Perhaps the best color car combination is this: red car paint, and bronze rims. Why? Think about the Spartan 300s.

Also maybe with clothes; a red and bronze outfit?

When in doubt, optimize for speed.

When in doubt, go big.

You’re less worried about your hair getting in your face, or your hair getting messed up.

Also, the more sun damage your black hat becomes, the more beautiful and Wabi Sabi it becomes?

The question is, not what is the “best place to live“, but the place to live where you at the maximum amount of personal freedom?

Said nobody. Why not?

Regardless of cost, expense, or efficiency.

The problem with cars:

Even if you buy the worlds best car, it is a static. It doesn’t keep on getting better, unless you keep upgrading it.

Also, the issue with most technology, once you buy it, it is static, it doesn’t just keep improving. Some exceptions include Apple devices, in which the software keeps getting upgraded and better, even though the hardware might stay the same.

This is the funny thing — why the INITIAL D or Midnight Tune Arcade video game racer might have more happiness and joy than the guy who owns a McLaren, Lamborghini or other exotic car in real life:

As he keeps playing, his car keeps getting upgraded with newer and better parts (whether cosmetic or engine based), and also, his/her skills improve in terms of racing ability.

Also, perhaps this is where I’m so passionate or interested in crypto, cryptocurrency, crypto technology, Bitcoin, etc:

As time goes on, it improves.

The network improves, the blockchain improves, more people use and adopt it, etc.

Powerlifting

Also, why I love powerlifting —

To increase your physical strength is uber-obvious.

For example two weeks ago I attempted 540 pounds in my deadlift, and wasn’t strong enough (yet), then two weeks later, I became strong enough and successfully lifted it!

How does our body get stronger?

To be specific, two weeks ago, I attempted 540 pounds, and got it a little off the floor, but my grip (specifically my left hand) gave out. My grip wasn’t strong enough, which meant my forearms and body wasn’t yet strong enough.

But after two weeks, and one trip to the gym (I lifted 5kg less on each side), and another week of all you can eat shabu shabu and meat, then my grip was insanely strong — and I lifted it without any grip slippages no problem!

An Elon Musk must would have never come out of an incubator, neither a Steve Jobs. Neither a Kanye West. Anti Y combinator.

Also, most great innovators and entrepreneurs have had very little schooling. Maybe in order to become more successful, you actually need less schooling.

Nassim Taleb:

Meditation is the best way to be vain without hurting anyone else.

You could learn more about a person by asking what they hate, rather than what they love. Hate is a more authentic emotion than love.

Train yourself to thrive off of bitter.

So much more chill, relaxed, focused.

The upside of living in Cambodia or Thailand? I love Phnom Penh. My friend Todd Hata loves Chiangmai (see his YouTube).

Also here in Phnom Penh, people are happier, friendlier, more open and warm. Not super money-driven like other countries like China, America, Vietnam, etc.

I really hate Siem Reap — too much foreign and tourist intervention makes for a bad living or travel experience. I totally loved the “Tomb Raider” temple however. I also really enjoyed the countrywide drive there — the road to Siem reap.

I still love life and photo in PP (Phnom Penh!)

Imagine if cars didn’t have bumpers.

Also, kids (and adults) would have more fun bowling with bumpers!

I would also never squat if there were no safety pins or bumpers on the side.

“Burning the ships behind you”— sounds romantic but in actuality, not a good idea.

This is why it will never become the global language.

Kids in Cambodia play soccer barefoot, to enhance their performance. Also, Seneca walks better when he’s barefoot.

Also, if you want the most supreme squat or deadlift, do it barefoot. Or the most minimal shoe, like Vibram five fingers.

Barefoot, bare chest. Bare legs.

The best pants in the gym — just short compression pants? Or short shorts rolled up?

Money can buy you the sexiest Apple devices and cars, but not a beautiful body.

One might argue that money could buy you plastic surgery, but this does not make you beautiful, unless you’re in a major accident or whatever, plastic surgery actually makes you look more grotesque.

Also, you cannot use money to build muscle, or lose body fat adipose tissue.

One might argue that you could use money to buy a personal trainer, gym membership etc, but the irony:

Most people don’t have the time nor the energy to go to the gym. 

Also— many rich people are always working, and also chronically sleep deprived, and also eating lots of bad food, takeout, drinking a lot and taking a lot of drugs, so their health in their body shapes are poor.

One of my personal curiosities is how to naturally enhance human performance to the maximum, without the aid of supplements, strange hormones, drugs, etc.

This is what I have done, and what has worked well for me:

1. Intermittent fasting, a.k.a. not eating breakfast or lunch

The first one is this: don’t eat breakfast or lunch, and partake in intermittent fasting. This just means one insanely massive meat forward meal a day, at dinner time.

I think this is one of the best natural ways to enhance human performance. Why? You don’t get a breakfast food coma, nor a midday food coma slump. This means more physiological energy and vigor to do the things you care for.

2. But don’t you need to eat something before working out?

No. I have proven that you can successfully get insanely strong, without eating anything before hand, without taking protein powder, creatine, supplements, etc.

3. Why you can trust me

Because I make my living with photography, not health and fitness, and I don’t make any advertisements for fitness, food, supplements, training, etc. Therefore, zero conflict of interest for me.

Once again, let us consider, if you are a YouTube influencer, or a social media influencer; if you make your living, or a partial living from your physique, strength, etc., there is always going to be a low-key motivation to “cheat“.

4. No carbs, no sugar, no vegetables, no starch, no fruit

The only non-meat item I eat is leafy greens, like chrysanthemums, kale, spinach. Also, kimchi, lemon grass, lime leaves, ginger, garlic. My ideal meal is all you can eat shabu shabu; the most efficient way to consume meat and leafy greens as fast as humanly possible. Even superior to all you can eat Korean barbecue, which is my second favorite.

Just YouTube my TABU SHABU GODZILLA CHALLENGE

5. Black coffee

I think life is better with coffee, than without. Let us not be fooled, coffee and caffeine is a very potent drug. It is probably my only vice. And truth be told, if I never got addicted to coffee in the first place, I might’ve preferred not to. But since I’m already addicted, best to “lean into it“.

I think it is more of a timing thing; very good to have coffee first thing in the morning, during your morning, instead of drinking it right before you sleep. Kind of like how it is not a good idea to blow your load first thing in the morning, best at night before you sleep.

Therefore, my simple thought is this: maximize the strength of your coffee consumption in the morning hours, and be very strict about cutting it after noon or midday. Ideally, cut off caffeine after 11 AM.

Also, just drink it black. No cream, no sugar, no strange milk substitutes. No oat milk, no almond milk, etc. Also, no fake sugar substitutes, Stevia, Monk fruit, even the “natural“ 0 cal ones. Anything sweet will spike your insulin. And note, coffee is already naturally sweet and has sugar in it.

6. Arabica or robusta coffee?

I think there is a new racism in coffee; that is, a preference for 100% arabica, and zero preference for robusta. For example, according to the specialty coffee roasting federation, robusta is not even considered.

I actually think the ideal is the blend of both arabica and robusta, in order to maximize caffeine and robust taste. And yes, robusta has waaaay more caffeine than arabica. And robusta has a lower sugar content than arabica — so in theory it should also be “healthier” than arabica.

From wikipedia (coffea canephora):

Robusta contains more caffeine (2.7% compared to arabica’s 1.5%),^[5] and contains less sugar (3–7% compared to arabica’s 6–9%).^[6] As it is less susceptible to pests and disease,^[7] robusta needs much less herbicide and pesticide than arabica.

Now what?

I am still blown away, that I’ve been able to deadlift 540 pounds, no straps, no belt, etc. Nearly 3.3x my body weight.

My next personal goal is to deadlift four times my body weight.

Greater things

I am not a professional bodybuilder, powerlifter, etc. My personal fascination with weightlifting is a personal one; my livelihood is not affected by it at all.

I just lift weights as a side hobby, not a primary concern.

Weightlifting as a philosophical pursuit?

What is the apex pursuit? I think a mix of entrepreneurship as well as philosophical. Many of our entrepreneurial drives are philosophical ones, for example, Elon Musk striving to make the human race interplanetary. This is more of a philosophical one, than a practical one.

Even the US MILITARY is (finally) highlighting the virtues of powerlifting!

A fun creative activity: use zen brush 2 app to make your own wallpapers for your iPhone and iPad!

I can act in bizarre, strange, and unorthodox ways, without feeling bad, guilty.

One of the good reasons why not to acknowledge the criticisms of others, or the critiques of others, whether in person or online:

You mainrain your zen and focus.

To become more ruthless, relentless on the forward march of society, technology and our self development!

Note the CrossFit games, strongman, powerlifting competitions etc.

Ricoh GR IIIX, iPhone SE, MacBook Air. Newest Tesla Model, newest Lamborghini model etc.

Aluminium edges (the matte black) on standard iPhone and iPhone mini is superior to shiny stainless steel on iPhone pro.

Growth, construction, economic developments:

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And Americans just desire to become rich and famous.

Then, once if you become rich and famous, like Hollywood celebrities, then what do you want? Then it seems the new goal is to be hidden.

But for entrepreneurs, it seems the goal is greater power and impact and growth!

Being able to channel the poison of coffee, caffeine, into my power!

Tenacious. Pop off the laces. Go topless, go bare. Don’t care for the unsubstantial, care for the deep. Go further, venture deeper. Follow your own desire, and never stop climbing higher!

ERIC