I’ve had my fair share of rotator cuff injuries from bench press, dumbbell press, shoulder press, etc. The best exercises I’ve discovered to strengthen my rotator cuff:
In today’s world, we are all scared shitless to talk to one another. What’s the future then? Simple — those with social skills shall conquer the planet.
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Your strongest asset (after your body) is your mind. How does one flex their mind? Simple — speak your mind. Have the audacity to flex your mind in public. Same as having the audacity to flex your body in public.
Always strive to make the simplest workflow possible:
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Perhaps we should head towards a more modular future … less reliance on buying stuff. Instead, focus on BUILDING things. CREATING THINGS! Creating things from scratch. Don’t buy a Lambo; rather… start with a beater car and build it up!
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In today’s brave new world, best to plan and do things as late as humanly possible, than to ‘plan’ and be ‘proactive’.
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Skateboarding as a good means of self-expression, art, sport, and not doing ‘bad’ things.
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What is a genius? He or she who has deep enthusiasm for whatever he or she likes to do, or wants to do, or cares for.
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What is “valuable� Something you make (digital or physical) which gives strength, hope, motivation, and vigor for someone else.
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Enthusiasm means ‘a god dwelling within you’ [enthousiasmós]. You cannot fake it. You cannot also fake passion nor true love.
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One of the best ways to succeed:
Don’t censor yourself.
Speak your mind and don’t water it down.
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We cannot control all the bad shit which has happened to us. Better to think:
(more…)Perhaps what I have experienced, or what I am currently experiencing is actually a blessing in disguise.
A thought:
If you are given certain advantages in life, you’re stupid to NOT take it.
Let me explain:
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When we call people or kids ‘privileged’, what we really mean to say is ‘rich, advantaged’ (or sometimes) “ungrateful, spoiled, brat”, etc.
Why is this distinction important? Because true privilege means that the law doesn’t apply to you. That you are EXEMPT from the law.
For example, if I kill someone but I am rich enough, and can ‘buy off’ the cops, then I am privileged. And this happens a lot all around the world (even in America). Even in the states, if you’re rich or influential enough, you can even get away with murder.
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My approach to intermittent fasting:
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In praise of skepticism and suspicion:
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If you live in America, you’re American. Period. It doesn’t matter if you were born here, immigrated here, or somehow ended up here. You’re American. If you’ve spent any time living in America, perhaps for at least 10 years, you’re American.
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We talk about a non-gender binary. Shouldn’t we also apply the same line of thinking to race?
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Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Kanye West, etc — they are all great. Why? Not for their money or entrepreneurial successes, but their aberrant thinking. Their ability to think different.
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Do you remember Google+? Flickr? Tumblr? Livejournal? Xanga? Facebook?
Moral of the story:
(more…)All external platforms will either eventually die or screw you over in one way or another. Thus the goal: OWN YOUR OWN PLATFORM!
The more ghetto, the better! A combination of ‘creative constraints’ and approaching a ‘MacGyver’ approach to life:
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My thought:
It is totally fine that we are anti-meat from a moral, ethical, or an environmental perspective.
However … if we are hard, scientific and empirical … we should NOT assert “definitively” that high consumption of red meats is “bad” for oneself.
My thoughts:
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More important than what you eat is what you decide NOT to eat. A ‘via negativa’ approach to health. My thoughts:
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A new thought:
Perhaps better to adopt a ‘ghetto’ lifestyle than to strive to adopt for an Uber-fancy lifestyle.
My thoughts:
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Fundamental concepts of photography entrepreneurship:
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I feel this is an inconvenient truth that nobody really likes to think or believe:
(more…)The fact is this — 90% of your success as an entrepreneur, photographer, etc is based on your marketing prowess, and 10% is based on your “skill” (how good you are as an artist and photographer).
What is ‘bias‘? Bias means ‘slant’ (oblique). This means:
Everyone’s opinion will ALWAYS have a slant, no matter what.
Or in other words:
Philosophically, all humans, corporations, institutions, governments, etc will ALWAYS have a bias.
Thus the question:
Should we as a society ‘allow’ bias, or how should we approach or attack it?
So my thought:
Perhaps we should just be more TRANSPARENT about bias.
For example:
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One of the greatest philosophical tools in our philosophical toolkit:
The philosophical framework of ‘falsification’
Or in other words:
(more…)Knowing that science can only FALSIFY things (mark things as UN-TRUE) than to “prove” anything to be positively “true”.
If you’re thinking about photography entrepreneurship ideas, you’re already a photography entrepreneur. Some basic ideas:
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Let us adopt the Steve Jobs notion of the ‘reality distortion field’. You can distort and mould reality to your wishes. Don’t be the slave of reality; become the master.
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Some ways in which working out at the park is actually better and superior to working out at the gym:
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One simple way to make the world a better place:
Love others as you would want others to love you.
Also:
(more…)Don’t hate on others as you don’t want others to hate unto you.
From age 21 (when I started my first 9-5 tech job), I started to get really bad back pain (specifically lower-back pain). I since then got rid of it. How did I do it? My story:
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You cannot “control+z†and undo reality. We can only bravely march forward. My thoughts:
(more…)We all descended from Africa. Study Lucy — the first “mother†of mankind, ~3 million years ago (first discovered in Ethiopia).
All humans (we are all Homo sapiens)— the wise (sapiens). We are all “homoâ€â€” hominids.
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Or in other words, almost everything visual with light is photography.
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My new understanding and breakthrough:
Better than quoting others is to quote yourself.
This is good because it will kill gossiping or talking smack about others. I truly believe that all gossip is toxic. Trust none of what you hear, half of what you see, and only of what you experience.
Certainly there is a social function to gossip. To spread useful information about the legitimacy or trustworthiness of a person.
However it seems in modern times, we love to gossip about others as a form of self entertainment, sport, or fun. Why? Some thoughts:
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Some reasons I’ve been using DuckDuckGo.com (instead of Google) and also not following the news and social media, and also being highly suspicious of Wikipedia is this:
(more…)All “facts†are politicized weapons. You can always skew the statistics and “facts†in whatever direction you want.
If you truly have any real beliefs. you must have the courage and audacity to put your real life face on it.
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When determining the position or opinion of someone else (or that of yourself) always examine your ground truth — the simple facts you consider self-evident and true. The basis in which your philosophy lies, and the basis and foundation in which you can build up your intellectual ideas.
