MOVE

A realization waking up this morning; what is my passion? Moving, movement. Anything that motivates me to move, get out, moving across time and space, this is my passion.

“Move”

Typically when we talk about move, moving… We meant to talk about moving and changing our abode, where we live, what Geo location we live in, city state or country, apartment, etc.

Do you think about it… How much of economic progress can be attributed to movement? Movement of goods products and ideas, people.

For example, let us consider the economy. What is it? It is all about movement!  for example, the movement of ideas in Apple, the movement of raw materials to Foxconn mainland Chinese factories, the movement of the employees and builders inside Faulcon, the movement and shipment of iPhones back to the states, the movement of iPhones from the Apple Store to you, whether you pick it up in store, or it gets delivered to you.

Let us consider Amazon; the number one thing that Amazon has conquered is movement. For example, I was born in 1988, and I still remember… My old scoutmaster Pat Ransil was one of the early engineers at Amazon, and I think he might’ve worked on mechanical Turk.  so Amazon was around ever since I was in middle school in high school, even before anyone really knew what it was.

If you think about the early days of Jeff Bezos… What did he try to do? Books! Apparently stories of him loading up his old Honda Accord with Books, driving to the local USPS store… Delivering books.

And now with the Internet… What is the Internet? The ultimate friction free delivery of information and knowledge.

Even when you think about Tesla, auto pilot, what is the killer feature? Auto pilot! To be able to move your butt from one spot to another, with less fatigue, exhaustion?

For example I test drove Cindy’s dad’s car a Tesla model Y dual motor, and I test drove and experimented with the basic auto pilot feature, which essentially just maintains the distance between you and the car in front of you, and also automatically slows down when other cars are merging, etc. 

 when we drove to the Huntington and back, there’s a certain stretch in downtown LA which has insane amounts of traffic. When I activated the basic auto pilot… All I had to do was move the steering wheel left and right, and the automatic accelerating and breaking smart cruise control was actually insanely useful! first and foremost, I didn’t have to do the dance between accelerating and decelerating, and also, it is like the maximum upside of maintaining some control, like controlling the steering wheel, while having the car automatically do the TDS thing of maintaining distance in between the car in front of you and the car back of you.

And this is one thing I realize; the reason why driving is so exhausting, and draining your physiological energy, especially in LA and during times of traffic is all of the billions of calculations we got to make while driving. Being on maximum alert of insane drivers who automatically cut in and out of traffic without turning on their signals, trying to remember when to merge and not to merge, changing lanes, maintaining speed etc.

I have yet tested out the full self driving auto pilot on a Tesla yet, especially on the newer vehicles, which I assume have newer cameras. But let us assume that the auto pilot works perfectly in terms of automatic steering, automatic acceleration, automatic braking, and you could just keep your hands on your lap, and just relax a bit.

How far?

In regards to moving and movement… How far do you want to go?

Some paradise places I’ve discovered, one being the Stoneview nature center in LA, in the Baldwin Hills. The other day I took him to this solar panel car building workshop, and I swear… The place is like paradise! Having a beautiful and wonderful and warm community center, full of great staff, as well as great hiking paths, being a nature… Even Seneca running around nature, the trees and the grass and the mulch, really brings him to life!

I recently met a theater guy named Abel Horwitz, and he told me something like “we humans are like hairless apes… We need nature community etc.”

I think I have always overlooked the nature part, even though ironically I’m a Boy Scout Eagle Scout. I spent a lot of middle school in high school hiking, being a nature, camping, doing a Boy Scout summer camp etc., but nature never really struck me as something truly critical.

But I think what I love most of my nature, now especially once you got a kid is a nature there are no rules but the rules of physics. You could throw around as many rocks as you would like,  you could be however loud you want, you don’t have to obey any BS rules.

For example, we’ve been spending a lot of time going to the public libraries, and the thing I actually discovered that I hate about libraries is there is this unspoken rule that one must be quiet, orderly, compartmentalized. But this is contrary to the nature of children and kids which is to be boisterous, loud, fun and excited!

I have a funny idea for library; what if you could build a library in which everything was opposite; for example, the rule is actually… You are not allowed to be quiet? All reading is in the ancient Greek style, loud, oratory. 

It’s bizarre even during reading time, in which the volunteers read to kids out loud, they still do it in kind of a hushed voice? 

What’s the problem here?

Everyone thinks that the issue is technology and social media, but this is incorrect. The issue here is actually society.

Society tell you to shut up, sit down, obey directions, even this really kind of bizarre thing I’ve been seeing a lot of parents do is put their kids in some sort of weird timeout, and then use Siri on their iPhones to set a timer, in which the kid must repent for their Sins for arbitrary period of time. Or even worse, setting an alarm to say when it is time to leave the playground?

Certainly there are certain constraints we gotta follow; if we have a truly critical appointment we have to go to, and we have to leave right now, you gotta take the kid. But this whole thing is such a terrible notion because from such a young age, you are already programming a kid to become a slave to time?

Movement

Screaming together some thoughts and facts; apparently if you have type two diabetes, which is 100% lifestyle based, which is caused by over consumption of sugar soda Coca-Cola, starches rice beans potatoes, tortillas etc.… It actually starts to your movement and your walking. 

And this becomes a negative feedback with; even the elderly once they retire, what is it that they typically do? They degenerate, end up slowly dying in retirement homes, are indoors all day, not allowed to walk, still consuming lots of sugar, starches and sodas, until they eventually lose their ability to walk.

Even when I think of the average human, tech worker, whatever… It is cruel. To force a human being to stay inside a building, for an arbitrary period of time, when the sun is out and nice… So sad! I still recall my first college, the Santa Monica third tree promenade… I’ll be able to finish all my work in about three hours, for some reason in order to say I had to stay there until around 6:30 or 7 PM, to look like a good worker and coworker?

And this is what I find so ridiculous about the whole office worker notion; the only reason they really have an office is because the company once upon a time, signed a lease on  an office building, maybe because they raise money from venture capitalist and everyone thinks that it is a good thing to have an office building, and because they are blowing so much money on renting that office building… They feel some sort of financial if they’re employees don’t regularly come into the office.

Also, a form of control; you work from home or you work out of the office, you cannot be monitored. And the fear that the higher up is that if you work from home you’re watching Netflix, doing other non-work related things, thus becoming less productive.

Or a weird toxic coworker co-employee thing;

“I hate my life, I am suffering so badly, yet you are much happier than me… I desire for you to be stuck in this miserable office and be miserable with me!”

The solution to this problem is very simple; just start your own business, become self-employed, better to live poor and free than rich and enslaved.

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