ERIC KIM ₿

When you ain’t polarizing, you ain’t good —

LUMIX S9

Woot!

LUMIX S9 + a Leica M rangefinder lens adapter seems like a very good idea

Crypto as an asset class?

1. Not iPhone or iPhone Pro
2. Maybe manual focusing lenses?

Smaller government or bigger government?

Code.. writing code is lawyer for cyber space?

1. Don’t post to Instagram or Facebook or social media?

What all men aspire to be in this modern day capitalist world?

Takes at least 1-2 years in a new place?

If there’s lives on the line or a lot of money on the line … uber redundancy is a good idea

.

Ossification?

Frozen code?

.

The most important protocol in human history, base 10 math, English

Prioritize integrity

Prioritize stability & security

Numbers 1-9 … ossification?

.

You don’t need to change the protocol

Software

Be consider what you may break

.

Fourth order thinking

Avoid catastrophic failures

Shrinking or Growing?

Introduce a new idea which will go viral

Freedom virus. Monetary virus

.

Introduce a new technology which spreads virally

Introduce a new technology

.

Climate, warmth & mood?

Not climate but warmth

Think Warmth

.

Bitcoin is good for you, empowerment technology which will help you become the best version of yourself

Better living through technology

1 thing that can make the world a better place

7.5B on Bitcoin

Spend the money , doesn’t make a difference

.

Elegant, diplomatic

Bitcoin is like electricity. –> bipartisan.

Digital Photography … photography is good for humanity!

Make money for your share holders

.

Opportunity

$120—$300-400 a share.

400M people like bitcoin

Bitcoin > Lambo

.

Spread the orange wave!

.

Set an Example?

Do the maximum?

Issue equity & debt

Sea Change

Worldwide consensus

New vs old 30 years

Most exciting happening right now

.

Engineering

Sound engineering

Sound ethics

Think Prometheus

Digital commodity which is inflationary

Defective, 5% a year?

Pick the number, don’t change the number!

Steel doesn’t deflect!

Math cannot be deflected!

Execute perfect money … modern internet, modern technology and computers

Ideas are good, but you need technology

Digital chips, semi conductors, CPU’s

Push and pull, force… physics?

.

Thermodynamically Scarce

With software , with cryptography –> math

Stable, spreads virally

ASIC’s

Stranded energy , 0 cost energy

Balance of Power

Inertia from the hardware

.

Avoid fragile ***

4th order concerns

You cannot have a catastrophic failure

The more conservative and considerate you become ***

Proof of work to proof of stake … ethical lapse?

Commodity to security

Destroyed part of the free market

Do it for your testosterone!

Hormonal changes during sleep or napping are significant and affect various physiological processes. Here are key hormones that undergo changes during sleep:

1. Melatonin:

• Increase: Melatonin, produced by the pineal gland, increases in the evening and peaks during the night, promoting sleepiness and regulating the sleep-wake cycle.

1. Growth Hormone (GH):

• Increase: Growth hormone is primarily released during deep sleep (slow-wave sleep). It plays a crucial role in tissue growth, muscle repair, and metabolism.

1. Cortisol:

• Decrease: Cortisol, a stress hormone, decreases during the early part of the sleep cycle, reaching its lowest levels around midnight. It begins to rise in the early morning, preparing the body to wake up.

1. Insulin and Glucagon:

• Increase in Insulin Sensitivity: Sleep helps improve insulin sensitivity, enhancing glucose metabolism. Lack of sleep can lead to reduced insulin sensitivity and higher blood sugar levels.
• Stable Glucagon: Glucagon levels remain relatively stable during sleep, helping to maintain blood glucose levels.

1. Leptin and Ghrelin:

• Increase in Leptin: Leptin, a hormone that suppresses appetite, increases during sleep, signaling satiety to the brain.
• Decrease in Ghrelin: Ghrelin, which stimulates appetite, decreases during sleep. Disrupted sleep can lead to higher ghrelin levels, increasing hunger and potentially leading to weight gain.

1. Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone (TSH):

• Fluctuations: TSH levels rise in the evening and peak during the early part of sleep. This hormone stimulates the thyroid gland to produce thyroid hormones, which regulate metabolism.

1. Prolactin:

• Increase: Prolactin levels increase during sleep, particularly during the night. Prolactin is involved in immune system regulation and reproductive health.

1. Adenosine:

• Accumulation and Clearance: Adenosine accumulates during wakefulness and promotes sleepiness. During sleep, adenosine levels decrease, helping to restore wakefulness upon waking.

1. Testosterone:

• Increase: Testosterone production increases during sleep, peaking during REM sleep. This hormone is crucial for muscle mass, bone density, and overall energy levels.

These hormonal changes during sleep are essential for maintaining homeostasis, regulating metabolism, supporting growth and repair, and ensuring overall health and well-being. Disrupted sleep can lead to hormonal imbalances, affecting various bodily functions and contributing to health issues.

Not freedom but power

Trust nobody who watches movies, cinema, tv shows, streaming shows, realty shows, any media?

Even most music is bad! Same goes with most podcasts etc.

Includes all YouTube, Facebook, Instagram etc.

Prophet, messiah, false prophet

Water is Precious

Bring back the trees, bring back a green paradise

Never give your water away not even for the dead

Signs

The man made environment

The water of life

Open your mind and you shall see

Sincere, sincerity

Harvester

Critique of Americans; we have no culture?

“The one who points the way”

Does water really fall from the sky where you’re from?

I suppose the upside of my mom living in Korea is that I still have a connection to Korea, and my climate my country is still technically Korea?

 I want to control the whole world?

,

The prophecy?

We already know you’re brave

Be simple nothing fancy

Back to society?

Does everybody desire to become the messiah, the one? 

Timing

Strategic alliance

Spice depot

Harness nature, harness the mountains?

Ready for war?

Free Fitness?

Freedom fitness?

Same with indoor offices?

DUNE 2– really weird

—> Movies are bad because they’re weird and disturbing? Not tied to reality?

Capital runs everything around me

“The point of life isn’t money, said all poor people.”

4am– and I’m zoning.

Lately, I’ve been on a bit of a Bitcoin kick. Actually, ever since 2017, 2018, ever since I’ve gone into bitcoin at around $6,000… $7000 a Bitcoin.  now with bitcoin hovering at around $70,000 a bitcoin… it looks like my initial thought and prediction was right. I’ve more than 10x’d my money, and now that I’m in milli territory, lots of interesting new thoughts.

The primary thought revolves around capital. I think the funny irony is that even though we all live in a capitalist society, nobody ever gives a deep and critical thought about capital, capitalism.

For example, the first question; what exactly is capital, and why does it matter?

Capital & money 

I think superficially, we think about money, money as in cash money, fiat currency, the ones and zeros in your bank account, or cash paper money Fiod currency. Hundred dollar bills, etc.

However at the end of it, I’ve come to realize that in actuality, capital is the goal, not “money“ in the traditional sense.

So in short what is capital? Capital actually comes from Ancient Greek, caput, kaput, head, cap. And this original idea was from the past idea that wealth was not in coinage as the ancient Greeks did not have coin money. They had gold, and heads of cattle. 

Or if you look back far enough, what the greedy king Agamemnon seemed to desire is more land, resources, women, slaves, gold, etc. 

Even the war weary Achilles wanted to just retire, retire from war, to stop putting his life at risk for more gain, and to simply retire back to his own lands, with Breisis, his prize.

Modern day times

I’m starting to unravel more and more about the inadequacies of capital, capitalism in general.

First of all, in a general sense, and capitalism is good. If it weren’t for capitalism, you would not enjoy your Wi-Fi, your iPhone, digital photography, etc. I think objectively speaking, capitalism is a single ruling force which has uplifted the lives of billions of people on this planet.

I think the difficult thing for a lot of people to understand is that with greater upsides also comes greater downsides.

For example, greed, love of money, comes with the growth of capitalism. But then again, the greed of others is sometimes beneficial because it helps the poor and impoverished.

For example, poor, my definition of being poor is knowing that as a high school student, when your mom was driving her old Nissan Maxima with old tires, in the ring, with the risk of dying in a car accident, we could not afford $300 to change the tires. Or, your dad gambling away the rent money again, or maybe the fourth or fifth time, and your mom telling you in the middle of the night to be prepared that you and your sister might be homeless. And might need to get into a shelter.

Growing up in this world of parity, and now that I’m rich, it certainly changes many of my perceptions about money in general.

Saving money

I think the irony of capital and capitalism is in regards to saving versus spending money.

Technically, the path to becoming rich is just driving an old Toyota Prius, and saving up all your money, and converting that money into capital, property, bitcoin etc.

In the road to poverty is drinking alcohol, going out, eating at restaurants, using the yelp app, using Instagram and social media, traveling to Japan etc.

There seems to be two forces that place; intelligent people who preserve, and accumulate and stack their capital, and the foolish people who squander their money in capital, and are essentially living paycheck to paycheck.

What or who is the top 1%?

First, debt. Debt is the exact opposite of wealth.  

All debt is bad, even the “good“ debt. This includes your mortgage, student loans, credit card bills, car payments, any sort of debt.

The simple first wealth strategy is via negativa;

1. Unlearn the insane notion of getting a 30 year home mortgage loan, being enslaved to a piece of property, kind of like a modern day sharecropper, for that long seems insane
2. The best car is no car, the Tyler Durden, the fight club way. My simple wealth strategy has been very simple; in my whole adult life, I have never spent more than $3000 USD on a car.
3. Groceries and food; Amazon fresh, Amazon prime Whole Foods discounts, meat markets, El super, super king, Costco. Ironically enough if you do it right, a 100% carnivore diet is 1000 times cheaper than eating vegetables fruits etc.

What to splurge on?

I think the only thing which is worth splurging on is paying high amounts of money to live in an insanely great neighborhood and area, as time and space constraints are real.

For example, living in our very nice two bedroom, one bath apartment in Culver City, darts district, for $3200 a month. Might be the best use of money, as it allows for maximum mobility, walking, wandering, a five minute walk to the metro, a better life for Seneca.

However truth be told, if Cindy‘s job wasn’t based here in LA, I would see zero reason for living in the states. Instead I would prefer to live in Cambodia, Vietnam, Bangkok or Thailand somewhere else; for example, you live in a very very nice brand new studio apartment in Hanoi Vietnam for only $320 USD a month. Speaking, you could rent a two bedroom apartment in Cambodia for only $300 USD a month!

With my bitcoin and capital Mensching at a fantastic rate, I could probably live 10 lifetimes in Cambodia or in southeast Asia somewhere; and some of the upsides of living abroad the purchasing power parody; you got at least 1000 X economic leverage in developing countries, in America, common … even a McDonald’s or in and out worker earns $20 an hour! 

Capital accumulation

I suppose the tricky thing — the trend is capital, capital accumulation… but for the sake of what?  

Simple: just buy 3M Matte Black vinyl vehicle wrap, and wrap your car!

For example with Seneca — my only strategy:

Don’t get in his way!

Capital is power?

Insanely picky is a virtue

The Kardashians?

Ultra Soldier?

Durable, Durability is Best

Digital Property

Digital property for the sake of what?

Or — property for the sake of what?

True wealth is property?

Wealth ain’t money , but property?

Acquire & accumulate more property not money

Semen is physiological energy & power?

Easy— just buy Bitcoin

Yee haw!

And fragile?

Asset

Solution for every family, individual and investor

.

The economy is shrinking?

People are shrinking?

45% of people don’t have a job?

News is a curated set of opinions