So a big, mega big mega brain idea I have right now is I think with everything, all things considered, never stop thinking rethinking and reconsidering things.
What that means is, there’s never like 100% definitive proof or finality behind things. That is, and life, everything is always like a little bit of bricolage, experimentation, cutting and pasting, trying things out etc.
The virtues of the new year
I think thinking about the new year is always an optimistic thing because, there’s like some sort of inherent optimism built into it. What that means is, there will always be some sort of insanely great joy, behind the new year because, new year means new year means new possibilities for anything and everything.
2026
My aunt thought is moving forward this year, maybe this is the year to become a little bit more reckless, a little bit more ridiculous, maybe even becoming a little less attached to reality.
I think the biggest issue is, we tend to get stuck in the same patterns, the same grooves, the same stubborn ideologies which actually do not serve us right now and or anymore.
Carte Blanche AI
The intersection of photography, philosophy, aesthetics , fitness and health, bitcoin and AI.
A lot of people often ask me, but my interests are, and it’s kind of fun interesting and fascinating for me as an idea because, my interests are many.
I kind of think it like a sword, that all these different interests that I have dovetail into the intersection of a sword and a knife and a saber, in which I am able to thrust forward.
So first, I think the insanely obvious one is, at the end of the day the ultimate fulcrum that I have is photography. I end of the day, I will be remembered as the most pivotal photographer of all time. The one that got started in photography blogging social media, early days of YouTube, the first photographer before AI,  and also the first photographer to have enough courage and insight rather than trying to shun AI, the first one to actually harness AI. 
AI is like your pet dragon
So this is my thought, and this also mirrors the philosophy of nietzsche and many — the power of AI is like having another limb, or like having a pet dragon that shoots a fire. The big question you want to ask yourself is, whether you want to cauterize this part of yourself or rather… For those truly with courage,
If you actually have the guts to dominate, and ticket for a joyride.
It’s kind of like fire or electricity, you could use fire to power your automobile engine or you could use it to burn down a village.
Electricity is the same… You could either shun electricity, and live like a caveman, or,  you could actually use it to do something very useful like power the Internet.
And the funny truth is this is where sociology is very helpful interesting and important is, the truth is every intelligent generation always thought their own generation to be degenerate, and also… Every generation would always think and consider how technology was corrupting it.
Even something as simple as the book, and the time of Socrates, Socrates would almost act like the typical modern day pretentious person by saying that books were bad because they did not allow you to change your mind.
I’ll give you an example with the early days of photography, photography was seen that’s cheating, the real masters would paint. And now the same rebels who were once seen as our heroes like henri Cartier bresson ,,, now suddenly the same skinny fat artists now say ,,, digital photography is cheating? The same ridiculous philosophy now goes to smartphone iPhone photography now AI?
AI > “smartphone”
AI is cool and sexy. This is why I bought ERICKIM.AI even though the domain cost me an arm and a leg, I think the domain name for purchasing a .AI website account is like practically $200 for every two years? At least 10 times more expensive than a standard .com account. 
Anyways, I think the funny thought is, everyone was complaining maybe like 4 to 8 years ago… That iPhone’s smart phones, we’re ruining everything and photography. Now, to say the word smartphone is already outdated like saying, “surfing the web”.
In fact, talk to any young kid nowadays… Nobody has any idea what a dial up modem or AOL is.
So I suppose the practical Takeaway is, once again, don’t be a blood out… The goal is to maximize all of your advantages all of your levers at hand. Once again, do you want to be the cyberbeast or do you still want to be riding a 1920s horse and carriage? 
ERIC