Fuck it you only got one life to live. Why waste any of it thinking small, doing small, being afraid, and taking no risks? Let us not be fooled my friends… the best life is the life with the maximum amount of risk, the maximum amount of insanity, and the maximum amount of attempting (to ‘essay’ or ‘assay’ the great!)
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A realization:
It isn’t money, power, fame, or notoriety I desire… but control.
Control over myself, control over my decisions, control to do what I want to do, and control to *NOT* do what I don’t want to do.
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Don’t expect others to treat you the way you treat them.
This then means:
You are a magnanimous monster of great and highly virtue. If others act petty around you; don’t let it faze you.
You just do you (meaning, you pursue your epic virtue for the sake of it and for the sake of yourself!
ERIC
New thought:
Life is too short. Let’s put ourselves in a robust (antifragile) stoic position that nothing any longer fazes us.
A thought and realization:
With COVID and beyond, the car becomes an external skin (like the Iron Man armor). It becomes a second home and a new mobile work space.
So perhaps when it comes for you to buy a car consider:
If I became homeless, could I live and work out of my car?
Perhaps the new millennial way to work and live: just live out of your car!
A new thought and social innovation idea:
…We do home share (Airbnb) we do car share (Uber); why not life share?
Uber-simple approach to sharing your photos:
…Just share your own photos on your own blog!
In life if you approached it like it were all fun and games … wouldn’t you be happier, more productive, more creative and more passionate about living?
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Just read a bit of the book, ‘Aristotle’s Way‘ (published by Penguin/Random House) and really liked the section and chapter on leisure, as well as the conclusion. The gist:
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For the most part, I FAAAR prefer interacting and playing with kids than adults. Why? We have soooo much more to learn from children:
Why not rather instability?
Consider … if an object is uber-stable and at rest, it is boring. No motivation to move, advance or do anything. Whereas instability means:
…Move, change, advancement forwards.
Do anything for 10 years with passion, enthusiasm and zest and you will master it. For me this includes photography, blogging, lifting weights, talking, traveling, and teaching.
I am convinced. RICOH GR III is the best camera of all time (thus far). Why? Reasons:
Long story short, get RICOH GR III.
ERIC
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Who is ERIC KIM? Why is he so opinionated? Where does he come from? What does he want?
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First of all I don’t believe in “white” people. This makes no sense. I’m actually more pale and more “white” in skin tone than many Caucasian people (the more accurate term for a “white” person) as a Korean.
So when I talk about “white washing”, what do I mean? I mean it is like applying bleach to anything which is saucy, interesting, enjoysome and “racy” and “inappropriate” in life to make it acceptable and “wholesome” to essentially placate over-protective parents, paternalistic members of the elite intelligentsia, and also to placate advertisers.
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It seems the pipe dream for everyone is to “make money online” and to gain “passive income” online.
But why? Towards what ends?
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Auto telic: to do something for the sake of it. Telos— purpose or aim. Auto (done by yourself, pursued by yourself).
Thus if we approached photography from this autotelic perspective, we would be far more happy, creative and productive as photographers and visual artists!
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What is “fake”? It means to rob, swindle, or to “spruce up with artificial means”. Thus in this regard, all news is “fake” news. Yes this includes Google News, New York Times, NPR, The New Yorker, Atlantic and every form of mainstream (and underground) news.
All news is polished and spruced up not for “journalistic integrity” but towards what news agencies really want — more advertising revenue.
If there is something about the world or society which annoys or upsets you don’t just sit around complaining. Instead become the change which you desire to see manifested in the world. Change it. Fix it! This is the true entrepreneurial spirit. Less talk, more walk and action!
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The very happy and optimistic thought:
The more I go out and shoot and photograph the world, the more beautiful, rich and fuller it becomes.
Isn’t this a great thought?
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Hegemony comes from “hegemon”— leader, guide. Think “Enders Game” (my favorite science fiction book of all time, as audiobook). Or think of the “Dollar Hegemony” (Henry C K Liu).
Typically when people think “hegemony” it is seen as bad and evil. “Hegeomai” (the root word of hegemon, or hegemony) is actually good … it means to lead, go forth, lead the way, guide. It comes from the Proto Indo European “*sehg”: to seek out.
Anyways back to the notion of “Digital Hegemony”— the gist is at this point Google *is* the Internet which means if you desire to be relevant online, best to kowtow and merge with Google and play good with Google, or be left behind.
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It seems right now the best WordPress blogging theme is Newspack.pub by Automaticc (company which runs and owns WordPress.com).
Why? Essentially this is the conspiracy:
WordPress.com and Google “News Initiative” is together in bed, plotting to take over the (news and blog based) internet, to maximize Google’s digital hegemony over advertising (Google Adsense).
Let me explain more in depth:
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