ERIC KIM ₿

For example, it seems that news is fake; news is just random commentary—

Pretty simple: eat a ton of meat before you sleep— 5 pounds is the goal.

Also, restrict and restrain your caffeine consumption only first thing in the morning.

Also during the day, extreme time spent outside and outdoors.

When people drive some sort of expensive sports car or muscle car… I think what they’re trying to do is to flex their economic muscle.

Still hope for CCIP—

Also Chainlink data feeds

1. Transportable
2. Just in time — exactly when you want it

Surplus of economics , bio energy

Surplus human energy for human advancement

“Transportable” mechanical energy

Technology is acid

Real Rich people Priuses. And economy cars. Because the real rich person should be economist at heart

 

Bitcoin powered by chaos

145% up this year

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Think Energy

How to gain energy?

Gaining matter and materials and mass? Gaining and purchasing steel?

Laser eyes until $100,000

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500T

You do not sell your Bitcoin

Bitcoin is energy and life… you don’t sell your energy and life

Capture and conserve energy … 50% up a year

To buy what?

Commodity ,, nature created the asset

I don’t want to own any land for 30 years

Triple property tax–> risky?

Rent is more stable!

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2-3+ time horizon

Renting is predictable

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Ethereum is a company

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Just improve the product

Bumpy ride

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We will never figure out bitcoin 100%?

You will never be done learning about bitcoin

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No CEO

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Bitcoin is powered by chaos

Chaos will outperform everything

Suit up

Only invest in things you can afford to lose

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Don’t take row,

Tickets to escape the matrix,

All your models will be destroyed

Apple Intelligence ,,, huh?

Thinking about capital, capitalism, capital recruitment, stacking capital capital etc.

Bitcoin is digital capital

The first thought: bitcoin is true digital capital.

Wealth is a mental thing?

The second thought:  assuming that bitcoin is the first true digital money and capital, then what that means is money and wealth becomes a mental construct.

For example, let us say that I have 1 million, 1.2 million, 10 million, 100 million worth of bitcoin in my personal crypto wallet. Intelligent thing is to buy and hold it forever, as the value of it will go up indefinitely for the next 1,000 years.  in fact, the wise goal is to use bitcoin like digital real estate; imagine owning a block in the middle of Manhattan or Tokyo, you will never want to give it up. You will fight to the nail to hold it, because you’re thinking very very long-term; thinking your kids kids kids.

According to Michael, optimal strategy is to actually use your bitcoin as collateral, to borrow against your bitcoin, at a low interest rate, and use that to finance your lifestyle which means just paying rent your food etc.

Money

This is a big thing I’ve been thinking about a lot; more and more, I’m becoming even more financially conservative, conserving my money and wealth, not spending it.

The makes is in regards to muscle. Let us see that I am 160 pounds of pure muscle, with a 5% body fat percentage, six pack and all. The worst thing for a weightlifter or a bodybuilder is to lose muscle mass.

Let us say that you buy that thing. Or the thing or whatever; imagine like losing 5 pounds of muscle mass, 10 pounds of muscle mass, or even worse, 20 pounds of muscle mass.

The goal of the weightlifter and bodybuilder is accretive; to continue to accumulate muscle mass, indefinitely.

For example if I am 160 pounds of muscle, ideally I would want to become 165 pounds, 170 pounds, 175 pounds, 180 pounds, eventually 200 pounds, 220 pounds with a 6 pack. 

Certainly there are limits to growth; for example, me at 5‘11“ tall, I think the laws of physics prohibits me from becoming 400 pounds with the 5% body fat, assuming I don’t inject my eyeballs with steroids. Even with steroids it might be impossible. 

Even some of the greatest bodybuilders of all time like Ronnie Coleman; even if he took all the steroids in the world, he cannot become 1000 pounds of muscle mass with a 6 pack.

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Limits of growth?

I think this is a primary fallacy in Silicon Valley and beyond; people assumed that all growth is good, and that growth is a good progression.

However the problem here is that often when things become too big, they become fragile, and a positive detriment to your life and lifestyle.

For example, let us say that you buy an eight bedroom eight bath mentioned somewhere in Malibu. Can you imagine trying to clean all those toilets yourself?

Even if you had an army of housekeepers, the constant fear that they’re stealing your stuff, not working hard enough, or being sloppy.

Even the thought yesterday when vacuuming my house with my new Dyson, even in our relatively small two bed one bath apartment, keeping things clean and vacuuming daily is a full-time job. Let alone imagining having to mow the lawn deal with landscaping etc.

Lifestyle “upgrade”?

Don’t think lifestyle think bodystyle.

What is my vision of body style?

First, what your body looks like. There are certain things you cannot change like your height; but beyond that everything is fungible.

For example, your body fat percentage and your muscle mass percentage. These are things you could control.

The easiest way to lose body fat is to start fasting intermittent fasting; breakfast no lunch, only dinner. One insanely massive dinner a day, aim for 3 to 4 pounds of meat.

The greatest thing about this approaches that is free; intermittent fasting is free! It doesn’t cost anything, and also, you save money!

Also, beyond that you save time. For example, the time having to prepare breakfast and lunch, cleaning up, even going out and having to pay seems like a bad idea.

If you are a true Silicon Valley entrepreneurial nut like myself, intermittent fasting makes sense because you remain in peak physical and physiological energy throughout the whole day, without the drowsy food, downside of eating lunch.

In fact, whenever I tell people that I do interment fasting that I don’t eat breakfast or lunch, only dinner, it is actually a very impressive thing to most people. And then people say that it is not “sustainable”, and then I tell them that I’ve been doing it the last six years. And that is very easy. Then people say that it is not possible for them, which essentially means “I don’t want to do it.” But it is a physical, physics based fact that any human being, who is beyond the age of 18 and full adult maturity, would benefit from intermittent fasting. Even the elderly. I think the only people who should not do intermittent fasting is children under the age of 18.

Intermittent fasting could get rid of most people with Alzheimer’s, chronic elements, obesity and weakness etc. And also getting into intermittent fasting could actually get rid of type two diabetes.

And the hilarious thing is there is no risk to intermittent fasting. Like you won’t die. The average human being could probably go 90 days without food, as long as they drink water, you won’t die.

Fat is an organic battery supply for the human body. As long as you have belly fat, fed on your stomach or thighs or whatever, your body will be able to drop on that energy. The human body is not like an automobile gasoline car– no, you do not need to eat something to “fuel” your work out or your physical activity. You could just actively draw it from your fat supply. 

Why stack capital?

Rich people stack capital don’t spend it?

“White people make money don’t spend it, but I’d rather buy 80 gold chains and go ignant (ignorant)”– Kanye West

The ethos of the capitalist and capitalism is to keep accumulating capital for the sake of capital, and the whole ethos of the thing is to keep stacking capital indefinitely.

Stay humble and stack sats (Satoshis, the micro division of a Bitcoin) – Michael Saylor

This seems bizarre to most people. Why? I think for the average worker bee or plebeian in capitalist American society or the western world is to work hard, save money in order to invest it, or in order to spend it.

For example, even to the average “responsible” person, the ethos is to “save up” money to buy a house, etc.

But I wonder how much of this line of thinking is just propaganda that people have not given a critical think about?

Power accumulation?

My personal thought is perhaps the goal here is actually power accumulation.

If we take a “Will to Power” Friederich Nietzsche approach, the sake of power is to use your power to keep accumulating it.

For example, the ethos of the powerlifter is to keep accumulating more and more power, which is typically personified through his or her one repetition maximum, the maximum total weight he or she could lift for a certain lift. 

We also see this in the realm of cars. For example, for men it seems like a big dick measuring contest; whose car has more horsepower? Whose car goes from 0 to 60 faster? Whose car is bigger? Whose car is more lifted off the ground? Whose car is louder?

Obviously the cybertruck is the big swinging silver dick in the room. 2.6 second 0-60 speed for cyber beast. For example, even the Porsche 911 Turbo hybrid has only a measly 2.9 second 0 to 60; the cyber beast can crush it.  not only that, but the cyber truck is bigger, better, more dominant, more impressive.

What is more impressive than a cyber truck? Nothing.

Even kids, they love the cybertruck above everything else. Lamborghini is done. 

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For what

The first general thing is freedom. Freedom of time, schedule, mind space etc. What is a simple heuristic of whether you are free or or not? Whether you could go 2 years without checking your email or using email. Or whether you can live without owning a phone.

Also, when you’re in a position in which you no longer need to accept money. 

What loser Marxists don’t get 

For the most part, I think Karl Marx was a loser, and anybody who followed him is also a loser. 

It seems that it is the imperative of the week in powerless to spite and hate those with power. For example, the sheep in the land will forever resent the eagle, whereas the eagle doesn’t really care; the eagle simply enjoys feasting on those delicious little lambs. 

Constructive and positive change

The world is big enough and tolerant enough, for almost everything. Rather than trying to tear things down, far better to be constructive of things.

For example, just leave other people alone, and focus on building what you got.

For example, I find this whole notion of repatriation a bizarre one. Certainly land has been stolen from anyone and everyone; but for the victor to give land back to the defeated, is a law that doesn’t work in physics. 

Personal goals

For example, nobody’s putting a gun to your head and forcing you to work that job you hate, or forcing you to subscribe to Netflix, Spotify, Disney, Disney+, Hulu, etc.

Also, nobody is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to spend money on shoes, clothes accessories etc.

Nonnegotiables in life like paying rent, buying food. But nobody is forcing you to purchase and smoke marijuana, or having to consume alcohol.

People know that it is option that you don’t have to drink alcohol? That even if you meet up friends for a bar, you could just order a sparkling water or a Perrier, or maybe even a cup of coffee instead? 

Also, nobody is forcing you to live in America. People always love to complain that the cost-of-living is too high that rent is too expensive. But don’t you know that you could live in a very nice apartment in Vietnam or Cambodia or Thailand for only $300 USD a month? And most people who don’t have children, and also maybe not married, you have a choice to leave.

Choices

So some simple thoughts:

1. The most critical capital is your body capital.

Let us also not forget that the word comes from the notion “caput”– cap, head. That back in the ancient days of the Iliad and king Agamemnon, a head of cattle was the sign of wealth.  even when describing Athena, and she is described as having hundreds of golden tassels, each tassel being worth 100 head of cattle, you can get a sense of what real wealth was. 

My very simple thought is the most critical thing to build or invest in is your body. Using money for health fitness dietary stuff, food, gym membership or yoga membership etc. Even purchasing your own weightlifting equipment. This is by far the best use of money.

2. Location

Also, the biggest privilege in Los Angeles is which neighborhood you live in. For example living in Culver City, my extreme privilege and joy of having the ability to just walk everywhere without having to jump into a car. This is why we pay $3200 USD a month for rent.

Never make a big deal out of anything; even if it is a big deal

Never ask what is wrong; don’t fan the flames

Lips shut

Stoic Thoughts

Bitcoin & stoicism 

Immaterial Things

The material vs immaterial world? 

Innovation is joy, not money and purchasing things

How to build power? Conserve it then stack it!

Your body is the ultimate vehicle

Your body is the most ultimate vehicle to purchase, upgrade, detail, increase your own horsepower

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You will always put money in what you believe in

A thought; before making a certain purchase, if you hesitate … it is a Sign that it is not that important to you?

Think a long long long long time before purchasing anything

What if there’s nothing left to buy?

The ultimate stack:

True beast skills —

Carte Blanche

Men who desire to become women? 

Being a man; simple, not being a woman

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Does property value matter? 

Dematerialization

Swarm of hornets

“Wisdom of the masses”

BEYOND MATTER?

Keep holding out

Maybe innovation lies in the past?

Real men buy bitcoin *AND* powerlift —

Why bitcoiners should get into powerlifting

Some reflections:

First— the love of risk and reward. My personal definition of powerlifting is attempting a lift that you have never done before, with an imminent risk. No risk, no joy. No joy and happiness without risk.

Second— ignorance is bliss. For the most part, I avoided the whole downturn a bitcoin going from the first shipped from $60,000 a coin to around $20,000 a coin, because I was just focusing on attaining my 1000 pound atlas lift.

I watch a lot of these interviews, podcasts and whatever… I see all these guys who invest in bitcoin and speculate on crypto; they are just a bunch of skinny fat dweebs. Even the ones that do look like they have a bit of muscle on them, the way they talk is effeminate, uncertain, and they simply like to just rehash what other people have said, rather than commanding their own voice.

Testosterone & bitcoin

Another big thing; having higher testosterone is beneficial to investing in bitcoin. Why? You need to have the guts, the balls, the chutzpah to even attempt any of this in the first place.

This is where I discovered that for the most part, bodybuilding is no longer interesting to me because it is just a bunch of pseudoscience and witchcraft, supplements and steroids in order to get you to be big and muscular. But this is more of a grinding approach rather than a courage based one.

Conviction?

I think the obsession with numbers is typically bad, but at least it is a barometer. For example with powerlifting, the great upside is just stacking another 2.5 pound potato chip every single time you lift.

I think the real big secret here is just pursue things which interest you, things which you are curious about which have no real socioeconomic payoff —

What is Photography, What is Street Photography?

Politics is ideology?

Monetary engineering, crypto engineering?

Rockefeller would have bought bitcoin?

Rockebitcoin

99 3/4 year old

Iatrogenic

Surgery you don’t need

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Bitrock

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How To Be Ahead Of The Curve 

Photography — capturing life.

Street photography: capturing public joy?

I want to live in LA forever

Stature

Mobile & invisible wealth

The next 4 years

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Capital will flow into bitcoin –> nowhere else for it to flow into?

Lose faith?

Meetup of Bitcoin, meltdown of other crypto

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Get rid of flourishes

Highest form of property

Rationality?

Commodity is the dirtiest word ***

Don’t be commoditized!

Differentiated specialty is good

Anybody can make a commodity

TANK

CYBERTANK

Strike fear into your enemies?

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Commodity business is a political business

Look up!

You cannot make more of it … now it is a scarcity

Scarcity is a paradigm shift ***

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Nobody has gotten rich investing in scarcity or inheriting it

Avoid awful ideas

How to get rich?

New Paradigm

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Need –>

Refugees & Bitcoin

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Political instability benefits Bitcoin?

Speed of sound

Don’t go faster than the speed of sound

Shredding reality

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$27,000 a Bitcoin

Everyone looks the SAME?

Just wait

$270,000 a Bitcoin

Nobody will want to sell it, you won’t be able to afford it

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All in

Treat other peoples kids in which you wish others would treat your kids

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Hero’s journey?

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Take the first step

Religious conviction

We all want to go to heaven

Cyberspace

Aurelius

Soon you will have forgotten all and all will have forgotten you.

The after life

Orthogonal … different thing

No company will be around 1,000 years from now

Become like a bodyguard –> new goal?

Defense contractor

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Bitcoin will outlast us all!

Black & Yellow

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Categorical good

2009– Jan 3rd, June of 2020

I’m an early bITCOINER?

Torch bearer

Billions of people carrying Bitcoin?

Ethical Legacy

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This one thing this one opportunity

Sum total of everything you have accomplished

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Your heirs

Degens

Degenerate or not?

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Someone 1,000 years from now will benefit from what you did

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No car will last 1,000 years from now

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The ultimate

Comrade

Compatriot

Legacy bequest

Derelict degenerates

Decent life

Contribution of your life force

Incorruptible institution

Pro rata distribution to the virtuous

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The Bitcoin institution?

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Hope?

Gift to humanity?

Never stop stacking

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Lever?

All my wealth

Rather start with nothing in a new star system?

Bitcoin is a portal into cyberspace

I go to make a better place ,,, you come later

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To a better life?

What is a “better place”?

A Better Place?

Parasite? Loot your life’s work?

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Kill the parasites?

Emotional Parasites?

Engineer a better world more prosperity

Engineer a better world

Upgrade the world

Upgrade yourself

Never stop stacking your power or energy?

Energy conserve it … stack your ENERGY

stack your test

Don’t blow your semen

Keep stacking your semen

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What’s gas lighting

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Drive?

Digital Enlightenment

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Fuck the money

Let’s go!

Rukking

The purpose and telos of fitness?

Billion?

Fast.

Pro bono, ethical —

Men on average are much taller than women

why do we deny physical differences? Also hormonal ones?

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What perfection looks like?

My body is what perfection looks like

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Inventing the “individual”

Keep waiting for perfect

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Freedom of movement

New economics?

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Theft?

Romans, venetians

The parasite class

Don’t talk about other countries

Liberty, freedom

90 days before we die without food

1970–

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Before we go to outer space let’s go to cyber space! ***

–> think cyberspace

Cybertruck

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Economically indestructible and economically immortal

New cowboys ,,, new digital cowboys?

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Don’t stay and suffer

Overcome your fears

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Think anatomy

Think what matches YOUR anatomy!

For tall guys

New frontier –> take it all the way!

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Check it out?

Stealth or high key?

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Corruption?

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Cyber living

Shiny

Bitcoin jewelry?

Scissor doors on a Prius? 

I want something different

I am the object of fascination

I am the rarest of the rare

Wealth and riches for the sake of what?

Status symbol… why?

Autotelic

Ambitious

Becoming more ambitious 

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Play

Also… imagine facial hair on a woman?

Hard enough?

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Sue, counter sue each other?

Trolls don’t produce anything

If you produce anything you can be sued

Parasite, tape worms

When your body cannot replace itselves… that’s cancer

Don’t trust people on medication

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Paper money makes commerce swifter 

The purpose of currency is to change hands 

Supernotes

Money doesn’t have to be physical

Currency could become pure information

The laws of physics?

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Don’t get wiped out!

Shiny

Bitcoin jewelry?

Scissor doors on a Prius? 

I want something different

I am the object of fascination

I am the rarest of the rare

Wealth and riches for the sake of what?

Status symbol… why?

Autotelic

Ambitious

Becoming more ambitious 

2.6 seconds — the 0 to 60 speed on cyberbeast.

I think what is so fascinating about cyber truck is that it is dominant in every single shape form and way.

For example, the 0 to 60 speed for that massive is 2.6 seconds! This is much faster than almost every single Porsche 911 car.

Yeah yeah yeah, people might make the argument that a Porsche car is better on the track or whatever. But honestly speaking… Who goes to the track? Nobody.

Also, being really good at racing on the road I think is not really that impressive of a skill anyways. I think sounds fun, as it gets your adrenaline going, it etc.… But for the most part, it doesn’t really matter. Why? Any 5 foot 2 we could drive a car very well, but ultimately in real life, in embodied reality, a small or short man is not impressive.

Where do things matter?

Ultimately standing upright, in the flesh, in embodied reality is what matters the most. 

For example, I’ve been spending a lot of time in Holmby Hills, Beverly Hills, apparently the apex of society success and richness.  and a lot of these guys are actually really really short. Like 5 foot five, 5’4” tall.

I still think one of my most grateful things is that I’m quite tall, around 5‘11“ tall. I think the average man in America is only 5 foot 8 1/2 inches tall.

How and why does this matter?

First, whether we like it or not, we are so driven by our material things. For example, cars, I think for the modern day man, and also perhaps woman,  so much of our time is fixated on buying a new car. Why? Because for most Americans, you actually spend a lot of time in your car; most people unfortunately have to work or go to work, and most people drive to go to work. As a consequence, it is the transportational zone that you best prefer.

Weekend warriors

Also where vehicles are important or desired; most people do not have time off until the weekend, whether Saturday or Sunday. As a consequence, most people want to get away for the weekend, maybe go to the beach, go hiking, go to the nearby city etc. As a consequence , a lot of people also have to drive to get there.  

Your external avatar

Vehicles are interesting, because they are a true externalization who you are, your beliefs, your value systems etc.

Tell me what car you drive, and I will tell you what you value.

For example, I put zero faith in anybody who talks about value, economics, whatever, who doesn’t drive a Toyota Prius. Even a Tesla, if you are truly value oriented, Tesla is not the way. Why? It is certainly the coolest option, but actually not the most practical nor the most economical.

If you really really want to build capital, save money and wealth, and stack, the optimal path is maximum frugality, a maximum Spartan lifestyle, which means essentially just driving a used old 2010 Prius. People often ask me, and I joke… How much I spend a month on gas. I told them that I only spend $38 USD a month on gas!

Living in public takes guts

It looks like there’s this weird race towards virtual reality, augmented reality or whatever. Ultimately, nobody really cares for these things. What we really want is to flex in the flesh, in real life.

For example, this is where people would still prefer to have a real life car instead of a meta-verse car; ultimately we still love physics. This is why we love the roar of the engine, the feeling of torque and responsiveness, moving through time and space etc. For example, visual experience nerve forget is being with Dylan in his yellow Porsche 911 GT three, with a naturally aspirated V6 engine right behind us, accelerating onto the freeway, hitting around 7000 RPM. The roar of the engine is distinct loud and fun, very visceral. 

Kids

Modern day capitalistic consumer, individualistic society is anti-kids. Why? People who have a disposable income, can spend more money on superfluous things, rather than kids. Unfortunately, kids and children is a shrinking market. Let us consider the baby boomer generation in America, which people had 3 to 4 kids. Now it looks like people are having on average 1.2 kids, because people would prefer to have dogs or whatever.

And also, how and why did dogs get so popular all of a sudden? My theory is that modern day man some sort of intimacy or love or compassion or companionship or whatever, without any downside. Humans are messy complex and require courage to interact with. This is why whenever you see any sort of single guy in LA with some sort of wimpy looking stray rescue dog, it is a signal of cowardice. 

This is also how the modern day man lacks social skills; once again, to interact with real life human beings in the flesh is messy, unpredictable. This is where people are confused by me; and I break all the rules, essentially I break the simulation.

Courage is the future

I recently visited the Pacific Palisades Public library, highly recommended a great library. There we got a library card, and in the new book section and I picked up a hardcover book of a new translation of the Iliad by Emily Wilson, I really enjoy it. 

Anyways, when it comes to men, the heroes, it all comes down to courage or cowardice. The only bad or negative attribute of a man is cowardice.

This becomes interesting, because ability strength and dominance is actually not that important. Everybody already knows that Achilles is the supreme and Apex warrior, and nobody is a match for him. Even Hector knows this.

But I suppose when it comes down to it, when it comes down to battle, the question is this;

Will you cower, or confront your fate with courage? 

I suppose this is where Nietzsche gets the motto “Amor fati”– love your fate. Even when we think about when Paris went to battle in the beginning of the Iliad, The true fate should have been he should have been killed.

What is “fate” anyways?

From a truly physics based approach, there is no such thing as speech. There’s no such thing as predestination or whatever.

I don’t think there’s anything fated for you or us or whatever. However a simple observation is that if you never leave your apartment or your house and go outside, if you never adventure, if you never publish anything online, if you never take any sort of economic risks, nothing is going to happen.

Risk & adrenaline

I suppose when it comes down to it, the reason why I am built for investing because for the most part, I have strong stoic armor. I grew up poor, on the verge of being homeless, and also I’ve gone through periods in my high school college years in which I lost all my money. Therefore as a consequence, even though I still am very highly emotional to investments, losses, risk, I think I’m probably at least 30 to 80% less sensitive than average person. This is what gave me the courage and the conviction and the tenacity to invest in bitcoin, and in other crypto currencies.

Becoming?

I like this idea that we are always in a process of becoming. The reason why this is such a radical view is that with the typical American consumer self improvement thing; the generalized idea is that you’re either improving or “dis-improving”.

For example, it runs on some sort of continuum, spectrum, barometer or meter.

For example, I think people think the general idea of 0 to 10, in terms of productivity or whatever. Everyone always wants to be a 10.

However, the reason why this line of thinking is foolish is because the true reality of things is that embody reality is not a binary. Would you call a T-Rex a 10 out of 10? Or a rhino 10 out of 10? How about a chimpanzee monkey or human being?

Technically if you think about human beings, might be the wimpiest creatures on planet earth, yet humans are the Apex predator because of our higher level intelligence, of skills and cunning. For example, even if you took the worlds most dominant fighter, strongman or whatever, he will never be a match for the bull, the gorilla, etc. 

What do human beings strive for or towards?

I think we all strive towards more dominance, power, and supremacy.

For example, going to the Huntington botanical gardens, essentially the tallest trees get the most sunlight, and as a consequence, flower. Unfortunately the short, the shorty guys at the bottom, do not get any sunlight, therefore do not reproduce and do not produce flowers. 

Also at the California science center, when analyzing the biological life exhibit, one of the head scientists said something like “If you look at nature long enough, her primary goal is to procreate”.

So if the purpose or the point of life for us as human beings is to procreate, the funny thought:

How many kids (should) we have?

Back in the day, the more children you had, the wealthier you were. However nowadays, there’s a strange paradox; in the states, it seems that only poor immigrant families are having kids anymore; it is very common to see Mexican or Latino families with three or four kids, whereas the average affluent American tech person is either single, unmarried, no kids, maybe drive some sort of base level Porsche, And maybe have no intention of having any kids. Would prefer to have dogs.

I said this is fine; better for me ! When Seneca grows up, and all of these childless millennials die off, Seneca will reign supreme, and will inherit greatness, and his future progeny shall flourish. 

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Courage is the future?

I think the main problem of modern day life is that there are no longer any areas for our courage. The closest thing might be intellectual or political courage, but this is also superficial at best.

I think the first practical way we could exude or exhibit or output courage is through extreme weightlifting. This is where the whole Max philosophy is interesting; until you have attempted a one repetition maximum of a given lift, you don’t know what true courage is.

I suppose other one is hand-to-hand combat; most men, myself included, either have not been in a street fight or a fistfight. I’ve done a lot of boxing when I was in high school, which was good. For the most part, modern day men doesn’t know how to fight. Thus the appeal of fight club.

Also, monitor day man is not allowed to exhibit his feelings, or get angry. To exhibit anger is considered evil in modern day society, and as a consequence you have a bunch of these resentful emasculated men, all antisocial, not sure what to do with themselves.

So what should we do?

First, it seems natural to be social. We make the wrong mistake that we think that humans desire money or whatever. Not true. We desire other human beings.

For example, no human being in his right mind would want to have all the trillions of dollars in the world, if he was forced in solitary confinement by himself.

Therefore a simple takeaway point, human beings make us happy. But I suppose the nuance is we want to interact with other human beings on our own terms? 

How to live life?

I think the path to living the greatest possible light is twofold; doing physically active things, and also, being around other human beings.

For example, the reason why I think so many people love traveling is that typically speaking, most people when they are on holiday or traveling, do not just stay in their hotel room all day and just watch Netflix. No. They prefer to go see the sites, to take the subway, and to go on adventures! And meet cool people on the way. 

Also, humans are happiest when we are upright, not sitting in our cars. My simple suggestion is consolidate all that money from your car and put it into bitcoin, which will actually appreciate value overtime, and instead, invest your time energy and money for hiking, walking, taking the subway and going to the local museum, shooting street photography etc.

The last standing photographer

Am I the longest lasting photographer?

First, I still shoot on average 1000 photos a day. Actually the primary issue have right now is that I can’t keep up with reviewing my photos. I need to figure out a solution. But don’t worry, I’m working on it.

Second, it seems that I have been able to stay motivated, despite all of this ridiculous social media stuff. The first and only famous guitar for to have the balls and intelligence to delete his Instagram, at the peak. Now that I have deleted my Instagram, I can truly live forever. 

Third, intelligence with information; it seems that my open source approach has really really been the most smart approach. Why? I own it all, nobody owns it. Or in other words, I own the privilege and the right to keep it open and free; no annoying publisher has control over me. 

Still… Probably one of my proudest and most glorious and courageous decisions that I’ve made in my life, looking back I smile at it; is when I was approached by a publisher to publish my “learn from the Masters“ series, they told me to publish it. And I said only new ones that I wanted to PDF book to be 100% open and free, but they said that was not possible. I said no. Best decision of my life. 

I suppose where people get shortsighted is that they compromise their morals ethics and beliefs in order for some sort of grey notion of success, but in truth, the ultimate success is being ironclad in your own personal ethical beliefs. 

I’ve seen it all, even the death and demise of Google; now with ChatGPT, there is really no more reason to use Google. YouTube is the killer app for Google at the moment, but once PT makes the video production thing open, this will be the death of Google.

Short Google, long ChatGPT.

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Now what?

Don’t buy a new car, buy a new license plate. Just order the black and yellow California drivers plates, they look super cool, like Batman.

Also, a simple modification you could do to your car is by some sort of satin paint, and just paint your rims all black. Rust oleum makes a great primer plus paint spray paint, it also looks great in gloss black.

Also, shave off your emblems– the best modification you could do to your car just get rid of emblems.  a funny recent thing that I just did is I put a NASA sticker where my old Toyota emblem used to be. 

Travel

Apparently right now is the best time to travel.  the currency is very weak in Japan, and also turkey Istanbul. If you are paid in US dollars, good for you. Also the Korean WON is weak — go to Korea!

Also, come travel with me to Cambodia and Angkor Wat. Lara Croft and tomb raider style. 

Photo futures?

The future of photography is not iPhone or iPhone Pro. A telling sign; all of the people that I know on the photos team either shoot with the film camera, Rico GR camera, Sony seven camera, a digital Leica, a digital medium format Hasselblad camera, even Olympus cameras! 

If the Apple photos team and engineers aren’t even using iPhones to take pictures, this is a telling sign. 

It’s kind of like the best question to ask whenever you go to any sort of car dealership, or talk to any sort of car salesman. Ask them what car they personally drive.

Same goes with business people and investors; ask them what they are currently investing in.

Same when it comes to meeting your doctor, or your pediatrician; ask them what they would do if they were in your shoes, or ask them what they did for their kids.

For example, a simple workflow for vaccinations and whatever; ask your pediatrician which vaccinations they did for their own personal blood children, and do all of them.

Or another one; ask your dentist what toothbrush, toothpaste they use; and just use that.

Never trust a salesman who sells a car which is contrary to the car they actually drive.

For example, don’t trust any Tesla employees who don’t actually drive Teslas. Also don’t trust any Toyota sales people who don’t drive Toyotas. 

Now what?

Just get your ass outside, make photos, travel, and live your best life!

ERIC

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Bitcoin does no harm — Bitcoin doesn’t hurt anyone?

1. Not a jurisdiction, political thing like fiat currency (USD, US DOLLAR)— fist currency supremacy invites war violence and terror and death and killing?

Wisdom

The supreme power?

The mastermind of strategy

Storm dark brows

Immortal hair, deathless head

The lord of lightning

Immortal sleep

Cunning , master strategist

The will to fight forever

Shimmering brightness of majestic bronze

The god of war

Will it last?

All or nothing; commit 

When it is a good idea to invest in old technology

What is the significance of good weather? More times spent outdoors