ERIC KIM ₿

In praise of Elon Musk, the new believe in a great man.

I fancy myself like him.

Health for the sake of future conquest?

Theory; the only reason why sugar, starches, and sweet things are bad is that it causes your body metabolic damage, and causes your body to over store fat, adipose tissue.

Then, adipose fat tissue is simply a sign of unhealth?

Typically we think of fat, adipose tissue, being overfat is simply bad from aesthetics perspective. However, maybe the better thought is that when you see a person with too much fat, adipose tissue, it is simply a sign that they are unwell or unhealthy.

Therefore, what we desire to see is healthy humans, not necessarily people without fat?

Then it is time to just move on.

Or any boring car.

First of all, I think it has to deal with the issue of releasing the accelerator, and the car automatically braking. To me, this feels insanely weird and bizarre, and kills the enjoyment of driving for me.

Things I have yet done, which are on my chopping block include test driving a Tesla model three performance, and also a Tesla model S plaid.

Disable all notifications on your phone, including text messages.

Also, don’t drive listening to music or podcasts.

Also, I believe the best way to become a more focused driver is to drive a car with a manual transmission.

Looks cool!

Note the new Sony ZV cameras optimized for vlogging!

Sexy bodies— the goal.

The funny hilarity is that a lot of these guys, who are into bodybuilding and weightlifting typically think:

“If I have a massive chest, biceps, and shoulders, and a six pack, all of these sexy girls will flock to me.”

However, is this true? No.

What men want, and what women want?

Contrary to popular belief, women don’t really actually care for male physique that much. It seems that only men do.

For example, if you end up building a really big chest, biceps, shoulders, etc., you’re only really impressing other men, not women.

The fight club Brad Pitt aesthetic

Do you remember the infamous aesthetic of Brad Pitt in the movie fight club? Shredded, very visible abs, and relatively lean and muscular? It actually seems that women most value this aesthetic.

Where does this new modern day, steroid, Incredible Hulk, Orc aesthetic come from?

Certainly the Mr. Olympia, bodybuilding phenomenon, rope with steroids, testosterone injections, and all of this weird stuff.

For example, don’t trust ripple, XRP because their marketing material mentions that it is “green”?

And why not? My thought is when some thing or a company mentions that it is “green“, what they are really trying to say is …

“ Sure, we may not be the best, but at least we are green!”

Green is bad. Nobody cares for green. But we care for is money, power, glamour, and prestige. The reason you buy a Tesla car is not for the “green“, but because it is sexy.

Note Peter Thiel ZERO TO ONE book thoughts on “green” technologies.

The joy of having a portfolio which is 100% bitcoin; it will always be the highest, in terms of market cap.

The promise is not the current thing, but, the futurity, the promise of a future thing.

Once the cybertruck comes out, things will go bananas.

One interesting trend I am seeing in regards to marketing, marketing materials, images, etc. is this:

Companies produce marketing material, images, and things which purport a certain type of equity, diversity and inclusion, but however, do not actually target their ideal target demographic.

For example, it seems a little bit disingenuous or forced, when companies randomly seem to add “racial diversity“, or “gender diversity”, into their marketing images and materials.

What does EK think about it?

M11 MONOCHROM just came out — some thoughts:

“A symphony of light and shadow”— this is an insanely bizarre tagline. I have no idea what this means.

“Creating images with only light and shadow”— weak marketing material and language, not compelling.

Too verbose?

I have no idea who is currently the head of marketing at Leica Camera, especially in the PR department. This is really bad language: too verbose.

Don’t mention the CMOS?

The funny thing with us like a fanboys is that we have a higher regard for the old-school legendary CCD sensor over the CMOS sensor. The CMOS sensor has a bad rap, because it is the same type of sensor in the 5D Mark two camera and beyond. What like that camera should do is to try to distinguish themselves away from the crowd. So in this regard, they should actually not mention even the notion or the idea or the concept of “CMOS”.

Just make them keep scrolling?

One new bizarre trend I see in a lot of websites, especially for marketing materials is that you have to keep clicking around. I believe that the product page for the Leica monochrome should just be one massive scrolling page.

Who is the target demographic for the Leica M11 monochrome?

It seems,

Rich people in the UAE, Dubai, Saudi, the Middle East?

Who *should* be the target demographic for the M11 monochrom? My personal thought is that it should be for the rich “tech bros” of Silicon Valley. Or for the guys who collect and race Porsche 911, 911 GT3RS cars, etc.

OK OK – KANYE

My ideal car —

The chassis of the car lasts one million miles.

My ideal camera —

The camera can last me at least 10, 20, 30 years.

My ideal clothes

My wardrobe, clothing items can last me at least 10 or 20 years.

I think we humans don’t have a good aptitude for processing too much data or information. The upside of single column, single column design is we can better focus, and process things.

Strength for the sake of what?

BOSS THOUGHTS.

LiDAR x Polycam x iPad Pro:

The privilege to attempt more vlog

Having this website and blog since 2009-2010-2011 until now (2023)— around 11, 12, 13 years… what have I learned?

Podcast

1. Text lasts

Looking back at my old blog posts, even some from 2017, about five years ago, the text has remained, and to me, is still very relevant. However what ultimately breaks and gets messed up is the images. Why? As an attempt to curb the total number of files in my server, which has a hard cap of 1 million images, I have to delete all the images. As a consequence, I inadvertently delete old images images.

2. Photos which last?

I feel that every once in a while, it is a good idea to re-curate your images. That is, to review all of your old images in your portfolio, and curate, and re-curate them, and to publish and re-publish them.

The goal—

Striving to make photos which will last at least 300 years.

3. Devices which last

iPad Pro actually seems to have very good longevity. iPhone… not as much.

4. Music, musical albums which last?

YEEZUS — by Kanye West. I am still amazed by how good this longevity has been. Even when I talk to fellow Kanye West fans, this is the album that everyone quotes.

My theory —

When Jesus came out, it was so insanely confusing to so many people, it was so I had a good time. So maybe, if you want to creeping with work, you have to try to be stored in 10 minutes ahead of your time, and then maybe a decade or two later, everyone will catch up.

5. Videos last

Funny enough, even though in theory, videos, and video files seem like they are much more cumbersome, fat and bloated than photos and images, it seems that videos, at least on my blog, and website and in general have lasted far better. Even it is quite impressive for us to think about YouTube; the YouTube videos of the past have still remained! Even the really old 480p videos of the past!

6. Passion lasts?

My theory:

If you create things out of a spirit of passion, and you create them, simply because you care, then it is far more likely to last!

When I think of artwork, or, musical albums, songs, creations, books, etc… the question —

What lasts? What doesn’t?

It seems that the best strategy is assume that you will forget, and as a consequence, just don’t manipulate, change, or touch or do things, which may cause you to forget.

For example, after wearing the lululemon vital Drive half legging compression tights for so long, and then switching back to my old Uniqlo Heattech leggings, the Heattech leggings feel 1000 times a step backwards.

For example, I really love the new safari compact tab design on top. Much more sublime design.

What is the true privilege here? The true privilege is having the privilege to attempt more, not necessarily being entitled to more, but, having the privilege to simply attempt it.

Therapy, therapist just means “to talk”.

I don’t “need” anything, nor do I want anything?

Cold which strengthens, cold which weakens?

Nobody is a match for me

I hate people with a bad attitude

I love black and white video!

Or even a Tesla?

I believe that the wrong idea that a lot of people have towards entrepreneurship is that the point is just to become really rich, become a billionaire, etc.

However on the contrary, I believe the point is to instead, just have freedom to try something new, build something new, sell something you, sell a new type of service, etc.

Let us note the big downside of communist society is that free enterprise is not allowed. Any pseudo-Marxist, Leninist, Communist who owns an iPhone, goes to Whole Foods, has a Netflix subscription, has Amazon prime, drives a Tesla, or even a Prius, is a fraud.

Therefore, perhaps the notion of free enterprise is a good one. Giving people and citizens opportunity to try something new.

The only detriment we can suffer is regulation. In America, it seems that a lot of entrepreneur have massive headaches because of just being able to get the right regulations to do something or build something. Then, to encourage entrepreneurship is to remove this bureaucracy, remove these behaviors, remove these regulations.

Certainly safety is critical, but it seems that nowadays, all of the safety contract companies; it is just like a Ponzi scam. Free money for them.

Entrepreneurship by KIM

Become the change which you desire to see manifested in the world!

Become you.

1. How to Become More Influential
2. The Point of Life is Entrepreneurship?
3. How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
4. Become the Outlier
5. Self Reliance
6. How to Extend Your Reach
7. NEWS: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur
8. PVP (Player vs Player)
9. How I became so influential
10. WE LOVE THE *SENSATION* OF RISK-TAKING
11. WHY HIGH PROFIT MARGINS?
12. INNOVATION THOUGHTS
13. OVERCONFIDENCE IS GOOD.
14. GARAGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP
15. PERHAPS IT IS GOOD TO BE “DELUSIONAL”
16. USE YOUR WEALTH TO BUY STUFF, OR TO BUILD AND INNOVATE STUFF?
17. HOW TO THRIVE
18. Target Demographic
19. Ambition Over Happiness
20. Anti Collaboration
21. The Will to Economy
22. Why New?
23. CHOOSE ADRENALINE.
24. No Looking Back.
25. 1000x Different
26. BECOME SPENDTHRIFT
27. THE BENEFIT OF JUST ONE.
28. EXTREME INNOVATION.
29. Practicality is Boring
30. BECOME YOUR OWN STANDARD.
31. NEVER STOP ITERATING.
32. CONDENSE.
33. Take Lots of Small Financial Risks
34. Control Over Convenience
35. Why Are Chinese Companies So Innovative?
36. INSANELY DIFFERENT.
37. Why Doesn’t Anything Ever Satisfy Me?
38. THE GREAT PASSION.
39. Perhaps Dissatisfaction is Good
40. ONE REP MAX.
41. WHAT DO YOU *REALLY* WANT IN LIFE?
42. LIFE IS ABOUT STRIVING FOR MORE.
43. NEVER STOP LINKING.
44. THE GREATEST.
45. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
46. THE BEST IS YET TO COME.
47. ERIC KIM CRITIQUE OF ROMANTICISM
48. COMPLACENCY.
49. JUST BUY IT.
50. ALL ABOUT YOU.
51. MOVE THE WORLD
52. Boring or Not Boring?
53. What if Your Past Self were Inferior to Your Present Self?
54. THE PHILOSOPHY OF PROGRESS
55. CULTURE IS YOUR ENEMY.
56. Difficulty & Interest
57. The Will to Expansion
58. What is Work?
59. SOUL IN THE GAME.
60. JUST START IT.
61. Not Boring
62. PRIDE IN YOUR OWN NAME / BRAND
63. AS MUCH AS YOU CAN TOLERATE.
64. Speed is Paramount
65. TAKE IT BACK TO THE BEGINNING.
66. A Life With No Risk Taking is *NOT* a Life Worth Living
67. Dissatisfaction is Good
68. GREATER STRENGTH, GREATER CHALLENGES.
69. In Praise of the New
70. Uncorrupted Desires
71. You Cannot Fake Passion
72. SELF-OVERGOING
73. FORM YOURSELF.
74. Personal Entrepreneurship
75. RELENTLESS.
76. PUT YOUR NAME ON IT.
77. A Life of Expansion
78. SELF-ENTREPRENEURSHIP
79. YOU ARE THE EXCEPTION.
80. Use Your Life as an Experiment to Self-Develop Yourself to Heights Never Seen Before
81. Invest in New Developments
82. Investing Towards What End?
83. The 90%/10% Principle in Entrepreneurship
84. Speed Wins
85. The Philosophy of Happiness
86. When to Over-Estimate, When to Under-Estimate?
87. Never Stop Iterating
88. Money as a Tool for Life and Artistic Experimentation
89. Less But More Premium
90. Mainstream vs Low-Key Success
91. Why Dissatisfaction is Good
92. SEEK YOUR OWN PERSONAL MAXIMAL BENEFIT INSTEAD OF COMPLAINING
93. Manifest Your Destiny
94. Is it Best to *Not* Communicate Your Inner Thoughts or Ideas With Others?
95. CREATE THINGS YOU WISH TO SEE MANIFESTED IN THE WORLD
96. How to Do More Work
97. CONTROL.
98. Competition is for Losers
99. Change.
100. Your Competitive Advantage with Insanely Fast Wifi and High Speed Internet
101. Pseudo Individualism
102. Natural Internal Promoting vs External Promptings

Think for Yourself.

1. Survival vs Thrivival
2. Become Rich
3. SECRETS.
4. Why it is Better to Beg for Forgiveness than Ask for Permission
5. Thinking About the Past Prevents You From Thinking About the Future
6. How to Predict the Future
7. Tools of Mass Distraction
8. So What?

FREEDOM

• On Leaving a Legacy
• I wanna be me!
• Productivity for personal freedom
• How to Purchase your Freedom

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Never stop innovating.

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Entrepreneurship Mindset

• 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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Put a Dent in the Universe.

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

What I have discovered through weightlifting, powerlifting is this: hitting a new PR, personal record is pretty uneventful. For me, the greater joy is even having the privilege and opportunity to attempt a new personal record.

Then, our joy is not hitting a certain number, but always, attempting more.

Ergon means work.

Orange county is better for fitness culture, working out, lots more powerlifting gyms, and also, easy access to the Costco business center, for meat.

Also more sunshine.

Build your economic future!

High in the sky

Just think of yourself like Zeus on mount Olympus, insanely high looking down.

I love flying window seat looking out!

All day natural light

Per diem lifestyle

Being in an airplane is like a superpower ?

Why you’re more productive on iPhone mini or iPhone SE — the weight savings! Helps with swiping. Also holding the device. Less fatigue.

ZEUS THOUGHTS

Bounding boxes for composition

WE MUST GO DARKER.

Go VANTA

SCALE.

Just fly with earplugs.

PURE BLACK.

CORE BLACK.

EK BLACK.

DEUS BLACK

POWER BLACK

Black is the color of power?

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Assassin black?

Being on a plane is conducive to thinking

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Vibram 5 finger shoes for travel

Aluminum over stainless steel.

ABOVE THE CLOUDS!

Oculus.

Manipulate the physical

Can you imagine a John Wick wearing a Patagonia vest or jacket?