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Absence of Evidence Isn’t Evidence of Absence

It has taken me almost 5 years to finally understand and realize and embody this aphorism by Nassim Taleb:

Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence.

In other words:

Just because you cannot see the evidence before your very eyes doesn’t mean the evidence doesn’t exist.

For example:

There is always going to be hidden information and hidden facts which will always be unknowable to us, or hidden from us.

In Praise of Plain

The plainer the better. In praise of “plain Jane”(a plain Rolex or watch without having any superfluous diamonds or stuff added to it).

In other words, don’t add superfluous (non functional) crap to the purity or essence of something.

Stupid Intellectuals

Many intellectuals are actually quite stupid. They lack the ability to think for themselves, lack a historical or philosophical aspect, and are often too cowardly to assert their own opinion without quoting the New York Times, the New Yorker, or quoting “science” and “the data” or “statistics”.

Why I Prefer Living on the Grid

I don’t trust all these neo-hippies who want to live “off the grid” and do this strange degenerate “van life” thing. I prefer living on the grid. I like access to hygiene, clean water on tap, WiFi, electricity, and washer and dryer in my tiny luxury apartment. I like having my gigabit internet fiber optic to upload videos at insane speeds. Why live off the grid? Is it a sign of life and societal weariness, exhaustion, and nihilism?

Apex Simplicity

The goal ain’t for maximal wealth or power, but maximal and apex simplicity .. to augment your ability to stream thoughts, ideas, art work and your life.

The Future of Lifestyle

What is the future of lifestyle? My thoughts:

  1. No travel
  2. More time stuck indoors
  3. The importance of mental and physical/physiological health
  4. Money as less important (why save up for a home, if you know that staying home all day sucks?)
  5. Existential dread — more people trying to find a purpose or direction in their life.
  6. More people who want to be creative while stuck in quarantine.
  7. A great chance to start blogging, vlogging, and just sharing whatever interests you.
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The Nouveau Generational Wealth

Generational wealth means:

I made a lot of money in my life and I give it to you, my child.

But the problem:

Rich kids tend to be lazy, get addicted to drugs and have little purpose in life.

Thus perhaps the true generational wealth is then morals, ethics, and certain virtues to our future kids. Teaching them which vices to steer clear of.

Also to transmit wisdom, understanding, anti-sucker-pronnness, and to strive to dispel ignorance.

Money Moves

How to make money:

Provide a service or product which motivates people to move and do things!

And even if we think about fiat currency (money) it is all about using money as a social tool to coordinate trust and movement amongst people for resources (food, supplies, etc).

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WHY ARE YOU SO UNMOTIVATED?

Why are you so unmotivated? Is it laziness, or fear? Is it because of exhaustion, or ‘paralysis by analysis‘? Is it just because you’re so exhausted because you didn’t sleep enough? Is it because of hormonal reasons? Is it the substances (alcohol, weed, etc) that un-motivates you? What is really the root cause here?

Is it because you are un-motivated because you don’t wanna do the hateful work? Are you unmotivated because you feel trapped or hate your job?

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Canon Ivy REC Camera Review by Karina Bao

Start Karina Bao from Phone Free Future how the phone epidemic is killing our minds:

I decided I needed a camera when I got rid of my iPhone.The 2MP camera on my flip phone was not enough. I was looking for a camera that was small, light, and shot great photos and videos. I chose the Canon Ivy REC, a solid $79 camera.

This is the perfect camera for leaving your house when you don’t want to carry your phone around.

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What if Covid Never Goes Away?

My grim and personal thought:

I don’t think COVID will ever go ‘away’.

What I mean is this:

  1. Creating a vaccine will take *waaaay* longer than we expect it to.
  2. When the vaccine actually is available, it will be very hard to get it.
  3. Even if we get the vaccine, it won’t be 100% “fool-proof”.
  4. Even if you get the vaccine, there will probably be a bunch of bozos who are ‘covid-deniers’ who will not comply. Then think — would you send your kids to school with other parents who don’t believe in COVID?

Thus my practical thought is this:

Don’t delay living … live now.

Because COVID ain’t gonna go anywhere anytime soon. We have Covid-19 (it started in 2019). What if there is a Covid-20? (mutates in 2020) or a Covid-21, or Covid-22, or something even 10x *WORSE* than covid happens?

Live now.

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Good Fat, Bad Fat

Good fat: fat in meat (saturated fat and cholesterol as good for you). The fattier the meat, the better.

Bad fat: body adipose tissue fat. Excess fat-flesh (adipose tissue) is bad. Also bad fat is any cooking oil fats derived synthetically — margarine, vegetable oils as mostly bad for you. Perhaps the only non-meat oils to trust is what has existed a long time (olive oils in Ancient Greece, and sesame seed oil in Asia and China).

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JUST FOLLOW YOUR PASSION!

In life as long as you simply follow what you’re interested or passionate about, how can you not succeed? My whole life whenever I’ve pursued something I’m genuinely and passionately interested in, I’ve always succeeded. I’ve always found inner motivation and power to pursue it. But whenever I’ve pursued things others told me that I “should” do, I failed.

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Why I Pity the Privileged

The privileged are often the most nihilistic, empty, apathetic, depressed, filled with existential dread, addicted to drugs and alcohol and carnal pleasures, and with no meaning, purpose or direction in life.

Once We Have an Easy Life, Then What?

Nikola Tesla strove to create innovations and technologies to help people have the easiest life possible. But question— once we have an easy life, then what? What do we want to do with our easy life? And is this even something to be desired?

I say — an easy life is a boring life. I advocate for a simple life, but a challenging, difficult and interesting life is far preferable! If anything, a simpler life encourages a more creatively productive life which is good!

I say the goal:

Entrepreneurship — risk taking to do new dope shit, that doesn’t necessarily have to lead to money making, but doing something truly great, worth while, fun, interesting and grand.

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