I desire to become bigger, beefier, stronger, more imposing. Take up more space. Consume more meat?! Grow more!










I desire to become bigger, beefier, stronger, more imposing. Take up more space. Consume more meat?! Grow more!









For example, why do you need a storefront? Disregard past markers of success.
Perhaps the best way to leverage your physiological energy, first thing in the morning with a lot of coffee is to you utilize that caffeine to just go out, venture, walk as much as you as you can, and shoot as much as you can?
Ideal weather — super hot and humid Southeast Asia, but drink a shitload of water and black coffee?
The ancient heroes of the ancient Greeks didn’t have any ideals?
Coffee as a vigor drink, a vigor boost?
I am a quadrillion times happier, when I’m just walking in the streets. Compared to being in the car. What does this mean?
How much of these things that people desire, simply out of aspiration?
Zen technology; my ideal
Assuming the Publilius Syrus quote, money is the one thing that said so the world emotion, then is the best for us to just think about money as movement and motivation?
For example, gasoline energy, oil, etc. or modes of movement or motivation.
Also, mobile Internet is movement of data, ideas bits and bytes.
Cars move people, literally. Also metaphorically.
Also, money moves. Money moves you, money move society.
A funny thought; to make more money, you must move more? Or the more you move, the more money you’ll make?
Also, to only blow your load when you desire to bear children?
I desire to be less chained, less sequestered in a small circle. Anti-parks.
Why do so many people seem to have a tormented soul?
My theory: some people believe it to be virtuous to have a tormented soul. To be happy is a vice.
For many people in life, they define meaning in their lives via suffering. For example, consider the passion of the Christ, or even Buddhism, which says that life is suffering, and the purpose of life is to reduce suffering as much as possible. Or to discover meaning in suffering.
They consider it insubstantial to find meaning in happiness.

Being here in Phnom Penh, I have noticed that a lot of these high-rises are actually just built out of cement. Cement is surprisingly strong.
For developing economies, and cities, seems that cement is very good business.
For example, a local company here called Chipmong, which has their own shopping center, bank, and grocery market, they even have a cement company!
Metaphorically and literally.

What I believe:
Why is there this bias that more is better? My thought is that actually, better is less.

For example, fewer repetitions and weight lifting is superior to more repetitions. Also, with design, more features and more functions is inferior.
Also, with life and lifestyle, having fewer options, is superior to having more options.

Spartan luxury is this: less is a luxury. For example, if you step in to a Ross or an H&M, there is a quadrillion options, which suffocates you. I far prefer going into a small Balenciaga store, where there is only a very few options.

This is the tricky thing; a lot of people strive towards having nothing. This is the big problem with too much emphasis on Zen or Buddhism; essentially you become a beggar. I would prefer to be instead, to look like or seem to be a billionaire beggar.
On the path to making better photos, show less. Feature fewer details and show less. I think this is also why black-and-white is superior to color; by shooting in black-and-white, you strip out options.
Also, the reason why I like very high contrast black-and-white is that it also strips away the midtones. I don’t like mid tones, as I don’t like middle or medium things.
For example, one thing Nasim Taleb says is avoid “medium risk†investments at all costs. Better to put 90% of your money in boring, cold hard cash in your savings account, and invest 10% and extremely risky speculative things, like cryptocurrency, where the value can go to zero. The reason why this is intelligent is this:
Rather than having a boring 3% return, year-over-year, it is better for your 10% investment to 1000X, or potentially go to zero.
For example, let us see you have $100,000 in savings. Or your net worth for your money totals $100,000 USD. Better to keep $90,000 of your money in a boring savings account, and keep it in liquid cash, and put the other 10% into a highly volatile and risky cryptocurrency investment. Because at worse, you lose 100% of your $10,000, but at best, your $10,000 investment could 1000x, netting you $10,000,000.
Or, if you are a solo bachelor and you have nothing to lose, just put 100% of your fiat currency into cryptocurrency. This is how I met a guy who is a whale, who invested his $50,000 life savings into Chainlink, when it was only at about three cents a Chainlink, and it made him so rich that apparently, he has to pay $10 million in taxes this year.
This is where I currently am, between the net worth of me and Cindy, I put 10% of our savings simply into Bitcoin. I plan to HODL (hold onto dear life), until Seneca becomes 18, and he could just do with it whatever he wants.
At worst, Bitcoin goes to zero, and we have only decimated our savings, which is only 10%.
This is apparently what the ancient Roman Empire Army used to do; if they lost a battle, in cowardice was suspected, they would at random kill 10% of a squad. Why 10%? If you lose 10% of your army, it is not enough to seriously injure you, but it is a strong enough motivator to keep your army from acting like a bunch of sissies.
Also, if you have a manager, or you are doing some sort of profit-sharing scheme, which I believe to be a good idea, best to give your manager or employee 10% of the profits, as it will give them some sort of skin in the game, and be a positive motivator for them to work hard and maximize profits.
A lot of people try to get rich by high frequency trading, but, not only is this bad for your health, but it is bad for your wealth. I say it is better to invest at the decade level; just think to yourself:
Do I believe this investment to go up 10 years from now? Or down?
Nobody could predict the future, but, when do you think at the decade level, certain trends are quite obvious.
For example, a decade from now, do you think more people will have more access to smart phones, or less?
Also, do you think a decade from now, bitcoin and cryptocurrency will be adopted more, or less?
In order to become more productive, and then enact more impact on the world, I say, rather than the naive idea of “doing more“, better to do less, but to intelligently leverage your strengths.
Why is it that we try to emulate the virtues of a machine? As so thinks Nietzsche and so does I.
What is the difference between man and machine? Man is superior to machine, as man is the ultimate measure of all things. Yet the reason why we strive to emulate the virtues of a machine is this:
We are currently living in the cult of quantification, and in order to become more virtuous, and happy, you must produce more, make more money, do more, sleep less, etc.
At the end of the day, what would you prefer; the worlds most expensive Lamborghini, or the worlds most beautiful women? I think the latter.
Or another thought, if you had the option of being a billionaire but 400 pounds and overfat and sick, or, do you have the worlds most beautiful muscular physique, what would you choose? I would choose the latter.
For example, in order to get ripped and shredded, or to lose fat, it is very simple; cut out all sugars, starches, fruits and vegetables, etc. Cut out anything which is sweet or starchy.
Or, if you strive to be happier, or more focused, just cut out all of your distractions. You know what your distractions are; be like Ulysses and tie yourself to the mast. For example, I know that I am personally distracted by social media and Instagram, that is why I deleted my Instagram in 2017.
Also, when I was in the process of quitting certain websites, I installed a website browser plug-in that literally forced me to block these websites, even if I had these nervous twitches to access them.
Also, the funny irony is that if you desire to quit porn, my thought is this: watch it, but you’re not allowed to fap. Is it still porn if you don’t fap? I don’t think so.
If you desire to live your best possible life, just think:
What can I cut out, and what can I do less of?
ERIC
Conquer your fears, and thrive as a photographer:
If this sparked any creative ideas within you, or any Zen thoughts, feel free to forward to a friend!
My ethos towards website and blog design.
The problem:
The thought towards making a “better†website, or blog is to optimize it with more plug-ins, more features, more widgets, etc.

I get insanely suspicious of all these companies trying to flout “sustainability†and “eco-chic†notions. Fake and superficial marketing.
The reason why life in Phnom Penh is better is that life here is far more dynamic!

































































































Perhaps, with making certain life decisions, or making certain daily decisions, not to be too intelligent, thoughtful, intelligent or planned. Rather, to take things with insouciance (not stirred, not shaken—sollocitus), and just “fuck itâ€, and do it.
Tomorrow may never come.
Plastic is ugly and unaesthetic.

Do you try to have yourself, your platform and your things fit the machine, or do you try to get the machine to fit you?
I encourage a you first approach; this means, strive to optimize what is best for you, and you let all of them and the machine figure it out later.
This is the big reason why too much focus on search engine optimization, Google SEO is bad; you end up having your website, blog, and platform strive to fit the mold of Google, rather than the other way around.






















































































































































































































































































The reason I like all you can eat shabu shabu (MO MO PARADISE)—
Eat as much as you desire, as much as you would like.
Being a bodybuilder and powerlifter— I love this!
Does freedom on the Internet matter? Also, how does it matter?
Why Covid 19 is real — it affected China’s growth economy! Note the 1 trillion dollar YUAN stimulus plan, to help stimulate their economy (which was also greatly hurt and suppressed by the COVID-19 pandemic, very much like the states).
Even the best and perfect doesn’t satisfy me!
Don’t eat anything because it’ll make someone else “happyâ€. Also, don’t let other people guilt you into eating something contrary to your taste, personal diet or food and eating philosophy!
Conversely, only eat what you want to eat! Food should not be moralized.
Always strive to make the software, and and operating system more beautiful.
Don’t throttle my speed, or my movement!
Remember; the “I“ in iPhone and iPad stands for “Internetâ€.
Thus, feel less concern. You yourself as an individual are not that important— no worries about people prying into your every activity.
Also, don’t worry if you are concerned whether you offended someone or not. They probably didn’t pay attention to it or gave it any mind anyways!
Therefore less stress, concern, and pressure in your life!

The reason not to worry too much about people, organizations, conspiracy theories, governments etc is this:
Most people and things are inept.

Revel in living in a dark, mysterious, uncertain, unjust, random, senseless, unpredictable and unknowable world.
Because, if the conspiracy theory goes back enough far in time, the truth probably would have revealed itself by now.
Belief in conspiracy theories — a sign of weakness, sickness (both physiological and mental), or low intelligence. Or people who are too insanely intelligent, that their pattern recognition bias is probably on overdrive.
Information technology thoughts: maybe it is a good idea to travel with at least two phones; an iPhone and an android device, just in case one stops working or the other.
Also, travel with a laptop, even though the additional weight and bulk is annoying.
For example, for some reason or another, my Wi-Fi on my iPhone, and my iPad no longer work. But fortunately, the 4G Sim card I have on my iPhone, paired with Apple iCloud private relay, works.





The biggest problem with technology, governments, ideologies, other people etc isn’t a fear thing, just an annoyance thing.
Perhaps being annoying is the only cardinal sin.
For example, popups, recommended videos, news, comments, etc — all are just annoying.
99.9% of tech companies products or services— just annoying!
Same goes with spam, email newsletter popups, etc.
Also a lot of pain in life isn’t “badâ€â€” just annoying.
Then just stay away from products, services, people, places and things which are annoying!
For example, with politics, Donald Trump is not evil or sinister, just annoying.
Radical thought: what if you just took everything in your life that was “badâ€, and just rebranded it as “annoying†instead?
Maybe it isn’t in the show about “privacyâ€, security, or being surveilled, but something else.
The desire to be hidden, stealth?
Perhaps this is plus one for DuckDuckGo.com



Being outside the states, this private connection stuff becoming more important to me.



Some weird things happening from my connection here in Cambodia:


Sauce is for suckers. Also sauce is typically just sugar.
Assume as if everyone is accessing your stuff in low data mode.
Americans squander their potential and freedom of speech and expression

Why Americans should value their US dollars. The YUAN (Chinese currency // RMB, Renminbi) aint taking over anytime soon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Most_traded_currencies
| Rank | Currency | ISO 4217 code | Symbol | Proportion of daily volume, April 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | USD | US$ | 88.3% | |
| 2 | EUR | € | 32.3% | |
| 3 | JPY | 円 / ¥ | 16.8% | |
| 4 | GBP | £ | 12.8% | |
| 5 | AUD | A$ | 6.8% | |
| 6 | CAD | C$ | 5.0% | |
| 7 | CHF | CHF | 5.0% | |
| 8 | CNY | 元 / ¥ | 4.3% | |
| 9 | HKD | HK$ | 3.5% | |
| 10 | NZD | NZ$ | 2.1% | |
| 11 | SEK | kr | 2.0% | |
| 12 | KRW | â‚© | 2.0% | |
| 13 | SGD | S$ | 1.8% | |
| 14 | NOK | kr | 1.8% | |
| 15 | MXN | $ | 1.7% | |
| 16 | INR | ₹ | 1.7% | |
| 17 | RUB | ₽ | 1.1% | |
| 18 | ZAR | R | 1.1% | |
| 19 | TRY | ₺ | 1.1% | |
| 20 | BRL | R$ | 1.1% |

Philosophy — the thing that never gets “oldâ€. It gets better over time!





































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Digital art is also sustainable! Digital calligraphy.










































































































































































































































































































































What is sustainable, what isn’t?
Digital technologies, crypto.
What isn’t sustainable? Infinite muscular growth. Gasoline and crude oil growth.
Digital photography is sustainable, film photography is not.
Because it is all digits, ones and zeros. Also note how the graphic chip company NVIDIQ is growing so well!
Note the 1 trillion dollar YUAN injection for the Chinese to stimulate their economy.
Also, crude oil isn’t sustainable. Petrochina.com.cn
















Over soft and “dreamy†photos.
As long as I got Wi-Fi, and my iPad Pro is plugged in (USB-C), with my MacBook Pro charger, I feel like I can do anything!
Be strong for you and your family, specifically for your spouse and kid(s).
Strength as a duty!