I think Seneca‘s favorite thing in the world to do is finding rocks and throwing them into bodies of water. Why is he so into this? Maybe physics experiment; he loves the arch of throwing the rock, and seeing the splash afterwards.
Maybe we adults should adopt the same approach; the things that we do are simply physics experiments?
Landscape and nature photographers, what do they want? The feeling of dominating the environment.
What does the street photographer want? The feeling of dominating the urban landscape, the city, and the strange people inside it.
Conquer the environment.
Some facts; first of all, you’re alive, and one day you will die. And therefore the question is, in this life, what do you desire to do, accomplish, create, leave behind?
Why? Towards what ends?
Even if you spent the rest of your life traveling, no way in hell could you see everything:
The upside of attempting to conquer the world. No limits to your ambition!
How does 8 plates and a 35 feel on your shoulders and back? Actually not that heavy.
835 pounds on the rack, seems foolish by most people. But perhaps it is my audacity and my foolishness which has allowed me to reach unprecedented heights?
Go insanely heavy on legs. Atlas Lift, 8 plates and a 35– 9 plates coming soon.
What camera is smaller than a RICOH GR IIIX… iPhone Pro?
And ribs!
Just some basic yoga stuff — dive bomber, one handed dive bomber, 1 legged pistol squat, bridge, hip thrusts (one leg and body weight), planche, etc. Doesn’t require any equipment. Birds of paradise, pigeon pose, scorpion pose.
Becoming more powerful is our only duty?
To become more creative, become more disconnected with social media, modern trends, foreign sites.
Typically speaking, disruption is seen as a vice. For example in the classroom, children who are “disruptive“ get punished.
However for myself — I’ve discovered that any time I did something in a “disruptive†manner, I innovated and succeeded much.
For example, my open source photography approach. Or even more recently, my disruptive approach to fitness (hypelifting, powerlifting 2.0).
Disrupting traditional notions towards fitness and the human body:
The most powerful x, y, z?
With a 6 pack?
I NEED MORE POWER
LiDAR for photography. iPad Pro and Polycam, or iPhone Pro.
Vegetables make food “taste†better because ultimately they’re just sugar and starch?
What makes Boston interesting — curved irregular roads, city not a perfect grid system. Diverse, people from all over. Weather sucks but with a good down jacket, military Goretex jacket, goretex boots you’re fine.
Also super old. Older than NYC I believe.
Little Italy in Boston super cool — phenomenal “charactersâ€â€” waaaay more fun and interesting than New York or LA or London.
Boston as an underrated city in America.
In other words, don’t do computer science.
Become more poor, but more elite?
Spartans at the pinnacle of elite, 300, but the most ascetic and “poor�
Advice for high school students going to college.
Sociology might have seemed to be the most “useless†major, but has in the long run benefitted me the most.
Spartan aesthetics are. Note how minimal and sparse the interiors of the Teslas are.
