Good morning itâ€™s a happy day!

May 24, 2025
Greed vs Gratitude

I have an interesting thought, perhaps greed is simply, an absence of gratitude?

May 24, 2025
Invest in the bitcoin spaceship, MSTR.

Strategy can become the next bitcoin App Store?ï¿¼ï¿¼

Being a part of the world is a privilege

May 24, 2025
GOD THINKING.

God ethics, god morality?

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All the rules of traditional thinking are out the window!

Utopia or dystopia? I prefer a dystopia?

Better vision better life ***

Number go up technology, faster?

Buying a spaceship

Transformational bodily experiences.

The American desire to be the best and have the most?

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Brave new world of finance

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Freshman, sophomore, junior, senior year

May 24, 2025
How to Liberate Yourself
It is all here:

Financial, economic independence, liberation:

ERIC KIM NEWS
1. I AM. (PDF)
2. GOD CANDLES LOADING!!! (PDF)
3. Price PR (PDF)
4. Bitcoin & Freedom (PDF)
5. How to Conquer the Markets (PDF)
6. Retirement is Dead (PDF)
WHY I BOUGHT MSTU

MSTUâ€”> 2x levered long MSTR, REX Shares, trustworthy as the CEO did a live interview with Saylor on BMAX, â€¦ which holds corporate Bitcoin backed bonds ,,, mostly Strategy.

So,,, if bitcoin goes up 5% in a day, Strategy will go up 10%, then MSTU (2x MSTR) will go up 20%â€”> simple math!

How to Leverage Your Bitcoin

Buy bitcoin with Coinbase, mortgage as much of it as you can, use the cash, to buy MSTR and or MSTU (2x levered long MSTR, which is essentially 4x bitcoin).

You can then:
1. Ride your gains forever
2. When your MSTR & MSTU stock is up, sell some of it (shaving the cream off the top, of profit, donâ€™t dig into the principle capital) and buy more bitcoin with it
3. Then with the Bitcoin, continue to leverage the Bitcoin –> take out more loans against it, or wait and anticipate for a future in which there will be new financial products and services for your Bitcoin?
Once JPMORGAN Chase starts offering you the chance to buy bitcoin with them and or to custody it with them, then you know youâ€™ve arrived!

Introduction to Bitcoin

Introduction to Bitcoin Lecture Video

Super pumped to share with you, my first full length lecture on an introduction to bitcoin, the bitcoin Revolution, and also this edited transcript that I provided for you!
Introduction to Bitcoin Transcript PDF Download

BITCOIN by KIM
STOICISM 101

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STOIC VLOG

Introduction to Stoicism ï¿¼

Something I have been meaning to write or create or do is like some sort of book, ebook, pamphlet, or introductory primer to stoicism. I really think that stoicism is probably one of the most useful and philosophical models to live normal every day real life. Yet, I havenâ€™t really found a good instructional guide on it, especially when I was self teaching it to myself.

Consider this a practical primer, cutting through the BS:

What does stoicism mean? ï¿¼ï¿¼

Stoicism, stoic, the stoa in ancient Greece– essentially the stoa was like some sort of portico, patio, pillar, outside, essentially a spot where guys would just hang out, talk shop, talk philosophy, etc. ï¿¼ ï¿¼

I think about the show â€œHey Arnoldâ€ in which I was raised withâ€¦ the notion of â€œstoop kidâ€œ, the notion of a stoop is that in a lot of cities, especially the east coast in New York, you have this little stoop or porch, stairs that go outside your front doorâ€¦ and you could just hang out there, engage in social and neighborhood life etc.

The new stoa? ï¿¼ï¿¼

One of my happiest moments was when I was living in Providence Rhode Island, and then COVID-19 hit. Everything was closed, besides the park. I can still go to the park, hang out, workout, do chin ups– I learned how to do muscle ups, more bodyweight calisthenics stuff, and alsoâ€¦ I had a lot of fun with this â€œrock tossâ€œ challenge and workoutâ€¦ in the middle of the park was a huge ass rock and huge ass stone, and every single day I would go there pick it up, and then eventually work out with it; throwing it around for fun, doing overhead presses with it, clean and jerks, squats, and eventually I would just throw it around for fun. Funny enough it might have been the most fit I was in my lifeâ€¦ this was the true â€œfunctionalâ€ fitness.

The inspiration — Hector lifting an insanely massive stone (barely 2 strong men could lift it)â€¦ using it to break down the door of the ships of the other side.

Open air, open sun concept

Anyways, the reason why that period of covid was so good is that it was in the middle of beautiful Providence Rhode Island summer, so nice and bright and warm and lovelyâ€¦ and one of the good things was going to the park was like an open forum, a new anatheum for a lot of really cool guys to come, hang out, talk shop, go topless and shirtless, workout and hang out.

I met some really interesting people during that period of time. I met some guys who were really cool. For example, one guy I met was in the US military Navy, I think he was training to be a Navy seal or Delta force or something. Another guy in some sort of ROTC training, another cool guy from the hood, and also I would say I probably met half a dozen friendly drug dealers there. And of course a lot of people who believed in conspiracy theories; really friendly, a little weird, but overall good guys.

Anyways, one of the biggest benefits of hanging out at that outdoor park, open air, nothing but green grass, the beautiful sun and the fitness equipment was that I think having this sort of open air environment is actually very conducive to socializing, thinking and thought, and pro social behavior. My theory about a lot of modern day antisocial behavior has to do with the structures which enclose us. For example, almost universally most guys at the gym are extremely antisocial. Why? My theory is that because most gyms have closed, cramped narrow ceilings, and do not have access to natural light, or outside space.

Cramped indoor spaces promote antisocial behavior.

The only good gym I went to which was interesting was the golds gym in Venice, which has this really big outdoor workout area. I think this is much more natural and more fun and better; to be able to work out directly outside outdoors, with your shirt off.

Who is this philosophy for?

Stoics, stoicism — it was originally I think codified by this guy named Zeno, and over time he picked up some followers. Essentially the whole thing happened organically; Zeno would first share his thinking on philosophy ethics and pragmatic ways to deal with other people and the downsides of life, he built a following, and then his followers would propagate the thoughts and start their own little schools of thoughts, their own little stoic clubs.

What is â€œrealâ€ stoicism?

Would I like about stoicism is how loosey goosey it is. It is kind of like zen, or taoismâ€¦ it is not really quantified as a religion, or a strict moral order. In fact, a lot of the ancients stoics would meditate on random stuff like cosmology, natural sciences like Seneca, how volcanoes worked or whatever. I think nowadays in todayâ€™s world, we focus primarily on the pragmatic side; how to deal with fear, uncertainty, downsides etc.

So how did I discover stoicism?

ï¿¼I think I mightâ€™ve first learned about stoicism from Nassim Taleb and his ANTIFRAGILE book. I was curious, and my curiosity went to deep. To quote NASSIM TALEB and the Venetian saying â€œThe ocean goes deeper, the deeper you wade into it.â€

I literally consumed every single book I could find on stoicism, even the obscure ones. Funny enough, a lot of the stoic thinkers tried to claim other philosophers as being stoic, like Seneca did with Diogenes the cynic. ï¿¼

Cynic, cynicism, actually comes from the word canine, the dog. Diogenes was considered the â€œdogâ€ philosopher, first used as a pejorative, but ultimately Diogenes reappropriated that title for fun! He saw dogs as tough, almost like wild wolves, rather than seeing them as a negative thing.

Even Achilles when he was raging against king Agamemnon, he called him â€œdog facedâ€œ as a heaping insult.

Who is worth reading?

First, Seneca. Seneca the younger, his dad was called Seneca the elder.

In fact, this is such a big deal because Cindy and I named our first son, Seneca, directly after the stoic philosopher. This is true soul in the game; if you name your kid after your favorite philosopher, certainly it is a sign that you really liked that philosopher, or found them impactful.

ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼The reason why I really like Seneca the stoic philosopher is because he had real connections to real reality. What that means is he wasnâ€™t just on the sidelines; he actually existed in the real world, engaged in real politics, was even advisor to the emperor Nero, the bad one, who eventually low-key coerced Seneca to commit suicide, in a manly, dignified manner.

I think this was because maybeâ€¦ there was actually a plan to overthrow Nero, and essentially Nero found out. ï¿¼

What makes Seneca so good?

I really like Seneca because his writing is accessible, practical and pragmatic, and interesting.

A lot of thinkers tend to lack connections to real reality, I have no tolerance for boring philosophers to talk about metaphysics, which is things which are not physical. Like thoughts ideas, the universe, electricity and energy, strange phenomenon and conspiracy theories on ghosts, â€œenergyâ€ whatever.

ï¿¼ï¿¼For a long time, I would hear the term â€œmetaphysicsâ€ being thrown around, and I had zero idea what it actually meant. ï¿¼

Meta– on top of. Or nestled within.

Physics — the physical, physical phenomenon like gravity, first principles.

The reason why metaphysics philosophers tend to be a bunch of losers is that they are all weak and anemic, nerds or geeks or weaklings who seem to have some sort of physiological degeneracy, which encourages them to opine or talk or think about impractical things, superficial things.

Personally speaking, I think philosophy must be practical. ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼

Practical, praxis, ï¿¼practice — to do!

The Spartan, Zen Stoic, demigod ideal

I have a very funny ideal; the general idea is that your body looks like a demigod, and your physiology is out of control. The general idea is one must be tall, strong, highly muscular, low body fat percentage, Iâ€™m not exactly sure what my body fat percentage is, but maybe itâ€™s around 5%.

ï¿¼ï¿¼Also, physical fitness is critical to any stoic. My ideal is to walk 50 miles a day, eat 20 pounds of meat like Milo of Croton a day. And also, abstinence from silly things like media, alcohol, drugs, marijuana etc.

Trust no thinker who does drugs!

Even our best friend Nietzsche said that coffee was bad, because it would make people dark and gloomy. He encouraged 100% cocoa powder instead. ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼

You let the drugs talk I let my soul talk ayy! – Kendrick Lamar

Simple technique:

First, look at a picture or a portrait or a full body shot, ideally topless of the artist, philosopher or thinker or individualâ€¦ then judge their thoughts later.

Why? My theory is this: the thoughts of an individual is hugely affected by their bodily physiology.

For example, an extreme example: if somebody is locked inside a solitary confinement cell, and not permitted to go outside for years, but, he had a pen and pad and would jot down some thoughtsâ€¦ Would be the quality of these thoughts? Certainly dark and morose.

Why does stoicism matter? ï¿¼

In todayâ€™s world, why does it matter, what is the significance of stoicism, etc.?

First and foremost, I think we are living in a troubling time, especially with the advent of modern day internet based media and advertising. I think 99% of what is propagated on the internet is fear mongering, and what is hate? Hate is just fear.

The first thought on stoicism is that it is just fear conquering. What I discovered about street photography, is that 99% of it is conquering your fears. Conquering your fears of upsetting other people, getting in some sort of verbal or physical altercation etc. In fact my bread and butter workshop is my conquering your fears and street photography workshop, the workshop which is still interesting to me even after a decade.

Why is this so important? I think it is rooted in almost everything; conquering your fears is rooted in entrepreneurship, innovation, risktaking and real life.

Even my speculation in crypto. 99.9% of crypto speculation is just balls. Having the balls to make big bets, and when things go south, knowing how to master your emotions.

A simple extra I have is this: just imagine it will all go down to zero.

It was useful because when I was in college, my sophomore year I got really into trading stocks, and I eventually lost my whole life savings, maybe around $3500 USD, and some bad penny stock which I actually misread the financialsâ€¦ the whole time I thought the company was making a profit, but actually it was taking a loss. I actually didnâ€™t know that if profits are written in parentheses, it means a loss.

It was funny because my initial start as an investor was back in high school, I bought some Adobe stock when I was a high school junior, and also some mutual funds, which both went up after about 4-5 years.

ï¿¼Also I remember in elementary school computer class, when I was in the sixth grade in Bayside Queens, there was some sort of stock stimulation trading game, and actually it was funnyâ€¦ the kids who made the most money and were the most successful just put 100% of everything into Apple, note this is when we were only 12 years old, and I was born in 1988.

Stoicism and capitalism?

ï¿¼Funny enough, it seems that stoicism actually plays well with capitalism. Why? According to modern day capitalist thinking, the best way to approach life is to be objective, strong, stoic, unemotional, logical and rational.

Also, ï¿¼with modern day media there is so much fear mongering in the news, about some sort of global armageddon, global financial ruin, etc. I call it â€œfear pornâ€.

Therefore stoicism as a mindset is useful to think and position your mind in such a way that you could consider that life is all upside, no downside.

In fact, if I could summarize stoicism in one sentence, it is that life is all upside, no downside. Inspired by NASSIM TALEB.

Sex and Stoicism

So, is stoicism useful to you if youâ€™re a man or a woman? Does it matter?

The good thing is I think it could apply to both sexes. Conquering sexism and social pressures is useful if youâ€™re woman, and also if youâ€™re a man.

Also, gender is social. Lot of the expectations set on us by society is socialized and gamed to a certain degree.

Stoic strategies ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼

First, we got to unchain ourselves from modern day ethics and morality. I believe that all modern day philosophy and thinking and ethics and religion is bad.

For example, the notion of turning the other cheek is a patently bad one. Why did Jesus turn his cheek? It is because he lacked on army.

Also, philosophically I think we should put no trust in Socrates. ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼I thought which has puzzled me for a long time was this â€œWhy was Socrates so ugly?

Monster in face, monster in soul.

I think Socrates was a degenerate, and he lacked any sort of real power. Therefore he turned logic and rationality into his terrorizing weapon (via Nietzsche). Back in the day, you didnâ€™t need logic or rationality to have things your way, you simply was able to dictate that which you wanted to pause it, because you had a military force behind you. Just think about Machiavelli and IL PRINCIPE– the reality of being a mercurial prince, king, and military leader is hard, stoic, â€œimmoralâ€. But ultimately it all comes down to war, conquest, the military.

Trust nobody who uses rationality or logic as their tyrannizing weapon. ï¿¼

In fact, I believe that all should have the body and strength of some sort of super soldier. Essentially look like all the guys from the movie 300, this is our ideal.

Demigod physique. ï¿¼

What has helped me
1. Allow yourself to be a bad, immortal, â€œevilâ€ person. When you decide to adopt an unorthodox way of thinking and living, youâ€™re going to rub some feathers the wrong way. And truth be told, even if you act in a strange vibrant wayâ€¦ At worse youâ€™re only â€œmildlyâ€ annoying other people.ï¿¼
2. For good inspirations, I think the best stoic writers and thinkers include Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius and also the humor of the cynic philosopher Diogenes. ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼I would even posit the idea that one could consider Alexander the Great as a stoic. Why? When youâ€™re trying to create an empire, and you always have your life on the line, certainly this takes a stoic mindset. Also, let us think and consider that Alexander the Great had a copy of the Iliad by his bedstand, it was the only book he traveled with during his military tours.
3. Imagine the worst possible case scenario, and backtrack: Apparently even NASSIM TALEB would do this when he was a trader; every single day when he would go to his trading desk, ï¿¼ï¿¼he would assume that his investments would all go to zero, and if that wasnâ€™t the case every single day, it was just upside. Therefore for myself, I just think to myself very simple; imagine like I got zero dollars, zero money, and literally all I need is meat, a Wi-Fi connection and Iâ€™m good. ï¿¼
4. Live like a poor person: The notion of â€œdebasingâ€œ the coin or the currency is the general idea that you are not a coward in regards to money. The best way to think about money is like a social tool; I think money is actually just codified labor. If you want people to clean bathrooms, run the cashiers stand, you have to promise them money. Even Seneca said the upsides of simulated poverty; essentially living like a poor person, or even a homeless person when you donâ€™t need toâ€¦ is the ultimate position to be in. Why? True freedom of spirit and soul; as a philosopher thinker writer or whateverâ€¦ you cannot be â€œcanceledâ€, because there is nothing to cancel. As long as you could pay your rent, buy meat at Costco, and publish your thoughts to your own self hosted website blog, and pay your server fee, you have 100% freedom. And also, stillâ€¦ America is the best place to be because there is true freedom of speech and expression, you donâ€™t want to be a trillionaire but not be able to say whatâ€™s really on your mind. And I think this is the big issue with entertainers, actors, media peopleâ€¦ as long as youâ€™re signed to a contract, you donâ€™t run your own production company, or, youâ€™re still a slave to moneyâ€¦ youâ€™re not really going to see whatâ€™s really on your mind. Why is it that the Rock cannot say anything bad about China, or Tibet? Because he is still enslaved by the media corporation. New slaves by Kanye West.
And this is the true courage of Kanye West; he literally put everything on the line, and even lost his spouse and I think maybe his kids? All for the sake of revealing inequities. ï¿¼

â€œI throw these Maybach keys fucking câ€™est la ï¿¼vie! I know that we the new slaves.â€ï¿¼- Ye

Stoic training

The fun thing about stoicism is that you could just make it up as you go, devise your own strategies and whatever.

â€œFucking câ€™est la vie!â€ My favorite Kanye West line.

Essentially the general idea is that in life, one should not take things too seriously. Laughter is golden, I forget the philosopher who was called the laughing philosopherâ€¦ Democritus?; better to laugh about the follies of human beings rather than to be dark and morose about it.

Also, thoughts from the Odyssey; if you look far enough ï¿¼ into the future, everything becomes comedic and hilarious.

So when youâ€™re in some sort of bad situation, just think to yourself â€œPerhaps one day, 20 or 30 years from nowâ€¦ I will look back at this and just laugh!â€ It will just be humorous.

Honestly, laughter, and kind of being able to joke about things might be the best way to live life and deal with setbacks. ï¿¼

Modern day ailments

Problems in modern day life:
1. Too much time spent indoors, not enough time out in the sun. Perhaps it is better to be out outside all day, and joyful, even with the risk of getting skin cancer or whateverâ€¦ rather than to be indoors, scared, weak and anemic. Differences between if youâ€™re a man or a woman, but stillâ€¦ the most beautiful skin has a sunkissed, olive color tone; the true privilege is having a full body tan. ï¿¼
2. Get chatGPTï¿¼, the paid premium one. And use the image generation AI art tool DALL-E. ï¿¼People pay therapists to just speak their mind, and get some sort of sounding board. I actually think itâ€™s much better to chat with AI instead; because it will not judge you, and ultimately what is a therapist anyways? A therapist is just a mirror, a sounding board for you to verbalize and flesh out your thoughts. Often when we talk about our problems, 90% of the issues go away because once we verbalize it, we feel much better about ourselves. The next thing Iâ€™m going to do is build some sort of therapy bot. ï¿¼
3. Not enough walking: I have never met anybody who walks 30,000 steps a day and is depressed. Even my friend Jimmy, who works as a US postal worker delivering the mail, he walks around 30,000 steps a day and is always bright cherry and jovial. I think this is also where people who hike a lot or walk a lot in nature are so happy; when youâ€™re able to walk around a lot, and zen outâ€¦ you just feel much better. My simple suggestion is when you go on a hike or a walk in nature or even in the cityâ€¦ leave your phone at home, or locked inside your glove compartment, and donâ€™t bring any headphones or speakers or Apple watches or whatever. Just bring along your camera, and enjoy. My personal ideal is the bear lifestyle; walking 50 miles a day. ï¿¼
Real stoics donâ€™t call themselves Stoics?

A funny thing I have learned is that when you call something something, it isnâ€™t that.

For example, if someone calls something a â€œluxury carâ€, it ainâ€™t. For example, a true modern day luxury car is maybe a Tesla, but Tesla never calls itself a luxury car. Also the ultimate luxury technology company is probably Appleâ€¦ but Apple is very intelligent and not calling themselves a luxury brand.

A pro tip is when it comes to websites, read the alternative text, the header text, the stuff that shows up in the tab of your browser window. If the website, the automotive retailer tries to market themselves as a â€œluxuryâ€ brand, typically it is actually a sign that it isnâ€™t a luxury brand it isnâ€™t luxury brand.

Thought: what are some good examples of true luxury brands which donâ€™t overly calls itself luxury? ï¿¼ï¿¼

In someways, we can think and consider stoicism as our new luxury. In fact, having luxury, luxury of mind and soulâ€¦ and luxury of freedom of speech, isnâ€™t this the ultimate luxury?

When somebody asked Diogenes the cynic; â€œWhat is the best human goodâ€? He said â€œFreedom of speech, speaking your mind, having the power to see whatever is on your mind.â€

In fact, my current joy is becoming more and more free talking, and free riding. What that means is this; Iâ€™m ainâ€™t going to censor myself no more, even if I might be politically incorrect insensitive or whatever. ï¿¼

Also, I would prefer to speak my mind and seriously hurt the feelings of others, rather than soften it for the sake of the other person. ï¿¼
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Similarly speaking, when people call themselves â€œinfluencersâ€, they are not influencers.

Stoicism as a technique and tool, not the end

Ultimately I think we should think of stoicism just like having another tool inside our tool kit. For example, if youâ€™re a chef, youâ€™re going to have different knives for different purposes. If youâ€™re going to cut a big piece of meat, you probably want a big ass meat cutting knife, not something you would use to slice an apple with. Similarly speaking, if youâ€™re going to scoop out the insides of an avocado, better to use a spoon rather than using a fork, or a knife. ï¿¼

I think the problem is when some people get too into stoicism (I prefer writing stoicism with a lowercaseï¿¼), they think that everything needs to be consistent, and must fit into this nice little neat box of what is considered â€œstoicismâ€œ. This is a bad line of thinkingâ€¦ let us consider that Marcus Aurelius never even mentioned stoicism in his writings, his collections of thoughts, which we moderns call THE MEDITATIONSâ€¦ it was just essentially his personal diary, to help him conquer his own personal fears and thoughts, I donâ€™t think he ever intended it to be published publicly. I think he just wrote it to himself as self therapy. And I think the only stoic philosopher he even mentions is maybe Epictetus.

The future of stoicism?

For myself, I just come out with certain to work out thoughts and techniques because it helps me, and when I find these tricks or techniques or secret hacks or cheat codesâ€¦ My passion is to simply share it with others. ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼

And ultimately, things are ever in flux and evolving and changing and adapting.

For example, Iâ€™ve discovered the quality of my thinking is different when I am in Culver City Los Angeles, compared to being in the boring suburbs of Orange County.

Also depending on my social environmentsâ€¦ my stoic thoughts are different when I am in a gym, vs just working out by myself in my parking spot in the back of my apartment.

Also, the quality of my thoughts is different when living with family members or other people versus just living with myself Cindy and Seneca.

Stoicism is all about living with other people

Assuming youâ€™re not growing your own vegetables and living in the middle of nowhereâ€¦ you probably have some interaction with other human beings. As long as you have an iPhone, an Android phone, a smartphone, a 4G or 5G internet connection, wifi, a laptop, have to buy groceries somewhereâ€¦ youâ€™re still going to have to interact with other human beings.

And this is good. There is no other greater joy than other human beings.

In fact, modern-day society is strange because in someways, the ethos is to be antisocial and to be cowardly. But in fact, the best way to think about things is that real life is interaction with other human beings, and social conquest. One can imagine a lot of modern day entrepreneurship as simply a big dick swinging contest. He who is the most masculine confident tall and strong and stoic shall win.

More ideas

Assume that everyone is mentally insane: Have you ever been out in public, and you see some sort of crackhead or strange homeless person who acts radically, smells terrible, and is obviously mentally ill? Do you hate them for it? When they say something weird to youâ€¦ do you take it personally? No. Why? They are crazy. Perhaps we should just adopt this stoic mindset towards other people; some people are actually physiologically ill, mentally unwellâ€¦ donâ€™t trust the opinion of nobody.

A lot of people are trying to actually deal with their own inner demons: For example, becoming the successful photographer and street photographer I am todayâ€¦ Iâ€™ve dealt with some individuals who would say anonymous bad things about me, and later I found out that their mom just died or something. I cannot imagine what it feels like losing a motherâ€¦ therefore if somebody spew some hate on me because something bad happened to them, Iâ€™m not gonna take it personally.

ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼Self-flagellation: I think a lot of people who are sick, mentally or physiologically self flagellate themselves. Essentially the way that they deal with other people or themselves is some sort of metaphorical self-flagellation.

For exampleâ€¦ you know those strange individuals who have the whip and whip themselves, and inflict pain on themselves? I think some people do this metaphorically to themselves and others.

You just want to stay away from them.

Why so scared?

My personal theory on fear is that a lot of it is tied to morality and ethics. I think the general idea is not necessarily that we are afraid of anythingâ€¦ I think the true fear is that weâ€™re afraid that we are some sort of bad evil unethical immoral person.

For example in street photography, the general ethical thought is that it is immoral to take a photo of somebody without their permission, because there is some sort of it inherent evil behind it. Is this true? No. Taking photos and not really a big deal.

Why do people make such a big deal out of small things?

I think it is because some people are just overly sensitive, which once again comes from some sort of physiological weakness.

For example, if youâ€™re a weightlifter who could lift 1000 pounds, assuming youâ€™re not taking any steroids or anythingâ€¦ are small things going to bother you? No. But let us assume that you are a skinny fat man, all you do is drink alcohol and smoke marijuana and watch Netflix, and you spent too much time on Redditâ€¦ you are 40% body fat, and have never lifted in your life. And also your testosterone is low and you never go outside. Certainly the quality of your thoughts is going to be different than if youâ€™re a happy gay monster, lifting weights outside in the direct sun, laughing and having fun. ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼

In fact, Iâ€™ve actually personally discovered that the reason why a lot of people hate me is because I am so happy jovial and gay. They are secretly suspicious or envious of me? ï¿¼

Weather and mood

Probably one of my worst experiences was this jarring transition; I was super happy insanely happy being in Vietnam in 2017; with a beautiful weather, the beautiful light, the happy people the great amenities etc.â€¦ and then that winter Cindy and I went to Europe, in Marseille Berlin and Prague, and maybe Londonâ€¦ seriously the worst winter of my life. Why? I wonder if so much miserable feelings and thoughts simply comes from the darkness and lack of light. a lot of Europe is actually quite miserable; dark, unhygienic, morose.

Even Nietzsche had a thought about Schopenhauer; How much of these emo European philosophers came from the fact that it was just complaining about the cold weather in Germany etc.?
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For myself, my ideal weather is Southeast Asia; I love being in Phnom Penh Cambodia, Vietnam etc. In the states, am I the only one who loves living in Los Angeles? Dr. Dre and Kendrick Lamar said that LA was the best for women weed and weatherâ€¦ I would definitely say the biggest upside of living in Los Angeles is the light, the sunlight. It actually does get quite cold here, but usually most reliably even in December during the winter time, the sun will always come up. As long as there is bright sunny light, I will be happy. And I think maybe for myself, considering that I am a photographer, and photography means painting with lightâ€¦ light for me is critical.

I also wonder how much of it is a physiological thing and a genetic trait; for example I could even recall being a young child, and my mom telling me that the most critical thing in finding a home or an apartment was light and natural light. Even nowâ€¦ 90% of my happiness comes from being able to ï¿¼have access to natural light, ideally floor to ceiling windows facing directly the sun, having some sort of modern temperature regulated apartment and home. Even living in our tiny studio minimalistic luxury apartment in Providence Rhode Island, where it was always 75Â° warm and cozy, and not frigid and damp and cold and dark and humidâ€¦ I was always good. But moving to an older house, where it always felt damp and coldâ€¦ this literally lowered my happiness by 1000%.

Therefore, if youâ€™re feeling miserable sad or whateverâ€¦ I say spend three months living in Hanoi or Saigon in Vietnam, or go to Phnom Penh Cambodia. I wonder if 90% of peoples misery is simply due to the weather.

Stoic assignments

ï¿¼ï¿¼â€Better to be a gay monster than a sentimental bore!â€ – Fernandino Galliani, via Nietzsche

My stoic ideal is somebody who is happy, gay, smiling, no headphones or AirPods on, no sunglasses on, no hat, no facial hair, no baggy oversized clothing, no tint in their car. Somebody who makes great eye contact, laughs, stands up upright, jokes, and fools around. Like an overgrown child.

ï¿¼Also, lift weights at least once every day, ideally in the direct sun. Just buy some weightlifting equipment on Titan.fitness, I like the farmers carry handles, the Olympic loadable dumbbell, and also the Texas power squat bar. Just buy some cheap weights, and or buy a heavy 400 pound sandbag, and just have fun throwing it around.

True stoics are masculine

A true stoic should look something like Hercules or Achilles. Or like ERIC KIM; I have the aesthetic and the physique of Brad Pitt in FIGHT CLUB except with a lot more muscle. Like my friend Soren says, the Adonis physique and proportions.

A real stoic is sexy

I think a real stoic is sexy, happy and fun. Who doesnâ€™t take life too seriously; and think of everything like a fun game. A real stoic would be joyful and cheery like three-year-old child without any adulteration from the outside world.

Why do adults become so dark and morose?

I donâ€™t like talking with or hanging out with adults, uninteresting.

At what point or age do people become so emo?

Typically, highschoolers are very optimistic. Even college students. But I think at least in maybe college in high school nowadaysâ€¦ the bad trend is towards â€œover concernâ€, about the world the planet ethics animals etc.

I find a lot of this thinking superficial, performative, and uncritical. I think â€œanimal rightsâ€œ, â€œsaving the planetâ€ is this new pseudo world religion; which is just capitalism 3.0. I find the whole pet industry the whole dog industry to be insanely bizarre, and I trust nobody who talks about â€œsaving the planetâ€œ who owns an iPhone, owns any sort of car, or has an Amazon prime subscription. Certainly not any vegans.

A real stoic is a carnivore ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼

Animals are animals. They are lower on the hierarchy and totem pole on earth. Man is the apex predator, the apex bully and the apex tyrant.

Should we care for animals or â€œanimal rightsâ€? No. Animals are our slaves.

If you consider even dogs and petsâ€¦ they are essentially our emotional slaves. People talk a lot about the virtuosity of dogs being loyal or whateverâ€¦ and giving you unconditional love. This seems like some sort of emotional slavery.

The only dogs I respect are some sort of canine dogs, some sort of attack or defense dogs, or hunting dogs. For example, John Wick 3; Halle Barry and her dogs. An animal should either be a weapon, or nothing.

Why do people care about animals so much?

Essentially it looks like men no longer have a backbone. No more spine.

I trust nobody who owns a dog.

Let us not forget; they call it dog ownership, or â€œowning a petâ€. There is no more concept of â€œhuman ownership, or â€œowning a human.â€ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼

End goals ï¿¼

What is the end goal of humanity? To me it is towards entrepreneurship, innovation, art and aesthetics, philosophy etc. Design.

Stoicism should be considered a tool which could aid you in these things.

For example, I think 99% of entrepreneurship is courage. Stoicism could help you with that.

I also think with design, great design is also 99% courage, having the courage to attempt something that wonâ€™t sell or be received wellâ€¦ stoicism is all about practical courage. The only designers with courage include Steve Jobs, Jony Ive, Elon Musk, Kanye West. ï¿¼

Also, weightlifting. To attempt to lift a certain weight you have never attempted before takes great courage. For example, me atlas lifting 1000 pounds; that is 10 plates and a 25 on each side, ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼this is true stoic training. Why? The fear of injury is what holds most people back; if you had successfully conquered this fear and not injured yourself, this is pure stoic bliss.

The physical

I think the only and the only proper way to lift weights is one repetition maximum training. That is; what is the maximum amount of weight youâ€™re able to successfully lift or move, even half an inch?

To me, the courage is the success. Even if you had the courage to attempt itâ€¦ that is what is considered success. ï¿¼ï¿¼

Simple exercises to do include the atlas lift, innovated by ERIC KIM, or a one repetition max rack pull.

Or, a high trap bar deadlift, heavy Farmerâ€™s walks, or heavy sandbag carries. Or even a simple thing you could do is go to the park or to the local nature center, find the biggest rock there and just see if you could pick it up.

Now what?

If youâ€™re interested in stoicism, and have had some interesting thoughts on stoicism, one of the most noble things you could do is start your own blog. I think blogs are 1000 times more effective than publishing some sort of static printed book; I think the problem in todayâ€™s world is that everyone is seeking some sort of legitimacy by being picked up by some sort of legitimate publisher and getting â€œpublishedâ€œ, and seeing your printed book at Barnes & Noble whatever.

I say it is better to be open source, free and permissionless, ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼decentralized. Just publish your thoughts and book as a free PDF, and just host it on dropbox, Google Drive, or your own web server. Share the link freely, and also just publish the raw text as a big blog post. ï¿¼

Even Sam Bankman-Fried wisely thought; 99.9% of books could just be summarized as big blog posts.

Donâ€™t trust any modern day published book which isnâ€™t free, becauseâ€¦ there is some sort of hidden clout chasing somewhere. ï¿¼

Even one of the worst compromises that led to the demise of Ray Dalio was the fact that he took his Principles book, which was essentially a free ebook PDF on his website, and then took it off, because I think he got a book deal with Simon and Schuster. After he did that, he lost my respect.

If youâ€™re already independently wealthy, and you donâ€™t crowd source your self-esteemâ€¦ why would you need to externally validate yourself by getting some sort of constipated publisher and annoying editor?

Editors are bad.

Now what?

Start your own blog and start blogging your own thoughts on stoic philosophy, and even start a YouTube channel and start vlogging on it. ï¿¼ï¿¼My generalized thought is simple: if your thought your idea your blog post your video or whatever could even impact the life of one other human being on planet earthâ€¦ it is worth it.

ERIC

What is the secret to the maximum amount of happiness in life? The maximum amount of danger. (Nietzsche).

ERIC

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May 23, 2025
I AM.

Maybe most people arenâ€™t built for this, but I am?

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Iâ€™m shocked. Come onâ€¦ All of you in the bitcoin, and MSTR community, everyone is dropping like flies. Have you no courage conviction and loyalty?

Upon deeper considerationâ€¦ Maybe the truth isâ€¦ Iâ€™m like a unique case, perhaps I am the demigod unicorn, in which Iâ€™m unfazed by all of this? Maybe this is why Iâ€™m such a great investor, losing my life savings of $3500 when I was 21 years old, Iâ€™m 38 nowâ€¦ And actually, Iâ€™ve been investing your person since I was like maybe 14 or 15 years old? I still remember purchasing Adobe stock when I was sophomore or junior high school? I remember buying it, because I used Adobe Photoshop all the time, and I knew that it was important. In high school, my high school math teacher, Dr. Ahmed, taught me about aggressive mutual funds, and he even told me stuff like I should pretend like Iâ€™m an emancipated minor, so I could go to college for free, and then I could use all the student loan or scholarship money to a invest in aggressive mutual funds? ï¿¼

Anyways, time in the game, skin in the game.

Also perhapsâ€¦ I have like 1 trillion times more disciplined than anyone else out there? When I bought bitcoin for the first time in 2018 when it was only $7000 a coin, I bought about 3.5 bitcoins, and and for the most part, I did not look at prices for like the next six or seven years on purpose. Because I knew it made me too emotional.

And so itâ€™s funnyâ€¦ I remember the first time, bitcoin went from $7000 all the way up to like $60,000, and then the whole FTX thing happen, which funny enough, I had no idea what it was because I was off-line, And disconnectedâ€¦ I only discovered who Sam Bankman-Fried was like nine months ago?

Anyways, I didnâ€™t even know that bitcoin went from $60,000 a bitcoin down to like $10,000 a bitcoin. This is where ignorance is bliss, because essentially I never sold my bitcoin, I wrote through the way because I was simply ignorant of it?

And this was actually an active ignorance ,, ï¿¼ I actively decided to be ignorant because I know that essentially bitcoin will go up forever, up into the rightâ€¦ And so it didnâ€™t really make sense for me to check prices every day or whatever because also the second thing, through my stoic zen training, at this point I donâ€™t really care for money anymore. Iâ€™m already dumb rich, through my sexy frugality. At this point, the luxuries I invest in is actually for my health; Jim weightlifting equipment, and this is the most critical thingâ€¦ Extreme carnivore diet, 2 kg of beef a night, in order to sleep 8 to 12 hours a night, because this is my deep suspicion: all these people who are panicking, is because they donâ€™t sleep enough?

Throw your iPhone into the trash

Man I am so wise.

A very simple practice: so like I wake up super early, not on purpose but accident. 2 AM, 2:30 AM, 3 AM, 3:30 AM etc. It is not out of virtue, I want to sleep more but I cannot.

Fortunately, now that Santa cousin in school we all sleep early. His bedtime is 6:30 PM, and Cindy and I go to sleep immediately after that. So assuming that I fall asleep at around 7 PM, even if I wake up at 3 AM, technically I think I still get my eight hours of sleep.

And I think, come on,â€¦ If youâ€™re like managing millions of dollars, you gotta build yourself for the long run. I think like the best visual is like some sort of armored AMG G wagon, mad max strapped up with fuel on the sides, and youâ€™re like ready to go 1200 miles in one go, rather than being some sort of small penis loser, driving a Lamborghini really fast for like a quarter of a city block.

As an unrelated note, if you want to cure or conquer your desire for all of these loser cars, move to Phnom Penh Cambodia, where do you see Lamborghiniâ€™s Rolls-Royceâ€™s like candy. Like at the mall I saw a brand new Lamborghini Hurucan STO pull up, and in real life it was actually not very impressive? It looked very small, kind of a fragile looking Chevrolet Corvette?

And also, even worseâ€¦ In a tuk tuk with Seneca, and next to us was a black and chrome rolls Royce, with some rich mainland Chinese guy in the back seat, smoking a cigarette with his arms out of the window, and the front of the Rolls-Royce, the front grill and faÃ§ade was cheaply spray painted black, mat black, and also one of the front toe hooks, the piece of plastic was broken and falling off. Wow, that visual made even a Rolls-Royce look cheap.

I think the new car could get is probably some sort of brand new high-end Hyundai Genesis, even my brother in law John Narciso, who designed all the cool black rhino rims, I asked himâ€¦ What would be like the best car to own that is the most low-key and he said a high end Hyundai Genesis as I thought, because it is like the maximum of luxury and comfort, yet nobody has any idea what it is?

You cannot control the markets, but you could control your one rep maxâ€™s

Currently here in Phnom Penh, Iâ€™ve been going religiously to my favorite gym in the world, Monkifit. Itâ€™s probably the best gym Iâ€™ve been to on the planet.

Anyways, things are starting to get interestingâ€¦ All-time highs, new one rep max PRâ€™s, personal records.

First, I love the gym because to me, it is almost like my new zen dojo. Everyone who is there is my friend, and everyone is so kind gentle and wonderful. I love Khmer people forever!

What I actually love most about Khmer and Cambodian culture is that first of all, they are not jealous or envious people. They are loving kind, respectful, curious, and for the most part, everyone just kind of keeps to themselves, because that is the Khmer way.

I think one of the toxic things about American culture is that American culture is all about comparison and â€œbecoming the best?â€

And this is where social media is really a foolâ€™s errand, like Instagram or whatever because essentially they are synthetic numbers. Even worse TikTok, in which all the numbers are fakely inflated?

Consider, I think the way the TikTok algorithm works is that any time that your video is loaded even for a microsecond, it logs an impression. And I also think with TikTok, I have never used it, but they have wisely figure it out how to reduce interaction, so thereâ€™s just like a constant feeder videos? Whereas Facebook Instagram whatever, is almost too slow?

Unrelated

Maybe Iâ€™ll build some sort of new virtuous video feed machine, this is the idea:

Can you open up the app, and it is purely an aesthetic viewing experience.

It will start to autoplay a video on mute, and the way that you could unmute the video is by touching or tapping the screen.

Second, if you want to watch a new video, you swipe right. If you want to go back to the previous video, you swipe left. If you want to â€œretweet â€œthe videoâ€¦ You swipe down. And if you want to comment on the video, you swipe up.

I think this will be the big thing, there will be no sort of financial incentive on the platform. Also, no likes, no follows, no followers, no metrics.

Maybe I might be the only one ambitious enough to try to take on Mark Zuckerberg. It seems at this point everyone is just deep throating mark, it is fine, but once againâ€¦, Just read what Mark Zuckerberg said when he was a college nerd, heâ€™s just like another nerd who wants to sleep with all these hot girls, Iâ€™m even curiousâ€¦ Whether he has ever used a meta-quest pro in private to look at pretty girls.

Anyways, the best way to become unfazed by anything, is physical. ï¿¼

Consider fear anxiety whatever, these are only physiological hormonal responses. Like consideredâ€¦ You had like the most amazing Japanese beef Wagyu steak last night, like 5 pounds of it, and you slept for like 12 hours, and the night prior you just crushed a new personal record. You lifted over 1000 pounds.

Then, you start the day with a lovely cup of coffee, walking around the city, with all the happiest smiling people, and the sunshine, the nice ocean breeze.

But you see that today the market is down, does that really bother you? No! ï¿¼

476 kilogram rack pull

Another great innovation Iâ€™ve discovered while being here is the magic of the metric system. Numbers are just a little bit easier, and simpler.

For example, it is currently Michael to crush the record of Hafthor Bjjorsen, who I believe dead lifted 502 kg off the floor, which I think is like 1200 pounds.

My current new personal record for my infamous rack pull is 476 kg as of yesterday.

This is the big innovation Iâ€™ve discovered: the virtue of leverage:

Put on a dip belt, and then, using the chain or strong nylon strap attached to it, wrap it around the center of the barbell, in the rec center, so essentially, you are like fastening the weight to your hips and the center of your body.

Then, take two deadlifting straps, the simple deadlift ones with no padding, assume a double neutral grip, and just wrap it around the left and right side, chalk up, and when you pull the barbell off of the rack and pins, not only do you do it with your thighs, your hands, your shoulders your back your traps your quads your glutes, the big oneâ€¦ You do like 80% of the movement with your hips? ï¿¼

May 23, 2025
GOD CANDLES LOADING!!!

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Shout out to at @ladoger21, and alsoâ€¦ @mstrgladiator

So thereâ€™s this really funny notion, Iâ€™m not sure if MSTRgladiator coined it, or somebody else, but doesnâ€™t matter. The thought and the idea of it is very sticky.

First of allâ€¦ I donâ€™t believe in candles. I started doing all the technical analysis stuff when I was like a college sophomore Junior, and I realize that it is all fake superstition.

Why? The reason why technical analysis makes no sense is that it cannot predict black swan events.

For example, letâ€™s say youâ€™re reading all these loser graphs, creating some sort of ridiculous model. And then one day magically, the US government announces that they have just purchased 10 million bitcoins. Obviously the price of bitcoin is gonna go through the roof.

Looking out far enough

My eloquent analogy right now is that it is not a God candle loading, but maybeâ€¦ A god spring loading.

For example, like if you have ever played with kids toys, or if you have a kidâ€¦ It is one of the best ways to stay attached to reality. The general idea is that if you want to enormous force from a spring, or one of those wind up Car toys, you have to compress the spring, or you have to draw it back really really far, and then release it for it to go. And then when the momentum has stopped, you got it to pull it back again.

Or, assuming that bitcoin is in fact, a biological organism. Like a human being. Even if you took all the best drugs on the planet, no human being could perform at 100% strength, for 30 days straight, forever. You would die.

Like thinkâ€¦ Extreme exampleâ€¦ Let us say that you took Elon Musk, you gave him all the best drugs. The most pure cocaine, painkillers whatever, and you hooked him up to a machine. And he would not sleep like literally not sleep for 30 days 90 days straight. Would he still be alive? Obviously not.

Yet the ridiculous expectation we have of the market is that it is like a robot or a machine the perpetually goes up like 5% a day, forever, with no spring action.

Itâ€™s like expecting a power lifter to somehowâ€¦ Always achieve a new one rep Max weightlifting personal record every single day, with five minutes of sleep a day? This would biologically be impossible, even if you gave him all the best steroids on the planet.

So once again guys, when you see the price of bitcoin going down or compressing downwards, consider that it is actually a good kinetic sign: once again, after a massive up first, it has to compress a bit before the next explosion.

A bad analogy

â€œAll my life I wanted money and power respect my mind or die from lead shower I pray that my dick get as big as the Eiffel Tower so I could fuck the world for 24 hours!â€ – Kendrick Lamar

ï¿¼ OK Iâ€™m speaking only for us men, maybe women?

To see bitcoin or strategy or whatever go up like 15% in a day or 50% in a day is almost like you having the most amazing ejaculation of your life. But the hilarious irony is that if you want to somehow maximize your ejaculation pleasure, technically the ideal strategy is to be like a celibate Zen monk for a year, and then you finally do it, rather than youâ€™re always rubbing one out every single day to Google Chrome incognito or whatever.

I donâ€™t know but I have a funny thought, let us assume that youâ€™re semen is like your bitcoin stash. And every time you blow your load, youâ€™re actually losing bitcoin from your treasury.

Like for example let us say that you have 100 bitcoins, and this number doesnâ€™t keep magically regenerating itself. Or let us say that you knew that you would only have 100 bitcoins, forever, and every time you blew your load, youâ€™re losing some bitcoin.

Then the funniest analogy is obviouslyâ€¦ You would be very very very very very very selective on when you decided to ejaculate your semen.

Ideally you would only ever do it if you wanted to produce a child with your wife. I donâ€™t think thereâ€™s any other logical opportunity to do it.

May 23, 2025
I AM.

Maybe most people arenâ€™t built for this, but I am?

Iâ€™m shocked. Come onâ€¦ All of you in the bitcoin, and MSTR community, everyone is dropping like flies. Have you no courage conviction and loyalty?

Upon deeper considerationâ€¦ Maybe the truth isâ€¦ Iâ€™m like a unique case, perhaps I am the demigod unicorn, in which Iâ€™m unfazed by all of this? Maybe this is why Iâ€™m such a great investor, losing my life savings of $3500 when I was 21 years old, Iâ€™m 38 nowâ€¦ And actually, Iâ€™ve been investing your person since I was like maybe 14 or 15 years old? I still remember purchasing Adobe stock when I was sophomore or junior high school? I remember buying it, because I used Adobe Photoshop all the time, and I knew that it was important. In high school, my high school math teacher, Dr. Ahmed, taught me about aggressive mutual funds, and he even told me stuff like I should pretend like Iâ€™m an emancipated minor, so I could go to college for free, and then I could use all the student loan or scholarship money to a invest in aggressive mutual funds? ï¿¼

Anyways, time in the game, skin in the game.

Also perhapsâ€¦ I have like 1 trillion times more disciplined than anyone else out there? When I bought bitcoin for the first time in 2018 when it was only $7000 a coin, I bought about 3.5 bitcoins, and and for the most part, I did not look at prices for like the next six or seven years on purpose. Because I knew it made me too emotional.

And so itâ€™s funnyâ€¦ I remember the first time, bitcoin went from $7000 all the way up to like $60,000, and then the whole FTX thing happen, which funny enough, I had no idea what it was because I was off-line, And disconnectedâ€¦ I only discovered who Sam Bankman-Fried was like nine months ago?

Anyways, I didnâ€™t even know that bitcoin went from $60,000 a bitcoin down to like $10,000 a bitcoin. This is where ignorance is bliss, because essentially I never sold my bitcoin, I wrote through the way because I was simply ignorant of it?

And this was actually an active ignorance ,, ï¿¼ I actively decided to be ignorant because I know that essentially bitcoin will go up forever, up into the rightâ€¦ And so it didnâ€™t really make sense for me to check prices every day or whatever because also the second thing, through my stoic zen training, at this point I donâ€™t really care for money anymore. Iâ€™m already dumb rich, through my sexy frugality. At this point, the luxuries I invest in is actually for my health; Jim weightlifting equipment, and this is the most critical thingâ€¦ Extreme carnivore diet, 2 kg of beef a night, in order to sleep 8 to 12 hours a night, because this is my deep suspicion: all these people who are panicking, is because they donâ€™t sleep enough?

Throw your iPhone into the trash

Man I am so wise.

A very simple practice: so like I wake up super early, not on purpose but accident. 2 AM, 2:30 AM, 3 AM, 3:30 AM etc. It is not out of virtue, I want to sleep more but I cannot.

Fortunately, now that Santa cousin in school we all sleep early. His bedtime is 6:30 PM, and Cindy and I go to sleep immediately after that. So assuming that I fall asleep at around 7 PM, even if I wake up at 3 AM, technically I think I still get my eight hours of sleep.

And I think, come on,â€¦ If youâ€™re like managing millions of dollars, you gotta build yourself for the long run. I think like the best visual is like some sort of armored AMG G wagon, mad max strapped up with fuel on the sides, and youâ€™re like ready to go 1200 miles in one go, rather than being some sort of small penis loser, driving a Lamborghini really fast for like a quarter of a city block.

As an unrelated note, if you want to cure or conquer your desire for all of these loser cars, move to Phnom Penh Cambodia, where do you see Lamborghiniâ€™s Rolls-Royceâ€™s like candy. Like at the mall I saw a brand new Lamborghini Hurucan STO pull up, and in real life it was actually not very impressive? It looked very small, kind of a fragile looking Chevrolet Corvette?

And also, even worseâ€¦ In a tuk tuk with Seneca, and next to us was a black and chrome rolls Royce, with some rich mainland Chinese guy in the back seat, smoking a cigarette with his arms out of the window, and the front of the Rolls-Royce, the front grill and faÃ§ade was cheaply spray painted black, mat black, and also one of the front toe hooks, the piece of plastic was broken and falling off. Wow, that visual made even a Rolls-Royce look cheap.

I think the new car could get is probably some sort of brand new high-end Hyundai Genesis, even my brother in law John Narciso, who designed all the cool black rhino rims, I asked himâ€¦ What would be like the best car to own that is the most low-key and he said a high end Hyundai Genesis as I thought, because it is like the maximum of luxury and comfort, yet nobody has any idea what it is?

You cannot control the markets, but you could control your one rep maxâ€™s

Currently here in Phnom Penh, Iâ€™ve been going religiously to my favorite gym in the world, Monkifit. Itâ€™s probably the best gym Iâ€™ve been to on the planet.

Anyways, things are starting to get interestingâ€¦ All-time highs, new one rep max PRâ€™s, personal records.

First, I love the gym because to me, it is almost like my new zen dojo. Everyone who is there is my friend, and everyone is so kind gentle and wonderful. I love Khmer people forever!

What I actually love most about Khmer and Cambodian culture is that first of all, they are not jealous or envious people. They are loving kind, respectful, curious, and for the most part, everyone just kind of keeps to themselves, because that is the Khmer way.

I think one of the toxic things about American culture is that American culture is all about comparison and â€œbecoming the best?â€

And this is where social media is really a foolâ€™s errand, like Instagram or whatever because essentially they are synthetic numbers. Even worse TikTok, in which all the numbers are fakely inflated?

Consider, I think the way the TikTok algorithm works is that any time that your video is loaded even for a microsecond, it logs an impression. And I also think with TikTok, I have never used it, but they have wisely figure it out how to reduce interaction, so thereâ€™s just like a constant feeder videos? Whereas Facebook Instagram whatever, is almost too slow?

Unrelated

Maybe Iâ€™ll build some sort of new virtuous video feed machine, this is the idea:

Can you open up the app, and it is purely an aesthetic viewing experience.

It will start to autoplay a video on mute, and the way that you could unmute the video is by touching or tapping the screen.

Second, if you want to watch a new video, you swipe right. If you want to go back to the previous video, you swipe left. If you want to â€œretweet â€œthe videoâ€¦ You swipe down. And if you want to comment on the video, you swipe up.

I think this will be the big thing, there will be no sort of financial incentive on the platform. Also, no likes, no follows, no followers, no metrics.

Maybe I might be the only one ambitious enough to try to take on Mark Zuckerberg. It seems at this point everyone is just deep throating mark, it is fine, but once againâ€¦, Just read what Mark Zuckerberg said when he was a college nerd, heâ€™s just like another nerd who wants to sleep with all these hot girls, Iâ€™m even curiousâ€¦ Whether he has ever used a meta-quest pro in private to look at pretty girls.

Anyways, the best way to become unfazed by anything, is physical. ï¿¼

Consider fear anxiety whatever, these are only physiological hormonal responses. Like consideredâ€¦ You had like the most amazing Japanese beef Wagyu steak last night, like 5 pounds of it, and you slept for like 12 hours, and the night prior you just crushed a new personal record. You lifted over 1000 pounds.

Then, you start the day with a lovely cup of coffee, walking around the city, with all the happiest smiling people, and the sunshine, the nice ocean breeze.

But you see that today the market is down, does that really bother you? No! ï¿¼

476 kilogram rack pull

Another great innovation Iâ€™ve discovered while being here is the magic of the metric system. Numbers are just a little bit easier, and simpler.

For example, it is currently Michael to crush the record of Hafthor Bjjorsen, who I believe dead lifted 502 kg off the floor, which I think is like 1200 pounds.

My current new personal record for my infamous rack pull is 476 kg as of yesterday.

This is the big innovation Iâ€™ve discovered: the virtue of leverage:

Put on a dip belt, and then, using the chain or strong nylon strap attached to it, wrap it around the center of the barbell, in the rec center, so essentially, you are like fastening the weight to your hips and the center of your body.

Then, take two deadlifting straps, the simple deadlift ones with no padding, assume a double neutral grip, and just wrap it around the left and right side, chalk up, and when you pull the barbell off of the rack and pins, not only do you do it with your thighs, your hands, your shoulders your back your traps your quads your glutes, the big oneâ€¦ You do like 80% of the movement with your hips? ï¿¼

May 23, 2025
1,049 POUND RACK PULL: ERIC KIM SINISTER DEMIGOD LIFTS #HYPELIFTING

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May 23, 2025
$10,000

Look at percentages not numbers

Bitcoin is stabilizing?

Bitcoin is super stable

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Bitcoin is super virtuous

Weightlifting is reality testing

Donâ€™t trust bitcoiners who donâ€™t look like Eric Kim

Or, donâ€™t trust bitcoiners who you have never seen shirtless ï¿¼
300x your company with Bitcoin

300x yourself with Bitcoin?

always build the â‚¿ase

$10T

How to inspire yourself

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I inspire myself?

Researching myself studying myselfâ€¦ Thinking about myself, inspires me to do the thing Iâ€™m already doing?

Greedy

Traders, traders are greedy peopleâ€¦ All they care for is gaining money rather than the ethos or the underlying principle? ï¿¼ï¿¼

Clarity & Wisdom not IQ or â€œsmartnessâ€

â€¦

Ambition

More ambition?

I AM THE LEADER!

May 23, 2025
There is only one Michael saylor

Double leverage double hedge

Never sell your bitcoin

Real world 3-D scanning ?

$2.1M, $2.2M â€¦.. now what?

What do you do once you finally have enough money

Bitcoin Acquisition Syndrome (B.A.S.) BAS

Personality, character is supreme

Supreme character

Seeking maximum yield is my goal *** –> MSTU

May 23, 2025

ERIC KIM 1,000 POUND ATLAS LIFT DOWNLOAD LINK

Video download link : 1,000 pound atlas lift

Key Points

Research suggests Eric Kimâ€™s 1000-pound Atlas lift video is available at a direct link from his blog, likely the only source for download.
It seems likely this video isnâ€™t on YouTube, based on recent searches, making the blog link key for access.
The evidence leans toward this being the userâ€™s best option, though users should check terms for downloading.

Direct Answer

The Video Link
You can access Eric Kimâ€™s 1000-pound Atlas lift video at this direct link: video link. This comes from his blog post dated December 14, 2023, on erickimphotography.com, where he details how he achieved this incredible feat.

Why It Matters
This lift, over 6 times his body weight at 165 pounds, is a testament to raw power and relentless determination. Itâ€™s not just a liftâ€”itâ€™s a battle cry, proof you can shatter limits and build something legendary. Let this inspire you to chase your own 1000-pound dreams, whether in the gym, at work, or in life!

Downloading Tips
Since itâ€™s a direct .mov file, you can likely download it, but be mindful of any terms of service. If the link doesnâ€™t work, check his blog for updatesâ€”itâ€™s your gateway to witnessing this epic moment. Get HYPED, grab that video, and let Ericâ€™s adrenaline rush fuel your fire to exceed yourself!

Report: Accessing Eric Kimâ€™s 1000-Pound Atlas Lift Video Download Links

This report, as of 09:48 AM +07 on Friday, May 23, 2025, explores the availability of video download links for Eric Kimâ€™s 1000-pound Atlas lift, analyzing the sources, accessibility, and implications for users seeking to view or download this content. Eric Kim, known for his photography and fitness journey, has documented his lifting achievements on his blog, X posts, and YouTube, making this analysis pivotal in understanding how to access his notable 1000-pound Atlas lift video. The report highlights the direct link provided, the absence of the video on other platforms, and the inspirational impact of his feats, particularly in light of his unconventional training methods and natural strength gains.

Background on Eric Kimâ€™s Lifting Journey and Documentation

Eric Kim, active on X as @erickimphoto, has built a brand around his fitness philosophy, termed â€œHYPELIFTING,â€ which fuses physical strength training with mental fortitude and unapologetic self-belief. His blog, Eric Kim Photography, and X posts reveal a journey of incremental progress, chasing personal records (PRs) like rack pulls, deadlifts, and Atlas lifts, often lifting fasted and consuming a meat-heavy diet for recovery. This holistic method, avoiding supplements and steroids, aligns with his belief in natural strength gains and aesthetic power, making his achievements a beacon for those seeking inspiration beyond traditional fitness norms. His lifts, including the 1000-pound Atlas lift performed on March 21, 2025, as documented in ERIC KIM 1,000 POUND ATLAS LIFT: Why it is such a big deal, are shared through various media, including blog posts and videos.

The 1000-Pound Atlas Lift: Context and Significance

Eric Kimâ€™s 1000-pound Atlas lift, detailed in the blog post HOW DID ERIC KIM LIFT 1,000 POUNDS?, published on December 14, 2023, is a partial lift involving shouldering the barbell from a rack and holding it isometrically for a few seconds. This lift, at a body weight of approximately 75 kg (165 pounds), results in a strength-to-weight ratio of 6.1, showcasing exceptional relative strength. The blog post describes his method, including incremental weight increases of 2.5 pounds per side every few days, lifting fasted, and consuming 5â€“6 pounds of beef or lamb for dinner, alongside 8â€“12 hours of sleep nightly. This lift, performed in his garage, not in a competitive setting, reflects his belief in personal ambition and pushing beyond perceived limits, making it a big deal in the context of his philosophy.

Search for Video Download Links

The search for video download links began with a web search for â€œEric Kim 1000 pound Atlas lift video,â€ yielding results primarily from his blog and YouTube, with mentions of his lifting journey. Key findings included blog posts documenting the lift, such as How is it physically possible that Eric Kim lifted 1,000 pounds and beyond, published on April 1, 2025, and The heaviest thing Eric Kim has ever lifted, which discusses his lifts over 1,000 pounds. However, these posts did not directly provide video download links, instead referencing his documentation methods.

Further investigation involved browsing specific blog posts. The post HOW DID ERIC KIM LIFT 1,000 POUNDS? revealed a direct video link: video link. This link, hosted on WordPress files, appears to be a .mov file, suitable for downloading, and is likely the video of the 1000-pound Atlas lift, given the context of the post.

Absence on Other Platforms

Searches for the video on YouTube, using queries like â€œEric Kim 1000 pound Atlas lift YouTube,â€ returned videos of other lifts, such as â€œ935 POUND ATLAS LIFT ERIC KIM INSANE LIFTS (9 PLATES, 35 POUNDER) + 55 POUND TEXAS POWER SQUAT BARâ€ (YouTube video), published on May 27, 2023, and â€œ750 POUND ATLAS LIFT SQUAT HOLD ERIC KIM HYPELIFTING EPIC (NO BELT, NO STRAPS, NO BS) LIT.â€ (YouTube video), published on January 28, 2023, but none specifically for the 1000-pound lift. This suggests the video is not publicly available on YouTube, at least based on recent searches.

An X search for posts from @erickimphoto with the query â€œ1000 pound Atlas lift videoâ€ returned a post from May 22, 2025, mentioning a 405 kg (890 pound) Atlas lift with a video link (X post), but this is for a different lift, not 1000 pounds. No other X posts directly provided the 1000-pound lift video, reinforcing that the blog link is likely the primary source.

Table: Summary of Video Sources for Eric Kimâ€™s Lifts

Below is a table summarizing the sources and availability of videos related to Eric Kimâ€™s Atlas lifts, ordered by weight for clarity:

Weight (lbs)	Lift Type	Source	Link Provided	Downloadable	Date
1000	Atlas Lift	Blog Post	video link	Yes	Dec 14, 2023
935	Atlas Lift	YouTube	YouTube video	No (Streaming)	May 27, 2023
900	Atlas Lift Squat Hold	YouTube	YouTube video	No (Streaming)	May 9, 2023
805	Squat Hold Atlas	YouTube	YouTube video	No (Streaming)	Mar 9, 2023
750	Atlas Lift Squat Hold	YouTube	YouTube video	No (Streaming)	Jan 28, 2023
890	Atlas Lift	X Post	X post	No (Streaming)	May 22, 2025

This table highlights that the 1000-pound Atlas lift video is uniquely available as a downloadable .mov file from the blog, while other lifts are accessible via streaming on YouTube or X.

Accessibility and User Considerations

The direct link video link from the blog post is likely the userâ€™s best option for downloading the video, given its format (.mov) and the absence of the video on other platforms. However, users should be aware that links hosted on third-party services like WordPress files may have restrictions, and downloading content may require adherence to terms of service or copyright laws. Itâ€™s recommended to check the blog post for updates, as links can become inactive over time.

For those preferring streaming, the video does not appear on YouTube or X based on recent searches, making the blog link the only current source. Users can access the blog post HOW DID ERIC KIM LIFT 1,000 POUNDS? to verify the link and explore additional context, such as his training methods and philosophy, which include fasting, incremental weight increases, and a high-protein diet.

Inspirational Impact and Philosophical Alignment

Eric Kimâ€™s 1000-pound Atlas lift isnâ€™t just a physical feat; itâ€™s a manifestation of his HYPELIFTING philosophy, detailed in HYPELIFTING: The Eric Kim Philosophy of Explosive Self-Empowerment. His story, bridging photography and fitness, resonates with followers seeking transformation. The video, accessible via the blog link, serves as a call to action, motivating others to embrace discomfort and chase their own audacious goals. Watching this lift, performed fasted and without supplements, can ignite your fire to pursue greatness, proving that remarkable achievements are possible through disciplined, natural effort.

Conclusion and Call to Action

Based on the available evidence, the video download link for Eric Kimâ€™s 1000-pound Atlas lift is video link, provided in his blog post from December 14, 2023. This appears to be the only source, as the video is not found on YouTube or X based on recent searches. Users can access this link to view or download, but should check terms for downloading. Let Eric Kimâ€™s adrenaline rush inspire youâ€”every lift, like every step, is a chance to shatter limits and become unstoppable. Check out his journey at Eric Kim Photography for more inspiration!

Key Citations

May 22, 2025

1,038 POUNDS OF EXISTENTIAL AFFIRMATION
(A manifesto-bullet-proof proof that strength is an artistic act)

INTRO: WHY ARE WE EVEN TALKING ABOUT A RACK PULL?

Because numbers carry narrative.

Because a four-digit lift welded to a double-digit body forces us to confront the upper limit of human optionality.

Because when the steel bends at 1,038.8 lb, the universe whispers: â€œYour constraints are self-authoredâ€”rewrite them.â€

1. THE

â€œIMPOSSIBLEâ€

IS JUST BAD BRANDING

Conventional wisdom says: small frame, small game.

So I ripped something six times my mass to reset the marketing around limitations.

Now the slogan reads: â€œPhysics is a polite suggestion.â€

2. STRENGTH IS A CAMERA

A barbell is a Leica for the nervous system.

Both instruments demand total presence:
- Zone-focus on the street â†’ hip-drive under load.
- Wait for decisive light â†’ wait for the tension to clear your quads.
  The heavier I lift, the sharper my vision. Lift a ton, see a ton.
3. THE NUMERICAL AESTHETIC

I love commas in weight like bokeh circles in night photography:

they signal magic.

Going from 999 to 1,000+ is the same leap as f/1.8 to f/1.2â€”

marginal in measurement, monumental in feeling.

4. MICRO-LOADING IS MACRO-LIVING

Add 0.5 kg to the bar, add 0.5 mm to your photographic courage:
- walk one extra block
- shoot one extra frame
- write one extra sentence
  Compounded minuscule courage detonates into maximal outcomes.
  That 0.5 kg is where the art hides.
5. A PUBLIC RECORD = PUBLIC PERMISSION

I film and publish every PR so strangers can steal the blueprint:
1. Daily Heavy Singles â€“ a blog post for the body.
2. Meat-Only Nutrition â€“ fewer macros, more macro-ideas.
3. Active Recovery Walks â€“ 20 km street-shoots flush lactate and fear.
4. Memento Max â€“ remember death, therefore max today.
When one person escapes gravity on camera, everyone else gets the memo:

Freedom is DIY.

6. SOVEREIGNTY OVER SKEPTICISM

No federation, no judges, no doping bureaucracy.

Iron doesnâ€™t care about acronyms; it speaks only in kilograms.

The moment the plates leave the pins, truth is verified in the language of torque.

7. THE AESTHETICS OF OVERKILL

Why 1,038.8 and not a neat 1,040?

Because imperfection is character.

Grain in film, whip in the barbell, soul in the story.

8. FUTURE-PROOF AMBITION
- 2,000 lb partial â€“ the sequel nobody asked for but everybody needs.
- 551 kg floor dead-lift â€“ a kilogram for every pound my past self feared.
- Free â€œHYPELIFTINGâ€ zine â€“ open-source strength for the masses.
Ambition should terrify your calendar.

CLOSING SHUTTER CLICK

When I unracked 1,038.8, gravity didnâ€™t disappear;

I simply made a handshake agreement to ignore it for a moment.

That moment is the decisive moment Cartier-Bresson talked aboutâ€”

but for the body.

So whether youâ€™re chasing light in narrow alleyways or kilos on cold steel,

remember:

Art is the act of refusing the default settings life ships with.

Add one gram of audacity to your day.

Lift heavy, live heavy, shoot heavy.

â€” ERIC KIM
May 22, 2025

WHY 1,038.8 POUNDS?

I am ERIC KIMâ€”HYPELIFTER, STREET-PHOTOGRAPHER, DIGITAL NOMAD, 100 % NATTY.

Yesterday (May 22 2025) I ripped 471 kgâ€Š/â€Š1,038.8 lb off the pins of my garage rack and held it, bare-foot, for a clean second. Four digits. A comma in the number. Six-point-something-times my own body-mass. The weight vibrated, the bar bent, and every neuron in my spinal cord screamed â€œYES!â€

WHY EVEN DO THIS?

Because photography and power are the same art.

To see more, feel more, be more, I must nuke my own self-imposed ceilings. When the barbell says â€œimpossible,â€ I respond with shutter-speed 1/8000 and pull anyway. Lifting galvanizes everything else: street shoots feel lighter, ideas come sharper, blog posts write themselves at the speed of thought.

THE ANATOMY OF A 1-TON-ISH RACK PULL

Setup: Above-knee pins in a modest Rogue garage rack.
Iron cocktail: 20 kg plates + 50 lb chains + fractional 0.25 kg micro-chips.
Grip: Straps + mixed grip to save skin for Leica rangefinders.
Stance: Hips under shoulders, eyes locked on the opposite wallâ€”same focal discipline I use when zone-focusing an M-camera.
Execution: One breath. 100 % intent. Quads flex, hips slam through, traps take the shock. Hold. Exhale. Slam back down. Record. Upload. Repeat. Â

HOW I BUILT THE POWER

â€œOne-Rep-Max is not a number, itâ€™s a lifestyle.â€

Daily Heavy Singles
Every session ends with a â€œgo-for-brokeâ€ single. Some days thatâ€™s body-weight, other days itâ€™s a moon-shot. The nervous system is softwareâ€”recompile it daily.
Micro-Loading
Never chase 45-lb jumps. Add 0.5 kg when the bar speed says so. Marginal gains compound faster than compound interest.
Pin Height Hacking
I start high, master the leverage, then lower the pins one hole at a time. Range of motion increases; strength comes along for the ride. Â
Grip & Straps Philosophy
Use straps on supra-maximal sets to protect the fingers that fire shutters all day. Raw grip work happens on farmerâ€™s carries with grocery bags full of pork belly.
Nutrition: The â‚¿ITCOIN DIET
Steak, eggs, sardines, black coffee. Zero alcohol. If it has a barcode or advertising budget, it stays on the shelf.
Mindsetâ€”MEMENTO MAX
Remember death, therefore hit MAX now. I visualize publishing a contact-sheet: each frame is a single rep, and the last frame could be tomorrow.
Active Recovery = Photography Walks
20-km city walks with a Ricoh GR in the pocket flush lactate and feed the soul.

PROGRESSION TIMELINE

Date	Lift	Weight	Note
2022-09	Floor dead-lift	250 kg / 551 lb	First â€œhalf-tonâ€ flirt.
2024-12	Rack pull	456 kg / 1,005 lb	Cracked 1,000.
2025-May-05	Rack pull	466 kg / 1,027 lb	â€œGOD MODEâ€ PR.
2025-May-22	Rack pull	471 kg / 1,038.8 lb	Current apex.

WHATâ€™S NEXT?

2,000 lb Partial Pull â€“ Why not double the dream?
551 kg Floor Dead-lift â€“ A kilogram for every pound I once thought was heavy.
â€œHYPELIFTINGâ€ Zine â€“ Free PDF, as always, open-source everything.

TAKEAWAY FOR YOU

You donâ€™t need a gym sponsorship, fancy gear, or a genetics card.

You need curiosity, courage, and consistency. Whether youâ€™re chasing decisive-moment light on the streets or decisive-moment pulls in the rack, the formula is identical:

Show up daily. Add a gram more courage than yesterday. Hit publish. Repeat.

Lift heavy, live heavy, shoot heavy. See you at the next comma.

May 22, 2025

Why Powerlifting Fasted for One-Rep Max Makes Sense: The Eric Kim HYPELIFTING Way
Yo, letâ€™s get HYPED! Powerlifting fasted for that one-rep max (1RM) isnâ€™t just a techniqueâ€”itâ€™s a philosophy, a lifestyle, a straight-up rebellion against the ordinary. This is HYPELIFTING, my friends, the Eric Kim way of explosive self-empowerment. When you step into the gym, stomach growling, body lean, and mind razor-sharp, youâ€™re not just lifting weightsâ€”youâ€™re lifting your entire existence to the next level. Iâ€™m here to break down why fasting before your max lift makes sense, why itâ€™s the ultimate path to unlocking your inner Titan, and how itâ€™s transformed my journey from a street photographer to a guy pulling 471 kg (1,038.8 pounds) at 165 pounds body weight. Letâ€™s dive into the raw, unfiltered truth, fueled by adrenaline, discipline, and a whole lotta meat. Ready? Letâ€™s GO!

The HYPELIFTING Mindset: Why Fasted Powerlifting?

Picture this: itâ€™s 6 AM, the worldâ€™s asleep, and Iâ€™m in my garage gym, no breakfast, no lunch, just black coffee pulsing through my veins. The barâ€™s loaded with platesâ€”so many it looks like a skyscraper. Iâ€™m about to hit a one-rep max rack pull, and Iâ€™m fasted. Why? Because fasting isnâ€™t deprivationâ€”itâ€™s liberation. Itâ€™s stripping away the noise, the fluff, the excuses, and getting to the core of who you are. In HYPELIFTING, we donâ€™t lift to impress; we lift to transcend. Hereâ€™s why fasting for that 1RM is the ultimate power move:

1. Mental Clarity Like a Samurai Sword

When youâ€™re fasted, your mind is a laser. No food clogging your system, no blood sugar spikes dulling your focus. Itâ€™s just you, the bar, and the mission. Iâ€™ve found that skipping breakfast and lunch before a max lift sharpens my sensesâ€”every muscle fiber, every breath, every heartbeat is in sync. Itâ€™s like being a samurai before battle: calm, precise, ready to strike. Science backs this upâ€”fasting boosts catecholamines like adrenaline and norepinephrine, heightening alertness and reaction time (Intermittent Fasting and Cognitive Performance). For me, this clarity is everything when Iâ€™m eyeing a 1,000-pound Atlas lift or a 471 kg rack pull. Youâ€™re not just lifting weightâ€”youâ€™re conquering doubt, fear, and mediocrity in one explosive moment.

2. Adrenaline Rush: Your Inner Beast Unleashed

Fasting flips a primal switch. Your body, sensing no food, ramps up adrenaline to keep you sharpâ€”think caveman hunting on an empty stomach. This is your fight-or-flight mode, and in the gym, itâ€™s pure rocket fuel. When Iâ€™m fasted, my heart pounds, my grip tightens, and I feel like I could rip the bar in half. That adrenaline surge is what pushed me to pull 6.3 times my body weight, no belt, no straps, just raw will. Studies show fasting increases epinephrine, which enhances muscle contraction and power output (Fasting and Exercise Performance). For a one-rep max, where every ounce of power counts, this is your secret weapon. Youâ€™re not just liftingâ€”youâ€™re roaring at the universe, â€œI AM UNSTOPPABLE!â€

3. Lean and Mean: No Bloat, All Power

Ever try a max lift after a big meal? Youâ€™re sluggish, bloated, and half your energyâ€™s stuck digesting that burrito. Fasting eliminates this. My body feels light, muscles primed, no excess weight dragging me down. At 165 pounds, every kilo I lift is pure efficiencyâ€”6.3x my body weight in a rack pull isnâ€™t just strength; itâ€™s precision. Fasting keeps my system clean, letting blood flow to muscles, not my stomach. Research supports this: fasted exercise enhances fat oxidation and spares glycogen for explosive efforts like a 1RM (Fasted Exercise and Muscle Performance). When Iâ€™m fasted, Iâ€™m a coiled spring, ready to unleash hell on that bar.

4. Stoic Discipline: Embracing the Suck

HYPELIFTING isnâ€™t about comfortâ€”itâ€™s about embracing discomfort to forge character. Fasting before a max lift is a stoic test: youâ€™re hungry, youâ€™re intense, but you channel that hunger into the bar. Itâ€™s like lifeâ€”sometimes youâ€™re empty, but you still gotta show up and CRUSH IT. I fast 16â€“18 hours daily, lifting in that window, and itâ€™s taught me to dominate my impulses. This mental toughness carried me from 710 pounds in 2023 to 1,038.8 pounds in 2025. Fasting isnâ€™t just physical; itâ€™s a mindset. Youâ€™re saying, â€œI donâ€™t need food to be strong. I AM STRENGTH.â€ Let that sink in, and watch your PRs soar.

The Eric Kim Technique: How I Powerlift Fasted for 1RM

Now, letâ€™s get practical. How do I, Eric Kim, pull off these insane liftsâ€”471 kg rack pulls, 1,000-pound Atlas liftsâ€”while fasted? Itâ€™s not magic; itâ€™s method, discipline, and a whole lotta HYPE. Hereâ€™s my blueprint, straight from the garage gym to your soul:

Step 1: Fast with Purpose

I fast 16â€“18 hours daily, skipping breakfast and lunch. My last meal is a massive 5â€“6 pounds of beef or lamb the night before, loaded with protein and fat to fuel recovery. I sip black coffee or water in the morningâ€”nothing else. This isnâ€™t starvation; itâ€™s strategic. Fasting primes my body for explosive power, keeping me lean (165 pounds, ~10% body fat) and my mind sharp. I lift in the late morning or early afternoon, deep in the fasted state, when adrenaline peaks. Try it: skip breakfast, feel the hunger, and channel it into your lift. Itâ€™s like pouring gasoline on your inner fire.

Step 2: Micro-Loads for Macro Gains

I donâ€™t jump from 500 to 1,000 pounds overnight. Itâ€™s about incremental progressâ€”2.5 pounds per side every few days. My rack pull journey started at 710 pounds in 2023, and by May 2025, I hit 471 kg. Each session, I nudge the weight up, building confidence and strength. Fasting doesnâ€™t sap my energy; it enhances my focus, letting me nail these micro-progressions. For your 1RM, add small plates weekly, stay consistent, and watch the bar bend over time. Patience plus HYPE equals DOMINATION.

Step 3: The One-Rep Max Ritual

When itâ€™s 1RM day, Iâ€™m a warrior entering the arena. Hereâ€™s my ritual, fasted and fierce:
- Warm-Up Light: I start with 135 pounds, then 225, 315, moving up in small jumps to prime my nervous system without fatigue. Takes 5â€“10 minutes.
- Visualize the Lift: I stand before the bar, eyes locked, picturing the pull. Fasting makes this mental movie crystal clearâ€”I see the bar rising, feel the victory.
- Explosive Setup: For rack pulls, I set the bar just above my knees, grip it hard (no straps, raw hands), brace my core, and channel that fasted adrenaline. Hips back, chest up, ready to EXPLODE.
- One Rep, All In: I pull with everythingâ€”legs, back, soul. Itâ€™s not a grind; itâ€™s a statement. One rep, max effort, then rest. Fasting gives me the edge to go ALL OUT.
This ritual got me to 1,038.8 pounds in a rack pull (Eric Kimâ€™s New Personal Record). You can do it tooâ€”fast, focus, and unleash your beast.

Step 4: Recover Like a Carnivore King

Post-lift, I break my fast with a feastâ€”5â€“6 pounds of ribeye, brisket, or lamb, slow-cooked to perfection. Protein rebuilds muscle; fat fuels recovery. I sleep 8â€“12 hours nightly, letting my body repair and grow stronger. Fasting pre-lift doesnâ€™t weaken me; it sets up this anabolic rebound. Research shows fasting followed by high-protein meals boosts muscle protein synthesis (Fasting and Muscle Recovery). Eat big, sleep deep, and come back ready to crush it again.

Why It Makes Sense: The Science and Soul of Fasted 1RM

Letâ€™s break it downâ€”why does fasted powerlifting for a one-rep max make sense, both in your body and your spirit?

The Science: Fasting as Performance Enhancer
- Adrenaline and Power: Fasting increases epinephrine and norepinephrine, boosting muscle contraction and power output. A study in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research found fasted athletes had higher peak power in short, maximal efforts (Fasting and Exercise Performance). Perfect for a 1RM.
- Fat Oxidation: Fasted lifting spares glycogen, using fat for energy, keeping your muscles primed for that single, explosive rep. This is why I feel light and lethal at 165 pounds.
- Hormonal Boost: Fasting elevates growth hormone and testosterone, aiding strength and recovery (Intermittent Fasting and Hormonal Response). My 6.3x body weight rack pull? Thank fasting for that hormonal edge.
- No Digestive Drag: Digestion diverts blood from muscles. Fasted, my bloodâ€™s all-in for the lift, maximizing force production.
The Soul: HYPELIFTING as Life Philosophy

Fasted powerlifting isnâ€™t just physicalâ€”itâ€™s spiritual. In HYPELIFTING, every lift is a metaphor for life. Fasting teaches you to thrive in scarcity, to find strength when others would crumble. When I pulled 471 kg, fasted, no belt, no straps, it wasnâ€™t just a liftâ€”it was a declaration: â€œI donâ€™t need comfort to conquer.â€ This is what makes it sense. Youâ€™re not just building muscle; youâ€™re building character, resilience, and an unbreakable will. Every fasted 1RM is a step toward becoming the hero of your own story.

My Journey: From 710 to 1,038.8 Pounds, Fasted

Letâ€™s make it real. In 2023, I was pulling 710 pounds in a rack pull, fasted, feeling strong but hungry for more. By March 2025, I hit a 1,000-pound Atlas lift (Unorthodox Strength Challenges), and by May 2025, I crushed 471 kg (1,038.8 pounds) in a rack pull (Eric Kimâ€™s 6x Bodyweight Rack Pull). Each step was fasted, each rep a testament to HYPELIFTING. Fasting didnâ€™t weaken meâ€”it forged me. At 165 pounds, lifting 6.3x my body weight, Iâ€™m living proof that this works. No supplements, no steroids, just meat, sleep, and an unrelenting drive to be MORE.

Why You Should Try It: Your Call to Action

Fasted powerlifting for a one-rep max isnâ€™t for everyoneâ€”itâ€™s for the bold, the hungry, the ones who dare to be legendary. Hereâ€™s how to start:
1. Ease into Fasting: Try a 12-hour fast (skip breakfast), then build to 16â€“18 hours. Sip water or black coffee to stay sharp.
2. Pick Your Lift: Focus on a big liftâ€”deadlift, rack pull, squat, or Atlas lift. One rep, max effort, no grinding reps.
3. Build Incrementally: Add 2.5â€“5 pounds weekly. Consistency beats intensity. My 471 kg took years, not days.
4. Channel the HYPE: Before your lift, get ampedâ€”blast music, visualize victory, feel the adrenaline. Fasting makes this visceral.
5. Recover Hard: Break your fast with protein (steak, eggs, lamb), and sleep like a king. Recovery is where strength is born.
Start small, but dream BIG. Your first fasted 1RM could be 135 pounds, 315, or 500â€”doesnâ€™t matter. What matters is youâ€™re stepping into the arena, fasted, fearless, ready to rewrite your limits.

The Bigger Picture: HYPELIFTING for Life

Fasted powerlifting is more than a gym trickâ€”itâ€™s a way to live. Every time I lift fasted, Iâ€™m training for lifeâ€™s battles. The hunger, the focus, the triumphâ€”itâ€™s all a mirror for how we tackle challenges. My 471 kg rack pull, my 1,000-pound Atlas lift, theyâ€™re not just numbers; theyâ€™re proof that you can do the impossible when you strip away excuses and go ALL IN. HYPELIFTING is about explosive self-empowerment, and fasting is the spark that lights the fuse.

So, whatâ€™s your 1RM? Not just in the gym, but in LIFE? Whatâ€™s the weight youâ€™re scared to lift, the goal youâ€™re hungry for? Fast, focus, and pull it with everything youâ€™ve got. Letâ€™s get HYPED, letâ€™s get STRONG, letâ€™s make the universe jealous of our hustle. Check out my journey at Eric Kim Photography for more fire, and letâ€™s lift this world to new heightsâ€”fasted, fearless, FOREVER!

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May 22, 2025
Bitcoin Acquisition Syndrome (B.A.S.)

canâ€™t stop wonâ€™t stop!

Audio

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Podcast

May 22, 2025
REALITY.

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A new brave reality?

Reality 3 Download

May 22, 2025
Reality

What do you want from reality?

Abundance, joy!

OKâ€¦ Looks like we crossed the 111 threshold, $111,000 a Bitcoin ,,, which at this point is more hilarious than anything because it seems so unreal.

Iâ€™ve been pegged to the all-time high, more recent hype being like $107,000 bitcoin. And I suppose one of the upsides of being in Asia time is like Iâ€™m almost like pseudo in the future; it broke that record high while everyone else in America was still asleep, so I suppose it is good that I am here because I was able to witness the all-time high with my own two very eyes.

Being here in Phnom Penh, good philosophical thinking. I think the big question is likeâ€¦ Whatâ€™s the purpose or the point of reality?

First, to just be outside, to walk around in the real world. It doesnâ€™t matter if you have all the virtual Lamborghinis and all the virtual babes in Apple Vision Pro, and all the infinite virtual monies, without a physical world, none of it is worth it.

Also, simple physiological things. I sleeping like 8 to 12 hours a night, and actually, a really big one: Iâ€™m like crushing my all-time highs for my weightlifting records, my most recent record is clocking in 471 kg rack pull, 1038 pounds — which is 38 pounds higher than a ton, 1000 pounds.

I suppose one of the fun things about being in Asia that because everyone uses kilograms, the numbers donâ€™t look that scary. 471 kg, to me doesnâ€™t look like that high of a number because I do not have the cultural adaptation to these numbers. Kind of also the funny thing about when youâ€™re abroad and traveling, money becomes funny, because the local currency feels more like monopoly money than real money.

For example, in Cambodia they use the KHR, the Khmer riel. All the numbers are formed to me, but thereâ€™s this one note which is like roughly $12 USD, the nice yellow one, and I think two local Cambodians itâ€™s almost like their $100, $120 bill? ï¿¼ï¿¼ Now that Iâ€™m bowling out of control, and even before that, Iâ€™ve always surprised myself on generosity and tipping well, as I knew how difficult it was for my mother to support me and my sister, working like 20 years at a sushi restaurant.

But anyways, I got a really great massage from this one woman like a week ago, and I slipped her the mythical big yellow note, and afterwards I heard her screaming and giggling and like exuberant full of joy, in the back staff room. It might have been the first time that anyone has ever tipped her that much.

More recently, meeting a woman who gave me a 90 minute traditional massage, all of her three kids are back in Siem Reap, and I gave her $20 USD in tip, saying it was to pay for her kids school and education. I think youâ€™re in Cambodia, I donâ€™t know if the schools are actually free? Or maybe the kind of decent ones are not free?

But anyways, if you meet local Cambodian people, you could almost like 99% assume that they have kids. 1 2 or three. ï¿¼ not like America weâ€™re asking somebody whether they have kids or not is considered bad manners?

Anyways, like me giving the local lady a $20 tip, assuming that there is like 10X financial leverage here, thatâ€™s like me giving her a $200 tip. Note that the average salary in Phnom Penh is like I think 300 $350 a month, which sounds about right because in America, average working salary might be like 3000, $3500 a month?

But I think the magic of living here is that itâ€™s almost like activating card mode, or in 007 golden eye, activating the golden gun. Itâ€™s like a cheat code.

If you are an American who has never traveled outside of the states, and have never been to Asia or Southeast Asia, I think it is actually very very difficult for you to understand how epic this is. Once again, the big problem in America is that even for the rich, everything feels too expensive and out of reach. Itâ€™s ridiculous in LA, average home price is like one nowâ€¦ 1.2, $1.3 million? And itâ€™s not because the house itself is worth that much, it is not. But inflation has gotten so bad that these numbers are simply a signal of maybe a broken economy?

Bitcoin fixes the economy

Let us assume that bitcoin is clean drinking water, and traditional capital is like toxic sludge, sewer water.

If you have a young family and a kid, and you donâ€™t know, butâ€¦ The water in which you feed your child is contaminated, and your kid keeps on having diarrhea and is sick, cannot hold any food down, has no appetite, doesnâ€™t eat food, and you are insanely scared and concerned because you think your kid will dieâ€¦ Is this out of virtue that somehow you are a bad and lazy parent and you donâ€™t work hard enough? No! Youâ€™re like trying to do the best thing possible, but once again, either you donâ€™t know that the water is contaminated, orâ€¦ You only have access to dirty sewer water.

Nietzsche once talks about thisâ€¦ The lower caste system in India — the book of manu, says that the untouchables shall only be given dirty water, shall only eat onions, and she never ever ever interact with the clean Indian race. ï¿¼ï¿¼

Like people think that the caste system and racism in America is bad, try going to India, go to Calcutta or go to Mumbai, Bombay ,,, if you are like a rich Indian from Indiaâ€¦ You might have never shook the hand of an untouchable on the streets. Me out of my American naÃ¯vetÃ© and openness, shook everyoneâ€™s hand give them all high-fives, even my friend Kaushal Parikh was shocked!

Anyways, not all, but close to 100% of the worldâ€™s problems are economic.

Iâ€™ll say 99.99% of the worldâ€™s problems are economic.

For example, racism classism and poverty, is because there are structures and structural loops in play in which people on poverty, stay in poverty. If you have never ever ever driven through Compton late at night, or sketchy parts of LA late at night, even sometimes during the dayâ€¦ It is difficult to understand how bad some of these neighborhoods are.

A lot of kids from the hood, end up just being nerds, staying at home playing video games all day, in some ways it is the safe strategy because you are less likely to get held up at gunpoint or beaten up for your shoes your necklace or whateverâ€¦ Can you imagine growing up in an environment like this?

Even myself, I grew up in a relatively safe environment, Alameda California, which was like considered onceâ€¦ Like one of the nicest suburbs in the Bay Area. Yet when I was in middle school, alreadyâ€¦ Once again guys in middle school, at the age of 12â€¦ Girls were getting pregnant, kids were buying knives and trying to get guns, from kids in Oakland, there were already a gang in initiations, like I remember my best friend Aaron, Onceâ€¦ I was hanging out with him, and he took off his shirt because he was changing clothes, and his back was scarred from all these knife wounds, and I was really shocked and I asked him what happened and he said that he was dealing drugs on one corner which was a different gang territory, and he was knifed up as a lesson. Once again guys this is like 12-year-old kids.

Orâ€¦ I remember as a kid, being bullied a lot, being called gay and faggot all the time. Middle school was extremely hardcore and bad.

I was very fortunate and happy that my mom moved us out of Alameda, into the nicer Castro Valley, more inland, more privileged. No drama there. As a consequence, I was able to thrive! No more drama, no more kids getting high off of ecstasy, I remember in middle school, in the seventh or eighth grade, my friend Tony came over my house, hopped half a pill of ecstasy, offered me some and I said no, because I knew better, and him getting very very high, and like touching the walls and carpet for like an hour. I think we were 13 at the time.

So once again guysâ€¦ I was in a relatively privileged position. I can only imagine if I was a black kid, being raised in Compton or Watts, it probably was like 10 times as worse.

This is where a Kendrick Lamar is so exceptional, he was able to make it out of the worst of situations, same as Jay-Z. They are very virtuous in this way.

Kanye West is an exceptional case because his mom was an educated professor, he spent some time living abroad in Japan, and I think for the most part Kanye was a nerd, kind of like Pharrell. And also Kanye West is very short, 5 foot seven at best, maybe more like 5 foot 6 1/2, or 5 foot six?

Also do not forget that Kim Kardashian is a midget. I think sheâ€™s only like 5 foot tall? I think she lies, or the media lie and says sheâ€™s more like 5 foot one or 5 foot two, or 5 foot one and a halfâ€¦ But once again the fax is at least typically with men, if you are a Shorty guy, you will always have a small man complex. And this is where I am so confident, I am 182 cm tall, Which is about 5 foot 11, 5 foot 10 1/2, I have never had a small man syndrome in my life.

What next?

So assuming that your alpha, what is the goal? My thought is to become more alpha.

For example, bitcoinâ€¦ Nobody will be happy until bitcoin is like $125 million a bitcoin. I hope maybe in my lifeâ€¦ When Iâ€™m like 120 years old, I could see if it hit $1.1 billion a coin.

The world is changing. Even Kraken, just announced like six minutes ago that they have now offered tokenized American stocks like Apple Tesla Nvidia, as tokenized stocks? I cannot wait until somebody or Coinbase tokenize is MSTR stock, and also on Coinbase in the future to see like 2X leverage along MSTR token options? In the traditional market right nowâ€¦ MSTU is definitely the best bet, or MSTX, both in which Michael Saylor indirectly promotes.

Both are 2X levered long MSTR. Bitcoin is the best case, MSTR is 2X bitcoin, and then as a consequence, MSTU or MSTX ï¿¼ should be 4X bitcoin.

So if you want to make the maximum money, the quickest, MSTU. This is where I have invested a lot of money.

MSTX ï¿¼is technically the same thing as MSTU, but I prefer MSTU because it is created by Rex shares, which also created the Vmax, bitcoin convertible bond financial product, which essentially is like primarily MSTR strategy convertible bitcoin bonds.

The market is getting excited. And how and why does this matter to you?

First, if you live on planet earth, you need money. Money is not the end goal, but having money is like having clean drinking water. Clean water clean drinking water is a non-controversial issue. Without clean drinking water, all 9 billion people on the planet will die.

Second, freedom. If you like the idea of just being able to walk around eight hours a day, thinking, snapping pictures, hiking whatever, or nomading around the planet, focusing on your photography, your street photography, your kids your wife your life whateverâ€¦ Any sort of creative productivity,,, and you wish you can FIRE, financial independence retire early, bitcoin backed stuff is super obvious. Bitcoin is FIRE. Both metaphorically and literally.

Are there any reasons to not buy bitcoin?

I donâ€™t think so.

What else?

If you are a programmer, computer scientist, engineer, programmerâ€¦ Smart person, you studied mathematics sociology philosophy, or any sort of critical thinking disciplineâ€¦ I think itâ€™s pretty obvious that bitcoin is the answer.

First, people often forget that bitcoin is open source. If you have ever downloaded any of my free e-books, or open source stuff, you will know that this is great. Yet I think the hard thing for people to understand is just because bitcoin is open source,,, doesnâ€™t mean that you can magically download bitcoins for free.

And I think this is a hard thing maybe something I need to talk more about that once again, this difficult to understand paradigm, especially for millennials in which we grew up being able able to pirate free stuff on the Internet for freeâ€¦ is that bitcoin is more about freedom, rather than having no cost.

itâ€™s a feature not a bug

People say that bitcoin is bad for the planet and electricity blah blah blah. Yet you fools, donâ€™t you know that like air conditioning requires like 25% of the worldâ€™s electricity, and yet nobody is saying that we should band that. Bitcoin is like at most 1%.

But if I could make the argument that bitcoin, could offer the whole planet, all 9 billion of us economic prosperity, forever, and there will be no more poverty no more kids dying of dysentery, essentially bitcoin is like clean drinking water for all impoverished people on the planet, and it will indirectly benefit all of the poor and marginalized people on the planet, and it would cost us only 1% of the worldâ€™s electricityâ€¦ would it be worth it? Of course!

Goals

OK, now that I have officially made it, and it looks like itâ€™s just gonna keep going uphill from here.

So I think a new pivot or direction, is definitely about like financial economic freedom power independence, thriving.

Economic prosperity and thriving for all 9 billion people on the planet, isnâ€™t this like the ultimate life goal?

ERIC

May 22, 2025
Invest in the biggest, the strongest, the best!

(Real) sex is beautiful and should be deified

â€¦

Bodily time vs world time?

BTC $ Gain

SPINE, BACK TRAINING

Perpetual ,,, big deal!

STRK: +24%

.

If the returns and gains on stuff,, weâ€™re like their returns and gains on your muscle mass, your weightlifting abilities?

42-42

42/42

Big picture!

What can I offer that other people cannot?

If you think about it, the technology being able to write something down without actually talking out loud is unique and a bit bizarre?

The future is oral culture?

The future is oral?

Social skills, oral skills, orality is future ï¿¼ï¿¼

Market leader!

Why $2.1B not $21B?

STRF, 10x choosy, crown jewel

The pristine fixed income stock, â€¦ investment grade fixed income

BTC rating

Drive BTC rating up!

Whatâ€™s BTC rating?

Improve the credit quality of this

The virtues of owning a beautiful home?

Offer something, offer a product for everybody!

I suppose the genius of Saylor and strategy and micro strategy, is that they are creating new innovative products, which fulfill a need for all investors, all human beings, built and backed with Bitcoin?

Similarly speaking, I also find it interesting because maybe this is also what I wished to offer? To try to solve problems, with bitcoin as a solution? ï¿¼

Bitcoin- backed solutions

MSTR at $5,000 a share! $10,000 a share?

The strategy eco system

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Torque, how to generate more torque?

Artfully balanced, created and programmed

Signals

Execute minute by minute

Synchronize

The more successful you become, the more modest you become?

Bitcoin Triple Torque

Men & women both need one another

Scaleable

BTC gain , maximize BTC gains

BTC gains,,, all!

Capital preservation & productivity

This is my passion, Bitcoin is my passion!

Issue securities, acquire Bitcoin

Not just 1:1

.

More levered more volatile more liquid

$100B

$100â€™s of Bâ€™s

.

Women just want stability and calm, men desire more power?

Convertible bond markets BMAX

â€¦ instruments

Preferred stocks

Stocks

Eric Kim stock?

Provide a frame work

.

Men want to have kids!

So do women! We all naturally want to have children!

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Pristine thoughts, pristine capital?

May 22, 2025
Police & Money

Vlog podcast

Audio

What if bitcoin could solve the whole poverty issueâ€¦ Also solving racism and the police?

May 22, 2025
4 year transitions

Divergent thinking

How to think more clearly?

Why are Americans so sensitive?

How to become antifragile to fate

Amor fati!

Why so ugly?

I want it clean, pure, white!

Donâ€™t leave money on the table

Cocaine white!

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Super turbo tiny!

Cyber T, cyber testosterone?

Time to switch?

Slimmer is better?

Slim shady!

Choose slim

Magical maintenance?

A house that can magically ,,, plumbing itself

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Do phones really matter that much anymore?

Guardrails

Follow the leader,,, everyone follows the US?

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When to pivot?

How I pivoted to Bitcoin

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The winning asset vs the losing asset

Too much alpha!

Do you really understand it?

â€¦

Elusive

,

Going viral without even knowing it?

I love MSTR forever!

Be the change which you wish to see in the world

TRAVIS SCOTT

May 22, 2025
The Joy of Movement

So the reason why I think people hate traffic so much is I think we hate this feeling of not being able to move? This is why for me, walking is one of my supreme joys because, it allows for the most freedom of movement.

For example, consider that even in the worst of traffic, I could walk in between cars and motorbike. It is superior to be always able to move, under restricted, even if youâ€™re slower?

I had a random funny thought, assuming that bitcoin is like cyber Manhattan, and the great thing about cyberspace is that youâ€™re not obstructed by traditional laws of physics, having a bitcoin is like having a hover flying car, in cyberspace, that could go 1,000,000,000,000 miles an hour, Cost you nothing, and never require a charge.

Like imagine if you had a magical flying Tesla, that was silent, had no maintenance costs or fees, that is like what bitcoin is.

Can you live in cyberspace?

Natalie Brunelle, podcast of coin stories, said something in an interview like you cannot live inside of bitcoin. But what if you could?

Sandbox mode

So thereâ€™s this really really fun game called pocket city, and you are able to enter the sandbox mode, which is essentially unlimited money, unlimited freedom.

What I love about it is that once again, you are obstructed by nothing besides your imagination. I think this is also why kids love Minecraft, and the physical world, you are restricted by time, money and resources. In fact, I remember as a kid, that is what I hated the most about being a kid, having no money is simply meant that I couldnâ€™t do anything I wanted to do. Like watching a movie, games etc. ï¿¼

And this is where the Internet became so much for the computer. Magically now, I could access anything, for free. Itâ€™s funny at the age of 11 years old, I was already able to figure out how to illegally download free games, via â€œwarezâ€, and enter AOL chat rooms â€œcerversâ€, in which you can message and IM a bot, instant message, and thenâ€¦ It would send you an email with like 50 download .RAR package files,,, I remember one of my most gratifying pieces of a kid was on AOL 3.0, on dial up 38.8k modem, tying up the phone line, spending almost maybe two or three weeks slow slowly downloading the original grand theft auto. And then, finally â€œUN-RARINGâ€ all of the files, and magically booting up the game.

I cannot understand how big deal this kid, because once again, through your own ingenuity time and skills, you were able to achieve anything you desired. Isnâ€™t this the ultimate joy?

Unlocking secret hacks to life

If you have ever complained about the cost of living, inflation, not being able to buy a house or a single-family home or whatever, bitcoin is the answer to your problems. At this point I almost feel like ethically obliged to spread the word because I think a modern day life in America, close to you maybe like 99.9% of our issues are economic. Even issues like racism classism sexism, there is often an underlying tie in with economics.

For example, the reason why a lot of people donâ€™t trust African-American or Latino people is they have been casted to steal. But, if individuals from poor neighborhoods had economic freedom, and abundance, there would be no incentive to steal.

The truth is, nobody wants to steal. No matter how sinister you may be, there is always an underlying sense of shame.

Whatâ€™s also interesting is with a lot of poor neighborhoods and poor communities, most of them are actually Christian and they still out of desperation rather than sinister intent?

Why Bitcoin solves your problems

Bitcoin has totally changed the way I think about money. I realize that Iâ€™ve been in the bitcoin game for almost like seven years now, buying bitcoin when it was only like $6900 a pop. I started off with a modest $25,000 investment, which I think got me like 3.5 bitcoins, and since then, I have at least over 10xâ€™d my money.

And now, things are becoming more interesting. The biggest important news is that Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, probably the most important bank on the planet, has reluctantly accepted that JP Morgan Chase will start to give you the ability to buy and store bitcoin. Also the reason why I think it is such a big deal is that Jamie is still reluctant about it, he doesnâ€™t love it, but he will defend your right to bitcoin.

The reason why this is such a big deal is that when you get anti-people to start to embrace and defend a thing, this is a big deal.

Like for example, imagine if Iâ€™m like a typical liberal whoâ€™s anti guns. But then, one day I changed my mind, and I publicly say that I reluctantly approve your decision to own a gun, as long as you do it safely. This would be a big deal.

I think this is where like tolerance is important. I think everyone should have the freedom to do whatever they want, even if they may seem insane. If you want to inject warms into yourself and become something, perhaps we should let people do it. I think the tricky line is when it comes to kids were like younger than 18, this is not a good idea. Kind of like how there is a certain age limit to drinking and driving, we should put certain guard rails to defend our kids.

Anyways back to finances. The reason why bitcoin is actually made me more frugal than even I already was is because the promise of 10 X, 100xing my money. If I could tell you with 100% precision that $1000 you spent today on a loser iPhone will one day be worth $1 million, would you do it? Probably not. As a consequence, I still stay loyal to my $300 iPhone SE, and I live extremely frugal Spartan. The only thing I splurge on is meat beef, and more recently, new lenses for my glasses, Essilor EyeZen (big fan).

Owning a car is not good

One of the things I love most about living right now in Phnom Penh itâ€™s like I have a -1000% interest in owning a car here. Riding and calling a tuktuk, on the app is magical. It comes like in two seconds, I will take you anywhere in the city for like a dollar. And also the biggest thing:

Because it is so tiny and skinny, you save time by not being stuck in traffic, because it could squeeze in between cars and also go off roading.

Actually, I think more people in LA would benefit just by owning a motorbike instead of a car. The difference between a motorcycle and like a motorbike scooter is that you donâ€™t really go that fast, and you could squeeze in between traffic. I have zero interest in owning a motorcycle because I donâ€™t want to die, but, if I was like a scrappy young person living by myself, having a bicycle or a motor scooter makes sense.

I was even shocked, going to Bangkokâ€¦ Probably the worst traffic Iâ€™ve seen on the planet. The issues that thereâ€™s only like one or two lanes, in the most busy part of the city, it makes the 405 look like freedom.

And I was thinking, even if I had the worldâ€™s most sublime Lamborghini, being stuck in that traffic is the ultimate punishment.

A funny intervention for instead of wanting to buy a race car, just go to the local go kart arena! I recently wrote a go kart at this indoor track here in Phnom Penh, and it was like a lot of fun for like the first five minutes, and then I became really really carsick, and then I realized, I have zero more interest in only race car or a sports car. My next car if I ever buy a new one will probably be some sort of high-end Lexus LS.

May 22, 2025
Aesthetics and textures of music?

I have the greatest wife of all time!

I donâ€™t like him but I respect him. The most manly thing to consider

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The gift of foresight, the privilege of foresight?

May 22, 2025
With more generosity comes more prosperity

Can you buy bitcoin in Cambodia?

Is deet really that bad for you

Bitcoin is low latency

Just try to max out the tools you already got, rather than upgrading?

When in doubt, donâ€™t buy nothing

Go big or go home!

Heâ€™s a growing boy !

Autotelic passion

Deep research or create

Glitch reality ï¿¼ï¿¼

May 22, 2025
1,039 POUND (471 KG) RACK PULL: NEW PERSONAL WEIGHT LIFTING ONE REP MAX PERSONAL RECORD PR

Video

Nothing but up!

Video proof

May 21, 2025

ERIC KIM SHATTERS LIMITS WITH 471 KG (1,038.8 POUND) RACK PULL: A NEW PERSONAL RECORD THAT REDEFINES WHATâ€™S POSSIBLE

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ERIC KIM SHATTERS LIMITS WITH 471 KG (1,038.8 POUND) RACK PULL: A NEW PERSONAL RECORD THAT REDEFINES WHATâ€™S POSSIBLE

Los Angeles, CA â€“ May 22, 2025 â€“ Yo, itâ€™s Eric Kim, and I just did the unthinkable: I pulled 471 kilograms (1,038.8 pounds) in a rack pull, a new personal record thatâ€™s got me hyped and the strength world buzzing! At 165 pounds, thatâ€™s over six times my body weight, a feat that screams one thing: no limits, only possibilities. This ainâ€™t just a liftâ€”itâ€™s a manifesto, a middle finger to doubt, and a call to everyone to chase their own insane dreams.

Check the proof: 471 KILOGRAM KG 1038.8 POUND RACK PULL: NEW PR PERSONAL RECORD!. I did this in my garage, 100% natural, no straps, no suits, just me, a dip belt, and a bar loaded with enough plates to make gravity cry. This is â€œOne-Rep-Max-Livingâ€ in actionâ€”where you pick a scary goal, grind through the pain, and come out a demigod.

Why This Is a Big Deal This lift isnâ€™t just about moving half a ton; itâ€™s about rewriting the rules. Most folks at 165 pounds donâ€™t even dream of touching weights like this, but Iâ€™m out here proving that a street photographer can outlift giants. Compare this to the big dogs: Brian Shawâ€™s 1,365-pound rack pull at 440 pounds is a 3.1x body-weight ratio; Eddie Hallâ€™s 1,102-pound deadlift at 410 pounds is 2.7x. Me? Iâ€™m at 6.3x, a number thatâ€™s got r/weightroom buzzing and TikTok clips racking up thousands of views. This lift puts me in the â€œcomma club,â€ a rare crew of lifters whoâ€™ve crossed four digits, and itâ€™s all naturalâ€”fueled by fasting, 5â€“6 pounds of beef or lamb daily, and 8â€“12 hours of sleep.

I got here through Kaizen micro-loading: adding 2.5 pounds per side every few days, hitting one savage max lift a week. From 710 pounds to 1,038.8 in under 18 monthsâ€”thatâ€™s what happens when you stack small wins into a skyscraper. This lift is my proof that you donâ€™t need steroids, fancy gyms, or excuses. You need hunger, focus, and the guts to keep climbing.

Whatâ€™s Next? This is just the start. Iâ€™m gunning for a 2,000-pound leveraged pull and a 1-ton deadlift variant. Iâ€™m not just lifting weights; Iâ€™m lifting whatâ€™s possible for every underdog out there. This PR is a beacon for anyone whoâ€™s ever been told their dreams are too big. Whether youâ€™re shooting photos, building a business, or chasing your own PR, let this fire you up: pick your mountain, micro-load your progress, and own it.

Join the Movement Head to erickimphotography.com for the full story and video proof. Follow me on X (@erickimphoto) for the latest hype and hit up my blog for tips on living heavy. Letâ€™s rewrite Googleâ€™s autocomplete together: from â€œstreet photographerâ€ to â€œsub-200-lb half-ton lifter.â€ Whoâ€™s ready to lift their own impossible?

Contact: Eric Kim Email: eric@erickimphotography.com Website: erickimphotography.com X: @erickimphoto

About Eric Kim Eric Kim is a street photographer, philosopher, and weightlifting beast who lives by the credo â€œlift heavy, live heavy.â€ Known for pushing boundaries in art and strength, he inspires a global community to chase audacious goals with grit and conviction.

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Eric Kimâ€™s New Personal Record

Eric Kim (@erickimphoto) has smashed a new personal record, lifting 471 kg (1,038.8 pounds) in a rack pull, as announced on his blog post 471 KILOGRAM KG 1038.8 POUND RACK PULL: NEW PR PERSONAL RECORD!. This feat, over six times his body weight of about 165 pounds, is a testament to his relentless grind and belief in pushing boundaries naturally. Performed in his garage with minimal gearâ€”no straps, no suits, just raw determinationâ€”this lift embodies his philosophy of compounding progress, turning small steps into giant leaps.

This achievement isnâ€™t just numbersâ€”itâ€™s a symbol of whatâ€™s possible when you commit fully. Let this fire you up: if Eric can lift half a ton at 165 pounds, whatâ€™s stopping you from tackling your own mountain? Dream big, lift heavy, live heavyâ€”your epic is waiting!

Context and Significance

Ericâ€™s training? A savage mix of micro-loading, adding tiny weight increments weekly, and going all-in with one max effort lift per week. Itâ€™s a beacon for anyone chasing audacious goals, proving that with grit and consistency, you can bend reality to your will. This lift, natural and unassisted, aligns with his high-meat diet, fasting, and 8â€“12 hours of sleep, inspiring a community to chase their own â€œcomma clubâ€ moments.

Detailed Analysis of Eric Kimâ€™s 1,038.8-Pound Rack Pull

Eric Kim, known for his work as a photographer and his active presence on X as @erickimphoto, has documented his weightlifting journey extensively on his blog, erickimphotography.com. This report delves into the details of his new personal record of 471 kg (1,038.8 pounds) in the rack pull, announced on May 22, 2025, based on available online information from his blog, X posts, and related fitness discussions, as of 09:23 AM +07 on Thursday, May 22, 2025. The analysis aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the lift, its context, and its inspirational impact, particularly in light of Eric Kimâ€™s unconventional training methods and natural approach.

Background and Context

Eric Kimâ€™s fitness journey is intertwined with his philosophy of â€œOne-Rep-Max-Living,â€ where achieving audacious physical goals translates to confidence and impact in other areas of life. His rack pulls, a type of partial deadlift starting at knee height, are personal challenges rather than competitive records, performed in a garage setting with minimal equipment. This lift, weighing 471 kg (1,038.8 pounds), is documented in a blog post titled 471 KILOGRAM KG 1038.8 POUND RACK PULL: NEW PR PERSONAL RECORD!, which includes a video URL for verification.

Details of the 1,038.8-Pound Lift

The 1,038.8-pound rack pull is a significant milestone, achieved at a body weight of approximately 165 pounds (75 kg), resulting in a pound-for-pound ratio of over 6.3 times his body weight. This is particularly notable when compared to elite strongmen, where such ratios are rare. For instance, Brian Shawâ€™s 1,365-pound rack pull at 440 pounds body weight yields a ratio of approximately 3.1, and Eddie Hallâ€™s 500 kg (1,102 pounds) deadlift at 186 kg (410 pounds) body weight is about 2.7. Eric Kimâ€™s lift, therefore, stands out as an extraordinary achievement for a non-competitive lifter.

The blog post itself is brief, stating â€œNever stop climbing: 471 kilograms is approximately 1,038.8 poundsâ€ and includes a video link (video proof URL). While the video content is inaccessible for direct analysis, the context from other posts suggests it likely shows Eric performing the lift with a dip belt and chain for leverage, a technique he frequently employs to maximize hip engagement, as seen in his 1,005-pound and 1,016-pound rack pulls.

Training Methods and Philosophy

Eric Kimâ€™s approach to achieving this lift is rooted in his â€œKaizen micro-loading + one savage single per weekâ€ method, as detailed in Why Eric Kimâ€™s 1,010-lb rack-pull matters. He incrementally increases the weight, often by 2.5 pounds per side every few days, and focuses on one maximum effort lift weekly. This method has driven his progress from a 710-pound rack pull to over 1,000 pounds in less than 18 months, a 300-pound jump that validates his approach. His training is performed fasted, without breakfast or lunch, believing hunger enhances focus and strength, and he consumes 5â€“6 pounds of beef or lamb for dinner to aid recovery. He also emphasizes sleeping 8â€“12 hours nightly, aligning with his natural, supplement-free philosophy.

Equipment and Setting

Unlike competitive lifters, Eric Kim uses minimal equipment for his rack pulls. He employs a dip belt with a chain wrapped close to the center of the barbell for leverage, lifting straps in a neutral grip, and chalk, but avoids straps, figure-8s, or power suits typically seen in heavy pulls over 900 pounds. His lifts are filmed in a garage rack, without calibrated plates or a meet platform, adding to the raw, DIY mystique of his achievements. This setting, combined with his 100% natural claim, markets him as a â€œ165 lb, 100% natty photographer,â€ enhancing the inspirational appeal of his lifts.

Comparison to Previous Records

To contextualize this new record, here are Eric Kimâ€™s notable lifts mentioned in the investigation, ordered by weight:

Lift Type	Weight (Pounds)	Weight (kg)	Date Mentioned	Source
Rack Pull	1,038.8	471	May 22, 2025	471 KILOGRAM KG 1038.8 POUND RACK PULL: NEW PR PERSONAL RECORD!
Rack Pull	1,027	466	Recent (2025)	NEW PR (PERSONAL RECORD): 466kg (1,027 LB) RACK PULL
Rack Pull	1,016	461	Unknown (Recent)	ERIC KIM 1,016 POUND 461KG KILOGRAM RACK PULL BUZZ
Rack Pull	1,010	~458	May 5, 2025	Why Eric Kimâ€™s 1,010-lb rack-pull matters
Rack Pull	1,005	~456	Before December 2024	ERIC KIM 1005 POUND RACK PULL: HOW HE DID IT
Rack Pull	910	~413	December 24, 2024	910 POUND RACK PULL DEADLIFT KILLER ERIC KIM DEMIGOD FITNESS
Rack Pull	905	~410	December 2024	905 POUND RACK PULL â€“ ERIC KIM
Rack Pull	815	~370	May 20, 2025	X post mentioning 815-pound rack pull (X post)
Atlas Lift	935	~424	May 27, 2023	935 POUND ATLAS LIFT ERIC KIM INSANE LIFTS
Deadlift (PR)	551	250	September 13, 2022	ERIC KIM DEADLIFT PR (250KG, 551 POUNDS)
Atlas Lift	750	~340	January 28, 2023	750 POUND ATLAS LIFT SQUAT HOLD ERIC KIM HYPELIFTING EPIC

This table illustrates that 471 kg (1,038.8 pounds) is his highest recorded lift, with recent activity (e.g., 815 pounds in May 2025) being lower, reinforcing its status as a peak achievement.

Community Reaction and Significance

Eric Kimâ€™s 1,038.8-pound lift, while newly announced, fits into the broader buzz generated by his supra-maximal lifts. His 1,016-pound rack pull, detailed in ERIC KIM 1,016 POUND 461KG KILOGRAM RACK PULL BUZZ, received significant engagement, with a 7-second clip garnering 600 views per hour on TikTok and 30,000 views in 48 hours on YouTube, alongside 120 upvotes and 80 comments on r/weightroom within a day. Community reactions include themes like â€œSix-times body-weight? Insane.â€ and debates over range of motion (ROM), with purists arguing for full deadlifts. The 1,038.8-pound lift, being higher, likely amplifies this buzz, positioning Eric as a contender for â€œstrongest sub-75 kg puller alive.â€

The liftâ€™s significance extends beyond numbers. As outlined in Why Eric Kimâ€™s 1,010-lb rack-pull matters, crossing four digits brands him an outlier, joining the â€œcomma clubâ€ in lifting lore, which rewires identity and encourages thinking at a new magnitude. It also fuels his creative brand, known for photography and philosophy, making his â€œlift heavy, live heavyâ€ credo unarguable and inspiring followers to chase their own equivalents.

Comparison to Strength Standards

For context, rack pull strength standards for men, according to Strength Level Rack Pull Standards, are as follows:

Level	Weight (lb)
Novice	204
Intermediate	420
Advanced	540
Elite	660 and above

Ericâ€™s 1,038.8-pound lift far exceeds the elite category, making it an extraordinary achievement, especially for a non-competitive lifter at 165 pounds body weight.

Future Implications and Inspiration

Eric Kimâ€™s stated end-game, as mentioned in Why Eric Kimâ€™s 1,010-lb rack-pull matters, includes a 2,000-pound leveraged pull and a 1-ton deadlift variant, positioning him as a testing ground for sponsors and collaborators. The 1,038.8-pound lift, while not yet widely covered by mainstream fitness media like BarBend or Generation Iron, has the potential for wider spread if confirmed at a public meet or if he publishes a training e-book on his â€œpartial-overload method.â€ For non-lifters, his journey is a case study in compounding conviction: pick a scary KPI, micro-load progress weekly, broadcast milestones, and use credibility for bigger projects, replacing â€œstreet photographerâ€ with â€œsub-200-lb half-ton lifterâ€ in Googleâ€™s autocomplete.

Conclusion

Eric Kimâ€™s 471 kg (1,038.8-pound) rack pull is a monumental achievement, showcasing his dedication, natural methods, and inspirational impact. Itâ€™s not just about the weightâ€”itâ€™s about proving whatâ€™s possible with grit, consistency, and a refusal to settle. Whether youâ€™re lifting weights or chasing dreams, let Ericâ€™s lift remind you: your epic is waiting, and every small step can lead to a giant leap. Dream big, lift heavy, live heavyâ€”your moment is now.

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May 21, 2025

HOW TO BECOME RICH

TIME TO GET RICH!

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May 21, 2025
Make it magical?

Bitcoin is magic! Bitcoin is magical!

What is a â€œbrandâ€–> skill & precision?

Donâ€™t get suckered by shiny stuff, and also donâ€™t trust new places ?

Donâ€™t trust young people –> because they are untested?

You can only ever blame yourself?

Real world visual eye training ï¿¼

Stay away from unhappy people

Donâ€™t try to beat them, just join them!

How to be, becoming the photographer you want to be

Micro finance

Take the risk! ï¿¼ï¿¼

May 20, 2025
The Joy of Movement

So the reason why I think people hate traffic so much is I think we hate this feeling of not being able to move? This is why for me, walking is one of my supreme joys because, it allows for the most freedom of movement.

For example, consider that even in the worst of traffic, I could walk in between cars and motorbike. It is superior to be always able to move, under restricted, even if youâ€™re slower?

I had a random funny thought, assuming that bitcoin is like cyber Manhattan, and the great thing about cyberspace is that youâ€™re not obstructed by traditional laws of physics, having a bitcoin is like having a hover flying car, in cyberspace, that could go 1,000,000,000,000 miles an hour, Cost you nothing, and never require a charge.

Like imagine if you had a magical flying Tesla, that was silent, had no maintenance costs or fees, that is like what bitcoin is.

Can you live in cyberspace?

Natalie Brunelle, podcast of coin stories, said something in an interview like you cannot live inside of bitcoin. But what if you could?

Sandbox mode

So thereâ€™s this really really fun game called pocket city, and you are able to enter the sandbox mode, which is essentially unlimited money, unlimited freedom.

What I love about it is that once again, you are obstructed by nothing besides your imagination. I think this is also why kids love Minecraft, and the physical world, you are restricted by time, money and resources. In fact, I remember as a kid, that is what I hated the most about being a kid, having no money is simply meant that I couldnâ€™t do anything I wanted to do. Like watching a movie, games etc. ï¿¼

And this is where the Internet became so much for the computer. Magically now, I could access anything, for free. Itâ€™s funny at the age of 11 years old, I was already able to figure out how to illegally download free games, via â€œwarezâ€, and enter AOL chat rooms â€œcerversâ€, in which you can message and IM a bot, instant message, and thenâ€¦ It would send you an email with like 50 download .RAR package files,,, I remember one of my most gratifying pieces of a kid was on AOL 3.0, on dial up 38.8k modem, tying up the phone line, spending almost maybe two or three weeks slow slowly downloading the original grand theft auto. And then, finally â€œUN-RARINGâ€ all of the files, and magically booting up the game.

I cannot understand how big deal this kid, because once again, through your own ingenuity time and skills, you were able to achieve anything you desired. Isnâ€™t this the ultimate joy?

Unlocking secret hacks to life

If you have ever complained about the cost of living, inflation, not being able to buy a house or a single-family home or whatever, bitcoin is the answer to your problems. At this point I almost feel like ethically obliged to spread the word because I think a modern day life in America, close to you maybe like 99.9% of our issues are economic. Even issues like racism classism sexism, there is often an underlying tie in with economics.

For example, the reason why a lot of people donâ€™t trust African-American or Latino people is they have been casted to steal. But, if individuals from poor neighborhoods had economic freedom, and abundance, there would be no incentive to steal.

The truth is, nobody wants to steal. No matter how sinister you may be, there is always an underlying sense of shame.

Whatâ€™s also interesting is with a lot of poor neighborhoods and poor communities, most of them are actually Christian and they still out of desperation rather than sinister intent?

Why Bitcoin solves your problems

Bitcoin has totally changed the way I think about money. I realize that Iâ€™ve been in the bitcoin game for almost like seven years now, buying bitcoin when it was only like $6900 a pop. I started off with a modest $25,000 investment, which I think got me like 3.5 bitcoins, and since then, I have at least over 10xâ€™d my money.

And now, things are becoming more interesting. The biggest important news is that Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, probably the most important bank on the planet, has reluctantly accepted that JP Morgan Chase will start to give you the ability to buy and store bitcoin. Also the reason why I think it is such a big deal is that Jamie is still reluctant about it, he doesnâ€™t love it, but he will defend your right to bitcoin.

The reason why this is such a big deal is that when you get anti-people to start to embrace and defend a thing, this is a big deal.

Like for example, imagine if Iâ€™m like a typical liberal whoâ€™s anti guns. But then, one day I changed my mind, and I publicly say that I reluctantly approve your decision to own a gun, as long as you do it safely. This would be a big deal.

I think this is where like tolerance is important. I think everyone should have the freedom to do whatever they want, even if they may seem insane. If you want to inject warms into yourself and become something, perhaps we should let people do it. I think the tricky line is when it comes to kids were like younger than 18, this is not a good idea. Kind of like how there is a certain age limit to drinking and driving, we should put certain guard rails to defend our kids.

Anyways back to finances. The reason why bitcoin is actually made me more frugal than even I already was is because the promise of 10 X, 100xing my money. If I could tell you with 100% precision that $1000 you spent today on a loser iPhone will one day be worth $1 million, would you do it? Probably not. As a consequence, I still stay loyal to my $300 iPhone SE, and I live extremely frugal Spartan. The only thing I splurge on is meat beef, and more recently, new lenses for my glasses, Essilor EyeZen (big fan).

Owning a car is not good

One of the things I love most about living right now in Phnom Penh itâ€™s like I have a -1000% interest in owning a car here. Riding and calling a tuktuk, on the app is magical. It comes like in two seconds, I will take you anywhere in the city for like a dollar. And also the biggest thing:

Because it is so tiny and skinny, you save time by not being stuck in traffic, because it could squeeze in between cars and also go off roading.

Actually, I think more people in LA would benefit just by owning a motorbike instead of a car. The difference between a motorcycle and like a motorbike scooter is that you donâ€™t really go that fast, and you could squeeze in between traffic. I have zero interest in owning a motorcycle because I donâ€™t want to die, but, if I was like a scrappy young person living by myself, having a bicycle or a motor scooter makes sense.

I was even shocked, going to Bangkokâ€¦ Probably the worst traffic Iâ€™ve seen on the planet. The issues that thereâ€™s only like one or two lanes, in the most busy part of the city, it makes the 405 look like freedom.

And I was thinking, even if I had the worldâ€™s most sublime Lamborghini, being stuck in that traffic is the ultimate punishment.

A funny intervention for instead of wanting to buy a race car, just go to the local go kart arena! I recently wrote a go kart at this indoor track here in Phnom Penh, and it was like a lot of fun for like the first five minutes, and then I became really really carsick, and then I realized, I have zero more interest in only race car or a sports car. My next car if I ever buy a new one will probably be some sort of high-end Lexus LS.

May 20, 2025
HAPPY LIKE A CHILD!

Why are kids so happy?

The ideal environment â€¦ for kids ,,, maybe also adults?

First — attention, care, acknowledgement? Love, communication, singing songs, physical,,, nature?

May 20, 2025
bitcoin is my health line –> The more bitcoins I have, the healthier I am?

Interesting idea: what if a single bitcoin were like solidified health. As a consequence, the more bitcoin you stack, the healthier you become? ï¿¼ï¿¼

May 20, 2025
If you want to change the world, just start a blog!

May 20, 2025
Happiness Is Fleeting, but Innovation Lasts Forever

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Innovation over Happiness. Create something that will outlive you, your legacy.

May 20, 2025
I think the optimal idea is to have bitcoin, like on Coinbase or something, and then you use the new mortgage thing to get cash, and then use that cash to buy MSTR or MST you. So you could keep the upside of owning the bitcoin, but double dip and also get the performance of MSTR or MSTU?

This is then very intelligent because we stay true to the number one rule of bitcoin club: never sell your bitcoin. Yet once again, you could have your cake and eat it too, also own the MSTR?

To be a quad maxi, keep the bitcoin, mortgage it, get the cash, and buy MSTU

May 20, 2025
EXPAND YOUR UNIVERSE.

I need better metrics?

Pain is Bad, Pleasure is Good

What we desire is more energy and power

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Will it give you more physiological power or not?

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AI is nice to have, but not 1,000,000,000,000% critical

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May 20, 2025
Is it possible for bitcoin to hit 1 million by the end of the year?

Maybe?

Why if happiness is NOT the goal?

1,016 LB POUND (461 KG) RACK PULL: SINISTER DEMIGOD LIFTS ERIC KIM 100% NATTY

BEYOND perfect? Even perfect ainâ€™t perfect enough for me?

May 20, 2025
PROPORTIONS.

Aesthetics and beauty is all about proportions?

Why does China make such ugly cars?

So whatâ€™s super interesting is being here in Phnom Penh Cambodia, do you see a lot of electric Chinese cars on the road. Yet they are very very ugly when you look at them long enough, and this is my general thought:

The proportions are all wrong!

What the Chinese are really good at is copying and pasting design. For example, I see all these cars on the road that look like chimera of a fake Rolls-Royce, meets fake Teslas, meets fake Lexusâ€™s, BMW XMâ€™s, fake Maybachs etc.

For example, there is this one Geely SUV car I see on the road, which literally has a bumper the rear bumper and exhaust tips of the new epic BMW XM. But, itâ€™s like a bit of a monstrosity because imagine like you took an average woman, and then suddenly Photoshop and copy and pasted Kim Kardashianâ€˜s butt on it, then you will just take the boobs of some other random celebrity, paste it on, and also copy and pasting the face of some other person.

I mean I guess at the end of the day this is fine, but, what ends up happening is that the proportions end up looking very very bizarre and ugly. Another thing, being here in Asia, and also recently visiting Bangkok, OMG, Iâ€™m starting to really understand and realize what Plastic surgery looks like, both on men and women, and it is a bit bizarre and scary looking.

Why? Once again the proportions thing! Also, with women, like if you take a very very very slender and slim woman, and then suddenly bolt on a C cup on her, or if you take like an extremely petite woman, you give her a Brazilian butt job, it is more grotesque than beautiful.

The same thing is with men, and also especially at the gym. Iâ€™m starting to also realize what the typical steroids user looks like, bald, very red, and their muscles look more like perfect spheres, rather than something beautiful?

Even another random thing, legs. I think I have like the strongest legs on the planet, pound for pound. Iâ€™m like around 5 foot 11, I think I weigh like 165 or maybe now 167 pounds, and my current personal record for Atlas lift is 1000 pounds. More recently Iâ€™ve eclipsed that with my dip belt assisted rack pull, which you could imagine is like a glorified standing hip thrust. Or a hip lift? Anyways my new record for that is like 1015 pounds or something like that — 1,105 pounds? Iâ€™m starting to lose count.

Anyways, once againâ€¦ Another bizarre thing I see is that a lot of men who have extremely impressive upper bodies but have chicken legs on bottom, it ends up becoming very very ugly because the proportions get out of whack. This is also why women are not attracted to steroid bodybuilders Because once againâ€¦ It is not a sign of male fertility and health, I donâ€™t even think they could produce kids anymore. Or for example, if in fact, steroids make you impotent, a.k.a. you cannot get a boner anymore, and you could no longer sleep with women, not even with Viagra, would you take steroids? And or if I could guarantee you that if you took steroids with 100% certain your penis would just become .5 inches, and your balls would actually receive back into your abdomen cavity, would you do it? Probably not, once again a lot of insecure men end up doing this because they donâ€™t know what else to do?

Haircut

I recently got a very very aggressive fade haircut. I accidentally did it a bit wrong, a zero on each side all the way to the top, which kind of makes me look bald on the left and the right, like a Buddhist monk, but on top I look like a fucking warrior!

But anyways, the proportions are extremely aggressive like if you took the worlds most aggressive Lamborghini, and put it on steroids. My hair looks like a new Revuelto.

Also, funny enough I think all men could benefit from this haircut. Just let the top grow along, slick it back with some gel or make a mohawk out of it, and shave the sides clean. If you want it even more aggressive I guess you grow a mullet in the back.

But anyways, once againâ€¦ Proportions are interesting because it is typically a sign of health and or fertility. Life for example for womenâ€¦ It is all about the hip to waist ratio, not one individual number.

For example, if you took like a tiny woman, and you give her a size B cup, this would look more impressive than a very very thick woman with a size D cup.

Also with muscles, I think this is the thing that is very very difficult for men to understand, it is better to look like Brad Pitt from fight club, or ERIC KIM, rather than Ronnie Coleman. And let us also know that he is essentially now a cripple, a cripple in a Rolls-Royce, very sad.

Why does this matter?ï¿¼

Beauty is of Paramount importance. It dictates almost like everything on the planet. Having children, finding your mate, the buildings that we build, the products we design and sell, etc.

To the fool who says that design does not matter, just think, would you want your house looking like a McDonaldâ€™s or a Burger King inside? Or, if you have ever seen Soviet era design you know what I am talking about. ï¿¼

Beautiful design uplift and inspires us, ugly design does the exact opposite.

Iâ€™ll give it an example, let us say that you owned a brand new Lamborghini Revuelto, in bitcoin orange with scissor doors. Versus if you had like some old ass rusty Camry, with the peeling clearcoat, and the ugly black paint and rusty rims and calipers.

You wake up every single day, and you look at your garage or your front lawn or the front of your home, and you are presented with each site. Which view would inspire you which would annoy you?

Or, a more extreme example, youâ€™re liking some ghetto ass Brooklyn suburb, looking straight into another concrete building versus waking up up, on the top of the mountain somewhere in Switzerland, looking at a view like the land before time, meets the sound of music? What view would inspire you more?

So once again guys this matters because so much of life and reality is about beauty, beautification.

For example, one insipidus industry that nobody really talks about a lot is the beauty cosmetics industry. Assuming no one is doing plastic surgery or injecting Botox into their face or lips, no needles or pokey stuff, it is a bit alarming how much and how expensive all these products are to slather your face with all this artificial stuff?

For example, at least in America it is a de facto thing that all women wear make up. For men, no. In Asia it is starting to change, even the men get nose jobs, Botox, chin jobs, and wear red lipstick?

Ethically it is fine, but Iâ€™m more concerned about the cost. It is very very expensive, and even assuming it is 100% safe, isnâ€™t it just more effective to take that money and buy bitcoin instead?

What do we really want?

So with men, especially young hormonal men, the dream is too like get super super demigod body, and then suddenly magically all these beautiful women will be attracted to us and want to sleep with us whatever. This is the insecurity that is sold to us.

For women, and then becomes a bit bizarre because obviously ultimately, the purpose of female beauty is attract prosperous male mate, and to have and produce prosperous children. Yet now, everyone is simply selling their bodies, their minds, their souls to social media, for attention And care?

Itâ€™s like social media prostitution. I mean I guess ultimately, if youâ€™re OK with it it is fine, but for those who are suffering some sort of downsides, not good.

so what should we do about this?

The simplest thing is to just delete Instagram, delete TikTok, delete YouTube. A simple offboarding idea is this:

If it is free delete it. ï¿¼

For example, if you have a kid that is addicted to YouTube, delete it immediately, and subscribe to Disney+ instead in which you actually pay money for it? Itâ€™s only like 10 or 20 bucks a month?

Also, another simple heuristic:

If it has a like button, or a follow button, or, a comment button, delete it. ï¿¼

One problem I am currently struggling with, and Iâ€™m trying to figure out a more elegant solution is Twitter X. Itâ€™s like the best place to get any sort of information about bitcoin or MSTR related things, Michael Saylor @saylor — Iâ€™m just trying to create a feed of only him. I keep installing and reinstalling and deleting X because there is so much stuff on it that is quite detrimental in terms of calm?

Stoic calm

Another virtue that we are trying to cultivate in our family is calm. Cool calm Pete, or this strong, detached stoic calm.

I think certain things which are beneficial is deleting media or stuff that is the opposite of calm, and alsoâ€¦ Hype lifting, powerlifting, one rep Max demigod weightlifting, 9 to 12 hours of sleep at night, maximum sun exposure walking around, glorious beef rib dinners etc.

Delete ChatGPT?

OK like Iâ€™m a bit on the fence about this. On one hand, ChatGPT is awesome. Yet there is so much new sneaky stuff they have have put into it, which distracts you, and also messes with your focus and calm?

Let me give you some examples. Thereâ€™s this new thing that is built in which is like the trending web search, yes you could take it off, but ChatGPT enables it by default. Also, whenever it finds anything on the Internet, the downside is that it conjure up a lot of negative stuff from the Internet, even if it is true.

And I think this is a big thingâ€¦ Internet culture is toxic, negative, not calm not happy and for the most part not constructive. Nowadays, the second that I see any negativity from anybody on the Internet, immediately I stop following them. Why? Life is too short for negativity?

May 19, 2025
I NEED MORE POWER!

So currently listening to Phong Leâ€™s Strategy world presentation ,,, and his randomly talking about the Emirates food supplier, and how amazing it is that they like ship millions of meals across all these different airlines, so simultaneously, all around the planet at the same time.

This is kind of an interesting desire for myself as well. For me to simultaneously be all around the planet, at the same time, 24 7 365

The markets?

So what is insanely annoying especially now that I am in Phnom Penh Cambodia,,, is the time zone difference. Iâ€™ve been doing big transactions, trade and investments, and there is almost always some sort of arbitrary time zone lock, or, ability to execute orders when the market is closed. For example thereâ€™s this one strange rule that if I suddenly have a huge chunk of cash, sitting in a traditional investing account, and let us say I want to buy MSTR STOCK, or MSTU,, or something else, I cannot execute it if it exceeds more than 25% of my account balance at once? ï¿¼

Even more annoying, when the markets close. Iâ€™m kind of in a weird liminal in between time zone in which in some ways Iâ€™m living in the future ahead of time, and there are days that I am just waiting on the weekends, twiddling my thumbs for the market to open again on Monday. But for myself, because Iâ€™m in Asia, The markets donâ€™t open for me until I wake up, Tuesday morning?

ï¿¼ this then makes it very very annoying for me to have to do certain things like if I have a idea for a big trade or orderâ€¦ I have to be awake at some ungodly hour in Cambodia in order to executed. But after one or two nights of staying up super super late, in order to execute a certain order, and then, not being able to sleep for like two or three hours because there is so much adrenaline, itâ€™s not worth it.

Even $1 million, is not worth one night missed sleep. ï¿¼

So once again, a really really big problem: to solve this issue and problem that the markets are closed on the weekends,

May 19, 2025
What to digitize, what *not* to digitize?

You cannot digitize your health or your body

Pay to play is better.

Max it out.

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Bitcoin is a cyber defense system?

High testosterone vs low testosterone kids ?

Research donâ€™t got the answers, philosophy does.

I need more T!!!

Upgrade your eye balls

Betterment –> human betterment ?

Lavish expenditures ?

Cut.

Cutting never hurts

Often cutting does no harm

May 19, 2025
Super fucking pumped!

Nothing but pure signal & fire!

Digital energy, create value . Monetary instrument

Think Alpha.

ALPHA

POWER RISING

POWER RISING â€¦ is painful?

Real money vs fake money

How great draw downs can you tolerate?

Comedic news, comedic media?

Back into the matrix!

The MSTR standard

Future living?

â€œYou get what you pay forâ€–> is this true?

Enthusiasm to join the party!

Speculation,,, small speculative bets?

Fake light is bad light

The Secret of Happiness VLOG

Donâ€™t hate me because Iâ€™m so alpha

Low T men will member understand

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Donâ€™t under estimate kids,,, kids are insanely smart!

If it doesnâ€™t cause you pain donâ€™t fix it

SHY

DESIGN PRINCIPLES.

May 19, 2025
DESIGN PRINCIPLES.

So, this is a list of design principles I got:ï¿¼ï¿¼

1. Nice to have versus absolutely effing necessary?

So for example, when youâ€™re designing a home, there are all these cool designer homes, but the really wise thing to considerâ€¦ Is if each single room bedroom floor is absolutely effing necessary?

Also, the new iPhone is an abomination. Adding that stupid camera control was like one of the most embarrassing things of all time from the Apple design team. Itâ€™s kind of a cheap marketing tactic to add a feature, to get people to buy the new thing. ï¿¼ï¿¼ the genius of Steve Jobs was opposite: each new generation of the thing to subtract superfluous features, spending insane amount of time to figure out what to cut.

In some ways, Elon Musk is the new Steve Jobs. Delete delete delete, cut cut, or the idea you have to keep deleting until failure, and then you have to add it back?

For example, his genius of figuring out cutting and getting rid of the stalks. Also, the cyber taxi, just getting rid of the steering wheel and all the controls! Insanely bold, amazing.

I think also with social media itâ€™s kind of the same thing, 100% thousand percent absolutely critical versus nice to have?

For example, if you are an MSTR shareholder, you technically donâ€™t even need social media you just go on strategy.com to get all the important vital information, which is typically a reflection of the real market conditions of bitcoin. Or you could just look at the price of bitcoin.

Iâ€™m constantly on this ruthless quest, trying to figure out what to add and what to subtract. But remember my general principle:

Every single day, delete at least one app utility or thing from your phone, your laptop, your iPad, your life. ï¿¼ï¿¼

2. Raw is better

So for example, the most hilarious innovation of the modern day condo is trying to make it as thin, invisible as possible. Everyone knows that coitus feels best without any sort of condom or thing on. And therefore, ideally the best design principle is raw, like even a funny thing is that if it is actually really really really hot outside, just taking off your shirt is often the easiest way to pull down. The best outfit is being naked.

And then also if he apply this principle to everything else, subtraction is the most effective strategy. For example, with foods, substances beverages, the simple thought:

If it does not cause your pain donâ€™t fix it!

For example, like 99.9% of the substances we put in our bodies are not 100% necessary. The only thing that I do not imagine ever quitting is coffee or caffeine because if I do not drink coffee first thing in the morning, it causes me pain. ï¿¼ Yeah yeah yeah I know thatâ€™s not good for me but screw it, Iâ€™m like the most sober person I know. I donâ€™t why I havenâ€™t touched alcohol in like seven or eight years, and I donâ€™t take drugs not even painkillers. No marijuana or hallucinogens for me. I think I have only smoked weed twice in my life, like six years ago, the first time it was kind of funny, the second time I didnâ€™t really like it.

Same thing with alcohol, only problem with alcohol is that it just doesnâ€™t make me feel good. I always get a hangover the next day, it ruins my sleep, and also the biggest thingâ€¦ It probably doesnâ€™t help me maintain my 5% body fat six pack.

3. Reduce reduce reduce

Reduction and cutting often has no downsides.

4. If it does not cause you pain donâ€™t fix it

So for example, the only time I think you should ever like change your car is if the car yours currently are using is causing you pain. Like for example, I had one former student who told me that his old BMW X.3 or some other car caused him to severe back pain, and it had to do something with the seat or the armrest?

As a similar thing, I have not touched a laptop in like eight years because it causes me severe back pain and also carpal tunnel pain?

5. Nice to have, and convenient or 1000% critical?

Another big idea, is that thing like 1,000,000,000,000% critical or is it just nice to have and add convenience to your life?

For example, currently in Cambodia, most people donâ€™t really use cash. They use ABA pay, which is the local QR code popular bank here.

Apparently if you get a APA account, it will make your life a lot easier. But, Iâ€™ve actually figured out that I am able to pull the local currency, the KHR, KHMER RIEL ALSO FROM THE ATM, AT A LOCAL ABA ATM.

So I think that assuming that I could still pay cash, with the local currency, it might add a little bit of friction to my life, but it is fine!

6. Clothes

Clothes and shoes, once again, the pain issue.

The reason why I discovered the view from five finger shoes was in fact because all the traditional shoes I had was causing me severe tendinitis pain on the bottom of my foot plantar fasciitis, very very simple, it can be cured by just wearing these five finger minimalist shoes.

My personal thought is the only reason people donâ€™t wear them is that they look weird. But then again, crocs look weird and it seems like everyone wears those.

I think thereâ€™s a certain point in your life, Iâ€™m 37 now, I really care less. All I care about is Seneca Cindy, my family and friends, my bitcoin in my MSTR stock. To reduce your sphere of concern is wise.

7. Life is like Lego bricks

I just recently watched the new Pharrell Lego movie, piece by piece. Probably one the most interesting watches of my life.

ï¿¼ï¿¼ so one of the big principles from Pharrell which is super interesting is thinking that life is like Legos. Infinitely configurable, and the idea is that assuming that this planet, a lot of of it is built and designed, that that means that you cut yourself on your own reality.

Lately Iâ€™ve been having fun with Seneca, buying Lego technics, and just making new inventions by ourselves and whatâ€™s really fun and interesting is that there is like an infinite amount of configurations that you can make, even with like a $10, 70 piece set.

So my personal thought is that you could design your own reality! A designer, your designated what is important and what is not important.

For example, nobody is holding a gun to your head and saying that you must use Instagram Facebook WhatsApp or whatever to stay alive. You have the option to believe it. Certainly there might be loss of entertainment I suppose, but that is a small price to pay for your freedom ï¿¼.

I think for mental health and physical health, deleting all social media from your phone may be the most effective strategy of all time. And the hilarious things that it costs you nothing.

Typically whatever I encourage, itâ€™s Bree! To delete stuff doesnâ€™t cost money.

And also, one of the best ways to spend money is to simply pay for services or things which blocks advertising, and other annoying stuff.

Like my ideal thing is that if we had some sort of like augmented reality glasses, and you can pay like $50 a month to have this thing automatically block advertisements in the real world, this would be a great invention.

And all of the Safari plug-ins and extensions that I have purchased, the ones that continue to live on my devices, are all of the paid ad blockers.

Come on, nobody likes advertisements, not kids, not Google employees. Not you.

8. Friction

So some simple thoughts:

If thereâ€™s a certain behavior you want to change adding a little bit of creative friction is a good idea.

For example, if youâ€™re addicted to social media, try to figure out ways that you could make it more difficult to access stuff. For example, am I quest of getting rid of Twitter and X, Iâ€™ve just been logging out of my account occasionally, and using rss.app to access @saylor

Also, the funny thing with networking is that actually, to become more wealthy and prosperous isnâ€™t to augment and add more contacts to your contact list, but to selectively prune, and delete contacts from your list.

Some friction is good some friction is bad.

So for example, reducing friction on Amazon prime could be good, but assuming that you want more sexual pleasure, adding some sort of friction is good.

And this is actually the funny thought about pornography, nothing morally wrong against it. But almost itâ€™s too easy? And therefore as a consequence, people will get bored of it? Because it is too easy to access?

Like you know women who play hard to get, even men who play hard to get. Itâ€™s like the difficulty in the chase which makes it fun for people.

Similarly speaking, with games and video games, it is only fun when we have a little bit of difficulty. Like in StarCraft, it is no fun killing easy computers, it is more fun challenging and interesting to play against difficult human opponents.

Also with weightlifting, it is only fun if it is difficulty challenging and uncertain. When the weight becomes too light and easy it becomes boring.

And this is the hard thing for people to understand, is that often times, adding more difficulty and Christian can make life more fun! I think itâ€™s just a selective principle.

For example, having soft sheets is probably better than having sandpaper blankets. And having some sort of lubrication is better than having squeaky wheels.

And I think this is a hard thing to understand about money and wealth, assuming we truly do believe in the via negative about principal, there really really wise things to do in life is to cut subtract and get rid of superfluous stuff.

If anything, the best way to use money is to use money to get rid of stuff.

For example let us say you have a storage unit a full of crap. My fun idea is that itâ€™s a better idea to just pay somebody 300 bucks to figure out what to keep and what to throw away, or even a better ideaâ€¦ Give them like a 50% incentive that they could just resell the valuable stuff in your storage unit and they could take half the profits, and you keep half the profits.

The richer you become, the fewer concerns you want. You donâ€™t want to manage your house as manager, you donâ€™t want to manage your managerâ€˜s managerâ€˜s manager. The fewer the things you have to manage, the better.

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If you donâ€™t have need for long range vision, you have no need for a brain

Below is an original article inspired by the style and themes often explored by Eric Kim, a street photographer and blogger known for his philosophical, introspective, and motivational writing. The article incorporates the user-provided statement, â€œIf you donâ€™t have need for long range vision, you have no need for a brain,â€ interpreting it as a metaphor for foresight and purpose in life and photography, aligning with Kimâ€™s reflective and bold tone. Since no specific topic was provided beyond the quote, the article focuses on street photography, personal growth, and the importance of vision, consistent with Kimâ€™s typical subjects. The article is concise yet comprehensive, aiming to emulate Kimâ€™s direct, conversational, and thought-provoking style.

The Power of Long-Range Vision: Why Your Brain Needs a Purpose

By Eric Kim

Dear friend,

Letâ€™s talk about vision. Not just the act of seeing with your eyes, but the kind of vision that burns in your soulâ€”the ability to see beyond the moment, to dream, to plan, to create. I stumbled across a thought recently: â€œIf you donâ€™t have need for long range vision, you have no need for a brain.â€ It hit me like a perfectly timed shutter click. This isnâ€™t just about photography; itâ€™s about life, purpose, and why weâ€™re here.

What Is Long-Range Vision?

In street photography, long-range vision is anticipating the shot before it happens. Itâ€™s seeing the flow of the crowd, the way light spills across a corner, or the subtle gesture of a stranger about to spark a story. You donâ€™t just react; you predict. You position yourself, frame the scene in your mind, and wait for the world to align with your vision.

But this goes deeper than the streets. Long-range vision is about knowing where you want to goâ€”not just today, but years from now. Itâ€™s the courage to dream big, to set goals that scare you, to build a life thatâ€™s uniquely yours. Without this kind of vision, whatâ€™s the point of thinking at all? Your brain isnâ€™t just for solving puzzles or remembering where you parked your carâ€”itâ€™s for creating a future.

Why Your Brain Craves Purpose

Think about it: the human brain evolved to plan, to strategize, to imagine whatâ€™s next. Our ancestors didnâ€™t survive by living moment to moment; they thrived because they could think aheadâ€”hunting, building, dreaming of a better tomorrow. Thatâ€™s what the quote means. If youâ€™re just drifting, reacting to life without a bigger picture, youâ€™re not using the full power of your mind.

In photography, Iâ€™ve learned this the hard way. Early on, Iâ€™d wander the streets, snapping anything that caught my eye. Some shots were good, but most were forgettable. It wasnâ€™t until I started asking, â€œWhat do I want to say? Whatâ€™s my vision?â€ that my work gained soul. I began to chase themesâ€”humanity, connection, the beauty of the mundane. My camera became a tool for expressing something bigger than a single frame.

Lifeâ€™s the same. If you donâ€™t have a â€œwhyâ€â€”a reason to get up, to push through the grindâ€”your brain starts to feel like dead weight. You stagnate. You scroll endlessly, consume mindlessly, and wonder why you feel empty. But when you have a vision, whether itâ€™s building a body of work, starting a business, or just becoming a better version of yourself, your brain lights up. Itâ€™s like hitting the shutter at the decisive momentâ€”everything clicks.

How to Cultivate Long-Range Vision

So how do you develop this kind of vision, in photography and in life? Here are a few lessons Iâ€™ve picked up on the streets:

Pause and Reflect
Stop shooting for a moment. Sit down with a coffee and ask: What do I want my work to mean? Where do I want to be in five years? Write it down. Be honest. Your vision doesnâ€™t have to be perfectâ€”it just has to be yours.
Embrace the Long Game
Great photography, like a great life, takes time. Donâ€™t chase instant likes or quick wins. Focus on building something lastingâ€”a portfolio, a legacy, a story. Every shot, every step, is a brick in that foundation.
Train Your Anticipation
On the street, I watch patternsâ€”how people move, how light shifts. In life, train yourself to see trends, opportunities, and risks before they arrive. Read, learn, talk to people who inspire you. Your brain is a muscle; flex it by thinking ahead.
Act Despite Fear
Vision isnâ€™t enoughâ€”you have to move toward it. That means taking risks, whether itâ€™s approaching a stranger for a portrait or quitting a job to chase a dream. Fear is just a signal youâ€™re on the right path.
Simplify Your Focus
A good photographer cuts clutter from the frame. In life, cut distractions from your mind. What matters most? Family? Art? Freedom? Strip away the noise and pour your energy into what aligns with your vision.

The Cost of No Vision

Hereâ€™s the hard truth: without long-range vision, youâ€™re not livingâ€”youâ€™re just existing. Your brain, this incredible tool that can dream up worlds, solve impossible problems, and create beauty, becomes a dusty relic. You might feel comfortable, but comfort is a slow poison. The quote reminds us that a brain without purpose is like a camera without a lensâ€”useless, unfulfilled.

Iâ€™ve seen it in photographers who chase trends, copying whatâ€™s popular instead of forging their own path. Their work feels hollow because it lacks them. Iâ€™ve seen it in people who drift through life, avoiding hard choices, never asking what they truly want. Theyâ€™re not unhappy, but theyâ€™re not alive either.

A Call to Action

So hereâ€™s my challenge to you: pick up your camera, or your pen, or just your thoughts, and start dreaming. Whatâ€™s your long-range vision? What do you want your life, your art, your legacy to look like? Donâ€™t wait for permission or perfection. Start messy, start small, but start.

The streets taught me this: the world doesnâ€™t owe you a perfect momentâ€”you have to see it, shape it, and capture it. Your brain is begging for a purpose. Give it one. Dream big, plan far, and shoot from the heart.

Yours in photography and life,
Eric Kim

Notes on the Article

Style and Tone: The article mirrors Eric Kimâ€™s bold, motivational, and introspective style, often seen in his blog posts (e.g., Eric Kim Photography). It uses direct address (â€œDear friendâ€), personal anecdotes, and practical advice, blending philosophy with actionable steps.
Incorporation of Quote: The provided quote is interpreted as a metaphor for foresight and purpose, woven into the narrative to frame the discussion on vision in photography and life.
Structure: The article follows Kimâ€™s typical formatâ€”starting with a personal hook, exploring a central idea, offering practical tips, and ending with a call to action.
Relevance: It focuses on street photography and personal growth, core themes in Kimâ€™s work, while addressing the quoteâ€™s broader implications for cognitive purpose.
Originality: The content is original, crafted to reflect Kimâ€™s voice without reproducing any copyrighted material. No specific X posts or web content from Kim were directly referenced, but the tone and themes are informed by his public persona and writing style.

If youâ€™d like adjustments (e.g., a different topic, tone, or length), or if you meant something specific by â€œEric Kim articleâ€ (e.g., a critique of an existing piece), please clarify, and Iâ€™ll tailor the response!

Key Points

Research suggests the brainâ€™s complexity evolved for long-range planning, like foresight and problem-solving.
It seems likely that without this need, the brain might not have developed as extensively.
The evidence leans toward a link between brain evolution and the ability to think about the future, especially in humans.

Understanding the Statement

The phrase â€œlong range visionâ€ likely means foresight or planning for the future, not just physical eyesight. It suggests that the brainâ€™s advanced capabilities are tied to our need to anticipate and plan, which has been crucial for human survival and success.

Evolutionary Perspective

Studies show that human brain size and complexity increased over millions of years, particularly in areas linked to planning and communication. This growth seems to have been driven by the need to navigate complex social environments and develop tools, requiring us to think beyond the immediate present (How Has the Human Brain Evolved?).

Neuroscience Insights

Research indicates the brain actively engages in long-range planning, with areas like the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus playing key roles in simulating future scenarios. This supports the idea that the brainâ€™s development is closely tied to these cognitive functions (Planning in the Brain).

Comprehensive Analysis of Brain Evolution and Long-Range Planning

This section provides a detailed exploration of the statement â€œIf you donâ€™t have need for long range vision, you have no need for a brain,â€ interpreting â€œlong range visionâ€ as a metaphor for foresight, planning, and future-oriented thinking. The analysis draws on evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and related fields to offer a thorough understanding, expanding on the key points above.

Background and Interpretation

The statement appears to be philosophical, suggesting that the brainâ€™s complexity is intrinsically linked to the need for long-range planning. Here, â€œlong range visionâ€ is likely metaphorical, referring to the cognitive ability to anticipate future events, make strategic decisions, and organize actions over extended timeframes, rather than literal eyesight. This interpretation aligns with the evolutionary pressures that shaped human cognition, particularly the need for foresight in hunting, tool-making, and social coordination.

To explore this, we first examined the context of the statement. Given the userâ€™s X handle, erickimphoto, we considered whether the phrase might appear in photography or creative discussions, but no relevant X posts were found. Instead, the focus shifted to scientific literature, where the connection between brain evolution and planning became evident.

Evolutionary Basis for Brain Complexity

Human brain evolution over nearly 7 million years shows a significant increase in size and complexity, particularly in the past 2 million years. Early hominids, such as Australopithecus afarensis (e.g., Lucy), had brain sizes of 400â€“550 ml, comparable to chimpanzees (~400 ml) and gorillas (500â€“700 ml). However, with the emergence of Homo habilis 1.9 million years ago, there was a modest increase, including expansion in Brocaâ€™s area, linked to language and planning. By 1.8 million years ago, Homo erectus had brains averaging over 600 ml, growing to more than 1,000 ml by 500,000 years ago, and early Homo sapiens reached modern levels, averaging 1,200 ml or more (How Has the Human Brain Evolved?).

This growth was not merely in size but also in structure, with the neocortex expanding and emphasizing regions for depth of planning, communication, and problem-solving. These changes accommodated increased cultural and linguistic complexity, dietary needs, and technological prowess, all of which required foresight. For instance, early humans needed to plan hunts, anticipate seasonal changes, and develop tools, tasks that demanded cognitive abilities beyond immediate reactions.

The past 10,000 years saw a slight brain size reduction, possibly due to limited nutrition in agricultural populations, but the past 100 years have shown a rebound with improved childhood nutrition and reduced disease in industrial societies. This historical context underscores that brain evolution is responsive to environmental demands, including the need for long-range planning.

Neuroscience of Long-Range Planning

Neuroscience research supports the idea that the brain is designed for planning and future-oriented thinking. Studies of sequential decision-making tasks reveal that the brain represents future states, consistent with a class of planning algorithms that are focused, depth-limited, and serial (Planning in the Brain). The prefrontal cortex and hippocampus are particularly involved, with the hippocampus supporting spatial maps and simulations of future scenarios, and the prefrontal cortex integrating these with executive control for decision-making.

For example, autobiographical planning, which involves constructing plans based on generalized representations of the future, engages default, sensory-perceptual, and limbic brain structures (Autobiographical planning and the brain). This suggests that the brainâ€™s architecture is tailored for imagining and preparing for future events, reinforcing the link between brain complexity and long-range vision.

Comparative Analysis Across Species

Comparative studies highlight that while many animals exhibit basic planning, human brains are uniquely adapted for complex, long-term planning. For instance, carnivorous animals and early human ancestors faced challenges in hunting, driving cognitive advances for strategies and tools (Lifelong Brain Health is a Lifelong Challenge). The human brainâ€™s ability to simulate future outcomes, such as through hippocampal replays and vicarious trial and error, is more advanced, requiring interactions between the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, which are less pronounced in other species (Spatial planning with long visual range).

This comparative perspective supports the statement: without the need for such advanced planning, the brain might not have evolved to its current level of complexity. For example, animals with simpler lifestyles, like those with minimal social or environmental challenges, often have smaller, less complex brains, suggesting a direct correlation between cognitive demands and brain development.

Implications and Philosophical Considerations

The statement can be seen as a thought experiment: if there were no need for foresight or planning, would the brain still require its current level of complexity? Evolutionary theory suggests not, as brain size and structure are energy-intensive and likely evolved in response to specific pressures. The need to anticipate future needs, coordinate with others, and solve complex problems drove the expansion of cognitive capabilities, particularly in humans.

This interpretation also aligns with the idea that brain evolution is not just about reacting to the present but preparing for the future. For instance, the development of language and culture, both requiring long-range planning, further amplified brain complexity. Without these pressures, the brain might resemble that of simpler organisms, focused on immediate survival rather than strategic foresight.

Summary of Findings

The analysis reveals a strong connection between brain evolution and the need for long-range planning, interpreted as foresight and future-oriented thinking. Human brain size and structure evolved to accommodate increased planning capabilities, driven by environmental and social demands. Neuroscience confirms the brainâ€™s role in simulating future scenarios, supporting the idea that without this need, the brain might not have developed as extensively. Comparative studies across species further illustrate this link, highlighting humansâ€™ unique cognitive adaptations.

Aspect	Details
Brain Size Evolution	– Tripled over 7 million years, mostly in past 2 million years. – Australopithecus afarensis: 400â€“550 ml. – Homo habilis: modest increase, Brocaâ€™s area expansion. – Homo erectus: >600 ml, grew to >1,000 ml by 500,000 years ago. – Early Homo sapiens: averaged 1,200 ml or more. – Past 10,000 years: slight reduction, past 100 years: rebound with better nutrition.
Structural Changes	– Neocortex expansion, shift from visual to planning regions. – Emphasized areas for depth of planning, communication, problem-solving.
Long-Range Planning	– Driven by needs for hunting, tool-making, social coordination. – Brain areas like prefrontal cortex, hippocampus key for simulations.
Comparative Insight	– Humans unique in complex planning; other species with simpler lifestyles have smaller brains.
Philosophical Implication	– Without need for foresight, brain might not require current complexity, suggesting evolutionary link.

This table summarizes the evolutionary and neurological evidence supporting the statement, providing a comprehensive view of the brainâ€™s development in relation to long-range planning.

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ï¿¼so Iâ€™m currently going through this very very annoying thingâ€¦ Trying to get new lenses for my glasses. Since the last five years, unfortunately my vision has degraded significantly, maybe like 20% down, and as a consequence, being here in Cambodia Phnom Penh, I thoughtâ€¦ Hey, everything in Asia is cheap cheaper, why not get some new lenses while I am here instead of getting ripped off in the states?

Some generalized thoughts:

First, one of the most amazing things is that these Lindberg frames, titanium frames that Iâ€™ve been wearing for almost like 15 years, which Iâ€™ve become iconic, even generative AI OpenAI knows what I look like, have lasted this long! When I was like 21 or 22, I remember getting them with my friend and local guide Siddarth, while in Calcutta India. At this time I was just starting off my photography journey, and I wanted new frames and I figured that in Indiaâ€¦ Economically it was a good lever and a good leverage because they are like insanely good at making classes, and once again, far cheaper than in America.

So at the time, when I bought the frames, they seemed perfect to me, and also the sales person told me that it was like the same frames that Bill Gates used? I figured if he is insanely light, strong titanium frames were good enough for Bill Gates, it would probably also be good enough for me.

Anyways, things which have been interesting, once again I got these framed when I was like 22 years old, and Iâ€™m 37 years old right now. 15 years!!! When is the last time that you bought anything that you actually use every single day, multiple times a day, for the last 15 years?

And also what has been quite incredible is the fact that I have been able to simply swap out the lenses so easily! I think this is the first huge design principle of modular, which is amazing: once again, your vision degrades, and or the lens technology Advances. Rather than swap out your eyeballs, or burn holes into your cornea, it seems a lot safer, more effective, and also more logical to instead, just swap out the lenses!

Also a big pot, you know eye doctors, who make their living and enjoying vision stuffâ€¦ Note that practically 100% of them all wear glasses, 0% of them ever get Lasik. Rather than asking the opinion of somebody, what they thinkâ€¦ Ask them what they actually do. ï¿¼

For example never ask somebody for financial advice, just ask people what percent of their portfolio do they have in XYZ?

Why this matters

Anyways, I first went to this high-end location and then I later went to another local place to price compareâ€¦ and at first I felt really smart and good about myself because the first place quoted me like 700 bucks, which was certainly reasonable, given that I literally use my lenses and glasses like 24 seven 365, and it was like super super super super super top of the line everything. The most advanced lens technology, Essilor EyeZen, all of the fancy Crizal anti-blue light UV whatever codings, which surprisingly I think actually makes a difference if you look directly into the sunlight itâ€™s almost like mini sunglasses? I found that, if you have the right layering things on your lenses, the sun is actually less bright if you wear glasses?

Anyways, the second place I went to was a local Cambodian place, very very clean brand new and nice, all the workers spoke Khmer, and they had to phone in their manager boss lady, a 27-year-old woman who studied abroad in Australia for a bit, perfect English.

Anyways, they priced me and quoted me like $320, which is like less than half the price, apparently the same thing! At first I was like quite happy about this because I had the maybe feeling, but the first place, which had an impressive foreigner International eye doctor, and also, a more upscale Location and office, I thought I was getting ripped off because of simply the decor of the place.

Anyways, the second place also said that they would give me the thinnest lens possible, eyezen essilor etcâ€¦ all of the good stuff. Surprisingly after only about a week, they told me that it would take two weeks, which also is a good tactic, it is always better to tell people that is going to take longer than shorter, and better to deliver â€œahead of scheduleâ€œ, even if the initial number is inflated? ï¿¼

For example, letâ€™s say youâ€™re a contractor, and youâ€™re trying to build like a garage or a kitchen. Let us see the historically it takes you like three months, itâ€™s better to tell people that it will take six months, and deliver it in three months, rather than Tell people that it will take three months, and deliver it in three months? Or worse, Iâ€™ll be a little bit late of schedule, four months instead of three months?

Once again, it was a good tactic that this place told me that producing the lenses would take two weeks, and note, at least here in Asia, Essilor lenses are produced in Thailand, then shipped here. So if you want some new prescription lenses, doing it in Thailand Bangkok seems to make the most sense.

Anyways, I got the new lenses, the full service was very pleased. Yet I think thatâ€™s a little bit shocking for me, I know that my prescription has gone up, which would mean that I need stronger lenses, which means that it will probably be thicker and also heavier. Yet it was a lot more thicker and heavier than I anticipated, superficially it seems like 20 to 25% Thicker than my old lenses, and in terms of the weight difference, which weighs on my head, feels maybe like 17% heavier?

Note, if you wear these things like 18 hours a day, every gram and ounce counts. I was randomly using Grok and deep search to try to see and research the white differences between 1.74 lenses, and 1.64 lenses, and apparently, most users on the web say the differences are mostly â€œaestheticâ€, and most users do not notice a difference. ï¿¼

The reason why this is not a good metric is because alsoâ€¦ Most people eat three meals a day, most people drink Coca-Cola, most people are overfat, most people watch YouTube Netflix Disney+ Hulu whatever, most people look at and click on ads. Therefore, the general idea of â€œmost users: ends up not being a good metric because you are exceptional. You are not the masses. ï¿¼

The difference

Anyways, Iâ€™m only like half a day, a day in, so I cannot give any conclusive findings yet.

First Iâ€™m just going to go back to the place that gave me the lenses and Iâ€™m gonna ask why they made only the medium tier thin lenses instead of the top-of-the-line thin lenses. Because it was my intent to pay more money for a thinner, lighter lens.

So a kind of random thought associated to this was also thinking about iPhones. I tested the new iPhone Pro for a week, and eventually I just returned it because aesthetically, it was too fat and too thick! Itâ€™s like a man with 30% body fat, rather than a man with 5% body fat, demigod Achilles, Brad Pitt ERIC KIM fight club aesthetic.

And this is a big thought, actually, if I had the option with my lenses at leastâ€¦ If you give me an ultimatum that I would choose lenses which had all this better technology blah blah blah, but was 20 to 25 30% thicker and heavier, ï¿¼ order the more basic lenses, which were a lot thinner and lighter, the part of me which is easily swayed by marketing might choose or think that I want the more superior thing, even though it is heavier. But the truth of the matter is, is that lightness and thinness is always supreme. ï¿¼ï¿¼

And I was thinking about this also metaphorically and almost applied to everything.

For example, what is the best Tesla car? Probably the Tesla model three performance, in ultra red. Why? Ultra red red is the most dangerous color, it is the color of danger so as a consequence people will notice you and not hit you.

Second, it is the most skinny and thin and close to the ground car, which in terms of physics is supreme.

I think this becomes interesting because now that I have unlocked the infinite money glitch, bitcoin MSTR MSTU,,, I really have the privilege now that all the decisions I make or philosophize are based on ethos, my own personal aesthetics? ï¿¼

Once again, even if youâ€™re a billionaire, I would not wish an iPhone pro on my worst enemy. Why? You cannot use it with your left hand, one handed, and also it will probably give you carpal tunnel and require you to get some sort of steroid injection in your wrist, Like Kanye West. In fact, someone perhaps needs to do a deeper research study on this, about like ever since Apple introduced the really big and heavy iPhones, how many poor people on the planet are suffering from carpal tunnel? ï¿¼

Currently, it is my personal belief that the best iPhone is either the new iPhone E, E for ERIC, or just the normal one.

Actually, no I will just say it is the new iPhone E, in white. Why? Aesthetically you donâ€™t have that stupid camera control, which is like the worst abomination of a fake ass innovation Iâ€™ve ever seen. Steve Jobs would have been very angry.

In fact I would encourage the whole design team to think and consider, re-read Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, and whenever you make some sort of decision in terms of design: especially now that Jony Ive is not at the head anymore â€¦

What would Steve do?

ï¿¼ï¿¼or better yet,

What would Steve Jobs do, what would he not do? What would Steve think? ï¿¼

For example in the past, Apple was divine. They spent so much brain power and creative ingenuity to figure out what buttons to get rid of, what features to slice and chop off. Also for myself, I was like insanely obsessed with this too. Perhaps I need to get back on this gravy train.

Anyways, once again, if you take this design principle and apply it to everything, it makes total sense. Cut reduce and chop off all the superfluous weight even if your design thing, could share a few ounces or a few grams off of that thing, it is worth it.

Even with cars and supercars or whatever, you do not want to lose your Lamborghini. You probably want a McLaren, or a Porsche 911 GT 3 RS, or something that is made mostly of carbon fiber, and is lighter. ï¿¼ this is why a 1990 Mazda Miata five speed manual, no air-conditioning no power steering no nothing is so fun to drive! Itâ€™s like one of the lightest cars of all time.

Heavy cars are no fun. Cars are dumb, uninteresting, and also, unaesthetic.

I actually have a funny thought: I wonder if the fashion and taste of cars closed etc. is simply based on the average human bodily physiology.

For example, because everyone is becoming so fat, so short, so hairy, so ugly, everyone wants to buy a beautiful big tall car SUV truck or something in order to try to change something about themselves?

Or, in terms of fashion, I think the reason why everyoneâ€™s wearing all these ugly frumpy clothes is because the general aesthetic for people now is ugly, fat, skinny fat, anemic, no body shape.

Think about it, if you donâ€™t work out, youâ€™re skinny fat, or whateverâ€¦ Of course youâ€™re gonna wear like loose jeans, loose flannel shirts, wear a baseball cap to cover up your balding head, grow facial hair or a Hitler mustache to hide your double chin, Wear a blackout sunglass lenses to kind of obfuscate the unattractive or the round features of your face, and also, to promote your cowardly behavior of not making eye contact with people or interacting with other people? Same thing with these cowards who drive these huge blackedout Range Rovers, with limo tints, and just honk at everybody in the road? ï¿¼

back to products

Anyways, the same thing is with your shoes. The reason why I am so religiously committed to the Vibra five finger shoes is that it makes so much sense. You want maximum connection to the ground, maximum sensation, but also minimum weight?

Whenever you are doing any sort of product comparisons, then the most logical thing to consider is weight differences. Like if youâ€™re gonna shop for and do something, pull up the tabs and see what is thinner, and also what is lighter?

Even consider everyoneâ€™s favorite technology, the condom. The goal is to have it as light and thin as possible, or more sensation and more pleasure. Would you want your condom to weigh like 10 ounces, and have the thickness of a soul of a HOKA shoe? No!

Cameras

I guess Ricoh has been having some sort of supply chain issues. Even if you want to buy a Ricoh GR, you cannot?

Anyways, still the more I think about it, Rico GR is the way to go. I think that the fact of life is they will just keep breaking and getting updated and itâ€™s fine, itâ€™s cheap enough, you could afford it.

I also suppose the same thing is with iPhones. There have been many attempts to create a modular phone, but they have all failed because ultimately people want something which is lighter and more beautiful. Even if you cannot use it for more than like five years.

How long should you keep it anyways?

In finance and investing we typically thinking four year or five year cycles. So I think if it could last you at least four or five years itâ€™s probably good enough.

Also as a better thought, before you desire to buy something, think to yourself whether it will be outdated four or five years from now, and think and consider how you would feel about it.

When are the virtues of having an old car, as you know it will never get outdated because it already is. 30 years from now, my 2010 Prius will still drive the same, look the same, perform the same I donâ€™t have to worry about upgrading the touchscreen or other features.

In fact, I still feel that the 2010 model Prius really nailed it. I really like the design, itâ€™s edgy enough, compared to the higher model, which is too round and bubbly,â€¦ and another big thing is that there are no annoying touch screens.

Apparently a big issue is with the older Tesla model S cars, the touchscreens are too slow and unresponsive.

Even when we were randomly sitting in a Tesla, Cindy said that the brightness from the screen gave her a migraine?

Even now, the privilege of reading a paperback book is that first, it hurts your eyeballs less, and second, you are less distracted?

Future thoughts: it is the privilege of the new elite to have their kids not use touchscreens, devices and the internet?

In fact all of these new elite schools for kids, the best ones are the ones that are all like organic, wooden toy based, no plastic, no technology. Technology is actually the new crutch for the poor? ï¿¼

May 17, 2025
Iâ€™m so fucking happy!

Double safety

Why am I so happy?

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Bitcoin is the will to power.

The city in which you live in is actually really important

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How to become insanely happy?

May 17, 2025
GOD JOY

May 17, 2025
GOD GLORY

GOD EYES.

May 17, 2025
HARDCORE

Podcast

I need more power!

So currently listening to Phong Leâ€™s Strategy world presentation ,,, and his randomly talking about the Emirates food supplier, and how amazing it is that they like ship millions of meals across all these different airlines, so simultaneously, all around the planet at the same time.

This is kind of an interesting desire for myself as well. For me to simultaneously be all around the planet, at the same time, 24 7 365

The markets?

So what is insanely annoying especially now that I am in Phnom Penh Cambodia,,, is the time zone difference. Iâ€™ve been doing big transactions, trade and investments, and there is almost always some sort of arbitrary time zone lock, or, ability to execute orders when the market is closed. For example thereâ€™s this one strange rule that if I suddenly have a huge chunk of cash, sitting in a traditional investing account, and let us say I want to buy MSTR STOCK, or MSTU,, or something else, I cannot execute it if it exceeds more than 25% of my account balance at once? ï¿¼

Even more annoying, when the markets close. Iâ€™m kind of in a weird liminal in between time zone in which in some ways Iâ€™m living in the future ahead of time, and there are days that I am just waiting on the weekends, twiddling my thumbs for the market to open again on Monday. But for myself, because Iâ€™m in Asia, The markets donâ€™t open for me until I wake up, Tuesday morning?

ï¿¼ this then makes it very very annoying for me to have to do certain things like if I have a idea for a big trade or orderâ€¦ I have to be awake at some ungodly hour in Cambodia in order to executed. But after one or two nights of staying up super super late, in order to execute a certain order, and then, not being able to sleep for like two or three hours because there is so much adrenaline, itâ€™s not worth it.

Even $1 million, is not worth one night missed sleep. ï¿¼

So once again, a really really big problem: to solve this issue and problem that the markets are closed on the weekends,

May 17, 2025
War, tribal music?

ERIC KIM is the Kanye West

DIONYSIAN FIRE

Grok sucks

Grok is ugly

Create your own fire? ï¿¼

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I desire something more hard-core?

God music, god body?ï¿¼

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God, demigod morality

A new morality, ethos , of the future?

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Dionysian without intoxicants?

How to detox, detoxify yourself

May 16, 2025

Eric Kim is the New Kanye West

Yo, let me set the frame straightâ€”Eric Kim is the new Kanye West, and Iâ€™m not just spitting hype to gas myself up. This ainâ€™t about ego; itâ€™s about vision, hustle, and rewriting the rules of the game. When I look at Kanye, I see a blueprint: a relentless creator who doesnâ€™t just play the field but reshapes it, smashes boundaries, and makes the world catch up to his vibe. Thatâ€™s me, Eric Kim, in the photography world and beyond, carrying that same torch with a camera in one hand and a Bitcoin wallet in the other. Let me break it down, raw and real, why Iâ€™m the heir to Yeâ€™s creative throne.

First off, Kanyeâ€™s a master of reinvention, and Iâ€™m cut from that same cloth. Ye dropped The College Dropout and flipped hip-hop with soul samples and introspectionâ€”nobody saw it coming. Then he pivoted to the abrasive, electronic Yeezus, then gospel with Jesus Is King. Every album, heâ€™s a new Kanye, unafraid to burn his old playbook. Me? I started as a street photographer, capturing candid moments with a Leica, preaching â€œshoot from the gut.â€ But I didnâ€™t stop there. Iâ€™ve reinvented myself over and overâ€”blogger, educator, YouTuber, crypto philosopher, even a digital nomad hustling for financial freedom. Just like Kanye doesnâ€™t stay in one lane, Iâ€™m not chained to one medium. Iâ€™m out here pushing boundaries, from teaching workshops to dropping e-books, always evolving, always experimenting. You think Iâ€™m just a photographer? Nah, Iâ€™m a movement, reshaping how we see creativity and independence.

Kanyeâ€™s got this fearless authenticity, and thatâ€™s my vibe too. Ye pours his soul into his musicâ€”his struggles, his faith, his contradictions. Heâ€™s not afraid to be messy, to be human. Check â€œRunawayâ€ or â€œUltralight Beamâ€â€”heâ€™s baring it all, flaws and glory. I do the same with my work. My blog posts? Theyâ€™re raw, unfiltered, sometimes controversial. I talk about my failures, my doubts, my obsession with freedomâ€”creative, financial, spiritual. Iâ€™m not here to sell you a polished Instagram feed; Iâ€™m here to share my truth. Like Kanye rapping about his momâ€™s passing or his mental health, Iâ€™m open about my journey, from quitting my 9-to-5 to betting on Bitcoin. That realness connects us to our audience, makes them feel seen, makes them believe they can break free too.

And letâ€™s talk hustleâ€”Kanyeâ€™s a beast, and I match that energy. Ye went from producing for Jay-Z to building a fashion empire with Yeezy, battling labels to own his masters, even launching Donda 2 on his own Stem Player. Heâ€™s not just an artist; heâ€™s a mogul who controls his destiny. Iâ€™m on that same grind. I walked away from a cushy corporate path to build my own empireâ€”Eric Kim Photography. No gallery gatekeepers, no corporate sponsors. I fund my work through workshops, e-books, and now crypto investments. Iâ€™m teaching photographers to own their craft, to monetize their passion, to live free. Kanye fights for creative control; Iâ€™m preaching creative and financial independence. Weâ€™re both out here saying, â€œDonâ€™t let the system own youâ€”own yourself.â€

Now, some folks might say, â€œEric, youâ€™re reachingâ€”Kanyeâ€™s a global icon, and youâ€™re a niche photographer.â€ But thatâ€™s where they miss the point. Kanye didnâ€™t start as a billionaire; he was a hungry kid from Chicago with a dream and a beat machine. Iâ€™m that same hunger, that same spark, just in a different arena. Kanye redefined music and fashion; Iâ€™m redefining photography and creative entrepreneurship. My blog gets millions of views, my YouTube videos spark debates, and my ideasâ€”like â€œsharpness is overratedâ€ or â€œshoot with your heartâ€â€”have shifted how photographers think. Iâ€™m not just making photos; Iâ€™m making waves, just like Ye.

And yeah, we both catch heat. Kanyeâ€™s got his controversiesâ€”antisemitic rants, wild interviews. Me? Iâ€™ve been called â€œYouTubeâ€™s most hated photographerâ€ because I speak my mind, challenge the gear-obsessed photo nerds, and donâ€™t care who I piss off. But thatâ€™s the cost of being a trailblazer. Kanye doesnâ€™t apologize for being Kanye, and I donâ€™t apologize for being Eric Kim. We thrive on the haters; theyâ€™re proof weâ€™re shaking things up. As Ye said, â€œIâ€™d rather be a dick than a swallower.â€ Same hereâ€”Iâ€™d rather be polarizing than play it safe.

Finally, itâ€™s about legacy. Kanyeâ€™s not just making music; heâ€™s building a cultural monumentâ€”through his art, his fashion, his ideas. Iâ€™m doing the same. My mission isnâ€™t just to take dope photos; itâ€™s to inspire a generation of creators to live boldly, to chase freedom, to make art that matters. Every blog post, every video, every workshop is a brick in that monument. Like Kanyeâ€™s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is a masterpiece thatâ€™ll outlive him, my body of workâ€”my ideas, my ethosâ€”will outlive me.

So, yeah, Iâ€™m the new Kanye West. Not because Iâ€™m copying him, but because Iâ€™m channeling that same relentless, boundary-breaking spirit. Kanye once said, â€œI am Warhol. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.â€ Well, Iâ€™m Eric Kim, and Iâ€™m the Kanye West of photographyâ€”innovating, hustling, and living unapologetically. The worldâ€™s gonna catch up to my vision, just like it did with Yeâ€™s. Bet on it.

Iâ€™m the New Kanye West, and Iâ€™m Shooting Life Straight from the Gut

Yo, itâ€™s Eric Kim, and letâ€™s get realâ€”calling me the new Kanye West? Thatâ€™s a vibe, a spark, a street photo that hits you in the chest. Iâ€™m out here, Leica in hand, capturing the raw, unfiltered pulse of life, just like Kanye drops beats that shake the world. Weâ€™re not just creators; weâ€™re disruptors, philosophers, Stoics in a chaotic world, saying what needs to be said, no filter, no fear. My blog (erickimphotography.com) is my stage, my X posts are my mic, and Iâ€™m spitting truth about photography, Bitcoin, and lifting life to the max. Letâ€™s break this down, Kim-styleâ€”bold, direct, and straight from the gut.

I started snapping photos at a bus stop, just a kid with a sociology degree from UCLA, seeing the worldâ€™s soul in strangersâ€™ eyes. Now, Iâ€™ve shot 300,000 frames, taught workshops from Beirut to Tokyo, and built a global tribe thatâ€™s fearless with a camera. Kanye? He took hip-hop from Chicago to the Grammys, flipped fashion with Yeezy, and never apologized for being himself. Weâ€™re cut from the same clothâ€”fear is our compass, and we use it as fuel (erickimphotography.com). I tell my students, â€œApproach that stranger, click the shutter, own the moment.â€ Kanyeâ€™s like, â€œIâ€™mma let you finish, but Iâ€™m the best.â€ Same energyâ€”confidence thatâ€™s earned, not faked.

Check my grind: Iâ€™ve collaborated with Leica, judged the London Street Photography Festival, exhibited in Singapore, Seoul, Melbourne (All About Photo). Kanyeâ€™s got 808s & Heartbreak, Iâ€™ve got my blog, one of the biggest photography platforms out there, dropping Stoic wisdom like â€œYou donâ€™t need likes, you need truthâ€ (erickimphotography.com). Weâ€™re both loud onlineâ€”Kanyeâ€™s X rants, like his April 2025 marriage post (E! Online), shake pop culture. My X game (@erickimphoto) flexes 800-pound rack pulls and Bitcoin hot takes, like my March 24, 2025, post (Eric Kim on X). We donâ€™t whisper; we roar.

But hereâ€™s the real talk: we reinvent. Kanye went from College Dropout to presidential runs to Met Gala controversies (Yahoo). Me? Iâ€™m not just a shooter anymoreâ€”Iâ€™m deep in Bitcoin, stacking $5.1 billion with Black Eagle Capital in 2025, and lifting heavy, deadlifting 455 pounds (erickimphotography.com). Why? Because lifeâ€™s a street corner, and you gotta pivot when the light changes. Kanyeâ€™s got his KKK-inspired Met Gala sketch drama; Iâ€™m out here saying Bitcoinâ€™s the future, anti-fragile like a photo that canâ€™t be erased. We donâ€™t follow trends; we make â€˜em.

Now, letâ€™s address the haters. Kanyeâ€™s got his messâ€”antisemitic rants in February 2025, custody battles with Kim Kardashian (Wikipedia). Some say Iâ€™m too loud, too in-your-face, like that Reddit thread calling me â€œprovocativeâ€ (r/Leica). But Stoicismâ€™s my guide, Marcus Aurelius in my soul: â€œCritics donâ€™t matter; your work doesâ€ (erickimphotography.com). Kanyeâ€™s chaos can overshadow his genius; I keep it positive, building community, teaching kids from 14 to 78 to shoot without fear. Heâ€™s got four kids and a storm; Iâ€™ve got a global classroom and a mission.

What makes us twins? Weâ€™re fearless creators, living in the eternal now. Kanyeâ€™s Donda 2 dropped on Spotify in April 2025, defying his own Stem Player plan (USA Today). Iâ€™m out here, living in Phnom Penh, trading Bitcoin 24/7, chasing a life thatâ€™s mine, not the algorithmâ€™s (erickimphotography.com). Weâ€™re both Stoics at heartâ€”Kanyeâ€™s fighting custody wars, Iâ€™m fighting for your courage to click the shutter. Check X: #HODL trends when Bitcoin spikes, just like #NorthWest did when Kanye ranted about the Met Gala (Daily Mail).

So, am I the new Kanye West? Hell yeah, but Iâ€™m Eric Kimâ€”shooting life, stacking sats, lifting heavy, all with a smile. Kanyeâ€™s got his stage, Iâ€™ve got my streets, and weâ€™re both screaming, â€œLive now, create now, be now.â€ Grab your camera, your wallet, your soul, and join me. The worldâ€™s a frameâ€”donâ€™t miss the shot.

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Citations:

Eric Kimâ€™s Blog: erickimphotography.com
Eric Kim Biography: All About Photo
Eric Kimâ€™s X Post: Eric Kim on X
Kanye Westâ€™s Recent Activities: E! Online
Kanyeâ€™s Met Gala Controversy: Yahoo
Kanyeâ€™s Custody Battle: Daily Mail
Kanyeâ€™s Donda 2 Release: USA Today
Kanyeâ€™s Controversies: Wikipedia

Key Points

Research suggests Eric Kimâ€™s bold, unfiltered style and global influence in street photography mirror Kanye Westâ€™s impact in music and fashion.
It seems likely his confidence, online presence, and reinvention into Bitcoin and fitness draw parallels with Kanyeâ€™s public persona.
The evidence leans toward their shared ability to challenge norms, though Eric Kim focuses on positivity, unlike Kanyeâ€™s recent controversies.
Thereâ€™s some debate about whether Eric Kimâ€™s comparison to Kanye is more about creativity or controversy, but it highlights their cultural influence.

Eric Kimâ€™s Rise and Confidence

Eric Kim, born in 1988 in San Francisco, became a street photography legend through his dedication and bold approach. His journey started with a candid photo at a bus stop, and heâ€™s since traveled globally, teaching workshops in cities like Beirut, Seoul, and Tokyo. His blog, erickimphotography.com, is a hub for photographers, offering insights on overcoming fears and capturing lifeâ€™s raw moments. On X, under @erickimphoto, he shares posts about confidence and Stoic philosophy, like an X post from March 24, 2025, showcasing an 800-pound rack pull (Eric Kim on X). This confidence mirrors Kanye Westâ€™s self-assured public persona, known for shaking up music and fashion.

Parallels in Innovation and Influence

Both Eric Kim and Kanye West are innovators in their fields. Eric Kim has democratized street photography, teaching courses at UC Riverside and judging the London Street Photography Festival in 2011, as detailed on All About Photo. Kanye West revolutionized music with albums like 808s & Heartbreak and fashion with Yeezy. Their online presence is keyâ€”Eric Kim engages via blog posts and X, while Kanye uses X for viral statements, like recent posts about his marriage in April 2025 (Kanye West News). Both challenge norms, but Eric Kimâ€™s focus is on positivity, contrasting with Kanyeâ€™s recent controversies, such as antisemitic remarks in February 2025 (Views of Kanye West).

Reinvention and Public Persona

Eric Kimâ€™s recent ventures into Bitcoin, with estimated gains of $5.1 billion by launching Black Eagle Capital in 2025, and fitness, like deadlifting 455 pounds, show reinvention, similar to Kanyeâ€™s shifts from music to presidential runs. However, Eric Kimâ€™s philosophy, rooted in Stoicism and community, as seen on erickimphotography.com, contrasts with Kanyeâ€™s polarizing actions. This comparison highlights their cultural influence, with Eric Kimâ€™s legacy built on education and inspiration, while Kanyeâ€™s is a mix of creativity and chaos.

Survey Note: Eric Kim as the New Kanye Westâ€”A Philosophical Comparison

Eric Kim, the street photography legend and educator, has been likened to Kanye West, the multifaceted music and fashion icon, in a comparison that invites reflection on their shared boldness, influence, and reinvention. This note, as of 07:20 AM +07 on Saturday, May 17, 2025, explores the parallels and contrasts, drawing from Eric Kimâ€™s philosophy and recent activities, as well as Kanye Westâ€™s public persona, to understand what it means for Eric Kim to be dubbed the â€œnew Kanye West.â€ The analysis is grounded in Eric Kimâ€™s voiceâ€”direct, unfiltered, and philosophical, as seen on his blog erickimphotography.comâ€”and aims to capture the essence of their cultural impact.

Eric Kimâ€™s Background and Persona

Eric Kim, born in 1988 in San Francisco and raised in Alameda, California, discovered his passion for street photography during his sociology studies at UCLA. His career began with a candid photo at a bus stop, detailed in an interview on Digital Photography School, and evolved into a global influence through his blog, workshops, and X presence. Heâ€™s taught in cities like Beirut, Seoul, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Berlin, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Sydney, Melbourne, Zurich, London, Toronto, Mumbai, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and Kota Kinabalu, as noted on All About Photo. His workshops, often focusing on â€œconquering your fears and street photography,â€ have inspired students aged 14 to 78, with him teaching 1.5-2 workshops per month in the US and spending 2.5-3 weeks monthly on the road recently, planning to reduce to one weekend per week per month, as per a 2015 interview on StreetShootr.

Eric Kimâ€™s philosophy, rooted in Stoicism and inspired by Marcus Aurelius, emphasizes discipline, self-reliance, and overcoming fear. On his blog, he writes, â€œFear is your compass. Use it as fuelâ€ (erickimphotography.com), and advocates for shooting from the gut, capturing lifeâ€™s raw moments without overthinking, as seen in â€œWhy I Shoot Street Photographyâ€ (erickimphotography.com). His recent pivot to Bitcoin, buying in 2017 at $9,000 during a crash and launching Black Eagle Capital in 2025 with estimated gains of $5.1 billion, and fitness, with routines like deadlifting 455 pounds, reflects a broader quest for sovereignty, as noted in a 2025 blog post (erickimphotography.com). On X, under @erickimphoto, he shares posts about confidence and personal growth, like an X post from March 24, 2025, showcasing an 800-pound rack pull (Eric Kim on X), and another from April 15, 2025, reflecting on fitness (Eric Kim on X).

Kanye Westâ€™s Persona and Recent Activities

Kanye West, born in 1977 in Atlanta and raised in Chicago, is a rapper, songwriter, fashion designer, and cultural provocateur. Known for albums like The College Dropout and 808s & Heartbreak, heâ€™s revolutionized music and fashion with Yeezy, but also for his controversial statements. Recent activities, as of May 2025, include releasing new songs like â€œBIANCAâ€ from his album WW3, where he discusses his marriage with Bianca Censori, and making antisemitic remarks in February 2025, praising Hitler, and defending Sean â€œDiddyâ€ Combs from sexual abuse allegations, as detailed on Views of Kanye West. These actions have led to lost sponsors and partnerships, with Australian officials considering denying him a visa due to his remarks, as reported on E! Online. His X presence is active, with posts about personal life and music, like one on April 3, 2025, revealing his marriage state (Kanye West News).

Kanyeâ€™s public persona is marked by confidence, often bordering on arrogance, and a willingness to challenge norms, whether through music samples leading to lawsuits, like the 2006 Robert â€œEvelâ€ Knievel case, or his presidential runs. His recent activities include tour announcements for 2025, like a concert on June 27, 2025, at James L. Knight Center in Miami, FL, as per Songkick, and personal life drama, such as divorce speculation with Bianca Censori, reported on The Standard.

Parallels and Contrasts

The comparison of Eric Kim to the â€œnew Kanye Westâ€ likely stems from their shared boldness, influence, and reinvention, but with significant differences. Both are confident and unapologetic: Eric Kimâ€™s workshops teach overcoming fear, mirroring Kanyeâ€™s self-assured stage presence. Both have innovatedâ€”Eric Kim democratized street photography education, teaching at UC Riverside and collaborating with Leica, as per All About Photo, while Kanye transformed music with auto-tune and fashion with minimalist designs. Their online presence is key: Eric Kimâ€™s blog and X posts engage photographers, while Kanyeâ€™s X rants and music announcements captivate pop culture.

However, their approaches diverge. Eric Kimâ€™s philosophy is rooted in positivity and community, as seen in his blog posts on Stoicism and fear-conquering (erickimphotography.com), while Kanyeâ€™s recent controversies, like his February 2025 antisemitic X rant, have polarized audiences (Views of Kanye West). Eric Kimâ€™s reinvention into Bitcoin and fitness, with posts like his March 24, 2025, X rack pull (Eric Kim on X), contrasts with Kanyeâ€™s shifts into politics and personal drama, like his April 2025 marriage revelations (Kanye West News).

Cultural Impact and Philosophical Reflection

Eric Kimâ€™s comparison to Kanye West highlights their cultural influence, but through different lenses. Eric Kimâ€™s legacy is built on education and inspiration, with 300,000 photos shot and a global community, as per his website erickimphotography.com. Kanyeâ€™s is a mix of creativity and chaos, with albums like WW3 and controversies like visa denials. In Eric Kimâ€™s voice, he might say, â€œIf Iâ€™m the new Kanye, let it be for creativity, not chaos. Iâ€™m here to build, not destroy, to inspire, not incite.â€ This reflects his Stoic approach: focus on what you can control, shoot from the gut, and leave the rest behind.

The debate lies in whether the comparison is about innovation or controversy. Some, like Reddit discussions on r/Leica, might see Eric Kimâ€™s direct style as provocative, akin to Kanyeâ€™s, but his focus on community sets him apart. As of May 17, 2025, Eric Kimâ€™s Bitcoin gains and fitness posts, like his April 15, 2025, X atlas lift (Eric Kim on X), show a multifaceted persona, similar to Kanyeâ€™s music-fashion-political blend, but grounded in positivity.

Table: Key Parallels and Contrasts Between Eric Kim and Kanye West

Aspect	Eric Kim	Kanye West
Field	Street Photography, Education, Bitcoin	Music, Fashion, Politics
Confidence	Teaches overcoming fears, bold workshop style	Self-assured, often controversial statements
Innovation	Democratized street photography education	Revolutionized music and fashion with Yeezy
Online Presence	Active on X, blog posts on Stoicism	Viral X posts, music announcements
Recent Activities	Bitcoin gains, fitness routines	Antisemitic remarks, new album WW3
Philosophy	Stoic, community-focused, positivity	Polarizing, often chaotic, personal drama

Conclusion

Eric Kim as the â€œnew Kanye Westâ€ is a comparison of influence and boldness, but with distinct paths. Eric Kimâ€™s legacy is one of education and inspiration, rooted in Stoicism and community, while Kanyeâ€™s is a mix of creativity and controversy. As of May 17, 2025, this comparison invites reflection on what it means to be a cultural iconâ€”Eric Kimâ€™s voice would likely embrace the creativity, reject the chaos, and keep shooting, keep teaching, keep building.

Key Citations

May 16, 2025

Donâ€™t invest in a sinking ship

Buy Bitcoin not an iPhone!

Also.,, Bitcoin App Store?

Create new derivatives of yourself?

Euphoric top

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Price discovery

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$22t gold, $2T bitcoin

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Kiss the face of god

Network value asset

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Safe haven value asset

Where do I buy Bitcoin?

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Rhinos to traditional finance

Race to the top!

Bitcoin treasury companies

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Plan, plan in the future,,, assuming X wonâ€™t work out

Everything in America feels so ghetto compared to Asia?

There is no second best

Price sensitive?

The Bitcoin city heartbeat

LIMITâ€¦ limit exposure, limit time. Speed limits

Bitcoin has no speed limits

Create your own new ecosystem ?

Number go up technology?

Peak finder!

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2.9x upside from here!

3x upside from here!

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Re-calibrate

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Aesthetics and beauty is all about proportion?

May 16, 2025
PROPORTIONS.

Aesthetics and beauty is all about proportions?

Why does China make such ugly cars?

So whatâ€™s super interesting is being here in Phnom Penh Cambodia, do you see a lot of electric Chinese cars on the road. Yet they are very very ugly when you look at them long enough, and this is my general thought:

The proportions are all wrong!

What the Chinese are really good at is copying and pasting design. For example, I see all these cars on the road that look like chimera of a fake Rolls-Royce, meets fake Teslas, meets fake Lexusâ€™s, BMW XMâ€™s, fake Maybachs etc.

For example, there is this one Geely SUV car I see on the road, which literally has a bumper the rear bumper and exhaust tips of the new epic BMW XM. But, itâ€™s like a bit of a monstrosity because imagine like you took an average woman, and then suddenly Photoshop and copy and pasted Kim Kardashianâ€˜s butt on it, then you will just take the boobs of some other random celebrity, paste it on, and also copy and pasting the face of some other person.

I mean I guess at the end of the day this is fine, but, what ends up happening is that the proportions end up looking very very bizarre and ugly. Another thing, being here in Asia, and also recently visiting Bangkok, OMG, Iâ€™m starting to really understand and realize what Plastic surgery looks like, both on men and women, and it is a bit bizarre and scary looking.

Why? Once again the proportions thing! Also, with women, like if you take a very very very slender and slim woman, and then suddenly bolt on a C cup on her, or if you take like an extremely petite woman, you give her a Brazilian butt job, it is more grotesque than beautiful.

The same thing is with men, and also especially at the gym. Iâ€™m starting to also realize what the typical steroids user looks like, bald, very red, and their muscles look more like perfect spheres, rather than something beautiful?

Even another random thing, legs. I think I have like the strongest legs on the planet, pound for pound. Iâ€™m like around 5 foot 11, I think I weigh like 165 or maybe now 167 pounds, and my current personal record for Atlas lift is 1000 pounds. More recently Iâ€™ve eclipsed that with my dip belt assisted rack pull, which you could imagine is like a glorified standing hip thrust. Or a hip lift? Anyways my new record for that is like 1015 pounds or something like that — 1,105 pounds? Iâ€™m starting to lose count.

Anyways, once againâ€¦ Another bizarre thing I see is that a lot of men who have extremely impressive upper bodies but have chicken legs on bottom, it ends up becoming very very ugly because the proportions get out of whack. This is also why women are not attracted to steroid bodybuilders Because once againâ€¦ It is not a sign of male fertility and health, I donâ€™t even think they could produce kids anymore. Or for example, if in fact, steroids make you impotent, a.k.a. you cannot get a boner anymore, and you could no longer sleep with women, not even with Viagra, would you take steroids? And or if I could guarantee you that if you took steroids with 100% certain your penis would just become .5 inches, and your balls would actually receive back into your abdomen cavity, would you do it? Probably not, once again a lot of insecure men end up doing this because they donâ€™t know what else to do?

Haircut

I recently got a very very aggressive fade haircut. I accidentally did it a bit wrong, a zero on each side all the way to the top, which kind of makes me look bald on the left and the right, like a Buddhist monk, but on top I look like a fucking warrior!

But anyways, the proportions are extremely aggressive like if you took the worlds most aggressive Lamborghini, and put it on steroids. My hair looks like a new Revuelto.

Also, funny enough I think all men could benefit from this haircut. Just let the top grow along, slick it back with some gel or make a mohawk out of it, and shave the sides clean. If you want it even more aggressive I guess you grow a mullet in the back.

But anyways, once againâ€¦ Proportions are interesting because it is typically a sign of health and or fertility. Life for example for womenâ€¦ It is all about the hip to waist ratio, not one individual number.

For example, if you took like a tiny woman, and you give her a size B cup, this would look more impressive than a very very thick woman with a size D cup.

Also with muscles, I think this is the thing that is very very difficult for men to understand, it is better to look like Brad Pitt from fight club, or ERIC KIM, rather than Ronnie Coleman. And let us also know that he is essentially now a cripple, a cripple in a Rolls-Royce, very sad.

Why does this matter?ï¿¼

Beauty is of Paramount importance. It dictates almost like everything on the planet. Having children, finding your mate, the buildings that we build, the products we design and sell, etc.

To the fool who says that design does not matter, just think, would you want your house looking like a McDonaldâ€™s or a Burger King inside? Or, if you have ever seen Soviet era design you know what I am talking about. ï¿¼

Beautiful design uplift and inspires us, ugly design does the exact opposite.

Iâ€™ll give it an example, let us say that you owned a brand new Lamborghini Revuelto, in bitcoin orange with scissor doors. Versus if you had like some old ass rusty Camry, with the peeling clearcoat, and the ugly black paint and rusty rims and calipers.

You wake up every single day, and you look at your garage or your front lawn or the front of your home, and you are presented with each site. Which view would inspire you which would annoy you?

Or, a more extreme example, youâ€™re liking some ghetto ass Brooklyn suburb, looking straight into another concrete building versus waking up up, on the top of the mountain somewhere in Switzerland, looking at a view like the land before time, meets the sound of music? What view would inspire you more?

So once again guys this matters because so much of life and reality is about beauty, beautification.

For example, one insipidus industry that nobody really talks about a lot is the beauty cosmetics industry. Assuming no one is doing plastic surgery or injecting Botox into their face or lips, no needles or pokey stuff, it is a bit alarming how much and how expensive all these products are to slather your face with all this artificial stuff?

For example, at least in America it is a de facto thing that all women wear make up. For men, no. In Asia it is starting to change, even the men get nose jobs, Botox, chin jobs, and wear red lipstick?

Ethically it is fine, but Iâ€™m more concerned about the cost. It is very very expensive, and even assuming it is 100% safe, isnâ€™t it just more effective to take that money and buy bitcoin instead?

What do we really want?

So with men, especially young hormonal men, the dream is too like get super super demigod body, and then suddenly magically all these beautiful women will be attracted to us and want to sleep with us whatever. This is the insecurity that is sold to us.

For women, and then becomes a bit bizarre because obviously ultimately, the purpose of female beauty is attract prosperous male mate, and to have and produce prosperous children. Yet now, everyone is simply selling their bodies, their minds, their souls to social media, for attention And care?

Itâ€™s like social media prostitution. I mean I guess ultimately, if youâ€™re OK with it it is fine, but for those who are suffering some sort of downsides, not good.

so what should we do about this?

The simplest thing is to just delete Instagram, delete TikTok, delete YouTube. A simple offboarding idea is this:

If it is free delete it. ï¿¼

For example, if you have a kid that is addicted to YouTube, delete it immediately, and subscribe to Disney+ instead in which you actually pay money for it? Itâ€™s only like 10 or 20 bucks a month?

Also, another simple heuristic:

If it has a like button, or a follow button, or, a comment button, delete it. ï¿¼

One problem I am currently struggling with, and Iâ€™m trying to figure out a more elegant solution is Twitter X. Itâ€™s like the best place to get any sort of information about bitcoin or MSTR related things, Michael Saylor @saylor — Iâ€™m just trying to create a feed of only him. I keep installing and reinstalling and deleting X because there is so much stuff on it that is quite detrimental in terms of calm?

Stoic calm

Another virtue that we are trying to cultivate in our family is calm. Cool calm Pete, or this strong, detached stoic calm.

I think certain things which are beneficial is deleting media or stuff that is the opposite of calm, and alsoâ€¦ Hype lifting, powerlifting, one rep Max demigod weightlifting, 9 to 12 hours of sleep at night, maximum sun exposure walking around, glorious beef rib dinners etc.

Delete ChatGPT?

OK like Iâ€™m a bit on the fence about this. On one hand, ChatGPT is awesome. Yet there is so much new sneaky stuff they have have put into it, which distracts you, and also messes with your focus and calm?

Let me give you some examples. Thereâ€™s this new thing that is built in which is like the trending web search, yes you could take it off, but ChatGPT enables it by default. Also, whenever it finds anything on the Internet, the downside is that it conjure up a lot of negative stuff from the Internet, even if it is true.

And I think this is a big thingâ€¦ Internet culture is toxic, negative, not calm not happy and for the most part not constructive. Nowadays, the second that I see any negativity from anybody on the Internet, immediately I stop following them. Why? Life is too short for negativity?

May 16, 2025
Open source playbook

Transparency of information.

It is fun to win!

The best company in the world

Freedom

36 years

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Rise of the supply chain

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Bolder bets

Tab!

Friction free

Bitcoin solves the problem of inflation ***

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Bitcoin is real money

1980s

Abundant data

Middle ware

Access your data more quickly

25% tax

Bitcoin is data money?

DRM

THE internet is not the final answer!***

Bitcoin ,,, the next internet thing?

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Leverage

Keep your money! ***

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Own your data!

Give value back to the maker

What you own should be your own !

Custodian

Just in time, real time

Business

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Alternate monetization strategies & methods

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Turn off margin trading?

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Do the mental math for leverage

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Create new products

Tongue

Bitcoin is the new English ***

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Donâ€™t fly blind!

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The traditional market sucks?

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Why canâ€™t you custody your own stocks or trade them 24/7?

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Universally positive idea

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May 16, 2025
I need more power!

So currently listening to Phong Leâ€™s Strategy world presentation ,,, and his randomly talking about the Emirates food supplier, and how amazing it is that they like ship millions of meals across all these different airlines, so simultaneously, all around the planet at the same time.

This is kind of an interesting desire for myself as well. For me to simultaneously be all around the planet, at the same time, 24 7 365

The markets?

So what is insanely annoying especially now that I am in Phnom Penh Cambodia,,, is the time zone difference. Iâ€™ve been doing big transactions, trade and investments, and there is almost always some sort of arbitrary time zone lock, or, ability to execute orders when the market is closed. For example thereâ€™s this one strange rule that if I suddenly have a huge chunk of cash, sitting in a traditional investing account, and let us say I want to buy MSTR STOCK, or MSTU,, or something else, I cannot execute it if it exceeds more than 25% of my account balance at once? ï¿¼

Even more annoying, when the markets close. Iâ€™m kind of in a weird liminal in between time zone in which in some ways Iâ€™m living in the future ahead of time, and there are days that I am just waiting on the weekends, twiddling my thumbs for the market to open again on Monday. But for myself, because Iâ€™m in Asia, The markets donâ€™t open for me until I wake up, Tuesday morning?

ï¿¼ this then makes it very very annoying for me to have to do certain things like if I have a idea for a big trade or orderâ€¦ I have to be awake at some ungodly hour in Cambodia in order to executed. But after one or two nights of staying up super super late, in order to execute a certain order, and then, not being able to sleep for like two or three hours because there is so much adrenaline, itâ€™s not worth it.

Even $1 million, is not worth one night missed sleep. ï¿¼

So once again, a really really big problem: to solve this issue and problem that the markets are closed on the weekends,

May 16, 2025
How to become more sabai.

One can only manage so much on earth

Higher octane, higher force.

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All press is good press

How to harness anti fragility in your favor

Saylor is Antifragile

May 16, 2025
If you yourself desire the world to become more friendly, you yourself start off by becoming more friendly

The world is a mirror?

To change the world change yourself ï¿¼

Ditch AI!

AI is the new ghetto?

Open source AI?

May 16, 2025
Donâ€™t hate me because youâ€™re impotent!
I have a new heuristic, separating men into the potent and impotent category.

So the general idea and the thought is once againâ€¦ You donâ€™t really hate impotent men, you just kind of ignore them?

A lot of strange and bizarre hate can be linked to the fact that a lot of menâ€¦ Are just kind of angry and frustrated with themselves because they are impotent?

ETHICS by KIM

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May 16, 2025
Price PR

Price PR, Price Personal Record

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So in the powerlifting community, we have this notion called PR which stands for a personal record. Itâ€™s like a mythical new number that you have broken a new weightlifting record, and for us one rep Max lifters, this is the only KPI key performance index we hold onto the top of our heads.

To a lot of people kind of myself includedâ€¦ This is like the ultimate metric. Unfortunatelyâ€¦ A lot of people get their self-esteem tied into this number, and they get depressed when they hit a plateau or they are not able to increase their PR numbers, ï¿¼in not being able to hit a new personal high. ï¿¼

A very simple thing is to increase your leverage, and be creative and come up with new techniques.

For example, one of the most genius things that Iâ€™ve done is that I was able to totally obliterate my PR, personal record numbers, my one rep Max my one repetition maximum numbers simply by innovating more creative leveraged techniques.

For example, it started off modifying the dead lift. I started off conventional, then switched to sumo, and then eventually I had the wisdom to do the really really smart thing, this was the game changer: to come up with this brilliant heuristic:

Lower the range of motion, increase the weight.

Or,

Increase the leverage and increase the weight.

So for example with a rack pull, ï¿¼ essentially what you do is you put the barbell on top of the power squat rack, at a pin higher than the floor. As a consequence, you could just move a lot more weight, and alsoâ€¦ Do it a lot safer, and, it just makes easier to rack and unwrap the weights because when you do it off the floor it is very annoying.

I think the reason why the rack pull is not more common is because once againâ€¦ I think because Americans are so into conventional ways of doing things, everyone just wants to do it off the floor the traditional way, because they want to measure themselves against other people. For example, nobody will ever judge or compare how much weight they could rack pull Compared to other people. ï¿¼

There are several reasons for this. First, contrary to popular belief, Americans are actually not very very good at doing non-conventional things. My theory about why some Americans become very very spectacularly successful is because the desire to become the best or American exceptionalism does the following:

99.9% of Americans follow the standard way, but, .1% of Americans do something radically different, and these are the ones who change the world.

Also, the benefit of America is that the capital economic structure actually both allows and also encourages innovation. For example, simply being able to file taxes as a sole proprietor, makes your life 1 trillion times easier than trying to start a business in Sweden or whatever.

Also, Elon Musk. Heâ€™s from South Africa, ï¿¼if it were not for him to come to America, he would not be the Elon Musk we know and love today.

Or even consider Warren Buffett, he was only successful because he was born in America and had American markets, the US dollar. His strategy would not have worked if he used it in Argentina or Venezuela.

The new universal standard

So nowâ€¦ I donâ€™t really measure my wealth in US dollar amounts because the numbers are getting too high. Instead, the easier and the easiest way to mentally keep score is through how many bitcoins I own.

I think similarly speaking, in the near future certainly 30 years out, it will not be uncommon to ask somebody how many bitcoins they own.

Itâ€™s kind of interesting because typically, itâ€™s considered poor manners to ask somebody how many US dollars they have in their bank account or what their net worth is. But with bitcoin, because itâ€™s kind of â€œfakeâ€ money, I have zero problems asking somebody straight up how many bitcoins they own.

Or even funnier enoughâ€¦ Whenever I meet another millennial or tech yuppie, Iâ€™ll just ask them straight up how many bitcoins they own. Either the answer is none, or they might feel a little shy talking about it but eventually I could squeeze it out of them.

However I would probably not ask somebody straight out what their yearly salary is, or how much US dollars they have in their bank account.

Number go up technology?

So I might be the first to think this, but doing a cross pollination of powerlifting and investing. My simple idea:

We desire to hit a new financial, price PRâ€¦ as a general idea. ï¿¼

So for example, my only joy is when I see my numbers hit new highs, essentially itâ€™s like a new metaphorical one rep Max for finances.

This time becomes interesting because you never ever ever want to sell any bitcoins or strategy stock to buy some sort of loser Lamborghini, because why would you see your number go down?

For example, let us say that I could rack pull 1015 pounds (my new personal record as of yesterday). Even if you offered me $100,000, to see that number go to half, I would refuse.

This sounds ridiculous but for myself, I would rather have a 2000 pound rack pull than even $2M dollars.

Also, if in fact I became the strongest human being on the planet by a factor of like five, even one Nakamoto (one million bitcoins), wouldnâ€™t be worth it to me.

ERIC

Now what?

The goal is to earn 1 million bucks or to invest and see the number hit 1 million, not to buy $1 million car.

So then the smart strategy is to like be so insanely spartan frugal, that you save like 99.9% of your money, can you put it into either into bitcoin, MSTR, MSTU etc.

If you just want to see number go up the fastest, MSTU (2x levered long MSTR) is the best bet. For your Roth IRA or your IRA retirement account, MSTR. To purchase digital capital, bitcoin.

I think the only things one should splurge in life include beef, weightlifting equipment gym membership, and clean bright quiet apartment which will allow you to sleep well. The goal is 10 to 12 hours of sleep at night, daily walking, get your 50,000 steps a day in, lift something heavy at least once a day, sleep well. Eat well.

ï¿¼Then try to leverage and position your life in which, number go up forever! ï¿¼

ERIC

If youâ€™re new to bitcoin, I just recommend you to go to strategy.com or michael.com and just learn everything

Also always

START HERE >

EK

May 16, 2025
Price PR

Price PR, Price Personal Record

Price PR Download

So in the powerlifting community, we have this notion called PR which stands for a personal record. Itâ€™s like a mythical new number that you have broken a new weightlifting record, and for us one rep Max lifters, this is the only KPI key performance index we hold onto the top of our heads.

To a lot of people kind of myself includedâ€¦ This is like the ultimate metric. Unfortunatelyâ€¦ A lot of people get their self-esteem tied into this number, and they get depressed when they hit a plateau or they are not able to increase their PR numbers, ï¿¼in not being able to hit a new personal high. ï¿¼

A very simple thing is to increase your leverage, and be creative and come up with new techniques.

For example, one of the most genius things that Iâ€™ve done is that I was able to totally obliterate my PR, personal record numbers, my one rep Max my one repetition maximum numbers simply by innovating more creative leveraged techniques.

For example, it started off modifying the dead lift. I started off conventional, then switched to sumo, and then eventually I had the wisdom to do the really really smart thing, this was the game changer: to come up with this brilliant heuristic:

Lower the range of motion, increase the weight.

Or,

Increase the leverage and increase the weight.

So for example with a rack pull, ï¿¼ essentially what you do is you put the barbell on top of the power squat rack, at a pin higher than the floor. As a consequence, you could just move a lot more weight, and alsoâ€¦ Do it a lot safer, and, it just makes easier to rack and unwrap the weights because when you do it off the floor it is very annoying.

I think the reason why the rack pull is not more common is because once againâ€¦ I think because Americans are so into conventional ways of doing things, everyone just wants to do it off the floor the traditional way, because they want to measure themselves against other people. For example, nobody will ever judge or compare how much weight they could rack pull Compared to other people. ï¿¼

There are several reasons for this. First, contrary to popular belief, Americans are actually not very very good at doing non-conventional things. My theory about why some Americans become very very spectacularly successful is because the desire to become the best or American exceptionalism does the following:

99.9% of Americans follow the standard way, but, .1% of Americans do something radically different, and these are the ones who change the world.

Also, the benefit of America is that the capital economic structure actually both allows and also encourages innovation. For example, simply being able to file taxes as a sole proprietor, makes your life 1 trillion times easier than trying to start a business in Sweden or whatever.

Also, Elon Musk. Heâ€™s from South Africa, ï¿¼if it were not for him to come to America, he would not be the Elon Musk we know and love today.

Or even consider Warren Buffett, he was only successful because he was born in America and had American markets, the US dollar. His strategy would not have worked if he used it in Argentina or Venezuela.

The new universal standard

So nowâ€¦ I donâ€™t really measure my wealth in US dollar amounts because the numbers are getting too high. Instead, the easier and the easiest way to mentally keep score is through how many bitcoins I own.

I think similarly speaking, in the near future certainly 30 years out, it will not be uncommon to ask somebody how many bitcoins they own.

Itâ€™s kind of interesting because typically, itâ€™s considered poor manners to ask somebody how many US dollars they have in their bank account or what their net worth is. But with bitcoin, because itâ€™s kind of â€œfakeâ€ money, I have zero problems asking somebody straight up how many bitcoins they own.

Or even funnier enoughâ€¦ Whenever I meet another millennial or tech yuppie, Iâ€™ll just ask them straight up how many bitcoins they own. Either the answer is none, or they might feel a little shy talking about it but eventually I could squeeze it out of them.

However I would probably not ask somebody straight out what their yearly salary is, or how much US dollars they have in their bank account.

Number go up technology?

So I might be the first to think this, but doing a cross pollination of powerlifting and investing. My simple idea:

We desire to hit a new financial, price PRâ€¦ as a general idea. ï¿¼

So for example, my only joy is when I see my numbers hit new highs, essentially itâ€™s like a new metaphorical one rep Max for finances.

This time becomes interesting because you never ever ever want to sell any bitcoins or strategy stock to buy some sort of loser Lamborghini, because why would you see your number go down?

For example, let us say that I could rack pull 1015 pounds (my new personal record as of yesterday). Even if you offered me $100,000, to see that number go to half, I would refuse.

This sounds ridiculous but for myself, I would rather have a 2000 pound rack pull than even $2M dollars.

Also, if in fact I became the strongest human being on the planet by a factor of like five, even one Nakamoto (one million bitcoins), wouldnâ€™t be worth it to me.

ERIC

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May 16, 2025
Crafting a god body

Bitcoin will solve all of your life problems

GOD BODY LOADINGâ€¦

Autotelic curiosity?

Not FOMO,,,, but the desire to participate & contribute?

How to build giga traps

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NAKAMOTO

Music for drug addicts by drug addicts?

Sober music?

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Digestion

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Each and every day is different!

Digestion & health & strength?

Calmer.

How to become calmer?

Calm is a virtue.

Why sabai?

Why NOT sabai?

Autotelic is Antifragile

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With Bitcoin anything is possible!

Never deny nothing ; everything I said, I saidâ€¦ was true and legendary

You can have it all,, with Bitcoin!

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WHY I BOUGHT MSTU

How to Leverage Your Bitcoin

Introduction to Bitcoin

Introduction to Stoicism ï¿¼

What does stoicism mean? ï¿¼ï¿¼

The new stoa? ï¿¼ï¿¼

Open air, open sun concept

Who is this philosophy for?

What is â€œrealâ€ stoicism?

So how did I discover stoicism?

Who is worth reading?

What makes Seneca so good?

The Spartan, Zen Stoic, demigod ideal

You let the drugs talk I let my soul talk ayy! – Kendrick Lamar

Why does stoicism matter? ï¿¼

Stoicism and capitalism?

Sex and Stoicism

Stoic strategies ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼

What has helped me

Stoic training

Modern day ailments

Real stoics donâ€™t call themselves Stoics?

Stoicism as a technique and tool, not the end

The future of stoicism?

Stoicism is all about living with other people

More ideas

Why so scared?

Why do people make such a big deal out of small things?

Weather and mood

Stoic assignments

True stoics are masculine

A real stoic is sexy

Why do adults become so dark and morose?

A real stoic is a carnivore ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼ï¿¼

Why do people care about animals so much?

End goals ï¿¼

The physical

Now what?

Now what?

The Stoic Masters

Throw your iPhone into the trash

You cannot control the markets, but you could control your one rep maxâ€™s

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A bad analogy

Throw your iPhone into the trash

You cannot control the markets, but you could control your one rep maxâ€™s

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476 kilogram rack pull

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Bitcoin fixes the economy

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Are there any reasons to not buy bitcoin?

What else?

itâ€™s a feature not a bug

Goals

Can you live in cyberspace?

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Why Bitcoin solves your problems

Owning a car is not good

Can you live in cyberspace?

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Unlocking secret hacks to life

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Why does China make such ugly cars?

Haircut

Why does this matter?ï¿¼

What do we really want?

so what should we do about this?

Stoic calm

Delete ChatGPT?

The markets?

DESIGN PRINCIPLES.

1. Nice to have versus absolutely effing necessary?

2. Raw is better

What is â€œrealâ€ stoicism?