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What I have discovered, Beta is less stable, and often very frustrating, because things don’t work as well. However, the upside is that with Beta, you’re always on the cutting edge.

Lighter is better.

No iPhone Pro.

Design as your own attitude.

Impero— to command.

Mercedes is good— a Mercedes is a Mercedes. Same with BMW.

Lexus is just a Toyota. Rolls Royce is a BMW. Bugatti is a Porsche, Porsche is an Audi, Audi is a VW.

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My only regrets in life is when I yield:

Never yield in that which you believe in.

Also, good idea to use your weapons of aggression, and your anger to prevent yielding.

What does society in religion and ethics strive to do? To make us more yielding. To become “nicer”, more “kind”, predictable and yielding.

Anti Modern Authorities

And what are we pressured to yield to? To “reason”, “logic”, “data”, “evidence”, “proof”, “science”, “common sense”, “cultural norms”, elders, “experts”, “professionals”, authority figures and doctors etc.

Also, to kowtow to people with “credentials”, degrees, education, etc

The more swole and buff you become, the better:

The wisdom of the future:

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Think very far ahead:

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What do you want to become 25 years from now?

1. Regret minimization framework

Via Jeff Bezos:

Imagine yourself 90 years old on your death bed– what would you regret NOT having done or attempted?

Bezos very smart– fore-goed a lucrative (mid year) lawyer salary bonus to go off and get a head-start on starting his tech company (Amazon).

2. Why think 25 years into the future?

How strong, or how bitter can you tolerate?

Coffee as strength tolerance:

How strong of a cup of coffee can you tolerate and bear in the morning?

My prediction: a lot more similar to the world of today then we would like to think.

For example, at least in the states and America, we will still be a heavily car dependence society. The only difference is there will be more electric cars, faster recharge times, longer range, etc. Also more automated driving for stop and go traffic on the freeway.

What will become more expensive 25 years from now, and what will become more cheap 25 years from now?

It looks like 25 years from now, we will still probably be buying iPhones.

25 years from now, sweet things will keep getting cheaper and cheaper. Also, 25 years from now there will be more obesity, diabetes, type three diabetes (Alzheimer’s), poor health etc.

25 years from now, fuel, petroleum, gas will probably be more expensive. It will be the luxury of the rich to drive cars which require expensive premium gas, with low gas mileage.

Also, 25 years from now, we will become more dependent on our phones. Using our phone to pay the bills, pay for rent, and every day financial purchases and transactions.

Photography 25 years from now

Still will look pretty much the same. Bigger issues in photography will have to do with creativity, building your fame and your clout, and staying motivated and inspired.

What will matter more in the future? 25 years from now? What will matter less 25 years from now? Also, what will continue to be important 25 years from now?

25 years from now, people will still be drinking coffee. Also, 25 years from now, I believe that the Phone concept will still exist. People will probably be spending more time on their phone 25 years from now.

Also wise to think 25 years in the past.

For me

the joy of studying my own photo compositions —

I’m trying to figure out why I like certain photos of mine, and why they are successful to me.

Perhaps the goals in video games and the way they are designed are more attuned to human nature —

The desire to loot, conquer, kill, dominate, ascend.

The desire to fight, shoot, battle.

Happiness is not the purpose to life, but more power!

Note — wool, leather, down.

Synthetic is not.

The ideal with coffee and caffeine. Every once in a while, detox (at least 24-48 hours) for optimal health.

For the most part, it seems coffee is a slave beverage (for us busy worker bees to keep on working, for longer hours, more vigorously).

Let us consider the ancient Greeks did not have coffee or caffeine. And yet they were still great.

A bad sign:

I cannot recall the last time I had a truly deep and restorative round of sleep.

In Cambodia, the state religion (Buddhism) IS the state

In countries where the state and religion are divorced don’t really make sense.

America as a Protestant “white” country. But pretends not to be?

America cannot exist without God.

Where China is bizarre — no more religion (state or in general) creates a vacuum.

Then what is the new religion? Industry.

Silicon Valley— “data” as the new God.

Also “capital” becomes its own godhead.

Catholicism as the Holy Roman Empire 2.0

Yoga — “Buddhism” or “mindfulness” as the new religion.

Nowadays, it is more uncommmon to not have a tattoo, than have a tattoo.

Note, the Sneetches of Dr Seuss. For the future, tattoo removal service will be very profitable!

If you want to become more unique, don’t have a tattoo.

Similarly speaking, more interesting to NOT own an iPhone pro, than to have one.

Why in Asia, why are the untouchables called untouchables? A hygiene thing.

Typically speaking, the more beautiful someone is, the more hygienic they are. Ugliness is typically a mental shortcut for us to think that another person is not hygienic and potentially a carrier of disease.

Even now, I discriminate, whether I think somebody might have Covid, or might be an anti-VAXxer. Also how I am very very discriminating on who I decide to let touch my kid.

Touch is the ultimate human privilege.

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NO EXPANSION, NO NEW LIFE:

A great idea: Apple should make an iPhone Titan, starting at $1999 USD— made out of titanium.

Everyone could afford an iPhone Pro now, so the $999 USD price tag is no longer interesting. Consider all the rich Americans, and mainland Chinese who could afford it.

Remember how Andy Warhol said he loved Coca-Cola, because it didn’t matter how rich or poor you were, everyone could afford the same Coke? Well, perhaps best for us to think of Andy Warhol as a hippie communist, and what he strove to do with his art was to make it a egalitarian.

The only reason why Apple doesn’t make a super expensive iPhone is that it feels like it needs to be affordable. But, everyone can afford an iPhone SE now, so Apple would be very intelligent to make even a higher end iPhone.

A world with absolute no danger isn’t a world worth living.

How do we become more sexy?

Also, who is the sexiest black pink member? Not Lisa, she is too emaciated. People will probably trend towards Jennie. Also, good that black pink don’t just look like prepubescent girls anymore.

More mature is more sexy.

Also, as a man, if you no longer desire random women to have sex with you; then what is the point of sexiness? Then ironically enough, becoming like some sort of celibate monk might actually be sexier towards women.

Even Nietzsche philosophized that young priests, with sexy legs were appealing to women.

Theory: that which is out of reach for us, or unobtainable as more sexy? Once it is too easily attainable, or within reach, it is no longer sexy to us.

Very very big open spaces and plazas. Conducive to dancing. Phnom Penh Wat Botum Park area as insanely successful.