For the new Leica M11 Monochrom, some design critiques:
Leica should have went all in, and also blacked or grayed out the function text, up down left right arrows on the back.
Leica should get rid of that random top right button, I think which is for video. My thought is that the Leica M rangefinder camera is not for video, only still photos.
Similarly speaking, Leica should get rid of that random “thumbs up†design in the top right back corner, with that dial knob.
It should become as clean, pure, and flush as possible.
If I could design a diet, a workout plan, an ideal gym, for Elon Musk or Kanye West, what would it look like?
First, the ideal gym. For high profile billionaire entrepreneurs, it doesn’t really have to do with aesthetics, but rather, designing a type of workout and weightlifting concept that helps maximize their entrepreneurship activities. This means, disregard for chest pressing exercises, or overhead or shoulder pressing exercises.
I say one rep max rack pull, atlas lift, farmers carries. The only exercises which are interesting involves picking things up, or holding things on your shoulder.
For diet, intermittent fasting, no breakfast no lunch, only one massive dinner before you sleep. Hundred percent carnivore diet, with the finest cuts of meat.
For coffee, the finest robusta beans, because it has a stronger caffeine content.
Theory; the only reason why sugar, starches, and sweet things are bad is that it causes your body metabolic damage, and causes your body to over store fat, adipose tissue.
Then, adipose fat tissue is simply a sign of unhealth?
Typically we think of fat, adipose tissue, being overfat is simply bad from aesthetics perspective. However, maybe the better thought is that when you see a person with too much fat, adipose tissue, it is simply a sign that they are unwell or unhealthy.
Therefore, what we desire to see is healthy humans, not necessarily people without fat?
First of all, I think it has to deal with the issue of releasing the accelerator, and the car automatically braking. To me, this feels insanely weird and bizarre, and kills the enjoyment of driving for me.
Things I have yet done, which are on my chopping block include test driving a Tesla model three performance, and also a Tesla model S plaid.
Do you remember the infamous aesthetic of Brad Pitt in the movie fight club? Shredded, very visible abs, and relatively lean and muscular? It actually seems that women most value this aesthetic.
Where does this new modern day, steroid, Incredible Hulk, Orc aesthetic come from?
Certainly the Mr. Olympia, bodybuilding phenomenon, rope with steroids, testosterone injections, and all of this weird stuff.
For example, don’t trust ripple, XRP because their marketing material mentions that it is “green�
And why not? My thought is when some thing or a company mentions that it is “green“, what they are really trying to say is …
“ Sure, we may not be the best, but at least we are green!â€
Green is bad. Nobody cares for green. But we care for is money, power, glamour, and prestige. The reason you buy a Tesla car is not for the “green“, but because it is sexy.
Note Peter Thiel ZERO TO ONE book thoughts on “green†technologies.
One interesting trend I am seeing in regards to marketing, marketing materials, images, etc. is this:
Companies produce marketing material, images, and things which purport a certain type of equity, diversity and inclusion, but however, do not actually target their ideal target demographic.
For example, it seems a little bit disingenuous or forced, when companies randomly seem to add “racial diversity“, or “gender diversityâ€, into their marketing images and materials.
“A symphony of light and shadowâ€â€” this is an insanely bizarre tagline. I have no idea what this means.
“Creating images with only light and shadowâ€â€” weak marketing material and language, not compelling.
Too verbose?
I have no idea who is currently the head of marketing at Leica Camera, especially in the PR department. This is really bad language: too verbose.
Don’t mention the CMOS?
The funny thing with us like a fanboys is that we have a higher regard for the old-school legendary CCD sensor over the CMOS sensor. The CMOS sensor has a bad rap, because it is the same type of sensor in the 5D Mark two camera and beyond. What like that camera should do is to try to distinguish themselves away from the crowd. So in this regard, they should actually not mention even the notion or the idea or the concept of “CMOSâ€.
Just make them keep scrolling?
One new bizarre trend I see in a lot of websites, especially for marketing materials is that you have to keep clicking around. I believe that the product page for the Leica monochrome should just be one massive scrolling page.
Who is the target demographic for the Leica M11 monochrome?
It seems,
Rich people in the UAE, Dubai, Saudi, the Middle East?
Who *should* be the target demographic for the M11 monochrom? My personal thought is that it should be for the rich “tech bros†of Silicon Valley. Or for the guys who collect and race Porsche 911, 911 GT3RS cars, etc.
I think we humans don’t have a good aptitude for processing too much data or information. The upside of single column, single column design is we can better focus, and process things.
Looking back at my old blog posts, even some from 2017, about five years ago, the text has remained, and to me, is still very relevant. However what ultimately breaks and gets messed up is the images. Why? As an attempt to curb the total number of files in my server, which has a hard cap of 1 million images, I have to delete all the images. As a consequence, I inadvertently delete old images images.
2. Photos which last?
I feel that every once in a while, it is a good idea to re-curate your images. That is, to review all of your old images in your portfolio, and curate, and re-curate them, and to publish and re-publish them.
The goal—
Striving to make photos which will last at least 300 years.
3. Devices which last
iPad Pro actually seems to have very good longevity. iPhone… not as much.
4. Music, musical albums which last?
YEEZUS — by Kanye West. I am still amazed by how good this longevity has been. Even when I talk to fellow Kanye West fans, this is the album that everyone quotes.
My theory —
When Jesus came out, it was so insanely confusing to so many people, it was so I had a good time. So maybe, if you want to creeping with work, you have to try to be stored in 10 minutes ahead of your time, and then maybe a decade or two later, everyone will catch up.
5. Videos last
Funny enough, even though in theory, videos, and video files seem like they are much more cumbersome, fat and bloated than photos and images, it seems that videos, at least on my blog, and website and in general have lasted far better. Even it is quite impressive for us to think about YouTube; the YouTube videos of the past have still remained! Even the really old 480p videos of the past!
6. Passion lasts?
My theory:
If you create things out of a spirit of passion, and you create them, simply because you care, then it is far more likely to last!
It seems that the best strategy is assume that you will forget, and as a consequence, just don’t manipulate, change, or touch or do things, which may cause you to forget.
For example, after wearing the lululemon vital Drive half legging compression tights for so long, and then switching back to my old Uniqlo Heattech leggings, the Heattech leggings feel 1000 times a step backwards.
What is the true privilege here? The true privilege is having the privilege to attempt more, not necessarily being entitled to more, but, having the privilege to simply attempt it.
I believe that the wrong idea that a lot of people have towards entrepreneurship is that the point is just to become really rich, become a billionaire, etc.
However on the contrary, I believe the point is to instead, just have freedom to try something new, build something new, sell something you, sell a new type of service, etc.
Let us note the big downside of communist society is that free enterprise is not allowed. Any pseudo-Marxist, Leninist, Communist who owns an iPhone, goes to Whole Foods, has a Netflix subscription, has Amazon prime, drives a Tesla, or even a Prius, is a fraud.
Therefore, perhaps the notion of free enterprise is a good one. Giving people and citizens opportunity to try something new.
The only detriment we can suffer is regulation. In America, it seems that a lot of entrepreneur have massive headaches because of just being able to get the right regulations to do something or build something. Then, to encourage entrepreneurship is to remove this bureaucracy, remove these behaviors, remove these regulations.
Certainly safety is critical, but it seems that nowadays, all of the safety contract companies; it is just like a Ponzi scam. Free money for them.
What I have discovered through weightlifting, powerlifting is this: hitting a new PR, personal record is pretty uneventful. For me, the greater joy is even having the privilege and opportunity to attempt a new personal record.
Then, our joy is not hitting a certain number, but always, attempting more.
