The hilarious thing is that a lot of people want to become “enlightened“, or to become “woke”— but these are the hilarious ironies:

1. First, enlightenment, to become enlightened, maybe the first literal thing we could think about is light, literally to be in the light, and to spend more time in the light.
2. Second, the notion of being woke; woke means awake, like the opposite of sleeping. How can one become woke, if one is under the intoxication of drugs, alcohol, weed etc.?

Enlighten, light up… cast light upon yourself

First that basic notion of enlightenment is a fairly modern one; some sort of weird mishmash of pseudo pagan, no longer protestant American morality, mixed in with Hinduism, Indian, yoga, veda philosophy —

First the general notion of enlightenment was like some weird Buddha sitting in a lotus pose, levitating in the air or something.

Then, it seemed that the general notion of enlightenment fell out of vogue because it was too weird, spiritual and mystic; therefore as a consequence, the notion of political quickness, woke gone awry;

1. Literally spend more time in the direct sun!

I think humans we are like plants; we need water, lots of sunshine, care, nourishment in order to grow.

I wonder if the sun, sunlight is a great growth stimulant. There are certain theories that the more time you spend in the sun, the better your hormones and your testosterone etc.

2. What makes you “not woke”?

Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok, anything on the news, magazines, podcasts, anything supported by advertising.

Instead, just study ancient Greek philosophy, before advertising was invented. This means ideally even anything before Socrates; Socrates was putting on a big show. One can think of Socrates as the original “influencer”.

The point of capital is to grow it — indefinitely?

Overly sensitive?

Choose fun

Come up with your own new economic theories —

Invulnerable , indomitable.

I’m a tank!!

Invincible

Also — CYBERTRUKK is the most invincible car?

Also I desire to become invincible?

”Built like a tank”—

I desire my body to look like a tank?

I love the LUMIX G9– this thing is built like a tank!

Invest in more tank-like things!

TANK

The opposite of fragile

The greatest photographer alive

And also — the only photographer alive?

Building the most durable body?

How to become more durable

Durable bodies, durable minds, durable souls —

Also durable cars. 2010 Prius — this thing is built like a tank!! You cannot destroy it even if you wanted to!

Invest in more things which are tank like — more steel!

The toughest, the most durable shall win!

Bitcoin will win. And has already!

Money for what ends and towards what ends?

Towards capital?

Then … capital towards the sake of what?

Power?

Capital for the sake of power and more power —

Keep accumulating more and more capital for the sake of accumulating more and more power?

Then —

More power for the sake of what?

Self custodian , self custody

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Assuming that you’re a bitcoin billionaire, and thinking about your kids, when they grow up… what are the real true skills you need?

The basics?

the things that I am very poor at, yet haven’t really impacted my life in any sort of bad way include math and science.

if anything, the most critical thing I learned at the high school level, eight piece statistics is how one should always be skeptical about data, “studies”.

At the university level, studying sociology was one of the greatest things of all time because it taught me to think critically about society. But assuming that I had parents who were already university educated, this is not really necessary.

Things which are not taught, but which are more critical.

Philosophy, the philosophy of money, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of human biology, etc.

Hamsters spinning around in a hamster wheel?

What I like in modern day life is like a bunch of hamsters, high on dopamine serotonin, anti-depressants, upper, methamphetamines, caffeine and sugar and juices, stuck in a little hamster wheel, and Leslie spinning around, towards no good ends? Also doing this all while indoors, no direct light or sun, in front of a computer screen? Sitting?

Something that I am starting to realize; it is difficult to see what people really look like, until you have seen them naked, full naked and directly in the sun, maybe ideally at the beach?

Why is everybody covering up?

Living here in LA, possibly one of the most image-conscious places on planet earth, ironically, everyone is just covering up.

For example, it looks like almost universally everyone here wears sunglasses, dark sunglasses which cover up and obscures your eyes.

Why does everyone wear sunglasses?

I have some theories:

1. First, it is because people are extremely awkward. Wearing really really dark tinted sunglasses is like putting on a mask, or feeling protected. For example, it seems that one of the cardinal rules of modern day living is “thou shall not make eye contact with a stranger one does not know”. As a consequence, nobody wants to be caught staring at another person, even out of childlike curiosity.
2. Fashion: it is true, lot of sunglasses are very stylish.
3. Weakness to the sun: it is true that in Los Angeles, the sun is very strong. But the irony is wearing sunglasses is like having condoms for your eyes; you never really have the chance to make your eyes stronger.
4. A social meme? Because everyone wears sunglasses, everyone else also wants to wear sunglasses.
5. Fear? The idea that if you go outside you must always “cover up”— including your eyes?

Seneca at age 3 years old, 1 months can already say “them” (more)— Bitcoin!

A new thought today:

Start teaching your kids bilingually, if you can.

Have them think like PhD students.

Hmmm.. maybe I will no longer treat Seneca like a baby no more. Maybe instead, I will treat him like a child prodigy genius, talking to him like he were a PhD student?

Korean *AND* English

My Korean is poor, but ever since he was born I only spoke to to him in Korean. I’m a master of the English language.

Maybe moving forward, I will continue to teach him high-level concepts, but this time, in both Korean and English, substituting my use of English with my Korean fails

Starting from the end backwards:

First, the high school exit exam is really really easy, maybe the only things which are harder include math and science. Otherwise everything is easy.

Things which I find all of them more bizarre include the writing portion; the rules seem pretty arbitrary.

K-12 for the sake of what?

OK, now that I am super educated, and Cindy is also super educated, the question is; “is college worth it?”

Perhaps college is only really worth it if you desire to study something super hard-core like engineering, or if you aspire to become a doctor. But technically you could just study this online yourself. If you really wanted to.

Are colleges a scam?

Being born in 1988, and having my parents immigrate from South Korea, having me born here, the question is “is college worth it?”

I think for first generation kids, it makes sense. If your parents haven’t had the university experience, or freshly immigrated from a different country, then I think university and college makes sense. But for everyone else, not so much.

Things which I think are a scam:

1. Art schools: I don’t think there’s any good reason to go to art school, besides networking. But you could still do not working without going to art school.
2. A typical humanities major: Just studying the humanities, and taking on any sort of debt is foolish.

Other majors

1. It seems that knowing computer science doesn’t hurt.

my personal thought is that it is not money which is the issue; technically with credit, financing, whatever… The modern day America can “afford “anything. For example it looks like Apple is now the new modern day loan; any poor person in America can afford the newest iPhone pro, Monthly payments of $50 or whatever into perpetuity.

Even Tesla; I think you could lease a brand new Tesla model three for only $329 a month. Any and every single modern day American can afford that.

Therefore, my suggestion and thought:

Realize and recognize that people are not as price sensitive as you might think… either, you just gotta make something so incredibly desirable, want to desire it… and people will bend heaven and earth in order to get it?

Therefore, focus on creating things value, things that people really really want.

For example, I’m now in the position that I could essentially afford anything. Now that I can afford everything, it really shows that honestly… there’s really nothing out there that I truly desire anymore, because it is all mediocre.

OK this is a big thing; why is it that everyone wants and seeks justice, reparations, whatever… the defeated demand repayment from the victors? 

Might makes right

Let us think about this a very long time ago. Think about ancient Greece, the Spartans, etc. There were the victors, there were losers, there were the Greek, there were the barbarians.

In ancient Roman times, there were the Romans, and then there was everybody else.

Inter warring

OK so this is some things that I find very very weird; certainly the Native Americans, who first inhabited North America or whatever, they were the original inhabitants of this land. Yet… Who was before them?

If you go back to Ice Age times, certainly somebody else was there before.

Or if you think about this even longer, even amongst Native American, Native American tribes; there was always a battle for power and more power power. The strong were always battling the strong, and the victor is were always seeking to become more and more dominant.

I think the cruel reality is that the strong wins, and truth be told, they don’t need to apologize about anything.

Can you imagine the ancient Spartans, being “sorry “, for dominating the helot population? Or the ancient Romans or Greeks feeling “bad“ (the Christian notion of feeling “bad” and guilt)– ?

America’s weird because on one hand we are a Christian nation. We were founded more or less by protestant Quakers, which is a protestant denomination in America. As a consequence, Christian morality is weird; on one hand we have the moral higher ground that we must conquer for the sake of evangelizing the good word of Jesus Christ to other barbaric people, at the same time… we do it with guilty feelings, letting “God do the rest”–.

For example, was it the medieval times, in which the Christian crusaders would just kill people at random, and unsure whether somebody was Christian or not Christian, to say that in the afterlife God would separate them?

Christians are the bad guys? 

Even in America, I think anyone who is very anti-Semitic, anti-Jewish or whatever, tend to be Christians.

It looks like we Christians have still not forgiven Jewish people for killing Jesus Christ.

Why does this matter?

I think this matters for many reasons.

First, out of the whole globe the whole planet the whole world economy, certainly in terms of fiat currency, the US dollar reign supreme. And the only feeble reason why the American dollar has any backing is because of our military power and might and prowess.

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Currently the big war we see is between biology and technology. 

On one hand, all of these tech utopist, strange folks think that technology can solve all the world’s problems. These are the people who once upon a time, were bullied in school, middle school and high school,

For example, a lot of examples:

We can understand hormones, modern day medicine, medication as technology. For example we have all these strange “anti-depressant” medication’s, like serotonin uptake inhibitors, etc. These are things that modify our brains synapseses, hormonal pathway uptake downticks whatever, and as a consequence try to put us in a position in which we are able to continue working, being “productive”, and to fit within this modern day capitalist architecture of life.

Can you monetize biology?

My personal thought is technology is very very good when it could improve our biology.

For example, the technology of clothing is great because it keeps us warm when it is very very cold, even we could think of goretex, goretex jackets, umbrellas as technology; good things which allow us to be out and about when it is raining etc. Or a good pair of goretex boots, waterproof rain boots when it is raining.

Or another another great modern day technology innovation, ironically one which is very very “low tech“– my beloved Vibram five finger shoes, which allow me to operate in modern day life, with just enough separation from the streets and pavement, but still provide me the naturalistic barefoot living experience. The modern day “tech barbarism”.

Another great technology is obviously photography. Without modern day technology and if you, certainly our lies would be much worse.

Improving your biology

My personal thought is the proper use of money, technology should be to improve your personal biology. For example, the technology of the modern day heater, to keep you nice and warm and cozy at home, when it is terribly cold and damp inside your house, which is positively bad for your biology.

Even in terms of home architecture, your habitation technology, I think the best innovation is a simple one; floor to ceiling windows.

In fact, I think that’s still confusing to me is in today’s modern Day world, currently in the year 2024, why are we still doing building houses out of wood? This seems insanely bizarre to me; can we just 3-D print houses out of glass?

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Where to invest your money

The very very simple optimization in life is put your money where your health is. That is, using your money to improve your health. 

Buying a new iPhone, iPhone Pro, laptop or Apple device will not improve your health

I think this is a big thing; people are willing to dump all this money into the newest iPhone, iPhone Pro, but in fact it will not do anything substantial for your health.

This is my hot take: LA can and be paradise, and is paradise, if you play your cards right.

How?

I think this is the billion dollar question:

How does one live a happy and virtuous life in Los Angeles?

Model 3 Vision —

…Where?

Downsides—

When you over eat it may cause indigestion and nausea at night,,, which leads to insanely poor sleep, and making you feel like shit the next morning!

Also worse, you might wake up and ruin the sleep of your partner!

Metaphor to life: some people are just living behind foggy glass their entire life and have never wiped it?

Good faith,

I am invincible!

Motivation for starting your taxes! 

Just follow taxes; even now TurboTax, has a feature whether you sold stocks or crypto… 

Looks like in America, modern day society, modern day society… the name of the game of how to win is he or she who gets the most marketing shall win.

Note to Donald Trump, what… in the early election cycle he got what $1 trillion worth of free marketing and advertising from all of the political platforms and TV networks, who gave him free marketing? If you really really don’t want to get somebody elected, you just don’t name them. This is why I find it very very strange when all these liberals keep posting this anti-Donald Trump stuff, and keep retweeting what he said… You idiots… Just ignore it! For example, I don’t really even have an opinion about Donald Trump; this is the best way to approach things.

Also from a similar perspective, the more you are hated, this is a very very good sign. Why? You will get free marketing!

If anything, the only bad thing is to be ignored. 

Let us note that your beloved iPhone pros are produced by Foxconn in mainland China, whereas cyber truck is produced here?

my lineage of Tesla:

Life before cyber truck, life after.

It’s straight up looks like something that came out of a video game!

I think why it is so innovative and such a big deal is that when you see cyber truck in real life, it looks like it is out of a video game? It is so polygon, so disruptive, you cannot ignore it.

Anyone who hates it, it doesn’t really even matter because you’re not gonna buy it anyways. This is why being a hater, or hitting things makes no sense, and also from a business perspective… You ignore people who hate it because they’re not gonna buy it, but also you love it because even when haters spew hate, they’re essentially giving you free marketing.

Cybertruck or nothing.

Everything else… Why does it all look the same?

Love it or hate it, bitcoin and cyber truck is like the same thing; everyone has a strong opinion about it, whether you like it or not.

Cccccccc—-combo breaker!

I LOVE CYBERTRUCK!

Finally! At the age of 36, I have finally witnessed and seen a card that I absolutely love? That whenever I see it, it inspires and awes me?

I rate cyber truck at least 1 billion times more interesting, domineering, dominant, gangster than any Lamborghini, Porsche or Ferrari on the planet.

With cyber truck, it kills everything, everything else is dead.

Seeing cyber truck, it gives me more American pride, America, Elon Musk etc.… We truly have the best design on the planet. The best of the best.

No taxes … the whole US economy would collapse.

Also — Apple as anti America? Offshore fake taxes in Dublin Ireland tax havens?