Steroids don’t give you more courage

The ultimate test!

Funny thought: it is impossible to ascertain whether somebody is on steroids or not. Therefore, maybe the best most logical strategy is sick to become stronger than people taking steroids, all while staying 100% natural

No wasted movements

I find a very funny disconnect between lived embodied reality versus the ways in which people engage with film media video games etc.

I’ll give you example… One of my favorite fighting games or video games as a teenager growing up was tech, me and all my best friends would always play it, trying to warm up one another… Bryan Fury was my character.

The funny thing with video games, video game characters, is that it is a true reflection of your own personal ethos for yourself. For example, the character Brian fury, I think he’s a cyborg… But regardless, he is insanely jacked, shirtless, topless, and in my opinion, by far the most dominant fighter, at least in terms of muscularity And physique.

So essentially, when I look at Brian fury, I look at myself.

And then you think about video games in general, how bizarre it is that you have a bunch of nerves, either insanely twig like and skinny, and nerdy, or, super fat and nerdy, or maybe skinny fat? Anyways, sitting down on their butts, sitting on a couch, with a PlayStation controller in their hands, And play the fighting games in which they are beating the crap out of other virtual players, and if you look at the video game characters, they are essentially insanely jacked, and all look like demigods.

For example just look at the Tekken 8 lineup in terms of characters. Do I any of them look like the average American to you?

Also, in terms of physique… Do any of the fighters, whether a man or woman, look like the real average human being today?

Superhero films

Can you imagine a skinny fat marvel superhero? No. Yeah look at all the people who go watch the movies… A bunch of like the fat people from the wall-E movie, really fat, essentially just waddling around… Coca-Cola in hand, and stuffing themselves with type two diabetes, and watching superheroes be great?

Once again… Isn’t the goal to look like the superhero, or become the superhero?

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As deadly as ares

Noisy shouts 

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Low lives

Observing traffic behavior, on foot… It seems that a lot of people who honk at you to hurry up, these guys are low lives? You could obviously tell that they are lower, poor, working class, and a lot of them… Our driving cell phone in hand?

And sometimes they often honk at people, to hurry up and turn right… When there is clearly a sign that says no turn on right?

So the problem is… If you’re in front and somebody is honking at you from behind… What do you do?

The problem is when somebody is honking at you from behind, there is not a way you could honk back at them, it is almost like imagine like you’re in battle… And someone tries to spear you from behind? And you cannot defend yourself?

Ideal thing would be to have a horn which is actually mounted on the back of your car, on the trunk… Which honks opposite; or have some sort of really really bright headlights or high beams, in the back of your car, which could shoot bright light and blind the assholes that are honking at you from behind.

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Based on my observations… Of strong men versus weak men.

I’m not 100% sure the genesis of weak men… But based on my general observations, a lot of men who are weak, super skinny skinny fat and feeble…  generally come from homes which are troublesome; for example, having a violent and physically abusive father who beat your mom in front of you, and you were helpless and powerless to do anything about it. 
Or, kind of the fatalism that I see a lot from people from Eastern Europe, the former Soviet block, in which for them… All is doom and gloom, irregardless of how good things are?

Also, a lot of this fatalism is draining. They just like to bitch and moan about how terrible everything is, and even when you show them real proof of how good things are… They refused to accept it, and they just want to keep on complaining and bitching and moaning about everything the whole planet, global warming, how there will no longer be a society elect for the next generation, while they have zero plans of actually having kids.

My very very simple solution is keep away from them; 

Aggie example… Let us see that you knew with 100% certainty that a certain person had Covid, or the flu… Would you go up to them, face-to-face, and let them talk at you for an hour, no face mask on, and as they are spitting their Covid germs and their flu germs at you… Certainly you’re going to get infected, whether you like it or not.

And then let’s say a few days later, or a week later you start to feel Covid symptoms, or flu symptoms… Aren’t you going to be kicking yourself in the butt, knowing that you should have known better?

So my simple stoic thought is simple — some people who are sick and disease… You don’t hate them or spite them for being sick or disease… But you just stay away.

People are sick, infected, disease germ ridden, or infectious in different ways, metaphorically literally, their soul, their personality… Even talking to them on the phone, FaceTiming them, or text messaging them or emailing them can spread infection.

I think the only people should ever ever care about is not your family, former friends or acquaintances etc.… But your true friends, maybe not even friends plural… Just one. Your best man, your best man at your wedding, only one other male so you would put your trust in, assuming that you died in a tragic car accident, the person you wouldn’t trust taking care of Your son or the rest of their lives.

Thinking about Achilles, essentially his best friend, his friend, his other man soulmate was Patroclus. There’s a lot of weird commentary that Achilles and Patroclus had some sort of weird homoerotic relationship, I think this is false… I think it’s based on a lot of scholars who try to exaggerate this strange notion. In the tent of Achilles, certainly Achilles is the alpha dog and man here, and his best man Patroclus this kind of like his side piece, his male sidekick. But both of them have beautiful women in bed.

Women playing video games?

Another very weird trend, you have 34-year-old women, 30-year-old women playing Diablo four, or World of Warcraft, quest, killing monsters, for the sake of what? 

Men who are into video games?

I have a certain theory… Essentially men, kids, teenagers, individuals who got into video games didn’t really have a father, father figure, or parental guidance growing up.

For example, the reason why so many kids from the hood or bad environments or neighborhoods end up getting into video games is because of an intelligent safety mechanism;  for example, let us say that you grew up in a dangerous neighborhood, with gangs, the smart strategy is to stay at home, play video games, watch anime, and avoid interacting with gang members.

Also… I see it now, when kids, whether boys or girls going to video games, playing video games on their cheap android tablets, essentially the issue here is that they don’t really have a father figure, parent figure, parent with enough physical vigor or strength to actually engage them. Or the parent is off at work, or doing something else.

Or, the parents themselves, are also impotent,  and they themselves are secretly watching Netflix, YouTube or Hulu, or playing video games late at night.

The very simple thought is that no man, past the age of 20 years old should play video games. I think it is OK ultimately if teenagers, before they go off to college play video games with each other whatever. But once you go to college, it is not For a man to play video games anymore.

What should a real man do instead? For his leisure, train in combat, weightlifting or whatever… Things that get their physical vigor up.

work is war ***

Based on my observations… Of strong men versus weak men.

I’m not 100% sure the genesis of weak men… But based on my general observations, a lot of men who are weak, super skinny skinny fat and feeble…  generally come from homes which are troublesome; for example, having a violent and physically abusive father who beat your mom in front of you, and you were helpless and powerless to do anything about it. 
Or, kind of the fatalism that I see a lot from people from Eastern Europe, the former Soviet block, in which for them… All is doom and gloom, irregardless of how good things are?

Also, a lot of this fatalism is draining. They just like to bitch and moan about how terrible everything is, and even when you show them real proof of how good things are… They refused to accept it, and they just want to keep on complaining and bitching and moaning about everything the whole planet, global warming, how there will no longer be a society elect for the next generation, while they have zero plans of actually having kids.

My very very simple solution is keep away from them; 

Aggie example… Let us see that you knew with 100% certainty that a certain person had Covid, or the flu… Would you go up to them, face-to-face, and let them talk at you for an hour, no face mask on, and as they are spitting their Covid germs and their flu germs at you… Certainly you’re going to get infected, whether you like it or not.

And then let’s say a few days later, or a week later you start to feel Covid symptoms, or flu symptoms… Aren’t you going to be kicking yourself in the butt, knowing that you should have known better?

So my simple stoic thought is simple — some people who are sick and disease… You don’t hate them or spite them for being sick or disease… But you just stay away.

People are sick, infected, disease germ ridden, or infectious in different ways, metaphorically literally, their soul, their personality… Even talking to them on the phone, FaceTiming them, or text messaging them or emailing them can spread infection.

I think the only people should ever ever care about is not your family, former friends or acquaintances etc.… But your true friends, maybe not even friends plural… Just one. Your best man, your best man at your wedding, only one other male so you would put your trust in, assuming that you died in a tragic car accident, the person you wouldn’t trust taking care of Your son or the rest of their lives.

Thinking about Achilles, essentially his best friend, his friend, his other man soulmate was Patroclus. There’s a lot of weird commentary that Achilles and Patroclus had some sort of weird homoerotic relationship, I think this is false… I think it’s based on a lot of scholars who try to exaggerate this strange notion. In the tent of Achilles, certainly Achilles is the alpha dog and man here, and his best man Patroclus this kind of like his side piece, his male sidekick. But both of them have beautiful women in bed.

Women playing video games?

Another very weird trend, you have 34-year-old women, 30-year-old women playing Diablo four, or World of Warcraft, quest, killing monsters, for the sake of what? 

Men who are into video games?

I have a certain theory… Essentially men, kids, teenagers, individuals who got into video games didn’t really have a father, father figure, or parental guidance growing up.

For example, the reason why so many kids from the hood or bad environments or neighborhoods end up getting into video games is because of an intelligent safety mechanism;  for example, let us say that you grew up in a dangerous neighborhood, with gangs, the smart strategy is to stay at home, play video games, watch anime, and avoid interacting with gang members.

Also… I see it now, when kids, whether boys or girls going to video games, playing video games on their cheap android tablets, essentially the issue here is that they don’t really have a father figure, parent figure, parent with enough physical vigor or strength to actually engage them. Or the parent is off at work, or doing something else.

Or, the parents themselves, are also impotent,  and they themselves are secretly watching Netflix, YouTube or Hulu, or playing video games late at night.

The very simple thought is that no man, past the age of 20 years old should play video games. I think it is OK ultimately if teenagers, before they go off to college play video games with each other whatever. But once you go to college, it is not For a man to play video games anymore.

What should a real man do instead? For his leisure, train in combat, weightlifting or whatever… Things that get their physical vigor up.

work is war ***

Gender — genre, nation, birth — genus

Trans — across, beyond the other side.

OK… Let me give this a critical think.

Tran, transnational… Transition, transport. To move something across, beyond, from point A to point B. Transformers. 

Transition, translation?

Gender, genre, genus, birth, 

Transsexual

When I studied sociology as an undergraduate at UCLA, I recall learning about the very very small population of transsexuals, or maybe hermaphrodites I’m not 100% sure… Of people who was either born with both body parts, which is insanely rare, or for people who wanted to transition to the other sex, by taking weird hormones and stuff.

I think what I recall was specifically… A man trying to be or become a woman?

Social logical that was actually, the man who became a woman had the greatest difficulty learning certain female behaviors, for example if you wear a mini skirt, and you sit down… You must always cross your legs, so people don’t look up your skirt.

Apparently I was talking with a guy, and he told me something interesting is that often when women get plastic surgery, a boob job, breast augmentation… They become less shy about taking their top off? We’re often when men transition to becoming a woman, there are also not shy about being topless?

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Gender vs Sex

The critical issue is an American society, we use the word sex and gender interchangeably. For example, when describing man or woman, boy or girl… The word is sex not gender.

I think the problem in American society is because there is this fake prudence in American society, we shirk at the word sex, because we tend to think of it like sexual intercourse, which is not the thing. 

Everyone can be or become anything they want to be or become… just don’t give them steroids or hormones or testosterone or cortisol or estrogen etc. 

I think the obvious thought is that injecting anyone with anything is positively bad, unless it is a lie for a death situation.

For example, certainly steroids is a positively bad thing. Everyone could agree on this. I find even more bizarre all these men, who start to hit their 40s 50s 60s, maybe even 70s start to inject themselves with artificial or external testosterone, trying to help them “keep their edge?”?

So obviously, steroids, injecting yourself with testosterone whatever is a bad thing. It is both for men and women.

You cannot reverse it

I think the dangerous thing here is once you do something, when you inject yourself with steroids or hormones or testosterone or whatever, there’s no going back. Maybe also the same if you castrate yourself, or if you inject yourself with estrogen or whatever, similar things may happen.

For example, you see this often happen with female bodybuilders, who inject themselves with steroids or hormones or stuff… It actually permanently affects their jawline, their voice, and I think actually the terrifying thing… Once you do it, you cannot reverse it, even if you stop injecting yourself with steroids or doing weird stuff etc.… Once the damage has been done you cannot reverse it.

For example let us say you are a female bodybuilder in your 20s, and you want to get super jacked and therefore you start taking all this testosterone injections, steroids etc.… And it starts to change the way your face looks, your facial shape, your jawline, Etc. And then let us say that by the time you hit your 30s or 40s, maybe you say you want to have kids, and then you stop taking all these steroids and hormones, but much to your dismay, and your horror… You’ve actually discovered that you have done permanent damage that you are no longer able to bear children, even if you wanted to.

Apparently the same thing happens with men… A lot of young bodybuilders in their 20s, steroids up the kazoo, but at a certain point when they hit their late 20s or even early 30s… Disco horror they are no longer able to produce testosterone on their own, and they must inject themselves with testosterone for the rest of our lives, simply to stay alive? 

Even more horrifying… A lot of guys who foolishly inject themselves with steroids and testosterone… Once again, find out that by the time they hit 30, and maybe they won’t have a kid, discover the horrific fact that even if they wanted to, they have lost their fertility and can no longer produce a child? The ultimate tragedy.

Steroids, hormones, testosterone makes you ugly

Something I have observed… Anyone who takes steroids, testosterone, hormonal stuff… It makes them ugly.

For example, the rock, apparently one of the side effects of steroids is that it makes your head bigger larger, it expands your skull?

Also, look at Ronnie Coleman… He is essentially a cripple now. And even if you gave him $1 trillion all the best steroids and modern medicine in the world… I don’t think you could even walk anymore?

Even look at Arnold… He is starting to look very fragile and frail… 

I think I have seen some people here in Culver City who maybe are doing some sort of weird hormone therapy, I was confused… A person whose voice sounded like a woman, but had very very strange looking facial hair coming in? And their face looked very deformed?

The uncanny valley

Humans, I think we are pretty wise, we could tell whether somebody is a man or a woman, assuming if we see them naked and even if you shave off their hair?

I think sometimes people get confused if you see somebody with very long hair, typically we equate long hair with women, but actually… The ancient Greeks aren’t even the Spartans wore their hair long.

I think it comes down to assuming you look at people naked, body composition. Women will always have slightly wider hips, and breasts and breast tissue, men will typically have proportions which make him look more like a triangle. Even Seneca knows, that the bathroom signed for men is a triangle. And for women it is a circle.

A lot of men, when there are hormones get out of whack, start to develop what looks like breast tissue, but still you could tell that they are a man!

It doesn’t matter

My friend Ryan from backyard brew in Palo Alto, when I last saw him had a young son, with long hair, who ran around like a wild child… And he would tell me that parents would often mistake him as a girl, and he stopped correcting them.

I think this is the way to go, why does it matter if other people or society mistake your kid for a boy or a girl? I don’t think it really matters.

For example, I am so insanely grateful and happy that my first born child was a son, Seneca, and I’ll do everything in my power to give him great glory.

Yet, if somebody mistakes for being a girl, wearing pink or whatever… I have 0 ounces of concern. Why should you care?

You

And this is where things get very very bizarre… Why do you care what people categorize you as, whether people identify you as a man or a woman? Whether good or bad? 

You are just you!

You don’t have to inject your butt holes with steroids or hormones or testosterone or estrogen… Just be you! Without any drugs, hormones, strange hormone therapies etc.

Obviously everyone is different! 

This is where things become very bizarre… Why do other people care about your sexual preferences, or how you have sex?

For example, I’m a straight man, why do I care if you like it up the butt hole or not?

And also, people often say this fake stuff about thinking about the children or the kids or whatever… Without even having any kids of their own. They should remain silent.

Even let us say that you are a parent, with kids… And let it say that you’re sending your kid to a school that is very pro LGBTQ stuff… What is the real concern here?

You cannot fake sexual desire

As a guy, what gives you a Boner? And what doesn’t?

I am attracted to women, beautiful women. And that is it.

If you’re a whatever, and you’re attracted to whatever… Why should anyone care?

Just leave other people alone! 

Insane tolerance

I have a revolutionary and pretty radical ideas; let us promote radical tolerance.

Even tolerate things you don’t like?

Even tolerating things which you consider morally reprehensible or ethically wrong?

And then I suppose… If you don’t like your kids being infected with weird thoughts… Just extract them away and keep them away from it!

If anything… I don’t think we should have any concerns about any random LGBTQ stuff… More dangerous to have them play video games, Minecraft, Roblox, watch Bluey or Disney+, YouTube, Disney films Marvel films etc.

Maybe YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Disney Disney+ and video game companies are the real evil guys here?

Is Google evil?

Maybe

Black tornado, 50 chariots

Always be the best, outdo others

Peleus

Touch his heart and change his mind

Stir up pride and courage in our heart

Follow your heart?

Your bright white fat

Gigantic Hector

Sharp Ares

Valiant , strong

Proud of his Stendhal

Fight like a tornado

His heroic heart is unafraid

Unflinching strong proud spirit ***

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LION VOICE

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Nameless

Everyone is godlike!

Shadow him with death which dims men’s names

Poor fools!

Two champions

Rage, road rage

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Street rage

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Make fist fighting or street fighting cool again

Fighters

Street Fighter

Street Photographer

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JACKED

Unreal

Fighting games are virtuous?

Stealth

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How to magnify your power

Say what you believe is best 

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Some strange inconsistencies here; first, when people talk to you… Are they seeking empathy or sympathy or for you to “listen “,” hear them out… Or, are they asking you for a solution?

Also… Is there a hormonal, man or woman element to this?  

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Helmet flashing

Scowls, your words no longer please me 

The gods have deprived you of your wits

Birds are meaningless!

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Weak Men, Strong Men

Based on my observations… Of strong men versus weak men.

I’m not 100% sure the genesis of weak men… But based on my general observations, a lot of men who are weak, super skinny skinny fat and feeble…  generally come from homes which are troublesome; for example, having a violent and physically abusive father who beat your mom in front of you, and you were helpless and powerless to do anything about it. 
Or, kind of the fatalism that I see a lot from people from Eastern Europe, the former Soviet block, in which for them… All is doom and gloom, irregardless of how good things are?

Also, a lot of this fatalism is draining. They just like to bitch and moan about how terrible everything is, and even when you show them real proof of how good things are… They refused to accept it, and they just want to keep on complaining and bitching and moaning about everything the whole planet, global warming, how there will no longer be a society elect for the next generation, while they have zero plans of actually having kids.

My very very simple solution is keep away from them; 

Aggie example… Let us see that you knew with 100% certainty that a certain person had Covid, or the flu… Would you go up to them, face-to-face, and let them talk at you for an hour, no face mask on, and as they are spitting their Covid germs and their flu germs at you… Certainly you’re going to get infected, whether you like it or not.

And then let’s say a few days later, or a week later you start to feel Covid symptoms, or flu symptoms… Aren’t you going to be kicking yourself in the butt, knowing that you should have known better?

So my simple stoic thought is simple — some people who are sick and disease… You don’t hate them or spite them for being sick or disease… But you just stay away.

People are sick, infected, disease germ ridden, or infectious in different ways, metaphorically literally, their soul, their personality… Even talking to them on the phone, FaceTiming them, or text messaging them or emailing them can spread infection.

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Patriotism is the one true bird

patriot 

patris– father land

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Why are you scared of war and violence?

Never flinch from battle

Slaughter

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work is war ***

The work of men is war?

Work, is essentially… Men battling and killing each other?

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Why does everyone gaze at us like we are divine?

They eat fat sheep

The only place to win glory is war? 

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Barbell as a weapon?

Champion

Becoming a Champion?

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Battle armor

Sturdy hands

How to strengthen your hands, how to make your hands more sturdy?

Battlements

Yearn for glory and success 

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More hands make labor light

Boundary stones

Pitiless bronze

Give the greatest highest glory 

Firm position, legs spread apart 

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No one could stop him except a god

Immortal Feet

Distractions?

Remember courage not cold dread

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Courage strength and drive

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Quickness to your hands and feet

My feet and hands are itching for a fight; don’t just strengthen your hands but also strengthen your feet 

How to strengthen your feet… Barefoot. How to strengthen your hands, bare hands?

My deadly hands

My energy is surging

My feet are fidgeting and keen to run

Ceaseless frenzy

Transgress

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Wolf panther or deer?

Deer have no courage, no desire to fight

 good people fix mistakes

Valor, zeal

You weaklings! **

A sense of shame and fear of blame

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Shame, shameless shameless stone

Un shame yourself, shameless is virtue

Disconnect .., disconnecting, even from your friends is virtue. To disconnect is virtuous 

Disconnect

Terrifying armor made of bronze 

Courage & Aggression

Lion vs Billy Goat

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What would the physique of Achilles look like?

King Leonidas

Perhaps thinking about king Leonidas and Sparta is interesting because their code of law was not democracy, but rather, a nation state led by a virtuous king. 

The Athenians, ancient Athenians believed in democracy, which literally meant rule by the people. 

If you think about a perfect democracy, every vote is equal to one vote, and a leader or president or somebody is leader via the popular vote.

For example, let us see America was pure democracy — and let us assume that irregardless of state or whatever electoral college… One vote was equal to one vote. And literally, in order to win, and become president, it was simple… Who gets the majority of votes?

And let us assume that voting was 100% fraud proof, and no no no the election was not rigged. In fact even if it was rigged, I think the better way to navigate and operate and think is assumed that the election was 100% accurate.

Anyways, this is where a lot of liberal thought is bad and toxic; whenever we hear of people in the Midwest or Texas voting for Trump, we think of them like morons or imbeciles. But if somebody cares about their own self interest, and they vote logically according to what is best for themselves as an individual… Their decision is fully rational and intelligent. Even if that person did not go to college like you… What gives you the right to think that they are stupid or an idiot or a fool?

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Train with your armor on

Canny, can – know

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The clearest test of courage

Which man is cowardly, which man is brave?


The brave man never changes in color

Never feels excessively afraid

of course feeling afraid is natural… But maybe excessively afraid is bad

He prays to be immersed in dreadful fighting

Chest or belly be struck

Force and courage like a flame 

how to become more courageous

–> online courage workshop?

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Across time and space

Slice flesh

Tennis: takes skill and practice but no courage

In praise of American football

football: requires courage –>  for example, when you’re doing a kick off and there are two parties running at each other full speed… This requires insane courage, I’ll never forget doing this in high school, tackling another guy going full speed ahead, in full battle armor!

Same thing goes with rugby.

I think my critique of soccer is that it requires great skill but not much courage. You need tenacity, endurance and strength, but no courage. There is no real physical penalty to pay besides maybe somebody slide tackling you and you blow out your knee.

I think how American football is scary is that when somebody is charging you 100% full speed, having the courage to go ahead on, forward, and tackle them head on.

Also this is where boxing and fighting MMA takes a lot of courage, because to fight another fighter is always fearful! IrRegardless of how good you are. 

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How to Train Your Courage

How to magnify your courage

Courage, courageous investing

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Emily Wilson Iliad translation is phenomenal

Being godlike is not zero sum,,, many people can be and become godlike!

Eric Kim has articulated several thoughts and ideas related to the concept of “godlike” living in his writings. Here are a few of his notable quotes on this topic:

1. “Live like a God” – Kim encourages adopting a mentality that aligns with the strength, serenity, and power often attributed to gods. He suggests that by thinking and living this way, individuals can transcend ordinary limits and achieve a higher state of being.
2. “Light is Godlike” – In his reflections on light, Kim equates its essence to something divine, suggesting that embracing the light in both a literal and metaphorical sense can lead to a more enlightened way of living.
3. “Your universe is unlimited” – This quote captures the essence of his belief that adopting a “godlike” mindset opens up limitless possibilities, encouraging individuals to believe in their infinite potential.
4. “The rolling stone gathers no moss” – While not directly tied to the godlike concept, this quote underlines the importance of continuous innovation and movement, a theme that resonates with his broader philosophy of self-empowerment and living beyond ordinary constraints.

These ideas are part of a broader philosophy Eric Kim has been developing, focusing on simplicity, clarity, and empowerment as pathways to a more elevated state of living oai_citation:5,GODLIKE LIVING – ERIC KIM oai_citation:4,ERIC KIM Quotes – ERIC KIM oai_citation:3,BECOMING GODLIKE? – ERIC KIM oai_citation:2,LIGHT IS GODLIKE – ERIC KIM oai_citation:1,Motivational photography quotes by Eric Kim – ERIC KIM.

Eric Kim has been exploring the concept of “godlike” living and thinking in several of his recent writings. In his blog posts, he delves into what it means to live and think “godlike,” emphasizing a mindset of simplicity, power, and focus. For instance, he discusses how adopting a “godlike” mentality can help individuals achieve a higher state of being, encouraging a lifestyle that aligns with principles of strength, clarity, and a minimalist approach to life.

In his post titled “Godlike Living,” Eric Kim talks about how to live with the strength and serenity akin to mythological gods, promoting a way of life that is both powerful and serene. He suggests that this mindset can help people transcend their ordinary limits and live more fully.

Additionally, in “Becoming Godlike?” he explores the journey toward achieving this state, framing it as an aspirational goal where one can grow closer to a divine way of thinking and living, focusing on self-improvement and mental fortitude.

These ideas are part of a broader philosophy Eric Kim has been developing, which integrates elements of stoicism, simplicity, and personal empowerment oai_citation:2,GODLIKE LIVING – ERIC KIM oai_citation:1,BECOMING GODLIKE? – ERIC KIM.

First. — such as reading the Iliad ,,, your visual imagination is 10000x more terrifying, grueling, gruesome as even watching the most violent film.

Second ,,, when you read the Iliad, you *become* Achilles, you *become* Hector — you can transport your brain soul and body *into* the characters themselves and understand their motives, desires and souls.

Demigod philosophy—

Interpretation by Eric Kim

Eric Kim, a street photographer and writer known for his philosophical musings, often integrates ideas from various philosophical traditions into his work, especially focusing on self-improvement, creativity, and living a meaningful life. If Eric Kim were to interpret the concept of “Demigods,” it might align with his broader views on self-empowerment and the pursuit of greatness in everyday life. Here’s how he might approach the idea:

1. Demigod as the Ultimate Creator:

• Self-Creation: Kim emphasizes the importance of seeing oneself as the creator of one’s destiny. In this context, a demigod might symbolize the human potential to become the ultimate creator, shaping reality through willpower, creativity, and action. Just as a demigod has both divine and human attributes, individuals can harness their inner divinity (creativity, intellect, strength) to transcend ordinary life and create something extraordinary.
• Everyday Heroism: Kim might highlight the idea that everyone has the potential to be a “demigod” in their own life, not by possessing supernatural powers but by embracing the mindset of a hero—someone who takes bold actions, confronts challenges, and seeks to leave a lasting impact.

2. Kaizen and the Demigod:

• Continuous Improvement: Given Kim’s connection to the concept of Kaizen (continuous improvement), he might interpret the demigod as a metaphor for the ongoing journey of self-betterment. The demigod isn’t born perfect but strives towards perfection, reflecting the idea that life is a series of incremental improvements towards a higher state of being.
• Balancing the Human and Divine: Kim might argue that the demigod embodies the perfect balance between our human flaws and divine aspirations. This balance is achieved through constant practice, learning, and self-reflection—a core principle of Kaizen.

3. Embracing Duality:

• Power and Humility: In his writing, Kim often talks about the importance of balancing power with humility. A demigod, in his view, might represent someone who wields great power (whether physical, intellectual, or creative) yet remains grounded in their human nature. This duality could be a source of wisdom and strength, teaching us to embrace both our weaknesses and strengths.
• Living Authentically: Kim might also emphasize that the demigod is authentic, living true to their nature. This aligns with his philosophy of living authentically and embracing one’s true self, even if that self is a mix of contradictions—both divine and human.

4. The Demigod’s Legacy:

• Leaving a Mark: Kim often encourages his readers to think about their legacy and the impact they will leave behind. A demigod, in this sense, could be someone who strives to leave a lasting legacy, through creative work, acts of kindness, or other contributions to society. It’s about transcending the ordinary to create something timeless.
• Inspiration for Others: Finally, Kim might suggest that the demigod’s role is not just to achieve greatness for themselves but to inspire others to do the same. By embodying the qualities of a demigod, one can serve as a beacon of what is possible, motivating others to pursue their own path of self-discovery and empowerment.

In summary, Eric Kim would likely interpret the concept of a demigod as a powerful metaphor for the potential within each person to rise above the mundane, to continuously improve, and to leave a meaningful legacy. It’s about embracing the dual nature of being—human yet striving for the divine—while staying true to one’s authentic self.

The concept of “Demigods” in philosophy often straddles the boundary between mythology and metaphysical inquiry. In ancient mythologies, demigods are typically figures who possess both human and divine qualities, often born from a union between a god and a mortal. These beings often serve as intermediaries between the divine and human realms, embodying both the potential and the limitations of humanity.

Philosophical Interpretations:

1. Human Aspiration and Potential: In some philosophical interpretations, the figure of the demigod symbolizes the potential for human beings to transcend ordinary limitations through intellectual, moral, or spiritual development. The idea here is that humans, through rigorous self-cultivation (akin to the concept of Kaizen), can achieve a higher state of being, approaching the divine.
2. Nietzsche’s Ãœbermensch: Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of the Ãœbermensch (Overman or Superman) can be seen as a modern philosophical iteration of the demigod concept. Nietzsche proposed that humanity could evolve beyond its current state to become something greater, a being that creates its own values and meaning, much like a demigod transcends human limitations.
3. Existentialism and Meaning: In existentialist thought, the idea of demigods might represent the struggle to find or create meaning in a world devoid of intrinsic purpose. The demigod could be seen as a metaphor for the human condition—partially divine in its capacity for reason, creativity, and self-awareness, yet also bound by mortality and suffering.
4. Moral Exemplars: In ethics, demigods can represent moral exemplars or ideals that people strive to emulate. Figures like Hercules, known for his strength and heroic deeds, or Prometheus, who defied the gods to bring fire (and thus knowledge) to humanity, can be seen as embodiments of virtues such as courage, perseverance, and altruism.
5. Integration of Opposites: Some interpretations of demigods focus on their role in integrating opposites—divine and human, mortal and immortal, rational and irrational. This dual nature reflects the complexity of human existence and the continuous interplay between different aspects of the self.
6. Spiritual Enlightenment: In certain spiritual or religious contexts, the demigod can represent a state of enlightenment or awakening, where the individual realizes their divine nature or unity with the cosmos, transcending ordinary human consciousness.

These interpretations highlight how the concept of demigods can serve as a powerful metaphor in philosophical discourse, representing the tension between the human and the divine, the finite and the infinite, the mortal and the immortal.

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The word “mansion” comes from the Old French word maison, which means “house” or “dwelling.” This, in turn, derives from the Latin word mansio, which originally meant “a staying, dwelling, or abiding.” The Latin verb manere, meaning “to remain” or “to stay,” is the root of mansio.

In medieval times, the term “mansion” began to be associated with larger, more elaborate homes or estates, particularly those of nobility or the wealthy. Over time, the word came to signify a large and impressive house, often associated with grandeur and luxury.

ChatGPT, and search GPT is the Clickbait killer

How to live the best life

why labor for money?

,

 no need to be anti-anything 

Why? It just doesn’t last,,, or, overtime, you won’t really use it

One thing I’m very interested in is the etymology words, the origin… History etc.

For example, Dogtown and the legendary Z boys… Just finished watching the documentary produced in 2001, insanely interesting in terms of innovation, entrepreneurship, and something which has probably touched all of us as young adolescence and teenagers; the Genesis of skateboarding as we know it today?

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Dogtown

Long story short, essentially in 1976, a bunch of the early skateboarding Pioneers would skateboard inside this drained swimming pool in The north side of Santa Monica, and there was a bunch of dogs hanging around the empty swimming pool, and they were just called the dog bowl.

And apparently one day, one of the guys when it was really hot, said wow… It is really a “dog day” isn’t it? We live in Dogtown!

Anyways, the genesis of words is often funny random, and unpredictable.

The Genesis of streettogs

So anyways, similar story for myself… I think it was the year 2010, I just graduated college at UCLA as an undergraduate in sociology, and this is the early days of Facebook and Twitter… And there was this guy on Twitter named @photojack and whenever he would post tweets related to photography in order to maximize the 140 character limit, he would post #togs

I thought this was a good idea, and therefore whenever I posted anything street photograph related, I would just post it, #streettogs (taking the “togs” notion, and just adding the word street to it). I then use that as my moniker, whenever I would do a YouTube video… Once again I started my YouTube channel in 2010, because it was literally the only place that you could upload videos to! And I would shoot random videos on the original GoPro, and just post them there! And therefore whenever I started a video I would say “What’s up streettogs, this is ERIC KIM from the ERIC KIM street photography blog…” and this is essentially became my intro. 

I think the reason why motto, catchphrases, or introductions are important is when you do a video, a blog or a blog etc.… In order to just get the creative juices flowing, having some sort of introductory motto is very useful!

Also as an unintended consequence, the upside is because I always promote my blog, people would always google my blog! And this is the ultimate idea; you don’t mud ties directly off of your videos by putting in annoying advertisements… What you do is you intentionally use these free hosting platforms like YouTube, to promote your own website, your own blog, your own platform, Not some foreign third-party platform!

Even now… YouTube reigns supreme, but, I feel a foreshadowing… That once chatGPT makes the video sora production thing live… This might be the undoing of YouTube?

If we fast-forward a bit… videoGPT– I could easily predict a future in which he just opened up the ChatGPT app on your phone, and you just spit a few words of the type of video you would like to see, and within seconds, ChatGPT or video GPT will be able to produce a video exactly to your own liking! And the reason why this will be such a big deal is that you don’t have to go through YouTube, and deal with annoying advertisements, or having to click through things.

Nobody likes ads

So YouTube currently has that premium thing, I think it’s like 10 bucks or 15 bucks for the whole family. A good deal! Especially if your mom is addicted to youtube, and you don’t like her watching stupid advertisements.

Kids are not dumb… Seneca is not. When he grows up, he will have zero interest in watching ad advertisements, as he has never watched television, YouTube, Disney Disney+ or Bluey in his life.

Also the reason why I think the video GPT thing will be such a game changer is because when it creates the video… Technically, you will be able to own it! No copyright is an insanely big deal… I think people have not really really really understood how insanely innovative ChatGPT is that it produces text, With zero copyright infringement, which you could just post to your own blog, and boost its value!

Killing many birds with one stone 

Even now, there is so many things I am curious about, and the great upside of ChatGPT is that I could kill many birds with one stone… First, fulfill my own curiosity about the subject, to my blog just in case other people are curious about it… And then it ends up getting indexed by Google and ChatGPT!

Anyways, this is also my funny… Instead of looking at sexy photos of sexy girls on your phone of real life human beings, maybe it is better more effective and interesting to produce your own pretty ladies, using ChatGPT DALL-E. Or better yet… If you really want to see pretty girls, go to the beach, go to the gym, and actually talk to them! Compliment them, chop it up with them, no desire to bed them, I think there’s actually something good for men to just talk to women, just for fun! 

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I think a good strategy is to assume you will fail, but fuck it, to do it and try it anyways.

And therefore, the strategy is position yourself in such a way that your potential failure, will not bankrupt you.

Ideally, there would be zero financial risk endeavor… I suppose the upside of having a website and online digital hosting only cost about $10, signing a lease on the expensive physical place, which might cost you $10,000 a month?

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Swift

holy– whole

Slept the sleep of bronze

Wind fed spear

When I might try them

Full of daring

.

Who first, who last?

Bronze beat back bronze

Triple layered helmet with visor

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Goats that bleed and tremble behind A lion

I’m a lion you’re a goat!

Blows that come from cowards and nobody’s don’t hurt ***

champion,, fighter

Godlike Odysseus

Proper funeral rights

Brave steadfast Odysseus

Clever ingenious Odysseus

Breath was fury

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Risk reduction

Imagine children trying to hit you hard with sticks

Sate their appetite for flesh 


The agonizing work of war

The Earth that feeds us all **

Strength and skillfulness and war 

300 sheep

Non intuitive:

1. No sponsorships or brand collaborations — all pretty much a waste of time. Just buy your own cameras and sponsor yourself!
2. Start your own sole-proprietorship — no employees just you.
3. Don’t start a “collective” nor desire to join a collective, a crew, a group whatever — go solo. Only solo individuals last — no organization in all of history has ever lasted. Even Henri Cartier-Bresson who founded magnum with Robert Capa — even HE (Bresson) eventually ended up distancing himself from Magnum
4. Don’t shoot film; stick to digital — 100000x cheaper, faster, superior.
5. Don’t use iPhone or social media — it is a trap!

I was the first and maybe only?

How to Become a Photography Entrepreneur

1. Create a New Industry
2. SELF HOSTED OR NOTHING.
3. TVE: TRANSACTIONAL VALUE UNLOCKED
4. THE BEST YOUTUBE SETTINGS

BECOME A PHOTOGRAPHY ENTREPRENEUR

Advice I would have given myself in photography, if I started all over again:

Until You Own Yourself You Can’t Be Free

De-lamify the future.

Photography Entrepreneurship 101 Presentation by ERIC KIM

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Entrepreneurship Ideas

1. InstaSlaves
2. How to Become a Vlogger
3. How to Build Your Own Self Brand
4. SOLO MEDIA EMPIRE
5. TIME LEVERAGE.
6. How to Market Yourself in Photography
7. How to Become More Ambitious
8. Crypto Photography
9. In Praise of Email Newsletters
10. Propagate.
11. Make Your Own Street Photography Blog
12. Create the Information You Seek.
13. Content over Technology
14. How to Advertise Yourself as a Photographer
15. CREATIVE WAYS TO USE YOUTUBE
16. Photography Branding 101
17. BUILD YOURSELF.
18. Bet on Your Own Coin.
19. The Photographer Should Also Make His/Her Own Music?
20. Mix Your Photos and Videos
21. JUST PUBLISH IT.
22. EMPOWER OTHER PHOTOGRAPHERS.
23. BECOME OUTSIDE THE BOX
24. MOVE PEOPLE, MOVE PRODUCTS.
25. SOCIAL MEDIA IS FRAGILE.
26. Why Start a Photography Blog?
27. Once You FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early), Then What?
28. THE FUTURE IS PDF
29. In Praise of Solo Photography Business Entrepreneurship
30. LONGEVITY, DURABILITY AND SUCCESS
31. Street Photography Philosophy Entrepreneurship
32. YOU ARE THE PLATFORM
33. JUST RISK IT.
34. DON’T OPTIMIZE FOR THE ALGORITHM
35. Scaleable Photography
36. What Does it Mean to Become a Successful Photographer?
37. 20 Photography Marketing, Branding, and Entrepreneurship Tips
38. Create Your Own Social Media
39. Individual Entrepreneurship
40. YOU ARE THE ICON.
41. BUILD!
42. What is Success in Photography?
43. EXTREME VISION
44. Publish Fearlessly
45. MAKE DOPE THINGS AND SHARE THEM WITH THE WORLD!
46. THE AMBITIOUS PHOTOGRAPHER.
47. PhotoLink
48. Real World Applications
49. You Are Your Own Ideal User
50. What is Your Creative Vision?
51. A More Dope, Prosperous Future for All Photographers
52. CREATION & DISTRIBUTION.
53. THE VALUE OF PHOTOS.
54. How to Maximize Your Impact as a Photographer
55. Why the World Needs More Bloggers
56. DOMAIN EXPERTISE.
57. The Joy of Speculation
58. MAKE A NAME FOR YOURSELF.
59. Propogate
60. Meaningful Advantage or Not?
61. PHOTO CREATOR.
62. NOW IS YOUR DECISIVE MOMENT.
63. I CANNOT BE IGNORED
64. Photography Blogs are Highly *UNDERRATED*
65. What is Your Competitive Advantage?
66. Why 4K?
67. Indirect Monetization
68. The Future of Innovation in Photography
69. Photography Innovation and Image Selection Idea: Let Google (YouTube) Suggested Thumbnail Pick Your Best Photo? 
70. How to Identify Your Competitive Advantage
71. In Praise of Insanely Fast Wifi
72. DIGITAL PUBLISHING IS KING.
73. The Stoic-Entrepreneurship Mindset
74. Marketing Tips for Photographers
75. STARK DIFFERENTIATION
76. MAXIMALIST
77. Visual Entrepreneurship
78. On Becoming a Full-Stack Visual Entrepreneur
79. Real Photographers Don’t Use Instagram
80. Brave New World of Blogging
81. Don’t Go to Photography School
82. Mass Success is a Failure?
83. How to Maximize Your Archimedes Lever in Life
84. Maximize Your Archimedes Lever
85. How to Create Value Out of Nothing
86. The Best Brand is No Brand
87. What Do We Entrepreneurs *Really* Want?
88. You Were Destined to Do Great Things
89. Just Share Your Photos on Your Own Blog
90. Your Blog is the Ultimate Form of Social Media
91. The Future of Websites and Blogs
92. Create a Company
93. Money Photography Project
94. WHY IT IS GOOD TO CHARGE MONEY FOR YOUR SERVICES AND PRODUCTS
95. Google and YouTube SEO (Search Engine Optimization) 101: How Would You Type It?
96. WHY RIGHT NOW IS THE BEST TIME FOR YOU TO START YOUR SIDE HUSTLE
97. Digital Photography is the Future
98. NEVER STOP EXPERIMENTING!
99. WHAT IS INNOVATION?
100. A Non-Ownership Future
101. CONTROL OVER MONEY
102. Economic Constraints Are Creative Constraints
103. Become a Sole-Proprietor
104. Entrepreneurship is a Mindset
105. How to Master Mac
106. The Future of Lifestyle
107. Necessity is the Mother of Innovation
108. Once We Have an Easy Life, Then What?
109. Why I Don’t Read Comments
110. YouTube SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for Photographers
111. How to Become a Self-Employed Photographer
112. How to Live Big With Little Money
113. Why Blogging, Vlogging and Internet Media is More Important than Ever
114. No Marketing, No Future
115. Photography Marketing 101
116. Google and YouTube are King
117. Why I’m So Suspicious of Everyone Online and on the Internet
118. How to Become More Notorious
119. Kaizen Approach to Blogging
120. How to Master Marketing
121. CREATE WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE SEE MANIFESTED IN THE WORLD!
122. Anti Silicon-Valley Thinking
123. Your Name
124. In Praise of WordPress
125. NEVER STOP POSTING
126. Your Future Portfolio is a Website
127. Infinite Runway
128. ERIC KIM ATTITUDE
129. Financial Independence as a Road to Freedom of Speech?
130. WHY OPEN SOURCE IS THE FUTURE
131. Just Post It.
132. Posts Are Products
133. Photography Entrepreneurship Ideas
134. YOU ARE KING.
135. You’re Always in BETA MODE
136. Build Your Own Media Empire
137. WHY I DON’T MONETIZE MY YOUTUBE VIDEOS
138. Why I Became an Entrepreneur
139. The Uber-Photographer
140. Create What You Would Like to See Manifested in the World
141. Create the Future
142. Entrepreneurship is Best During Uncertain Times
143. Photography Entrepreneurship 101 Presentation by ERIC KIM
144. Your Body is the Brand
145. Your Name is Your Brand
146. Create Your Own Social Media Platform
147. BUILD IT OR BUY IT?
148. Sell Yourself
149. Create New
150. Insta-Slaves
151. YOU CANNOT FAKE ENTHUSIASM
152. Why Hybrid is the Future
153. Don’t Censor Yourself
154. HOW I MASTERED MARKETING
155. ERIC KIM BLOGS
156. If Someone Offers You Help, You’re Stupid to *NOT* Take It.
157. SEEK GREAT, NOT PERFECT.
158. How I Became So Famous
159. Let Reality Mould Itself to You
160. ANTI ENTITLEMENT MENTALITY
161. Live Your Life as If You Were a Billionaire
162. HOW I THINK DIFFERENT
163. Impact, Influence, Reach: The Three Pillars of Marketing
164. ERIC KIM SCHOOL
165. Classicism.
166. MY PHILOSOPHY OF MONEY
167. Money is Movement
168. Elitism 2.0
169. Mass Market or Luxury Market?
170. Why You Must Market Yourself
171. Why You Must Start an Email Newsletter
172. How Laptops Can Change the World
173. What Do You Want to Become?
174. What is Really Holding You Back in Life?
175. Why I Write: Writing as Meta-Thinking
176. ADVERTISE YOURSELF
177. Use Your First and Last Name
178. How Blogging Can Change the World
179. In Praise of Liberty
180. How I Write in Markdown
181. How I Became So Influential on YouTube
182. REVERSE FLEX
183. What a Time to Be Alive in Today’s Brave New World of Photography
184. HOW TO DIFFERENTIATE YOURSELF FROM OTHERS
185. YOU CHOOSE YOU
186. My Life Photography Entrepreneurship Story
187. WHY I DON’T BELIEVE IN COLLABORATION
188. My Entrepreneurship Mindset
189. YOU’RE THE HERO IN THIS GAME OF LIFE
190. My Money Philosophy
191. Why Brand and Market Yourself?
192. PROFESSIONALISM IS FOR SUCKERS
193. Just Share What Works for You
194. How to Create Your Own Platform
195. Living in a Post Monetary Society
196. In Praise of Blogging
197. The Entrepreneurial Lifestyle is the Best Lifestyle
198. Algorithm Slavery
199. ANTI VIEWS
200. Entrepreneurship is The Goal
201. The Art of Blogging
202. IN PRAISE OF PURSUING YOUR PASSION
203. How to Make Great Titles
204. Sole Proprietorship
205. Just Build It.
206. VIA NEGATIVA
207. PROMOTE YOURSELF
208. Become a Full-Stack Entrepreneur
209. How to Entertain Others
210. My Experience Teaching My First Online Photography Creativity Workshop on Zoom
211. Humans Aren’t Lazy
212. One Shot.
213. THE BRAVE SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH
214. The Brave New COVID Lifestyle
215. Start Your Own Business
216. Minimum Viable Income ( MVI)
217. TRAINING.
218. WHY VIDEO?
219. How to Become Bolder
220. You’ve Always Already Been a Photography Entrepreneur!
221. The Future is All Digital Everything
222. Digital Sharecropping
223. DO IT FOR YOUR PAST AND FUTURE SELF
224. In Praise of Buffer and Redundancy
225. ASKING FOR PERMISSION IS FOR SUCKERS.
226. POST-MONETARY SOCIETY.
227. Advertise Your Own Stuff
228. THE FUTURE IS DIGITAL.
229. Simulated Universal Basic Income
230. Is Losing Followers a Good Thing?
231. How to Add to Economic Activity
232. DIGITAL CAPITALISM
233. MONEY IS MOVEMENT
234. Anything is Possible
235. BRAVE NEW WORLD OF DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
236. GENERATE
237. How to Profit from Calamity
238. Capitalism 2.0
239. WHY I’M SO PASSIONATE ABOUT INFORMATION
240. SOCIETY 2.0
241. PHOENIX ENTREPENEURSHIP
242. How to Make Art from Home
243. BUY YOURSELF
244. JUST BLOG IT.
245. MARKET YOURSELF
246. EXPENSIVE TALK
247. SOCIAL MEDIA SLAVERY
248. Who Are Your Ideal Followers?
249. Why I Blog, Vlog, and Log
250. Your Perspective is Irrefutable
251. What are Your Hidden Powers?
252. IMPACT MAXIMIZATION, not Profit Maximization
253. Our Desire to Maximize Impact and Change
254. 10 Rich Tips How to Make Money from Photography
255. Create What You Would Love to Consume
256. Publish is Pleasure
257. Retire Now
258. Do You Desire to Become the Best?
259. Solo Entrepreneurship
260. My Vision of Photography Entrepreneurship
261. PUT YOUR NAME ON IT
262. The Desire to Transcend Ourselves
263. MONEY THOUGHTS
264. How to Retire
265. Via Negativa Productivity
266. Why You Must Make Your Own Website
267. Individuals over Companies
268. Build Yourself
269. Success is Survival
270. Why You Shouldn’t Go to Photography or Art School
271. How to Differentiate Yourself as a Photographer
272. Surpass Yourself
     
273. Can You Handle Extreme Freedom?
274. Boutique or Mass Market?
275. Proof of Concept
276. Unified Field Theory for Photography
277. Build a Company You’d Never Sell
278. Play the Long Game
279. Entrepreneurship and Art
280. What is the Source of our Strength?
281. What’s the Future for Photography?
282. Full-Stack Visual Artist
283. Why Scale?
284. What is Your Unfair Advantage?
285. Substance Marketing
286. Share Your Dopeness with Others
287. Frugality is Freedom
288. Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for Entrepreneurship
289. Don’t Follow or Predict Trends, Start Your Own Trend!
290. If You’re Not Busy Growing, You’re Busy Dying
291. Entrepreneurship born from Superabundance, not Need/Necessity
292. Photography Entrepreneurship Philosophy
293. How to Master Marketing in Photography
294. Photography Entrepreneurship Tips and Ideas
295. Is Hustle Sufficient Unto Success?
296. Don’t do it for the money
297. DIGITAL MARXISM
298. Zen Entrepreneurship
299. BOLDER IS BETTER.
300. Streamers Shall Inherit the Earth

Photography Blogging

• Blogging is Public Meditations
• The Art of Blogging
• Give Me a Laptop and I Shall Move the World!
• The Future is Photography Blogging
• How to Become a GREAT Blogger
• If you can’t code, blog instead!
• Daily Blog of Activities
• How to Monetize a Blog Without Advertising
• How to Publish Yourself
• How to Blog
• The future of photography publishing is photography blogging.
• Why Become a Photography Blogger?
• Why You Must Become a Photography Blogger
• Why You Should Delete Your Instagram and Start Your Own Blog

Money

• How to Use Wealth
• To Become Rich, Don’t Go Broke
• Why Save Money?
• Less Money, Less Problems

Self-Empowerment

• Life is Too Short to Be Negative
• Why You Must Follow Your Passion in Life
• How to Conquer Shyness
• Don’t Ask for Permission
• Onto the Next One
• Why You Must Self-Promote Yourself
• Why You Must Conquer Your Fears in Life

Marketing and Branding

• Why You Must Become a Photography Blogger
• Why Blog?
• Why You Must Self-Promote Yourself
• Create Substance, Not Content
• Photography Marketing and Branding 101
• How to Master Marketing in Photography
• 10 Tips How to Become a More Famous Photographer

Entrepreneurship Lifestyle

• Why Hustle?
• Why Save Money?
• Ascetic is Sexy
• Why You Must Become Self-Employed
• How to Push Yourself Beyond the Limit
• Is Location Independence Overrated?

Entrepreneurship Mindset

• How to Get Discovered
• Financial Independence
• Disregard Success or Failure; Always Attempt More!
• In Praise of Stubbornness
• Success is Personal Bravery
• Why You Must Become an Entrepreneur
• How to Brand and Market Yourself as a Photographer
• How to Conquer Haters
• How to Accumulate Capital
• Why Be Different?
• How to Master Marketing in Photography
• Don’t Play it Safe
• Why Blog?
• How to Be a More Productive Photographer
• How to Hustle
• True Productivity
• What Can Only You Do?
• Love Risk
• What is Success?
• Fill a Vacuum
• Think Big
• What is Your Dream in Life?
• 8 Blogging Productivity Tips
• Why Be Normal?
• How Much Suffering Are You Willing to Endure to Achieve Your Dreams?

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Photography Entrepreneurship 101

• Don’t Sit Still!
• Bitcoin for Photographers
• Don’t Be Timid
• Why Start Your Own Photography Blog?
• Fill a Void
• 1,000 True Followers: How to Build Your Own Niche in Photography
• Photography Entrepreneurship 101: Why You Must Start Your Own Email Newsletter
• TURBO CREATION: Why a Maxed-Out MacBook Laptop is the Best Investment You Can Make for Photography Entrepreneurship

Life and Productivity Hacks

• My Ultimate Productivity and Life Hacks
• Life/Productivity Hack: Write (Type on a phone) While Walking on a Dynamic Treadmill
• ERIC KIM Life, Creativity, and Productivity Hacks

How to Make a Living from Your Passion

• Digital Nomad Photographer
• Build Your Own Instagram!
• How to Be More Ambitious
• Do It Your Way
• How to Measure Your Progress as a Photography Entrepreneur + Come Up With New Ideas
• How to Make a Living From Your Passion in Photography

Put a Dent in the Universe.

• Fear Disguised as Reason
• Distraction is the Enemy
• Innovate for the Sake of Innovating!
• Reality is Malleable!
• Stoic Entrepreneurship
• Against Self-Preservation
• The Purpose of Life is to Make New Stuff!

How to Succeed as an Entrepreneur

• You Have No Limits.
• Calculated Risk-Taking
• Invest in Yourself
• The Secret of Happiness: Shoot for the Moon!
• Moonshot Thinking
• Why We Should all Be Photography Entrepreneurs
• Memento Mori Entrepreneurship
• Why it is Better to Beg For Forgiveness than Ask For Permission
• How to Become a Digital Nomad
• Why You Must Own Your Own Platform
• First Principle Thinking for Photography Entrepreneurs
• How I Became a Digital Nomad
• Better to Beg For Forgiveness than Ask For Permission!
• Spurn Pleasing Others!
• Create Your Own Niche
• How to Gain More Exposure For Your Photography
• Intense Focus
• How to Conquer Your Fears as an Entrepreneur
• Define Yourself
• Let Dissatisfaction Drive You Forward!
• It Doesn’t Matter if Someone Else Has Done it Before!
• How to Succeed as a Photography Entrepreneur: Be Extremely Resourceful
• Open Source Business Model in Photography Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship 101: Growth and Innovation Over Self-Preservation
• How to Create Value as a Photography Entrepreneur
• Why Become a Photography Entrepreneur?
• Why You Must Ignore Nay-Sayers to Succeed in Entrepreneurship, Business, and Life

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Business Mental Models

• How to Succeed as a Photography Entrepreneur: Be Extremely Resourceful
• Open Source Business Model in Photography Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship 101: Growth and Innovation Over Self-Preservation

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How to Monetize Your Photography

• Photography Entrepreneurship 101: INFLUENCE
• Should I Monetize My Passion for Photography?
• 10 Practical Photography Monetization Strategies: Pricing, Google SEO, & Entrepreneurship
• How to Make Money From Street Photography

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Why Become a Photography Entrepreneur?

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THE MODERN PHOTOGRAPHER

• CREATIVE CAPITALISM
• How to Monetize Your Photography
• 5 Practical Photography Career Tips and Advice
• 10x Thinking
• How to Hustle as a Photographer
• How to Become Your Own Master Marketer
• The ‘T’ Technique of Success
• Go Ahead and Sell Out
• What is Your Unique Voice?
• Why You Must Self-Promote Yourself
• What is Your Unique Angle as a Photographer?
• Photography Content Marketing 101
• Why You Must Become Your Own Publisher
• The Art of Cross-Pollination in Photography

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Photography Entrepreneurship Articles

• Why You Shouldn’t Trust Your Pictures to Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Flickr
• How to Make Money From Your Photography
• Photography SEO and Blogging: How to Become Number One on Google
• Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Motivation
•  Now is the Best Time to Be a Photographer
• PRODUCERISM
• What Is The Value of a Picture?
• Your Photographic Labor is Not Free

PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS 101

• Chapter 1. How to Make a Photography Blog
• Chapter 2. How to Price Yourself
• Chapter 3. How to Find Your Market
• Chapter 4. Why Teach Workshops?
• Chapter 5. How to Build Trust
• Chapter 6. How to Market Yourself
• Chapter 7: Why Should Someone Attend Your Workshop?

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KEYS TO SUCCESS

• Why You Must Be a “Personality” in Order to Succeed
• THRIVE OR DIE.
• Impatience is a Virtue
• Create Your Own Category
• HOW TO DREAM BIG.
• Will Not or Cannot?
• Why Not?
• How to Think BIG
• How to Stay Ahead of the Curve
• How to Invest in Yourself
• The Two Camera Rule
• MEANINGFUL DIFFERENTIATION
• Advice For College Students
• How to Thrive in Uncertain Times
• CANNIBALIZE YOURSELF.
• DO AND GROW RICH
• Does Fear of Punishment Hold You Back?
• HOW TO GET MORE FOLLOWERS
• How to Innovate
• How to Build Your Own Empire
• YOU ARE ENTITLED TO HARD WORK.
• PICK YOURSELF.
• OWN YOUR PLATFORM
• 10 KEYS TO SUCCESS

Table of Contents

Learn how to make a living from your passion:

• Preface. BRAVE NEW WORLD OF PHOTOGRAPHY
• Chapter 1. How to Create Value
• Chapter 2. ZEN CAPITALISM
• Chapter 3. Scarcity
• Chapter 4. How to Brand Yourself
• Chapter 5. How to Build a True Following
• Chapter 6. The Blueprint to Success in Photography
• Chapter 7. HOW TO BE BOLD
• Chapter 8. How to Sell Out
• Chapter 9. GO AGAINST THE GRAIN
• Chapter 10. EXTREME ABUNDANCE
• Chapter 11. Photography Experience Economy
• Chapter 12. Why You Should Make Money for Your Photography
• Chapter 13. How to Become a Famous Photographer

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Photography Business 101

• Practical Photography Business Advice

How to Make Money with Photography

• How to Charge More Money in Your Photography
• Why You Should Not Pursue Photography as Career
• Can Photography Make You Rich?
• How I Earn $200,000+ a Year From Photography
• How to earn $10,000 a month as a photographer
• Why you must be an expensive photographer

Photography Marketing 101

• Why Have More Followers?
• Why You Should Do Photography Work For Free
• How I Became an Internet Famous Photographer
• Photography Blogging Ideas
• Why You Should Promote Your Own Name
• How to Build a Following
• How to Stand Out as a Photographer.
• HOW TO GO VIRAL AS A PHOTOGRAPHER.
• How to Master Marketing
• How to Sell Yourself

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How to Hustle.

• Entrepreneurial Advice to My 18 Year Old Self
• How to Become Insanely Productive.
• 5 Lessons From Hesiod on Hustling

Entrepreneurial Principles

• It is Better to Beg For Forgiveness Than Ask For Permission
• The Free Way to Become Rich
• JUST DO IT.
• 7 Steps: How to Make a Living From Your Passion
• How to Do What You Love for a Living
• How to Create an MVP (Minimum Viable Product)
• How to Fail Big
• How to Invest in Yourself
• How to Be Bold in Photography and Life
• Mission: Cover Your Rent and Food
• 1,000 True Fans
• The “10x Principle”: The Only Difference Between “Success” and “Failure”
• Make More Value Not Money
• We Live in a Photo Utopia

How to be a Full-time Photographer

• How to Make a Living From Photography
• The 3 Principles of Making Money With Photography
• Advice for Aspiring Full-Time Photographers
• Don’t Go Into Debt For Your Photography
• How to Brand Yourself as a Photographer
• Trust: The Most Important Thing You Need to Succeed as a Photographer

Photography Blogging

• How to become rich from photography blogging
• How to Make a Living with Blogging
• 50 Blogging Tips For Beginners
• How to Start Your Own Photography Blog
• A Photographer’s Guide to SEO, Blogging, and Social Media

How to Teach Photography

• How to Become a Photography Teacher
• How to Teach a Street Photography Class
• Why I Teach Street Photography Workshops

Social Media

• Why I Deleted My Instagram
• The Social Media Blackbook for Photographers
• Why Do You Need More Likes or Followers?
• Instagram is Going to Be the Next Facebook
• Don’t Trust “Free” Photography Social Networks

How to Save Money

• How Cindy Saved Us $150,000+
• The Free Way to Become Rich

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MONEY 101

1. Just Follow the Money
2. My Money Philosophy
3. Eternal fame and glory over money
4. The Trillion Dollar Question: How to Make Money on the Internet Without Advertising?
5. Entrepreneurship that Doesn’t Involve Money-Making?
6. Money Ain’t Real
7. Making Money for Fun, Not to Get Rich
8. Why Money?

Cyber vlog

A gym in cyberspace?

OK I think I finally got it figured out; money is potential energy, when you actually put it to work, and enact force upon it… money then becomes kinetic energy?

Don’t hate me because I have more money than you!

Bitcoin is the first and only true hard money on the planet, therefore… If I have more bitcoin than you, and I have not spent it… That means I am richer than you, I have more money than you

I think which has boggled my mind for a very long time is money. The philosophy of money, economic theory, practical economic theory, etc.

For me, I have zero interest in theoretical notions of money. To me, money is practical, and also, thinking about physics, monetary physics is useful.

I should have majored in physics? 

Apparently, in the early days of sociology, they called it “social physics”

For example, I remember in high school… Surprisingly my favorite class was my honors physics class, I think I might’ve got B- in it or something… Our teacher I think he graduated from Stanford or Caltech or something… Super genius guy, at Castro Valley high, and I loved physics because it was science and math made practical, fun, and real!

I still will never forget, we did this experiment, in which we built this catapult, and actually used real physics math, to calculate the dropping projectile, and a shooting kinetic projectile, and after a few sessions of class, after we did all the math, and we shot it… It truly did collide mid air! It was magical! 

Movement is magical

What is the greatest tragedy in today’s world? When your movement is restricted, thwarted. 

As an example, what is it that we all hate in Los Angeles? Traffic! I think it is literally one of the first English words that Seneca learned by heart. 

For example, consider how cruel it is to force adults and humans to drive in their automobile car, stuck in traffic for about an hour one way, and then going into a depressing office building, indoors, lack of natural light… And force an individual to remain stationary, not moving, in front of a cubicle a desk, an open concept thing; doesn’t matter if you’re sitting or standing or even using a treadmill… It is like you are a glorified hamster on glorified hamster wheel! 

Injecting money into your legs

Living in Culver City LA about 10 months now… What is the ultimate way that you could rank yourself? By what neighborhood you live in!

Funny nuances, the second that you meet somebody outside of Culver City, who discovers that you actually live in Culver City, and how much more expensive your rent is than theirs, the attitude of people change.

For example, $3200 a month for two bedroom one bath Culver City, versus only $1800 for one bedroom, maybe in Palms or Overland.

Anyways, what I find personally interesting is thinking about the basic privilege of walking. In Los Angeles, the ultimate and Apex privileged is how much you could walk a day… The insanely rich and successful people that have met in LA, I can judge by how beautiful in bronze there are suntan skin is, how much time to spend outdoors, and how many steps they could put in a day!

In fact, you could probably separate people into two camps; people who stand and walk for a living, and people who are outside for a living, versus office slaves who have to be stuck inside a glass cube cage all day. Would you rather be a spartan, or a bubble boy? Or in Blade Runner that one girl who is forced to live in that little ecosystem chamber cell, because she likes immunity to the real world? 

What is happiness

To me happiness is walking. Having the privilege to all, having the strength to walk, you never really realize how grateful you are to walk, until you see a loved one in a wheelchair, otherwise healthy, because of type two diabetes and sciatica.

Or, I’ll never forget when I ruptured my tendon either in my ankle or my knee playing basketball in college, being stuck in crutches for almost 6 months, the worst.

Injuries

I’ve had many injuries of the years, fortunately never broke a bone in my life. Maybe it’s because I ate so much meat as a kid, and drink so much milk as a kid.

Anyways, I am really into this notion of healing, and not that the new Deadpool Wolverine films out… The theory and philosophy of healing, superhero powers etc.

I was watching an interview with Michael Saylor, which he talks about superhero theory, and the very very funny idea is the thought that the ultimate superpower is actually immortality, being invincible, like you cannot die. Because it would be very very simple, you just take a machine gun, step into the room and kill everybody, or you could just walk into a room with a nuke, nuke everybody, and everybody else dies but you.

Anyways, what I find so fascinating about wolverine, is that his mutant superpower is healing, and also… The fact that he has a skeleton made out of adamantine, but the nuance is every single time he takes out his claws, it literally causes him pain, wolverine is not immune to pain, he feels pain greatly; it’s just that he cannot die from the pain. 

So imagine a life, in which you are practically invincible, you cannot be killed… But, you feel pain like a typical normal human being, would you take this trade?

Money

Taking it back to money, what is money, why is this significant, what does it mean?

Recalling before I join finances with Cindy, the work was simple: you work hard, you earn money, and then you spend it. As a consequence, before marrying Cindy, I don’t think I ever saved more than $500, or thousand dollars, because I would spend the money as quickly as I earned it!

My justification was that I was “investing”, the general idea is that the purpose of money is that you earn it, you invested, you spend it… To continue the cycle all over again indefinitely.

However, one which was never instilled in me was the ethos of saving. The more radical ideas that you work hard, you earn money, but you never spend it… You either put in the market, buy bitcoin, buy real estate, buy property etc. Essentially, you earn income, continue to drive your 2010 Prius, forever, never eat out, never buy new things, never buy a loser iPhone pro, etc. and also you never eat out at a loser restaurant, you quit alcohol and you never pay for $20 cocktails, you never smoke weed, you never go to a festival, you don’t go to concerts, you don’t blow your money at Vegas.

How I learned this

One thing I’m grateful for is that my dad was a chronic gambler, he would always gamble away the rent money, go off to Reno in the middle of the night, not come back for a week… Empty-handed. Even as a teenage kid, working really really hard as a boy at the sushi restaurant my mom worked at, maybe saving about $3000 USD in cash, and my dad saying that there was a business opportunity in LA, and that he needed the money… And then me giving that money to my dad, hoping that he would actually invest it to change his life, but once again… Him coming back, empty-handed.

I suppose I am lucky that I was a stoic ever since I was a kid, my adamantine soul & carcass — this is how I became so tough as a kid. Anyways, it first taught me the virtues of not being foolish with money, and learning firsthandley… gambling was a positive evil. 

Energy conservation

Matter is not created nor destroyed, and assuming that there is a connection between Madrin and energy… Maybe the best way to think about money is monetary energy, human capital, solidified into ones and zeros.

For example, I think the true use of money is not really materials, but human labor. For example, when you pay somebody $20 for an overpriced sandwich, you’re not really paying for the materials… The materials for your sandwich might cost you only about a dollar or two, but to get a human hand to assemble the sandwich is what causes or cost a lot of money?

So I think when we pay for stuff, but we are really paying for is labor. Paying for human labor, and also space?

For example, when you’re wasting money at a gym membership… What you are paying for is the privilege of being around other human beings, kind of like a private club, and also the privilege of using the equipment and space.

I think this is where building your own home gym is so disruptive… it kind of changes everything. 

For example, reoccurring costs is the killer here. 

Depending on where you live, the prices of a gym membership can vary. When I was back in Orange County, crunch fitness was super cheap… I think like $30 a month? Practically free. But when you come here to LA… It looks like the average gym membership is about $120, even $200 a month? Even if you do the simple math… If you spent $200 a month in weightlifting equipment for yourself… Every month 200 bucks… This would be a better use of your money. Because when you purchased the equipment, it is your property, and has infinite potential.

Property

Life is a game of monopoly, go outside and cop yourself some property — MIGOS

Historically, Nas seem to laugh also mirrors this… Most of wealth creation was from owning property. For example, if your dad bought property in Palos Verdes, 100 years ago… You would inherit a lot of wealth.

Or those funny stories in which your great great grandfather, once upon a time purchased property in San Francisco for about five acorns, and now it is worth $5 billion… Similar story.

I think this is gonna be a similar thing with bitcoin, right now a bitcoin is worth about $55,000 a bitcoin… And 100 years, will be worth $21 million a bitcoin. And then 300 years from now, I wouldn’t be surprised if one bitcoin will be worth $1 trillion or something.

Generational wealth is the key

I think the big problem in today’s world is the cult of the individual. There has been a new modern day death to the family structure, the general ideas you never want to have kids.

Having a kid is very eye-opening in a good way. Why? Once you have a kid… Technically this augments your power. Assuming “The will to power”– the will to having children, many kids, is also the will to power. Why? When you have kids, multiple kids, you augment your power.

In the past, the general idea was children was like free labor. For example, we had a farm, having 10 kids would be useful in terms of managing the family farm. Even now, my brother-in-law and their family, having four boys for grown men… Tons of free intellectual and labor capital. They are currently building up a fine art gallery, And having intelligence and the human labor of for grown adults is great.

The logic

Assuming that you want to become super rich, but never have any kids… It is almost like shooting your semen into a black hole. When you’re dead, that sucks.

I think if you’re 90 years old on your deathbed, and you have no heirs, no children no grandchildren, no great grandchildren, the ultimate tragedy.

Body Pride vs body shame?

An interesting observation that I’ve made in the past; why is it that you’re allowed to flex your car, but not flex your body?

Even bodybuilders… Whenever they flex, they do it with a tint of shame?

Certainly there is a hierarchy of bodies, more desirable bodies, less desirable bodies. 

Generics is fake

A big intervention: genetics is fake. Certainly there are genetic things like height, facial morphological features, etc.

For example, if both of your parents are 4 feet tall, probably unlikely you’re going to be 7 feet tall. But your parents are 7 feet tall, unlike you’ll be 4 feet tall.

Obviously people from different genetic heritages look different. But, if we think about the plasticity of human gene expression — obviously there is a lot we can stretch!

Racism 2.0

For example, I don’t really think there is such a thing as muscular strength geneticism. For example, I think the reason why there is so much African-Americans and Caucasians in sports is because there is higher steroid use amongst them… vs Asians who have a culture of studying. 

However, even now, I’m starting to see this change. I’m seeing a lot of Asian guys, dipping into steroids, and they are insanely jacked. And I think the difference between the media and the real world is that the observation I met is when you go to the gym, a lot of the African-American guys are actually pretty skinny, typically guys  with the most mass or not the African-American black guys, but the Caucasian white guys– and once again… Steroid use amongst the white Caucasian population is very high, just watch the documentary on the bell Brothers, 2/3 of them taking steroids. If you ever grew up to an Arnold Schwarzenegger or Rambo Sylvester Stallone film… You see the glorification of steroids. Also baseball, wrestling etc.

I only trust Prius drivers 

A new thought: who is the real rich people or the real smart people? The Prius drivers!  For example, I’ll never forget… At the $150 million mansion in Holmby Hills, seeing a white Prius pull out of the driveway! 

And also, real rich families… all of the kids just drive Ford fusions? And even a major Tesla investor that I know, with over $100 million worth of Tesla stock, his family has base level model 3’s?

Therefore, my great intelligence is not seeing stuff on… Would rather, how real rich people behave. Especially how they don’t waste their money. 

Why are rich people so cheap

This is also another hilarious irony; real rich people are actually very frugal. The hilarious irony:

You’re so rich… Why don’t you spend money to buy that Lamborghini?

The reason why they are rich because they did not buy the loser Lamborghini, but bought a Honda Civic instead!

Also… The irony that people tell me:

ERIC, why don’t you eat some of the cake?

I tell them, “Because I don’t want to get fat.”

And then they tell me:

But you’re so skinny!

And then I laugh and I tell them– “The reason I am so skinny is because I don’t eat cake!” Haha.

And this is the great paradox, if you really want to become rich, like have a lot of money… The true goal is simple: Spartan living. 

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Etymology of luxury and Greek history equivalent word

The word “luxury” comes from the Latin word luxuria, which originally referred to excess or extravagance. The term luxuria itself is derived from luxus, meaning excess, indulgence, or exuberance. Over time, the meaning of “luxury” evolved to represent something that is desirable, costly, and associated with wealth and comfort.

In Greek history, the equivalent concept is captured by the term τρυφή (truphē), which conveys the idea of luxury, softness, and indulgence. In ancient Greek culture, truphē was often viewed negatively, associated with decadence and moral decline, especially in contrast to the ideals of moderation and self-control promoted by philosophers like Socrates and Plato.

Uh oh… Leydig cells in testes can be damaged through alcohol consumption, and also — interfering brain’s hormonal regulation on hypothalamus and pituitary gland — stimulates testosterone production.

Also bad decreased libido, erectile dysfunction, muscular atrophy, increased body fat.

More body fat is more estrogen in men —

Don’t hate me because I have so much more testosterone than you!

What causes estrogen gain in men

Estrogen gain in men, also known as elevated estrogen levels or hyperestrogenism, can be caused by a variety of factors. Here are some of the most common causes:

1. Obesity

• Increased Aromatase Activity: Fat tissue contains the enzyme aromatase, which converts testosterone into estrogen. Men with higher amounts of body fat have more aromatase activity, leading to increased estrogen levels. This is particularly common in obese men, where the excessive body fat leads to significantly higher estrogen production.

2. Aging

• Testosterone Decline: As men age, testosterone levels naturally decline. Lower testosterone levels can lead to a relative increase in estrogen, even if estrogen levels remain constant. Additionally, the increase in body fat with age can exacerbate this effect.
• Increased Aromatization: The aging process is also associated with an increase in aromatase activity, further contributing to higher estrogen levels.

3. Alcohol Consumption

• Liver Function: Excessive alcohol consumption can impair liver function. The liver is responsible for metabolizing and clearing excess hormones, including estrogen. When the liver is damaged or overworked, it can lead to the accumulation of estrogen in the body oai_citation:3,Does Alcohol Lower Testosterone Levels?.

4. Certain Medications

• Hormonal Treatments: Some medications, including those used for prostate cancer (like anti-androgens) or certain types of chemotherapy, can increase estrogen levels.
• Medications that Affect Liver Function: Drugs that impair liver function, such as some antibiotics or antifungals, can lead to an increase in estrogen levels.

5. Health Conditions

• Hypogonadism: Conditions that lead to low testosterone production, such as primary or secondary hypogonadism, can cause a relative increase in estrogen.
• Tumors: Estrogen-producing tumors, such as certain adrenal tumors, can directly increase estrogen levels in men.
• Thyroid Disorders: Hyperthyroidism, or an overactive thyroid, can increase the levels of sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG), which binds to testosterone and leaves more estrogen unbound and active in the bloodstream.

6. Environmental Estrogens (Xenoestrogens)

• Exposure to Endocrine Disruptors: Chemicals found in plastics (like BPA), pesticides, and other environmental pollutants can act as xenoestrogens, which mimic estrogen in the body and can lead to elevated estrogen levels.

7. Dietary Factors

• Phytoestrogens: Diets high in phytoestrogens (plant-based estrogens found in soy products, flaxseeds, etc.) can contribute to higher estrogen levels, although the effect is generally mild compared to other factors.
• Zinc Deficiency: Zinc plays a crucial role in testosterone production, and a deficiency in zinc can lead to lower testosterone and relatively higher estrogen levels.

8. Stress and Cortisol

• Cortisol Production: Chronic stress leads to elevated cortisol levels, which can inhibit testosterone production and lead to a relative increase in estrogen. Additionally, cortisol can increase aromatase activity, further boosting estrogen levels.

Elevated estrogen in men can lead to various symptoms, including gynecomastia (breast tissue development), decreased libido, erectile dysfunction, and even increased risk of certain conditions like cardiovascular disease. Addressing the underlying causes—whether through lifestyle changes, medical treatment, or both—is crucial for managing estrogen levels in men oai_citation:2,What Is the Connection Between Alcohol and Testosterone? oai_citation:1,Does Alcohol Lower Testosterone Levels?.

Alcohol consumption can significantly impact testosterone levels, particularly with heavy or chronic drinking. Here’s how it works:

Short-Term Effects

• Immediate Drop in Testosterone: After consuming alcohol, especially in large amounts, testosterone levels can drop within as little as 30 minutes. This effect, though temporary, is noticeable and can disrupt normal testosterone levels even after a single episode of heavy drinking. However, these levels usually return to normal after the alcohol is metabolized if the drinking is not chronic.

Long-Term Effects

• Chronic Alcohol Abuse: Long-term heavy drinking has much more severe effects on testosterone. It can damage the Leydig cells in the testes, which are responsible for producing testosterone. Additionally, alcohol interferes with the brain’s hormonal regulation by affecting the hypothalamus and pituitary gland, both crucial for stimulating testosterone production. Over time, this can lead to consistently lower testosterone levels, which are associated with symptoms such as decreased libido, erectile dysfunction, muscle atrophy, and increased body fat.
• Impact on Liver Function: The liver plays a critical role in hormone metabolism, including testosterone. Alcohol-induced liver damage can impair the liver’s ability to metabolize and clear hormones, leading to further reductions in testosterone levels.
• Weight Gain and Increased Estrogen: Alcohol is calorie-dense and can contribute to weight gain, particularly around the abdomen. Increased body fat can lead to higher levels of estrogen in men, which can further suppress testosterone production.

Moderation is Key

While moderate alcohol consumption (defined as up to two drinks per day for men) does not seem to have a lasting negative impact on testosterone levels, heavy or chronic drinking is detrimental. Reducing alcohol intake or abstaining altogether can help restore and maintain healthy testosterone levels over time.

In summary, while occasional moderate drinking might not significantly harm testosterone levels, chronic and heavy alcohol use can lead to long-term declines in testosterone and associated health issues. If you’re concerned about your alcohol consumption and its impact on your hormones, it may be wise to seek advice from a healthcare provider oai_citation:4,Short & Long-Term Effects of Alcohol and Testosterone | Everlywell oai_citation:3,6 of Alcohol’s Powerful Effects on Testosterone – Priority Men’s Medical oai_citation:2,Does Alcohol Lower Testosterone? Insights from AlphaMD | Alpha MD oai_citation:1,Does Alcohol Lower Testosterone Levels?.

Testosterone as steroid hormone —

Synthesized by liver

Steroidogenic tissues like testes — cholesterol transported to mitochondria

Testes of men, in ovaries of women — and adrenal glands:

Testosterone, like all steroid hormones, is synthesized from cholesterol. The process of converting cholesterol into testosterone involves several steps and takes place primarily in the testes in men and in the ovaries and adrenal glands in both men and women. Here’s a detailed overview of how testosterone is synthesized from cholesterol:

1. Cholesterol Uptake

Cholesterol is the precursor for all steroid hormones, including testosterone. It can be sourced from dietary intake or synthesized by the liver. In steroidogenic tissues (like the testes), cholesterol is transported to the mitochondria, where steroid hormone synthesis begins.

2. Conversion to Pregnenolone

Inside the mitochondria, cholesterol undergoes the first enzymatic reaction, which is the conversion to pregnenolone. This reaction is catalyzed by the enzyme cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme (CYP11A1), also known as desmolase. This step is the rate-limiting step in the synthesis of all steroid hormones.

3. Conversion to 17α-Hydroxypregnenolone

Pregnenolone is then converted to 17α-hydroxypregnenolone by the enzyme 17α-hydroxylase (CYP17A1). This enzyme is crucial for the production of androgens, including testosterone.

4. Formation of Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA)

17α-hydroxypregnenolone is then converted into dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) by the same enzyme, CYP17A1, through a lyase reaction. DHEA is a weak androgen and an important intermediate in the synthesis of more potent androgens.

5. Conversion to Androstenedione

DHEA is further converted into androstenedione by the enzyme 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (3β-HSD). Androstenedione is a direct precursor to testosterone and is itself a weak androgen.

6. Conversion to Testosterone

Finally, androstenedione is converted into testosterone by the enzyme 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (17β-HSD). This enzyme reduces the ketone group on the androstenedione molecule to a hydroxyl group, producing testosterone.

7. Regulation of Testosterone Synthesis

The synthesis of testosterone is tightly regulated by the hypothalamus and pituitary gland through the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis:

• The hypothalamus secretes gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH).
• GnRH stimulates the pituitary gland to release luteinizing hormone (LH).
• LH acts on the Leydig cells in the testes, promoting the production of testosterone by increasing the conversion of cholesterol to pregnenolone.

8. Transport and Function

Once synthesized, testosterone is released into the bloodstream. In circulation, testosterone is largely bound to proteins such as sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) and albumin, with only a small fraction being free and biologically active. Testosterone exerts its effects by binding to androgen receptors in various tissues, influencing everything from muscle mass and bone density to mood and libido.

9. Conversion to Other Hormones

Testosterone can also be converted into other hormones:

• Dihydrotestosterone (DHT): In some tissues, testosterone is converted to the more potent androgen DHT by the enzyme 5α-reductase.
• Estradiol: Testosterone can be aromatized to estradiol (an estrogen) by the enzyme aromatase, particularly in adipose tissue. This conversion is crucial for maintaining bone density and other functions, especially in men.

Summary

Testosterone synthesis from cholesterol is a complex, multi-step process involving various enzymes. It begins with the conversion of cholesterol into pregnenolone in the mitochondria and ends with the production of testosterone in the testes, ovaries, or adrenal glands. This synthesis is under tight regulatory control, ensuring that testosterone levels remain within an optimal range for physiological function.

Testosterone is synthesized from cholesterol.

More about how testosterone is synthesized from cholesterol

Testosterone, like all steroid hormones, is synthesized from cholesterol. The process of converting cholesterol into testosterone involves several steps and takes place primarily in the testes in men and in the ovaries and adrenal glands in both men and women. Here’s a detailed overview of how testosterone is synthesized from cholesterol:

1. Cholesterol Uptake

Cholesterol is the precursor for all steroid hormones, including testosterone. It can be sourced from dietary intake or synthesized by the liver. In steroidogenic tissues (like the testes), cholesterol is transported to the mitochondria, where steroid hormone synthesis begins.

2. Conversion to Pregnenolone

Inside the mitochondria, cholesterol undergoes the first enzymatic reaction, which is the conversion to pregnenolone. This reaction is catalyzed by the enzyme cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzyme (CYP11A1), also known as desmolase. This step is the rate-limiting step in the synthesis of all steroid hormones.

3. Conversion to 17α-Hydroxypregnenolone

Pregnenolone is then converted to 17α-hydroxypregnenolone by the enzyme 17α-hydroxylase (CYP17A1). This enzyme is crucial for the production of androgens, including testosterone.

4. Formation of Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA)

17α-hydroxypregnenolone is then converted into dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) by the same enzyme, CYP17A1, through a lyase reaction. DHEA is a weak androgen and an important intermediate in the synthesis of more potent androgens.

5. Conversion to Androstenedione

DHEA is further converted into androstenedione by the enzyme 3β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (3β-HSD). Androstenedione is a direct precursor to testosterone and is itself a weak androgen.

6. Conversion to Testosterone

Finally, androstenedione is converted into testosterone by the enzyme 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (17β-HSD). This enzyme reduces the ketone group on the androstenedione molecule to a hydroxyl group, producing testosterone.

7. Regulation of Testosterone Synthesis

The synthesis of testosterone is tightly regulated by the hypothalamus and pituitary gland through the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axis:

• The hypothalamus secretes gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH).
• GnRH stimulates the pituitary gland to release luteinizing hormone (LH).
• LH acts on the Leydig cells in the testes, promoting the production of testosterone by increasing the conversion of cholesterol to pregnenolone.

8. Transport and Function

Once synthesized, testosterone is released into the bloodstream. In circulation, testosterone is largely bound to proteins such as sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) and albumin, with only a small fraction being free and biologically active. Testosterone exerts its effects by binding to androgen receptors in various tissues, influencing everything from muscle mass and bone density to mood and libido.

9. Conversion to Other Hormones

Testosterone can also be converted into other hormones:

• Dihydrotestosterone (DHT): In some tissues, testosterone is converted to the more potent androgen DHT by the enzyme 5α-reductase.
• Estradiol: Testosterone can be aromatized to estradiol (an estrogen) by the enzyme aromatase, particularly in adipose tissue. This conversion is crucial for maintaining bone density and other functions, especially in men.

Summary

Testosterone synthesis from cholesterol is a complex, multi-step process involving various enzymes. It begins with the conversion of cholesterol into pregnenolone in the mitochondria and ends with the production of testosterone in the testes, ovaries, or adrenal glands. This synthesis is under tight regulatory control, ensuring that testosterone levels remain within an optimal range for physiological function.

How does Wolverine and Deadpool heal

Wolverine and Deadpool, two popular characters from the Marvel Comics universe, are known for their extraordinary healing abilities. Their healing factors are similar but have distinct differences in terms of origin, capabilities, and limitations.

Wolverine (Logan)

• Healing Factor: Wolverine’s healing ability is his primary mutant power. His body can rapidly regenerate damaged or destroyed tissue, allowing him to recover from almost any injury, including gunshot wounds, burns, and even dismemberment. Wolverine’s healing factor also grants him immunity to most poisons and diseases, as his body quickly neutralizes harmful substances.
• Enhanced Lifespan: Wolverine’s healing factor also significantly slows his aging process. Although he is well over 100 years old, he appears much younger and maintains peak physical condition.
• Adamantium Skeleton: Wolverine’s skeleton is coated with the nearly indestructible metal adamantium. While this makes his bones virtually unbreakable, his healing factor is constantly working to counteract the toxic effects of the metal in his body. His healing ability also allows him to recover from injuries that would be fatal to most other beings.
• Limitations: Wolverine’s healing factor, while incredibly powerful, is not unlimited. The extent of his injuries and the amount of time needed to heal can vary depending on the severity. Extremely severe injuries, such as those affecting his brain, can take longer to heal, and in some cases, his healing factor has been overwhelmed or slowed down, especially in alternate storylines where he ages or faces specific challenges.

Deadpool (Wade Wilson)

• Healing Factor: Deadpool’s healing ability is similar to Wolverine’s but was artificially induced through a government experiment (a result of the Weapon X program). Like Wolverine, Deadpool can regenerate lost or damaged tissue, allowing him to recover from almost any injury, including decapitation and dismemberment. His healing factor is often portrayed as even more powerful and faster than Wolverine’s.
• Cancer and Healing: Deadpool’s healing factor is in a constant battle with his terminal cancer, which was advanced before he gained his powers. This results in his body being in a perpetual state of regeneration, giving him his characteristic disfigured appearance. His cells regenerate so quickly that his cancerous cells are also constantly regenerating, which ironically keeps him alive.
• Enhanced Lifespan: Similar to Wolverine, Deadpool’s healing factor grants him an extended lifespan, preventing him from aging normally and making him effectively immortal. His healing factor also provides immunity to diseases and toxins.
• Regeneration of Limbs: Deadpool’s healing factor is often shown to be more exaggerated in its effects, allowing him to regrow entire limbs or even his head. His healing can sometimes be played for comedic effect, such as when he regenerates a baby hand after losing one.
• Limitations: While Deadpool’s healing factor is incredibly potent, it has its limitations. His mental state is often unstable, and his healing factor does not prevent him from experiencing pain. Additionally, in certain storylines, his healing factor has been nullified or suppressed, making him vulnerable to injury.

Comparison

• Origin: Wolverine’s healing factor is a natural mutant ability, while Deadpool’s was artificially induced.
• Regeneration Speed: Deadpool’s healing is often depicted as faster and more exaggerated compared to Wolverine’s.
• Appearance: Wolverine retains a relatively normal appearance, whereas Deadpool’s healing factor, coupled with his cancer, results in significant scarring and disfigurement.
• Immortality: Both characters have an extended lifespan, but Deadpool’s is often portrayed as more extreme, making him nearly impossible to kill.

In essence, both characters possess extraordinary healing abilities that allow them to survive and recover from injuries that would be fatal to most, making them some of the most resilient characters in the Marvel Universe.

Consumption of organ meats and increase in testosterone

Organ meats, such as liver, kidneys, heart, and other internal organs, are rich in nutrients that can support overall health, including potentially boosting testosterone levels. Here’s how consuming organ meats may influence testosterone:

1. High Nutrient Density: Organ meats are extremely nutrient-dense, containing high levels of vitamins and minerals essential for testosterone production. These include:

• Zinc: A crucial mineral for testosterone production, zinc is found in significant amounts in organ meats, particularly liver. Zinc deficiency is closely linked to reduced testosterone levels.
• Vitamin A: Liver, in particular, is an excellent source of Vitamin A, which is important for the production of testosterone and maintaining testicular health.
• Vitamin D: Some organ meats, especially liver, contain vitamin D, which has been shown to have a positive impact on testosterone levels, particularly in individuals with low levels of this vitamin.
• B Vitamins: Organ meats are rich in B vitamins, particularly B12, which play a role in energy metabolism and the production of hormones, including testosterone.

1. Healthy Cholesterol Levels: Testosterone is synthesized from cholesterol. Organ meats contain healthy fats and cholesterol, which can provide the necessary building blocks for testosterone production. However, moderation is key, as excessive intake of cholesterol can have adverse effects on cardiovascular health.
2. Protein Content: Organ meats are a great source of high-quality protein, which is essential for muscle building and repair. Adequate protein intake supports overall health, including the maintenance of healthy testosterone levels.
3. CoQ10: Organs like the heart are rich in Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), an antioxidant that plays a role in energy production and has been linked to improved sperm quality and potentially increased testosterone levels.
4. Iron: The heme iron found in organ meats is highly bioavailable and supports overall energy levels and metabolic function, which indirectly supports healthy hormone levels, including testosterone.

Potential Considerations

While organ meats can be beneficial, it’s important to consume them in moderation. Organ meats are high in certain nutrients like vitamin A and cholesterol, which, in excessive amounts, can lead to toxicity or other health issues. Balancing organ meats with other sources of protein and nutrients in your diet is important for maintaining overall health.

In conclusion, consuming organ meats can support testosterone production due to their rich content of essential vitamins, minerals, and healthy fats. However, a balanced diet and lifestyle are crucial for optimizing testosterone levels naturally.

Testosterone plays a significant role in the body’s healing processes, influencing various aspects of tissue repair and regeneration. Here’s a summary of how testosterone impacts healing:

1. Wound Healing: Testosterone can positively influence the rate of wound healing by promoting the proliferation of skin cells (keratinocytes) and enhancing collagen production, which is crucial for tissue repair. Some studies suggest that testosterone therapy can improve the healing of chronic wounds, especially in older men who may have lower testosterone levels.
2. Muscle Recovery: Testosterone is known to increase muscle mass and strength, which is beneficial for muscle recovery after injury. It helps in the repair and regeneration of muscle fibers, reduces muscle wasting, and can enhance the overall recovery process after physical injury or surgery.
3. Bone Healing: Testosterone plays a role in bone density and strength, which can affect the healing of bone fractures. Adequate levels of testosterone are associated with better bone healing outcomes, while low testosterone levels can lead to delayed or impaired fracture healing.
4. Anti-inflammatory Effects: Testosterone has been shown to modulate the body’s inflammatory response. While acute inflammation is necessary for healing, chronic inflammation can hinder the process. Testosterone can help balance this response, potentially reducing chronic inflammation and promoting faster recovery.
5. Aging and Healing: As men age, their testosterone levels naturally decline, which can slow down the healing process. This decline may lead to slower recovery times from injuries, surgeries, and chronic conditions. Testosterone replacement therapy is sometimes used to counteract these effects, though it must be carefully managed due to potential side effects.

Overall, testosterone has a complex but generally positive effect on the body’s ability to heal and recover from various types of injuries. However, the relationship between testosterone and healing can vary depending on individual health conditions, age, and overall hormonal balance.

The past, your past was in fact inferior!

Creating a new ideal, a new breed of human?

The internet!

Zillow but for Bitcoin & digital property?

Video podcast vlog

Happy squad

Happy Audio

Happiness can be quite simple:

No fear

I have a funny theory: I wonder if more short guys get into weightlifting, because they have small man syndrome, and because they cannot change their height, they seek to increase their muscular size, to compensate for their short height.

But what about us guys who are tall — 5‘11 6 feet and beyond… my solution: rack pulls, atlas lifts —

1. Deadlifts are for short guys?
2. Squats are also for short guys?
3. Bench press is also for short guys?

You not like them!

I’m cut from a different cloth, forged from steel not clay!

Marble

One thing I’m really into is marble. You cannot fake it. Even the fake marble stuff, although aesthetically pretty nice, there is always an uncanny valley in which you could tell us something that is fake, which makes you feel uneasy.

For example, fake wood trim, especially in cars, I hate this. I think this is why I would never purchase any Tesla automobile with a fake wooden dash– pure ugliness.  Here I am very happy that the new Tesla model three car, especially in black, they have made the dash, a lovely monochromatic thing. 

In Japanese aesthetics and woodworking, there is a general notion of honesty of materials; if something is plastic, don’t try to pretend that the plastic is something else! Just let it be plastic!

Don’t try to make some thing into something that is not!

Maybe also, the metaphor to humans is, if you are cut from a different cloth, if you are a different material… don’t try to transmute yourself into being something you are not! 

For example, if you are bronze, no matter how hard you try… You cannot become gold! And the virtues of bronze is it is relentless, and brings black death. And Achilles preferred bronze over gold — bronze makes better weapons and armor. Gold is only for looking pretty on the battlefield, Looking like little girls, who die promptly.

My primary sociological intervention is your personality characteristics, no matter how bad or immoral they may seem… our virtues should be amplified, rather than tamed or changed. 

For example, for myself, I was always the ratchet, loud, high energy personality– an ego and a head bigger than life, always wanting to be the center of attention. I think society try to squeeze me into being something different, more decipherable, more predictable, etc. I think from the get-go, my personality was always more adapted to entertainment focused, media personality stuff, rather than just being another quiet programming worker bee. In fact, now that Silicon Valley is effectively dead, I am so happy I did not study computer science or programming, and just become another drone at Apple, Amazon Facebook or Google, rather, I transformed my primary passion, blogging into my living. 

Am I the first millionaire blogger? Maybe. Certainly the first millionaire street photographer, or the first millionaire street photography blogger!

New analogies

I think a big issue is when we try to copy a design, something which has succeeded in the past, rather than giving it a cart launch, fresh from scratch approach.

For example, I’m a huge fan of the Fujifilm cameras, but the big critical design issue is that with the Fujifilm X100 series cameras, they try to make it look like a Leica M rangefinder camera!

Panasonic lumix is the way

Perhaps a more intelligent idea and thought, is like the new Lumix S9 camera, in which Panasonic Lumix had the intelligent idea:

If we pared down a camera, an interchangeable lens camera, a body, and made a maximally small compact and easy to use… what would it look like? 

Et voila! The first really really small, good interchangeable lens full frame camera! I think the grandeur of Panasonic LUMIX is they are smart —

1. First, essentially borrowing her technologies, in lending her talent to Leica Camera AG. And I think also, Panasonic Lumix gained good insight from the German Leica engineers.
2. Let us consider the Leica Q, essentially it is like a Panasonic Lumix camera on steroids.
3. In terms of longevity, it seems that overtime, the most robust cameras, which have lasted are the Lumix cameras. For example, the Lumix G9 camera that I got in Japan around 2017 2018, is still chugging along fine today!

Let us not be suckered, durability is the number one critical thing on the planet.

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Durable humans, durable bodies

 One of my curiosities is watching all these bodybuilding films, because I was sucker by all this stuff, back in the day when I was a teenage kid, trying to get super jacked and muscular etc. I probably spent hundreds of dollars on protein powder and muscle milk as a kid, Money which was probably better spent on buying stocks etc.

Something that people don’t know is that I only picked up for you when I was about 18 years old, as a high school senior graduation present before going to college, and technically I was blogging ever since I was in high school, I recall my first “Xanga” blog — and also building my own website blog my sophomore junior year in high school.

I started blogging around 2 years before I started shooting photos.

I suppose looking back, timing was good. Blogging was still in its infancy, and also, photography and street photography was still nascent– the early days.

Anyways, the funny thing with timing is that the timing of things is always most beneficial to you during your own generation in years.

For example, Seneca at 3 1/2 years old, already knows what bitcoin is! And when he was about 2 1/2, he was already creating images on DALL-E, we made a lot of funny bitcoin school buses, even before he could barely talk! 

I think this is the reason why entrepreneurship and innovation is tricky; the principles change, the ideas change, the methods and techniques change. And we always need to give it a first principles, carte blanche approach.

The American way

Perhaps the first true approach is to do a blank sheet, a clean sheet, a carte blanche approach. A white paper, a blank white paper approach.

For example, the reason why cyber truck is the best thing of all time is that Elon and his head designer, rather than just taking that Ford F150 and trying to make it look like a Tesla car, they just literally thought the whole thing from scratch, and thought:

If we designed a truck ,,, TODAY,,, with the apex of all materials and technologies, what would it look like? And also what design elements would it not have?

I think this is also where bitcoin is so innovative; rather than just thinking about how currency worked in the past, isn’t the more intelligent thing to leverage the Internet, computer, math, and modern day cryptography, to create a new type of “imaginary” money (all money is imaginary)?

I think studying history is useful, don’t just blindly give fellatio to the past. Often the past was far worse.

For example, anybody who over romanticizes vinyl records, classic cars, or even film photography… I think it’s signals insecurity in oneself, And what they do is they see some sort of godhead or legitimacy from the past.

Also the thing with film photography, which people get suckered by that because most people cannot do it, it is seen as more valuable! But just because the photo is showing on films not making more virtuous or interesting.

This is where the photography world, film photography, art photography world is ridiculous; it is a bunch of insecure people trying to circle jerk off one other, to augment a bunch of insecure egos?  to justify how you wasted $250,000 on a foolish private arts education, assuming your family is not a billionaire?

Any education or higher education in which you have to go into debt to do it is never worth it.

Back to ideas at hand

Once again, the intelligence of a clean slate approach; with practically everything…

1. If we could hard reset the whole world of bodybuilding, weightlifting, and fitness… What would it look like?
2. if we erased everything about the past, and truly designed a car for the year 2024 and beyond… What would it look like?
3. ChatGPT and bitcoin is already here and is certainly the future… how should we rethink or reimagine the whole K-12 education system?

Searchgpt

I would say the future of education is simply critical thinking… Just let the kids use unlimited ChatGPT, the paid premium one in the classroom and beyond, and the true goal of the future is how to be critical or how to judge and assess the veracity of things that you find on ChatGPT or Google.

Impact, I have not used Google for almost a month now, my new experiment is just used ChatGPT whenever I am curious about something, and it is a quadrillion times superior in every single shape shape and form.

The last bastion of hope for Google is maybe YouTube — but even the big issue is once chatGPT video, sora comes out…  and you could have ChatGPT produce infinite media, for a nickel, and also, you do not have to pay the creator…  then what?

Also pornography; I have not opened up the terrible Pandora’s box of ChatGPT,DALL-E, virtual reality AI generated pornography… Or hentai or whatever… But certainly it seems that the hilarious irony that pornography might be more ethical;  no humans are harmed, either mentally spiritually morally ethically… The only weirdos are the guys who may be created, and consume it, or… Release their seminal fluid to it? 

And also… Come on… How many single tech dies, who spent $4000 on Apple Vision Pro have used it at least once to try out virtual reality pornography? No shame or issues here… But certainly, it makes you rethink and reconsider the whole thing.

What is the purpose of humans?

On a very very basic level… Reading the new translation of the Iliad by Emily Wilson is very very useful, because the telos was very simple then; you wanted to find a beautiful wife, and have kids! No weird modern day hedonist playboy who wanted to stay single forever kind of notion. No loser George Clooney type.

Let us not forget that Hugh Hefner, who invented the whole playboy idea, was an impotent man, a twig of a man, who was just injecting Viagra to his penis all day? Not a sign of virility.

So first, my simple intervention is that the purpose of humans is to produce beautiful offspring. And to find yourself a beautiful mate, a beautiful wife.

The future for your kids

Every parent wants a more glorious future for their children! This is the impetus of every new immigrants to America and beyond. The Chinese and the Koreans, and also even the Vietnamese call America, the beautiful country!

Ngoi my~

Mee-gook

Mee-gwwuh

China means the center country, like the center of the universe. But America is the beautiful one.

Doesn’t everyone want beauty?

Men

Man, what is it that we seek? A beautiful wife, a maximally beautiful wife, the most beautiful wife of all time, within our means, to produce the maximally beautiful, maximally powerful and superior children?

And if you think about it… Man we are not so different from Peacock; we do different societal behaviors and norms, certain meeting dances and calls, in order to attract that made, once again, hoping to marry her, and have beautiful children with her?

Hector, also had a son. And I think Achilles, if he had the chance would also desire a son. 

Each and every man desires at least one male heir.

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Breeds of dogs & breeds of humans?

One of the greatest things about the planet is genetic diversity. If you lived in the planet without any genetic diversity, it would be the most miserable planet of all time.

Let us consider all the diversity there is, in terms of food, animals, climates, plants bugs etc.

The funny thing is that on one hand we promote diversity, but on the other hand, we shun it. 

Be different! No… not like THAT!

Everyone looks different in the same way?

 I remember in high school… The weird goth emo kids who would wear all black, even in the hot summer, I don’t understand how they were able to wear black hoodies in the summertime at school, and it seems that they all would shop at hot topic.

And also, kids who are into skateboarding… Why did they all look to see? Why have I never seen a kid into skateboarding who just wore Lululemon tights?

The good thing is, there is a blurring of everything, you could literally be anything you want to be. And nobody cares. I think this is a very good thing.

However the new ones; I think the notion of being different be predicated on assessing others, and then literally trying to be different, but rather, trying to critically assess who you are, and then, just focus on your own personality.

For example, a sociological curiosity I’ve always had is how much of our personality is genetic or biological versus societal? Now that Seneca is 3 1/2, I have a partially good answer.

Based on my observation, considering that also, I’ve literally almost been with Seneca 24 7, since he was born…  I think one personality is maybe 65% of the equation, and the rest of it is socialized.

For example, Seneca in terms of his personality is very unlike me. He is more reserved, critical, and I think wiser. I am a little bit too foolish, too loud, too trusting. I think his personality is a carbon clone of Cindy.

The nuance is that a lot of the things that I’ve been teaching him, is kind of like a social technology, like giving people high-fives, fist bumps, etc. Also, the fact that we are essentially outside all day, not in some sort of grid system.

Cyber Beach, beach school? 

Beach school? Kids would be a lot happier? 

Ethics?

Something which is not allowed to be talked about… we could talk about breeds of dogs, but not humans. 

OK… let us apply a line of thinking to dogs, different breeds of dogs. For example, certainly a canine or pitbull would be a much better and ferocious fighter than a pug or a hotdog wiener dog.

But the funny thing is I think all breeds of dogs could procreate with one another, irregardless of breed? 

Genetic differences 

Certainly with human beings, there are some families which are naturally taller, some families which are naturally shorter. And certainly there has been some sort of genetic diversification on the planet and beyond, especially when it comes a different parts of the planet.

For example, in certain places certain humans have more bodily hair, possibly to dissipate the heat. For example, the physiology of somebody from ancient Greece would probably be a lot different from somebody from Sweden.

Other places, we adapt to gain darker pigments to fight off the sun. It makes sense, if your family genetic heritage is from sub-Saharan Africa, logically the human body will produce more pigment to fight off the sun then if your genetic heritage was from northern Sweden, in which during the winter time you might only get 30 minutes of sun.

Why others are confused by me

I’m starting to feel more and more… maybe other people, they’re just a different breed than me. For example, I think of myself kind of like a canine, a K9 attack police dog, and everyone else is just a wiener dog? Or annoying poodles?

And so then… when other people try to punk me around, I have zero tolerance for it.

For example, let us say that you were a ferocious fighting dog, and there’s a random annoying poodle that starts barking at you! Or tries to bully you around? How would you respond? Obviously you would just want the damn poodle to shut up!

Or I am the Gerardos, everyone else is like a Diglett or a Magikarp?

Thinking about Achilles

In my mind, I see myself like an Achilles. I see myself like the most handsome, powerful, dominant, ultra being out there. And perhaps it is precisely my oversized ego is where I get my power.

I think there are a lot of sissy philosophers and thinkers who somehow think that ego is a bad thing. I think this is not the case. Your ego is almost like your balls and your testicles… would you castrate yourself because sometimes it makes you too angry– having big balls and a lot of testosterone is almost like overpower.

For example, we think about Dragon Ball Z, Goku going super Saiyan etc.… Obviously you want the golden flaming flowing hair, and the ultra power of going super Saiyan! But let us say that with the ability to go super Saiyan, there were also some downsides like sometimes you cannot tolerate the power? Would you sacrifice it? Of course not!

Niagara Falls would make a great bitcoin mining rig 

Kind of like a raging river, Niagara Falls; would the point be to simply cut it off … or wouldn’t a more intelligent strategy to be to harness it like putting a water electricity damn thing on it, harness the hydropower, not to cut it off?

And this is my critique about modern day times, it seems like a lot of people are trying to do is to castrate the source, rather than channel that energy for positive constructive good things!

Don’t castrate yourself!

For example, the ego should be something augmented, amplified and magnified, but also concurrent channeled in such a way which could be empowering and useful for others?

How?

So can we use the ego in a constructive or positive way?

First, a non-competitive spirit… just compliment everybody you see! Even if somebody is taller, more good looking, handsomer, richer, more successful, buffer than you! When you see somebody with a great physique, the correct strategy is to compliment them and acknowledge them!

Second, to harness and channel your ego and your energy and your physiological power towards writing, producing text, making videos, podcasts etc.… Sharing ideas, irregardless of how unethical they may seem.

If anything… I’m starting to think more and more, the only interesting ideas are the unethical ones. Or the ones which are shunned by mainstream modern day society.

To me, the only good ideas are the bad ones. When an idea seems right, and it seems to make sense, typically it is bad and or wrong.

Follow your values

When it comes to values, there is no right or wrong, there are simply authentic to yourself, or not.

For example, my values and beliefs in open source, entrepreneurship, and empowerment through photography are true. Why? I grew up poor, single working mom waiting tables at Japanese sushi restaurant for nearly 20 years, and also almost went homeless twice. A lot of your own personal narrative forms who you are.

As a consequence, I think the idea is not too shroud who you are, your own personality etc., but rather to magnify it!

Magnify your personality!

For example, I’m a very inquisitive, curious person, and I’d like to chop it up! I like to be friendly!

Funny enough… I try to be friendly to everybody, but people who are standoffish, or bizarro, they react to me in very bizarre ways. But should I suddenly shut down my friendly personality because other guy is a cowardly poodle? No!

ERIC KIM PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT

Ever since I was a kid, what was my great gift? Being a great entertainer! I am literally the most entertaining person that I know, I’ve only met maybe two people in the flesh who outperformed me.

Maybe it is a form of social conquest, trolling around, having fun etc.! Maybe it is that I seek to be the biggest dick in the room? 

But it’s supposed to question is, why do I care? Why do I care to be the biggest dick in the room?

Not sure? Maybe the desire to dominate is in my DNA?

How I became the street photographer 

Whether you like it or not, all street photographers, especially young ones are disciples of ERIC KIM. How and why? I essentially created a metaphorical Bible or textbook or encyclopedia and ultimate resource for anything revolving around street photography. Why?

100 lessons from the masters of street photography

It was always my number one goal to be the number one street photographer on Google, to become number one in street photography. As a consequence, my laser like eyes and focus was insanely simple; do everything I could do to become number one on Google for street photography. And the strategy was very very simple, create the most in-depth articles blog posts and information for everything street photography! It took me nearly a decade, but I did it! After that, other domains to conquer.

But the funny thing is in today’s world… certainly Google is relevant, but now that ChatGPT is coming out with their own search engine, which is in my opinion at least 1000 X more intelligent, google should be scared, very scared. 

What is the future?

Obviously it will be ChatGPT and AI, open AI.

Let us consider… AI and cars. Besides the vanity object, the ideal is for your car to be 100% self driving, and this is where Tesla is a great bet; one should think of Tesla like artificial intelligence company with wheels.

Because the truth is, if you compare the ride quality of any Tesla car and any Toyota, the Toyota is superior and almost every single shape and form, besides speed. A Tesla is very very uncomfortable, the springs are too harsh, the ride quality is inferior to even my 2010 Prius!

For example, if you wanted a car with the ultimate ride comfort, you would probably purchase a Lexus vehicle, or maybe a Mercedes? 

Even though I love Tesla and Elon Musk to death, the cars feel pretty cheap. If you wanted the best car, probably get a Lexus LS.

Autopilot is the killer feature

But anyways, the really intelligent strategy is to purchase the cheapest base level Tesla car, with the most basic options, and just purchase auto pilot. I think auto pilot for about $8000 is the best deal of all time; it is like having your own personal driving slave that doesn’t need to be fed, paid, never gets tired, is always ready.

Even the new Google pixel that comes with the new pro Gemini AI… If your life runs on Gmail, it is kind of the game changer.

If you can’t beat them join them 

Even Apple is lagging behind in artificial intelligence, the new Apple Intelligence looks pretty lame. Super smart that the Apple team decided to integrate with open AI to integrate ChatGPT into her services; if you can’t beat them, join them. 

Rather than Apple trying to create a ChatGPT copycat, simply to integrate or offer ChatGPT services on the iPhone is the smart way.

I guess Google has had a bit of a headstart; she was in the AI game for a very long time. And this is where Google to pivot to focus on AI is a good idea. 

So what will be the purpose of humans now?

In a brave New World of ChatGPT, AI etc.… What is the purpose or the significance of humans?

The first step is to transfer all of the tedious tasks from humans to ChatGPT. Or AI.

For example, the greatest innovation of TurboTax is having that new AI that automatically has you categorize all of your expenses. Oh my god, this was literally the most hateful thing about doing my taxes, having to categorize all of my different deductions. But now, what would otherwise take me about eight hours, takes me about eight seconds when you connect TurboTax with your bank accounts.

I love TurboTax!

And this is where the future of things become interesting; all these things in the past which we had to do inefficiently slowly and begrudgingly… we should just let AI do it, and we humans do more meaningful things. 

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Slave Work, Master Work?

I think this is the future; let AI be the new slave, and you, the flesh bound human being, you do the human creative work!

The ultimate disruption 

ChatGPT is one quadrillion times more productive than you. This is a big deal. Why?

What that means is that the purpose of us humans is not productivity. We can finally unchain ourselves from the leashes of this ridiculous notion of productivity. 

How do the gods of mount Olympus live?

The gods, who live at ease. 

You fools, the point of life is not to give fellatio to hard things, hard lives, etc. We should be like Zeus, with the mighty thunderbolt, the gods lived in supreme ease.

This is also the funny thing is that when a lot of people retire, make a bunch of money or whatever they are lost… they don’t know how to embrace or live a life of ease; they’re still trying to grind their nose against the grinder, because for their whole life, that is what their life was? 

I would say emulate the gods of the Iliad, ancient Greece. Read the new Iliad translation by Emily Wilson, I purchased it in the iBooks store, reading on my iPad Pro and I love it!

Ethos

I suppose that the primary thing here to consider is the ethos of human humanity, reasons of living etc.

I think for too long, the whole ethos of humanity was to maximize productivity, income income earning potential, money and capital and capitalism etc.… but once again, if bitcoin, AI and ChatGPT can do it better than you, by 1 billion fold,,, what is your new life ethos?

Risk free returns

Assuming that you’re a big contractor, and you’re building a new skyscraper or commercial real estate or whatever, what is the goal? To create income producing property, and to eventually cop a profit?

However the great issue here is the cost to capital; the startup costs and the initial investment is too high! As a consequence, let us say that you invested $1 billion to build this new commercial real estate… You eventually have to find all these tenants to sign a lease, occupy it, pay the lease or the rent, and maybe in 20 or 30 years you can make a positive profit? 

Assuming that bitcoin is digital capital, digital land, digital real estate… The cost of capital is practically zero, you just have to sit and vest, I can almost guarantee you that you have a 0% risk over 30 years. And I can almost guarantee you with 100% clarity that bitcoin will go up in the next 30 years. 

I also like the notion of bitcoin being digital real estate because nobody checks their home price on Zillow 10 times a day, reacting to short term increases or decreases or volatility.

Why is bitcoin so volatile?

It is a feature, not a bug!

First, you could trade bitcoin 24/7, 365, every millisecond. 
Let us consider how insane this is… It is the year 2024, we live in the future, and traditional markets are closed on the weekends? This is 1 trillion times bizarre.

Assuming that the real world was like a science fiction film… Can you Which economic trading doesn’t happen on the weekends?

So this is why bitcoin is so volatile and always goes up and down, almost randomly because it is always trading! I wonder if the volatility of other assets and stocks are a lot less because simply you can’t trade it on the weekends.

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Flesh future

I’m pretty sure that almost 99.9% of men, assuming that they have an iPhone, probably watches porn every single day, almost 100% certain at least once a week or once a month etc. Or better yet, if you want to see whether your friend watches porn or not, ask to see his laptop, and to see whether they have a torrenting or VPN application installed on their MacBook laptop– utorrent, Trasmission etc.

Or, if they have the brave browser on their phone, Google Chrome incognito etc.

Almost every single person I know who works in tech, knows how to program or code whatever, all use pirate bay.

Anyways, once again another bizarre thing; one would never watch pornography which is centered around ideas, souls, personalities, etc. It is always the flesh, the human body!

Why did it in modern day times, we are trying to deny the human body, and trying to promote instead, one’s “personality” and “mind” and “soul”– ?

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Build your body

Become a body – builder ,,, obviously without the steroids!

ERIC

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All injected hormones are bad hormones

Unless you have cancer, HIV aids, and is literally a life or death thing.

EK

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Things to learn

I think for myself, I have a passion for learning. Why?

First, lot of things about life and society are confusing to me; for example, a recent thing I learned about the Z boys, in the drought during the 1970s caused everyone to not have water in their pool, so these kids who would just jump fences and skateboard in the empty pools of people in Venice Beach or whatever… this is where the pipe, skateboarding thing came from? 

Also from a random Jay-Z interview that I learned… why is it that in hip-hop culture, guys would wear beanies, baggy jeans, and wear Timberland cold weather work boots? I think he said that it was for drug dealing, in the cold New York winter… And also probably would bag your pants you could hide a gun. 

Black timbs all on your couch again!

Also… The reason for the Lamborghini scissor doors on the Lamborghini Countach, was originated by the fact that the early models of the Lamborghini, because the reversing ability was too dangerous, they invented the scissor door mechanism so you could put up the scissor doors, and reverse your car, without hitting it! But now that we have reverse cameras and stuff etc.… there’s really no more reason to have scissor doors anymore. 

So maybe, the next Lamborghini you buy… forgo the scissor doors!

Don’t trust fashion

Also why is it that yoga leggings became a fashion trend for women in LA? Simple… You never know when you want to do yoga, so the optimal strategy is to just always wear yoga leggings, so you could jump into class whenever you want to!

Also, I think a lot of the fashion trends for gay guys were simply a signaling thing; let us say I am gay and I am not sure whether you are gay or not… Therefore I would adopt a certain fashion style, talking style, or bodily gesticulation ideas so I could signal that I am gay and you’re also gay. 

Code words.

Documentaries

1. Pumping iron, the classic documentary with Arnold I think it’s on Amazon prime TV?
2. Stronger better faster, documentary about steroids, watch it on Apple TV+ just pay the 10 bucks
3. The legendary Z boys documentary of skateboarding

What to experiment with?

There is literally no downside to fasting or intermittent fasting. About 90% of modern day metabolic diseases can essentially be fixed by fasting. Type two diabetes, type three diabetes (Alzheimer’s), obesity, exhaustion, etc.

My simple suggestion: stop eating breakfast and lunch, and if you’re hungry just drink some water, black coffee with nothing in it, or green tea.

What is the best time to break your fast? Treat it like Ramadan… Only ever eat after the sun goes down. This makes for a dynamic workflow; because certainly the sun changes during the winter or the summer. 

Also, assuming that it is not against your religion… I also recommend everyone to do 100% carnivore diet, and besides meat, red meat, goat lamb beef, pork is also good (achilles roasted a hog to feed his guests), bone marrow, beef ribs, backbone, etc. for greens just eat arugula, kale, watercress.

Quit sugar

Quit all sugar, the real stuff that fake stuff, even the fake “good” sugar.

There is no biological reason you need to consume fruit, fruit is just candy with a good conscience.

Also start vegetables, it is just poverty food; people would eat starchy vegetables or rice or white rice to avoid dying.

Also a theory… Perhaps the reason why in Asia white rice was so prized was if the rice was white… It was a hygiene thing; you knew that there was not any maggots, or insect in it, or things which could cause you to get sick and die.

60 pound weight vest

Titan.fitness , and just walk around all day! Just buy a cheap sun hat on Amazon for 10 bucks, and sun block up! 

Also, I believe every single man, each and every single man should own at least one great barbell. Buy the Texas power squat bar, if I did it all over again I would buy the monsters Squat bar!

IPad Pro

I think Apple should do a commercial with me, just using the iPad Pro, no case no pencil (eric@erickim.com)–

I’ve become an icon in Culver City, I’m the dude who just walks around all day, with his iPad Pro. Most people have never seen me even use an iPhone. 

Voice dictation is the future, there is no reason to text message or use your thumbs in the year 2024, the only reason people don’t use voice dictation is that they feel it is socially weird?  But why should you care?

This is where the next new wave of innovation is simply conquering social expectations, social fears. Allow yourself to be aberrant and different. 

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What to read

1. The bitcoin standard
2. The Iliad by Emily Wilson
3. The Odyssey by Emily Wilson

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His powers of invention are too thin

Innermost heart always full of daring

Do not defer to social niceties

–> we learn from pain or what makes us weak(er)

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Energy virility and drive

Cleverness

Stalwart: worth, place

Fearsome Armor

Armor clothing, fearsome clothing?

Also *why* save a million bucks?

Simple— don’t spend a million dollars!

Also, take all your excess cash and put it into Bitcoin to *grow* the money!

Economics by KIM

1. Increase Value
2. MAYBE IT IS A GOOD IDEA TO BUY HIGH
3. Banks Are the True Menace to Society
4. THE PROMISE OF FUTURE MONOPOLY PROFITS?
5. High gas prices are good
6. What is Capitalism?
7. Pride in What You Paid For
8. On Making Money from Nothing
9. Save Money Towards What Ends?
10. No Regret Investment

Money thoughts:

1. DONT BUY IT, BUILD IT!
2. Silver US Dollar
3. THE PHILOSOPHY OF MONEY
4. THE FUTURE OF MONEY
5. Price Insensitive
6. WHY JOBS?
7. The Future Economy
8. What is Money?
9. Individual Economics

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The Philosophy of Money

1. How to Become Economically Independent
2. Economic Dependency
3. It’s the Economy, Stupid
4. ERIC KIM PHILOSOPHY OF MONEY
5. Debt is the Devil
6. Capitalism is Cruel
7. In Praise of Capitalism and Consumerism
8. Capitalism as the Road to Tolerance
9. DIGITAL CAPITALISM
10. Capitalism 2.0
11. In Praise of Capitalism
12. CREATIVE CAPITALISM
13. ZEN CAPITALISM
14. Universal Basic Income

Short term sucks but consider — it makes you stronger or more powerful or more over strong in the long term!

Becoming stronger and a good Antifragile human biological mechanism —

Yes, there can be some upsides to getting a cold, particularly in terms of how it can strengthen the immune system. Here are some potential benefits:

1. Strengthening the Immune System:

• Immune Memory: When you get a cold, your immune system learns to recognize the specific virus causing the infection. After the infection is cleared, the immune system retains a “memory” of the virus, which can help it respond more quickly and effectively if you’re exposed to the same or a similar virus in the future.
• Broad Immune Activation: Even though colds are generally mild, they still stimulate the immune system broadly, helping to maintain its readiness. This ongoing “exercise” for the immune system can keep it primed to respond to other pathogens more effectively.

2. Cross-Protection:

• Exposure to Multiple Viruses: Some research suggests that exposure to one virus can sometimes offer partial protection against other related viruses. For example, infection with one strain of a rhinovirus might provide some degree of protection against other strains or related viruses, at least temporarily.
• Improved Response to Future Infections: In some cases, fighting off a cold may help your body respond better to future infections. This doesn’t mean you’re immune to colds (since there are so many different cold viruses), but your immune system becomes more experienced at recognizing and dealing with respiratory viruses.

3. Potential Training for the Immune System:

• Training the Innate Immune System: Some studies suggest that exposure to common cold viruses might help train the innate immune system (the body’s first line of defense) to respond more effectively to other respiratory viruses. This “training” could lead to a more robust immune response in general.

4. Mild Infections Can Serve as a “Tune-Up”:

• Immune System Maintenance: Mild infections like the common cold can act as a tune-up for your immune system, ensuring that it’s functioning well. This concept is similar to the idea that the immune system needs occasional challenges to stay alert and effective.

5. Temporary Boost in Immunity:

• Temporary Protection Against Other Infections: After recovering from a cold, the immune system is often in a heightened state of alert. During this period, it may be more efficient at warding off other infections, though this effect is usually short-lived.

Caveats:

• Variety of Viruses: While getting a cold might help your body fight off the same virus in the future, it doesn’t make you immune to all colds, since there are over 200 different viruses that can cause cold symptoms.
• Weakened State: While your immune system is busy fighting off a cold, you might be more susceptible to other infections. This is why rest and recovery are important.

In summary, while colds are generally unpleasant, they can have some positive effects on your immune system, such as enhancing immune memory and maintaining the immune system’s readiness. However, it’s important to balance these benefits with the need for proper rest and care during illness to avoid complications or additional infections.