What is the root or the genesis of existential dread and nihilism? Some of my thoughts:

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Question:

Would you rather choose the world’s best VR porn experience, or do it ‘IRL’ (in real life) with another embodied flesh human being?

I suspect the second.

Or in other words:

Flesh is the future.

How to make a photo which better connects with your viewer:

Put your hand in it!

Why? It makes the viewer think or feel like it were *their* hand. Similar in video games and FPS when you think the ‘POV’ hands are your hands.

Note Robo Recall or Half-Life Alyx VR:

Seeing the hand of the creator makes you feel like you’re really part of the action!

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I finally understand the Pubilius Syrus quote:

Even a single hair casts its own shadow.

It means even the smallest, most mundane, most everyday thing can be noted as a beautiful, meaningful, and substantial thing!

Or as something I said long ago:

Photography is all about capturing ‘beauty in the mundane‘.

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To be rich and poor is mostly a mindset thing:

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The truth:

Necessity is the mother of all innovation.

Which means:

Often having *too many* resources (money, tools, people power) is positively DISADVANTAGEOUS to you.

So what this means is this:

Take economic constraints (not having enough money, time and resources) as a POSITIVE thing. This will force you to become truly innovative.

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The best style of company to build in America is a ‘Sole Proprietorship‘. What is this? Simple:

You are the solo owner, boss, and employee of your own company (of yourself).

Simplest taxes, ways to report income and deductions, etc. You can just do all your taxes on Turbotax.

Also some ideas:

1. Don’t apply for VC funding; become self-reliant. Either do it ‘duct tape’ “ghetto” style. Use your brains, and your own personal labor. Work with friends who are in the same field. Nobody needs to take pay.
2. Don’t take out loans or take out debt. Best to just draw from your own funds. Economic constraints are also creative constraints!

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I am pretty sick and tired of all the petty people who throw shade on America and American values … especially if they weren’t born or raised in America.

Some of my personal thoughts on success and America:

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You’ve aways already been an entrepreneur. To me, an entrepreneur ain’t someone who just wants to build a company to sell for a billion bucks. No — an entrepreneur is someone who has a fun appetite for risk, and is willing to put everything on the line to create, do, and build what they believe in!

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Thought:

A non-stable (anti-stable) life is the best life?

Why am I so productive and prolific? Because I have mastered MacOS — the best operating system of all time (shout out to the Apple team, and Steve Jobs). Some tips and guidance:

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In today’s digital and social media saturated world, photos are king.

It has taken me almost 5 years to finally understand and realize and embody this aphorism by Nassim Taleb:

Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence.

In other words:

Just because you cannot see the evidence before your very eyes doesn’t mean the evidence doesn’t exist.

For example:

There is always going to be hidden information and hidden facts which will always be unknowable to us, or hidden from us.

If we understand politics as wrestling, or entertainment then this is the truth:

Whoever is the most entertaining will win.

Boring people don’t win votes. Boring people are not memorable.

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The plainer the better. In praise of “plain Jane”(a plain Rolex or watch without having any superfluous diamonds or stuff added to it).

In other words, don’t add superfluous (non functional) crap to the purity or essence of something.

You can fake enthusiasm but not boredom.

Many intellectuals are actually quite stupid. They lack the ability to think for themselves, lack a historical or philosophical aspect, and are often too cowardly to assert their own opinion without quoting the New York Times, the New Yorker, or quoting “science” and “the data” or “statistics”.

How to master marketing, according to ERIC KIM:

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Greed is not a vice, it is a virtue. Why? A life without gains and wanting more is a degenerate life:

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My thought:

In today’s brave new covid-world… we actually don’t need money as much.

Why? For example:

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Leica was once great, now Leica ain’t so cool. My suggestions and thoughts:

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Why I’m betting big on monochrome:

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Or why I’ve always been attracted to women with pretty faces:

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Why I’m so greedy for the gains:

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I don’t trust all these neo-hippies who want to live “off the grid” and do this strange degenerate “van life” thing. I prefer living on the grid. I like access to hygiene, clean water on tap, WiFi, electricity, and washer and dryer in my tiny luxury apartment. I like having my gigabit internet fiber optic to upload videos at insane speeds. Why live off the grid? Is it a sign of life and societal weariness, exhaustion, and nihilism?

Simple thoughts and ideas how you can become more creative during quarantine:

1. Make selfies of yourself
2. Start shooting videos of yourself and your everyday life
3. Start making workout videos of yourself
4. Shoot topless selfies of yourself
5. Start a website–blog, and start curating your best art works
6. Start a YouTube channel and start uploading whatever videos ad hoc.

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There is no such thing as ethical or unethical behavior. However I do think …

Perhaps we should maximize our transparency .. to openly share our motives.

Essentially towards an anti-sneaky approach.

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Something Nikola Tesla talks about in his essay: ‘The Problem of Increasing Human Energy‘:

We human beings are a human mass (a ball of flesh). The question then arises —

How can we best motivate ourselves (we are a human mass) to move? Some of my personal thoughts:

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Towards a critique of Silicon Valley thinking:

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The goal ain’t for maximal wealth or power, but maximal and apex simplicity .. to augment your ability to stream thoughts, ideas, art work and your life.

What is the future of lifestyle? My thoughts:

1. No travel
2. More time stuck indoors
3. The importance of mental and physical/physiological health
4. Money as less important (why save up for a home, if you know that staying home all day sucks?)
5. Existential dread — more people trying to find a purpose or direction in their life.
6. More people who want to be creative while stuck in quarantine.
7. A great chance to start blogging, vlogging, and just sharing whatever interests you.

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True innovation happens when we got no other options! Therefore rather than bemoaning the fact that you got fewer options … see it as a great blessing in disguise.

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Judge your wealth by what you DONT have or what you DONT own.

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An interesting insight which was spared by reading Chris Dixon on why decentralization matters:

Centralization is bad for humanity.

A life with no choices is communist and bad. Communism means “all is one, and all is communal”. If Facebook becomes the only portal to your friends on the internet, isn’t this bad?

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Generational wealth means:

I made a lot of money in my life and I give it to you, my child.

But the problem:

Rich kids tend to be lazy, get addicted to drugs and have little purpose in life.

Thus perhaps the true generational wealth is then morals, ethics, and certain virtues to our future kids. Teaching them which vices to steer clear of.

Also to transmit wisdom, understanding, anti-sucker-pronnness, and to strive to dispel ignorance.

How to make money:

Provide a service or product which motivates people to move and do things!

And even if we think about fiat currency (money) it is all about using money as a social tool to coordinate trust and movement amongst people for resources (food, supplies, etc).

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The best home workouts are the most simple:

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Why are you so unmotivated? Is it laziness, or fear? Is it because of exhaustion, or ‘paralysis by analysis‘? Is it just because you’re so exhausted because you didn’t sleep enough? Is it because of hormonal reasons? Is it the substances (alcohol, weed, etc) that un-motivates you? What is really the root cause here?

Is it because you are un-motivated because you don’t wanna do the hateful work? Are you unmotivated because you feel trapped or hate your job?

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Contrary to popular belief, most of the (good) internet trolls are actually highly intelligent, motivated, smart, and educated individuals. But why do they troll? Some of my thoughts:

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The goal ain’t work for work sake. The goal is to only work on things you truly care for (what you got your heart in). The goal is purposeful productivity:

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Start Karina Bao from Phone Free Future how the phone epidemic is killing our minds:

I decided I needed a camera when I got rid of my iPhone.The 2MP camera on my flip phone was not enough. I was looking for a camera that was small, light, and shot great photos and videos. I chose the Canon Ivy REC, a solid $79 camera.

This is the perfect camera for leaving your house when you don’t want to carry your phone around.

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My grim and personal thought:

I don’t think COVID will ever go ‘away’.

What I mean is this:

1. Creating a vaccine will take *waaaay* longer than we expect it to.
2. When the vaccine actually is available, it will be very hard to get it.
3. Even if we get the vaccine, it won’t be 100% “fool-proof”.
4. Even if you get the vaccine, there will probably be a bunch of bozos who are ‘covid-deniers’ who will not comply. Then think — would you send your kids to school with other parents who don’t believe in COVID?

Thus my practical thought is this:

Don’t delay living … live now.

Because COVID ain’t gonna go anywhere anytime soon. We have Covid-19 (it started in 2019). What if there is a Covid-20? (mutates in 2020) or a Covid-21, or Covid-22, or something even 10x *WORSE* than covid happens?

Live now.

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Face masks will become a fact of life. Some ideas:

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Good fat: fat in meat (saturated fat and cholesterol as good for you). The fattier the meat, the better.

Bad fat: body adipose tissue fat. Excess fat-flesh (adipose tissue) is bad. Also bad fat is any cooking oil fats derived synthetically — margarine, vegetable oils as mostly bad for you. Perhaps the only non-meat oils to trust is what has existed a long time (olive oils in Ancient Greece, and sesame seed oil in Asia and China).

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If your goal is to work more, here is how to do it:

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Movement is the goal. To move the human mass. Movement should better be thought of as “motivation”— the initial motive force that gets us humans moving and going!

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Here are all my open-source videos (thus far):

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Happiness simply as a means to an end, not the end in itself.

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In life as long as you simply follow what you’re interested or passionate about, how can you not succeed? My whole life whenever I’ve pursued something I’m genuinely and passionately interested in, I’ve always succeeded. I’ve always found inner motivation and power to pursue it. But whenever I’ve pursued things others told me that I “should” do, I failed.

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The privileged are often the most nihilistic, empty, apathetic, depressed, filled with existential dread, addicted to drugs and alcohol and carnal pleasures, and with no meaning, purpose or direction in life.

Nikola Tesla strove to create innovations and technologies to help people have the easiest life possible. But question— once we have an easy life, then what? What do we want to do with our easy life? And is this even something to be desired?

I say — an easy life is a boring life. I advocate for a simple life, but a challenging, difficult and interesting life is far preferable! If anything, a simpler life encourages a more creatively productive life which is good!

I say the goal:

Entrepreneurship — risk taking to do new dope shit, that doesn’t necessarily have to lead to money making, but doing something truly great, worth while, fun, interesting and grand.

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Better to buy (and eat tons of delicious lamb) than buy a Lamborghini.

Or also:

Better to workout a lot, and eat a lot of lamb (flesh meat, bloody high in saturated fat and cholesterol) and look like a greek god (transforming your body into a Lamborghini) than to be fat and just buy a Lamborghini.

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Facts:

I don’t think I’ve ever read a comment online (or even in real life) which has personally benefitted me — whether it be a positive one or negative one. No great ideas are created via committee. Avoid the trap of trying to placate others. Have extreme faith in yourself, your own ideas, and propagate them widely:

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How did Trump win? Easy; the liberal media gave him probably $1 trillion dollars worth of free marketing and advertising.

Humans aren’t rational or objective. We are emotional beings. This means:

As as long you’re in the media spotlight, you will win.

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Towards a ‘via negativa‘ notion of productivity:

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Question:

Is it ethical for a person to become financially wealthy as a consequence of their political, racial, or socio-economic stance and theories?

I think not.

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Do we control our hormones, or do our hormones control us?

Do you write out of need and want, or out of uber-abundance and physical health and vigor?

Ignore anyone who believes in some sort of classless, or hierarchy-free utopia. Utopia actually literally means “no+place” (ou, [not] + topos, [place]). Even the closest notion we got is elysium (where the fallen heroic heroes go after death)— but this also implies some sort of heroism on their part.

In praise of beta. The new macOS (all of them) are soooooo beautiful!!! I always test the newest betaOS’s for Apple, to see the bleeding edge. macOS is the future. Shout-out to the Apple team, you absolutely killed it!!!

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By photographing what you eat, you show who you are:

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When you read anything always ask yourself:

What key information is NOT being presented here?

For example, why DOESN’T Karl Marx’s personal Wikipedia page have any criticisms or critiques about him?

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Or in other words:

Never do anything online (or offline, in real life) that you wouldn’t be comfortable the whole world knowing about you, your opinions or what you say and what you’ve done.

The internet archive, way back machine, and now taking screenshots. It’s soooo easy to uncover hidden dirt— even people modifying their own Wikipedia pages (or having friends or colleagues do it for them).

You can only truly critique people you truly love and understand.

Now we street photographers … we got ultimate skin in the game. Now going out and shooting street photography is a real risk. But that is what makes it fun and interesting, and requires our courage and bravery?

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It seems we all love video games. I’m a huuuge fan of Marcin and what he did with Witcher and now the new Cyberpunk game (looks awesome). However, seeing all this stuff makes me think and believe:

Certainly real life (embodied, flesh-based reality) is the best life.

We play in video games characters who are insanely buff, muscular, and adrenaline junkies. But why are we so timid and cowardly in real life? This is my fun and thrill in street photography — it is like the ultimate real life First Person Shooter (FPS). And I think this is why my street photography Gopro POV videos were so popular.

Let’s say all the conspiracy theories or whatever is true. You discover the truth or truth(s) about everything — then what? What is the positive utility of knowing the truth, or knowing truth(s)?

My thought:

Perhaps the utility is to just encourage others to think for themselves and not get easily suckered or deceived.

To guide others to not be taken advantage of, and to NOT become pawns for the advancement of others and their personal agendas. This is why I mostly steer clear of politics and the media — everyone is in it for the money, personal advancement, fame, or hubris.

Or better yet:

Don’t trust anyone on social media.

Why? Simple:

As long as your self-esteem, money, reputation, social standing, or financial livelihood depends on social media (Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, whatever) … people will always distort themselves (their opinion, their physique, take steroids-testosterone-weird-chemicals), etc.

In fact if your livelihood is dependent on social media, it actually seems illogical to *NOT* “cheat”.

Credit to Daniel Kunitz (New Frontier Fitness) who first wrote about this notion of ‘Workout Porn’ in his book “Lift“). The notion of workout porn is fascinating — it is essentially sometimes we like to watch other people workout more than we like to workout ourselves. But what if workout porn was a good stimulus to get us to workout? Shout out to CT FLETCHER as well as Calum Von MOGER.

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