ERIC KIM ₿

Create perfect

I believe the path to the greatest happiness as a photographer is becoming more productive as a photographer. This means, literally just producing more photos.

Investing in production

For example, the secret to true wealth is through production. To produce things, ideas, concepts, etc.

I think the problem in today’s world is that we strive to create wealth through “investments” and other insubstantial sources of capital swapping. For example, let’s say you speculate in some sort of asset, and the price goes up and you sell it. Have you created any new wealth? Not really.

I believe that true wealth, true capital is created through production. For example, producing new knowledge and information, like I have done with all of my books, e-books, presets, my infamous start here page, learn from the masters, etc. Truth be told, simply through my blog and my series of blog posts, I think I’ve created more valuable information on photography education than all of the photo books out there published combined, times 10.

The education mafia?

A secret expose; Pearson, the UK-based printing house and publisher, I think they blacklisted my 100 lessons from the masters of photography through a fraud millennium take down request. There is nothing in my 100 lessons from the masters of photography book which is “copyrighted”. My theory:

Apparently Pearson also publishes photography education books. Therefore, I think they thought my ebook as a threat, and put down some phony take down request to Google, in order to blacklisted, in order to peddle more of their mediocre photo education books.

Becoming a missionary?

One of the very interesting thoughts from Peter Thiel in his zero to one book what is the difference between a mercenary and a missionary. A mercenary simply does something for money, a missionary does something because he or she believes in its true mission.

I have an unorthodox theory on “success“:

Missionaries who so insanely believe in their mission end up becoming insanely successful because they care so much about the mission.

This means, true missionaries start with a deep intrinsic mission, and strive towards it with all of their strength and might. Money success and fame simply comes after the fact.

For example, Elon Musk didn’t set out to initially to become the worlds richest and most tycoon of a man. Rather, he simply had a vested interest in colonizing space and Mars, and everything else was a byproduct of that.

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So what is my mission?

For myself, my personal mission is to propagate the joy photography to all. Also, to seek practical solutions to help us seek more joy satisfaction and thriving in photography.

For example, personal annoyances and other things drive my photography. My never ending quest to seek to make more beautiful photos, practical and philosophical theories on photography as well as pragmatic thoughts on travel, living, life, fitness, etc.

In fact, most of my epiphanies, takeaways, and thoughts simply are derived from a personal quest in hunger for seeking greater answers.

A self driven mission

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I believe the path to the greatest happiness as a photographer is becoming more productive as a photographer. This means, literally just producing more photos.

Investing in production

For example, the secret to true wealth is through production. To produce things, ideas, concepts, etc.

I think the problem in today’s world is that we strive to create wealth through “investments” and other insubstantial sources of capital swapping. For example, let’s say you speculate in some sort of asset, and the price goes up and you sell it. Have you created any new wealth? Not really.

I believe that true wealth, true capital is created through production. For example, producing new knowledge and information, like I have done with all of my books, e-books, presets, my infamous start here page, learn from the masters, etc. Truth be told, simply through my blog and my series of blog posts, I think I’ve created more valuable information on photography education than all of the photo books out there published combined, times 10.

The education mafia?

A secret expose; Pearson, the UK-based printing house and publisher, I think they blacklisted my 100 lessons from the masters of photography through a fraud millennium take down request. There is nothing in my 100 lessons from the masters of photography book which is “copyrighted”. My theory:

Apparently Pearson also publishes photography education books. Therefore, I think they thought my ebook as a threat, and put down some phony take down request to Google, in order to blacklisted, in order to peddle more of their mediocre photo education books.

Becoming a missionary?

One of the very interesting thoughts from Peter Thiel in his zero to one book what is the difference between a mercenary and a missionary. A mercenary simply does something for money, a missionary does something because he or she believes in its true mission.

I have an unorthodox theory on “success“:

Missionaries who so insanely believe in their mission end up becoming insanely successful because they care so much about the mission.

Think *BEYOND*

The reason why “competition“ makes no sense, or even jealousy or envy doesn’t make sense; the world is so insanely huge … the success of somebody else doesn’t mean the detriment of yourself. Also similarly speaking, in terms of economics, the pie is infinitely expanding!

Also my insane optimism for crypto and Blockchain stuff; here, “value“, is truly materialized in the digital world, beyond the physical. If we can go beyond the physical, there is really no upper ceiling!

$867 trillion dollars of value?

No. You gotta make it yourself!

Even after the FTX meltdown… Bitcoin is still popping back up?

Never backtrack!

Via Kanye West

We have a lust for the new!

The secret to intrinsic self motivation?

But isn’t everything just a bubble?

Why? I’m already married, rich, and got a kid (boy— male heir!)

Luxury robusta coffee incoming!

The future of coffee

It is impossible to know what the “truth“ is or not. My suggestion; if your heart isn’t in it, don’t care for it!

What is the worst drug out there, according to a friend that I met who was once addicted to all the drugs, and sobered up in the military? He told me not cocaine, heroin etc., but alcohol.

What do we consider “evil“? That which we are weak and powerless against.

Also, it is wise to never pinpoint any group or organization; only look at the individual.

A big problem; my 2 TB family iCloud plan is tapped out. What to do beyond just keep deleting old files?

The first thought is to commit to google photos, to just almost indefinitely store all of your photos at a reduced resolution and rate. Honestly I don’t think there’s much difference between high quality versus original size.