ROADSTER or nothing:
The first and only time a car truly shocked me
I’ve always been into cars since I was a kid, fast and the furious days, working on my car, modifying it, etc.
The last time the car truly impressed me was the cyber truck, in terms of totally disrupting design, materials with the stainless steel… In the fact that it is essentially is the only thing that came out of like science fiction that was actually made into a reality.
When I first was on the Tesla site, and I saw it… And I saw it do the barrel roll, kick flip, and seeing the cold thruster… My mind was truly blown. Even more blown after, I saw it do the whole thing, without even having a ramp. Also, the reverse suction thing, also blew my mind.
BELOW 1 second 0-60 time?!?!?!
No Bugatti or any other hyper car could match this. It’s cross pollinating SpaceX spaceship technology into a car. This is ultra insanely awesome.
I’m not even sure who had the creativity to put cold thrusters on the back of an electric car, or even the extreme creativity about having the reverse suction things, to help with downforce and grip with the floor… There’s at least like 10 great innovations that went into the thing.
why this matters
It essentially disrupts everything we know about everything. What a car can and should be… And essentially, defying physics, and also seemingly defying first principles.
From a physics perspective, simply everything worked out, but… Can you imagine somebody saying that they could build this type of car, they would think that you were on crack. And what’s really interesting about these huge paradigm shifts… It seems insane until somebody actually does it?
how to apply this to our lives
Elon Musk may be the most ambitious and interesting human being alive… Because, him crossing domains. Going from Internet entrepreneur into electric car guy, into space, guy… Etc.
I recently volunteered at the polls, and I was actually really shocked that it seems that my skills from street photography were excellent in crossing over to talking to voters, helping the whole political thing. Moving forward, I’m even thinking about doing more political stuff, because I think my personal personality is great for it.
no limitations
Perhaps the greatest joy in life is feeling like you’re not constrained by anything. Like, I’m interested in passionate about like 1 million things. And my pleasure is being able to indulge all of them.
For example, weightlifting, fitness physiology, capital, philosophy, engineering, etc. And maybe now politics.
Tesla model Y thoughts
Unrelated, my in-laws just got a new Tesla model Y base edition, with auto pilot. Surprisingly I think the design is quite close to perfect, from the outside… But the biggest shocker was, being inside of it… Surprisingly did not feel that much different from a Prius?
The self driving technology is truly a game changer. Assuming you need to drive or commute for a living… There’s almost no reason not to get a Tesla with full self driving. Even my brother-in-law, John Narcisco says, at this point, the new categorization is whether the car is FSD or not FSD.
barbell
Never buy a “sports sedan”, it is the ultimate bad compromise. Either have a Prius as your daily and a Lamborghini on the side, or now a new roadster… rather than having one vehicle try to do it all. Even though I love cyber truck, unless I work at Home Depot for a living, and need the truck trunk all the time… There seems to be no good reason to have one as a daily.
This is also the truth about photography, better to have a Ricoh GR camera as your main, and whatever iPhone on the side… Rather than having your iPhone, be your primary camera. Why? It doesn’t matter if you have the iPhone 50… The technology ergonomics sensor will never be as good as a Ricoh GR camera. Also, perhaps now… I think the purpose of a phone should be more of AI device, or just Google Maps and FaceTime.
with 12 hours of sleep at night anything is possible
Working the polls was rough, but I learned a lot. The biggest one is… I haven’t since I was like 21 years old, and I’m 38 now. That’s like 17 years… I have never worked on an arbitrary time schedule for almost 4 days in a row. The hours were long, 9 AM to 8 PM three days in a row… And then election day, 6 AM to essentially midnight.
Doing the work was meaningful, but, at about 2:30 PM I was kinda over it… Ready to go home go to Seneca, make dinner, take a shower and go to sleep. The most glorious thing is having Seneca maintain a 6:30 PM bedtime, and me and Cindy falling asleep at around 7:30 PM, and waking up at around like 7:30 AM.
I’m still quite convinced, it’s better to sleep 12 hours a night, and work for one hour a day in a very interesting way, rather than sacrifice your sleep and grind for a long arbitrary workday.
lifestyle
I think all truly great entrepreneurs essentially take a vow of poverty. I think the idea of pursuing entrepreneurship to get rich is the wrong path, I think instead, the better motivation is pursuing some extreme curiosity that you have, and having the freedom to pursue it without any arbitrary time constraints.
I think the right mentality is at any moment, be willing to lose it all, perhaps this is stoic idea that is good.
investing for the sake of creation
Whenever you invest money and stuff, perhaps it should be for the sake of creation and innovation. This is the way!
ERIC
open source fitness
I have this very interesting idea for like a free online workshop kind of like an introduction to fitness and weightlifting, defying conventional wisdom. I want to talk about intermittent fasting, hundred percent carnivore, diet, insanely, heavy weightlifting, the virtues of consuming beef, liver, and naturally increasing your testosterone, and my infamous 12 hours asleep a night routine.
If you’re interested, sign up here and I will send you more Zoom link details and a date down the road.
now what?
Extreme fitness leads to extreme wealth and abundance?
ERIC