For MacOS:
Keep things insanely neat and orderly — using numbers, and simple pre-fix names.
Also, keep your desktop empty. A cluttered desktop is bad for the mind.
Also, no more PC or Windows, ever. Windows is ugly.
Treat your downloads folder like your scratch disk. Use it for works in progress, and when it is done, clean it out, and empty your trash.
Entrepreneurship as being in ‘attack mode’. Philosophy as more ‘defense’ mode.
Thought experiment:
If you had to live in the countryside, (non-city), and you had unlimited meat, eggs, unlimited coffee, unlimited insanely fast wifi, but you couldn’t venture into the city or spend your money … what would you do with your days?
The ‘city’ vs ‘countryside’ as a not good comparison or barbell. Instead, a ‘city’ vs ‘non-city’.
For example I am currently in the Korean countryside, and I am surrounded by 3 sides of Korean national forest. It feels like I am in a Yosemite valley, on top of a height, looking down, into the valley. It does not feel like the ‘countryside’, which is typically my image of farmland.
Travel with me:
Life like a military campaign
The goal isn’t to find the perfect location, house, or province to forever live in. Rather, to live life like a military campaign, where are you set up camp in a certain location for a certain period of time, and then move onto the next location.
Field, military operation. Wiktionary
Camp.
Impossible to know what the outcome will be until you just experiment with it.
Once you figure out where you want to live, everything else falls into place.
Screenshot your iPad view:
For truly mission critical things, like the operation of your website, do not trust beta.
Make it beautiful for yourself, as you’re going to look at all day yourself anyways.
Self-optimization.
What best serves you?
Photography is all about just sharing your impressions, the impressions a place has on your period
Making art is a good use of time.
Entertaining others as a poor use of time.
Being “social†is a poor use of time.
One noble life pursuit is just photography. Making your life be surrounded around the focus of photography, and using your time and life to review your photos, select your favorite photos, and share and publish them.
The question — could your mom use it and figure it out?
Retreat versus offense
Money doesn’t have much use the country side
OFFENSE.
I do and behaviors I please.
Charity
What type of thoughts do you want?
A nice thought: rather than seeking to imitate your past self, or continue to do what you are successful at, perhaps it is better and more interesting to strive to create a new legacy; experimenting and innovating and things you are either ignorant of, or attempting some thing radically new.
The first simple thought is this; adopt the mind of a beginner, or the mind of a child. Even when I look at my one year seven month year-old son, the way he experiences things is radically fresh. He touches things, and experiments things, in order to figure out what happens. Perhaps we should also try to do the same; rather than seeking money or success or fame, we are simply curious about the feedback which will happen if we try something new.
For example, when Seneca hits the shutter button on my camera, or plays with any other function buttons on the back of my Ricoh GR camera, he is simply curious what will happen. And once he discovers what the thing does, he likes to do it again, in order to strengthen the feedback loop cycle.
Why is it that all these successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and billionaires end up in some sort of silent retreat in the mountain or in the woods, or why so many major religions were founded by individuals went to the desert?
It seems that in order to innovate something radically new, you must radically seclude yourself. For example, one of my great renaissance‘s or rebirths was when I went super Zen monk mode in Vietnam for two years; radical disconnection from everything.
Also, I think it is a good idea to not seek feedback from anyone else, but simply to do things because you’re curious about the outcome.
Also, in order to innovate something totally brand-new, insanely robust health is essential. For example, I’m currently in the countryside in Korea, and I have found that in the countryside, I just sleep way better. Getting better sleep has helped me gain more strength, which also gives me more chutzpah to try something new.
Another thing which I am very proud of my son Seneca is that he has no concept or interest in money. To a child, money is simply a piece of useless paper. He is far more interested in playing with cars, throwing around rocks, walking up and down incline surfaces, And exploring the world.
How is it that we are adults become so corrupted by seeking money? Society.
You cannot really innovate or create something new if you’re seeking money. Why is that? If you try something totally brand-new, most likely it will not directly result in making money. If you want a steady flow of cash, easier to have a 95 job, and receive a predictable salary, either every two weeks or every month, or just be an Uber driver, and you directly get money feedback from the activities what you do.
But if you think about the really really successful companies, they tried something radically new before they even knew it was possible to make money with it. For example, in the early days of Facebook; do you remember when there were no advertisements? Even Mark Zuckerberg said in the early days that he thought that advertisements were lame.
Or Google, they started off as a search engine. This is before they were able to figure out how to advertise and monetize search.
Also another bias I have discovered about Silicon Valley, Y Combinator, etc.; they have helped many start ups become very successful, but the really really insanely successful companies like Amazon, Facebook, Google never went through an incubator program. Therefore, my thought is this:
If you want to become insanely insanely great, or build some radically new company, you must disconnect yourself from all notions of Silicon Valley, venture capital, Y Combinator, start ups, etc.
Let us all assume we will live to be 120 years old. And let us also assume there is no conscious afterlife. Then what is the point of it all?
I think deep down, we all have some sort of altruistic love of humanity. We want future humans to prosper. This becomes especially true once you have a kid; assuming no texting while driving accidents happen, they will most likely outlive you.
The hilarity is that even in the year 2022, the internet is still the future.
For example, the upside is that Google is doing a good job indexing everything on the Internet, which means if you are well indexed on Google, most likely your stuff will persist into the future.
Also, the upside of making things open, free and open source. Standalone JPEG files, zip files, PDF files and off-line storage like thumb drives and SD cards will persist well into the future.
Things which are constantly changing and evolving include technology, devices, etc. However there are certain things which do not change like ideas, wisdom, inspiration and motivation.
Also, in terms of what lasts or what doesn’t last, it seems that individuals and their ideas and philosophies last, whereas nations, civilizations, and empires do not last.
Schools of thought, and cultures seem to have also a good robust lifecycle. 
Let your own personal enthusiasm and interest guide you. Once you get bored or something, move on, or reimagine and reinterpret it.
For example, everything that I write, blog, and share or publish is an offshoot of something which personally interests me. If it does not interest me, there is no enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is only possible when you are personally curious about it. 
The other day I looked at this water wheel, which was powered by a small stream. The thing that is so interesting about the stream of water is this; it never stops flowing.
Even if you think about information, data, etc.; it is all considered a “streamâ€.
Therefore with your blog, or your channels for publication, just keep flowing it and streaming it. No end.
Flow on!
ERIC
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A critique of companies which piggyback off their past legacy. Far superior to create a new legacy instead.
For example, it seems that people either do not know or are ignorant of the fact, or decide to ignore the fact that Lamborghini is owned by Volkswagen. Also, the great shame of Lamborghini reviving their Countach, which is essentially a Lamborghini Aventador with a body kit.
Also, Leica is trying to piggyback off their past legacy with Henri Cartier Bresson.
The great thing with Elon Musk, and Kanye West; they are both creating radically new designs for their products.
Also for yourself, or even myself; rather than just doing what you already succeeded at, or what you’re already famous for, create something brand-new, and innovate something totally brand-new.
Having played around a little bit with the Fujifilm X pro 3, I actually really liked it. But some design suggestions for the next XPRO4:
Too many ugly buttons and text and font around the camera. Get rid of the drive button, the AE button, and the random button above the Q button, and also the top right button. Anyone who buys a Fujifilm X pro camera essentially wants a more modern like a rangefinder, so make it more simple.
I used the acros black and white film simulation preset, and it was very dissatisfying. Not enough contrast, introduce the neopan 1600 preset, and make it insanely high contrast black-and-white, just like the Ricoh GR 3X hi contrast black and white setting.
Also, the Fujifilm camera should also be able to adjust the contrast settings of every film simulation preset JPEG in camera in-camera.
Also, to make the X pro 4 more film like, for the film grain settings, just have the user toggle between ISO 400, ISO 400, ISO 800, and pushing to 3200.
The big problem about the Fuji film X-pro series is this; it is too fat and chunky. Put it on a diet, make it slimmer, and rounder around the edges.
The font for the X pro 3 and the X pro series is too generic. It looks like standard Arial font. Make it look more unique, maybe more Japanese.
Also, the Fujifilm X pro 4 should be stylized as â€XPRO IVâ€. I do not see a strong reason for there to be a dash between the X and the Pro.
This is my thought; Fujifilm should position themselves like Tesla; much more advanced, sexy, and innovative and modern than the Leica M digital rangefinder.
It seems based on my experiences, a lot of people who end up buying a Fujifilm x100 camera, or a Fujifilm X pro camera could actually afford a Leica M digital camera, or even a Leica Q digital camera.
The other day I looked at the Leica M 11, and was very unimpressed. I think the only thing like is is running on is their past Legacy. Fujifilm is in a great position to disrupt, as it is creating a new legacy.
Some design suggestions for the Leica M12:
The first design suggestion is this: become more ruthless about transforming the new like a M digital camera into minimalist perfection.
For example, nobody uses that lever in the front of the Leica M rangefinder camera.
Also, get rid of the button in the top right corner of the Leica M rangefinder digital camera. nobody knows what that button is.
The big problem about the new Leica M 11 is this; it is virtually undistinguishable from the prior generation Leica M 10. Therefore, it is my belief that there is no real strong incentive or motivation for photographers to either buy an M 11 over an M 10, or upgrade.
A simple suggestion is make the Leica M12 have an all black dot, with the “Leica†script in white. At least superficially, it looks different.
The big problem with cars is this; no matter how great of a car you buy, it will always get outdated in a year or two.
For example, let us imagine that you were one of the few suckers who bought a Lamborghini URUS when it first was released. Now, you’re stuck with your old model, even though that the new URUS S or the URUS PERFORMANTE is out.
Or even in the world of Bugatti, even if you got the Bugatti Veyron, now it is outdated it looks old and ugly. Bugatti Mistral is now out.
Therefore the question is this; if you are in a position where you really do need a car for every day living, what should you do?
The first thought is if you just want to live more freely, and not be beholden to your car, just buy a really cheap used car, and if you get bored of it, we’re no longer need it, you could easily sell it, or just give it away. For example, awaiting the birth of Seneca, I bought a 2003 Subaru outback, five speed, with 220,000 miles on the odometer for only $800 USD. After a year of use, one of the radiator hoses melted on a hot day, and it caused the piston rings to give out, and then I just junked the car, and got $300 of cash from the junkyard. Spending only $500 for a year of use was well worth it.
Another thought is if you just want a simple car to get from Point A to Point B,, just get a used Toyota Prius. They are insanely reliable, good on gas, and because it is a hatchback, very versatile. If you live in southern California, just get a white one.
If you want the thrills of driving really fast, or racing on a track, best to just spend 1000 bucks and rent a Porsche GT 3 for an hour at one of the Porsche experience tracks.
The true ideal is to not own a car at all; if you need to get somewhere, just take the subway, bus, or call an Uber. Or borrow a car from the family. Or if you want to go on a weekend excursion somewhere in the mountains, just rent a car for the weekend. Upfront, the cost seems much higher, but in actuality, you end up saving a shitload of money in the long run.
Also one of the major downsides of owning an electric car, like a Tesla, or any other electric car this; an electric car is just like a really really expensive iPhone. The battery technology quickly gets outdated in about a year or two. Therefore, it seems that the ideal strategy is either buy one used and resell it, or just lease it.
What if you want some sort of sports car, some gasoline car? Then it perhaps makes the most sense to just buy one used, because you will get it at a steep discount, and if you decide to resell it, you could probably get around 90% of what you bought it for. If you buy a brand-new gasoline car, you will instantly lose 30% of its value after you drive it off the lot. One of my personal problem things in life is that I have never bought a car that was more expensive than $2500 USD.
The fastest technology possible
The most capable technology
Take on the sun
What do photographers really want or need?
Beautiful women
Digest your experiencesÂ
Keep it flowing
Unobstructed
Disregard
Blog stream
Photos as a mnemonic device
Just share your thoughts and experiences
He likes the hybrid of both physical keyboard AND digital touch bar.
