For example, everyone seems to be obsessed about how many billions of views to get, but why doesn’t anyone ever think; the most impressive thing is a platform hosting the views.

Something that is insanely essential is one’s photo strategy for things.

Cultivating an entrepreneurial spirit is mostly a teaching thing. For example, not giving your kid handouts, and teaching them that they can become self-sufficient, and innovate and entrepreneur on their own.

Why I love the Ricoh gr 3X so much is that it democratizes photography. Anybody using it, shooting high contrast black and white and JPEG will create phenomenal images.

Then the goal isn’t to make good images, but simply, to capture photos and things that are personally meaningful to you.

Anti-CrossFit.

Beautiful environments uplift, invigorate, and inspire us!

For example Royce hall at UCLA. Possibly one of the most beautiful buildings I’ve witnessed in real life. This and the buildings in Venice

For example, the beautiful quad at UCLA. It essentially looks like an Ivy League school. The beautiful brick buildings, an insanely great investment over 100 years ago by the initial founders of UCLA. It makes for great photographs, and also attracts more students. This is good business.

Or can you?

Racing cars is democratic and egalitarian in a bad way; any skinny fat loser in an expensive and fast car can go fast.

What takes more courage, and substance? Lifting insanely heavy weights instead. Why? Physical feats of strength are much more interesting than just pushing your foot to the pedal, and increase your adrenaline via G forces.

The best way to naturally produce your own adrenaline is hyping yourself up before lifting an insanely heavy weight. 7 plate and beyond or nothing.

Perhaps instead of going to college or university, better to just travel the world, live in Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam, Korea, etc.

Some places I love include Phnom Penh Cambodia, Saigon, Hanoi, Seoul South Korea. I truly feel that the most dynamic and interesting place currently in the world is in Asia.

Out of all the places that I mentioned, for myself, Phnom Penh Cambodia is the most interesting, as it is at the intersection of all of the great Asian tigers in the Indo Pacific area. Also, the best gym I’ve ever been to, monkifit in Phnom Penh. An insane amount of foreign investment from mainland China, makes Phnom Penh and Cambodia very interesting to me.

South Korea, Seoul is very interesting to me because of the strong American alliance and ties. And the strong economic link with South Korea; think about Hyundai, Kia, and Hyundai Genesis, Samsung, LG etc. Also note the strong American military presence in South Korea.

The best place to situate yourself is in a place which is at the intersection of many different nations, and activities.

It is fine if others, you perceive them as mediocre. And certainly, society cannot exist without the mediocre.

However for you as a solo entrepreneur and innovator, keep away from mediocre with a 1000 foot stick. Mediocre thinking, mediocrity.

We only care for the best, the number one. We have zero interest in the number two, and lower.

Therefore as a marketing thing, try to brand things in such a way that you’re the number one of something. You can make it more niche and more specific.

Start off super small and super niche, and keep at it until you dominate and become number one in that small niche. And then as time goes on, expand into other adjunct areas, or other fields, and keep at it until you become number one those domains as well.

Then what is the final goal? Then to become number one in everything, in the entire world.

Everywhere kind of sucks; make the best out of where you currently are. Because even if you go somewhere else, it still sucks, and who knows, it actually might suck more.

Assuming you could also lift weights every single day, let us continue our 30,000 steps a day challenge!

Maybe “gym intimidation” is actually a good thing. Why? Then it does take courage and balls to enter and exhibit your strength in the arena.

Assuming that sitting is bad for you, your health, your energy levels, and your physiology, it seems then the ideal way to transit is actually by standing. Therefore, this is a good praise or encouragement for riding the bus, or the subway, or any form of transit which allows you to stand.

Maybe even standing on electric scooter is better than sitting on a bicycle.

Don’t waste your time with people who slow you down, waste your time, drag you down.

The days where I could walk a lot, I have insanely high energy. The days in which I must drive a lot, I get extremely tired?

Theory; something about sitting is bad for your physiology, it makes you more tired?

Also, being indoors, not being able to get in the direct sun outdoors. Being indoors makes you more tired.

Assuming you want to use your life as a very interesting experiment, then perhaps a life in which you never have to drive is the ultimate ideal?

Or another words, living in the downtown, city area, in which you could walk everywhere. It is a wise idea and investment to spend the extra bucks on the higher rent.

Also as an economic theory; even if you live somewhere which has higher rent, and it is more expensive, perhaps you as a self-employed sole proprietor will actually make more money, net positive, because walking more will be superior for your health, ideation, and entrepreneurial vigor.

Better to have extreme buffer time, in front and back, than cutting to close to the bone.

America as a nation is the most great, when the government or superfluous regulations don’t get in your way.

The best government is the government that just leaves you alone.

Theory — it motivates you to move more! Lululemon long sleeve compression license to train top, and lululemon vital drive half tights paired with lululemon license to train shorts.

The passion of Seneca.

He adventures confidently, without hesitation.

I scare, intimidate or make others feel less in control and power?

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PHILOSOPHY BY KIM

Essays by KIM

1. How to Get More Done in a Single Day – MEMENTO MORI PHILOSOPHY
2. THINK FOR YOURSELF
3. Cruel?
4. GO DEMIGOD.
5. How to Be Happy: Challenge and Danger Philosophy
6. To Become Greater, You Must Become *LESS* Productive!
7. Imperfect Beauty
8. The Philosophy of Pleasure
9. What Interests You?
10. Anti Theory of Everything
11. Become?
12. STRONGER OR NOT?
13. Carte Blanche Ideals
14. CHOOSE JOY
15. Don’t Judge Your Impulses
16. On Becoming Less Human
17. COWARDICE.
18. The Philosophy of Futurism
19. PHILOSOPHY IS VALUE-SETTING
20. PHILOSOPHY IS NOT LIFESTYLE
21. WHY STANDARDIZATION IS BAD.
22. YOUR OWN TABLE OF VALUES.
23. RETRO IS BAD.
24. INSANELY LOFTY THOUGHTS.
25. Strive to *Lose* Weight, Not *Gain* Weight
26. DIABLO II ANALOGIES FOR REAL LIFE.
27. If You Know Your *WHY* You Can Discover Any *HOW*
28. Life is Too Short to Be Miserable
29. What Consumption Takes Skill?
30. OFF THE GRID.
31. REALITY IS CRUEL.
32. Pain is Information
33. WHY REMOVE VULGARITY AND DISORDER FROM OUR EYES?
34. AUTOTELIC.
35. UNPLUG.
36. How to Become a Philosopher
37. SUBOPTIMAL IS OPTIMAL
38. THE LUST FOR MORE.
39. TO DO IS TO BECOME.
40. IN PRAISE OF AGGRESSIVE.
41. THE PHILOSOPHY OF OPTIMISM
42. OUR PHILOSOPHICAL WILL TO EXISTENCE
43. Is Hope a Vice?
44. MOVE MEAN
45. Carte Blanche Ideals
46. One Interesting Thought
47. What Lasts? What Doesn’t Last?
48. A WOUND STIMULATES THE RECUPERATIVE POWERS
49. Children & Purpose
50. Thoughts on Becoming a Parent
51. Where Does Our Desire to Upgrade Come From?
52. WE ALWAYS NEED SOMETHING FURTHER TO ASPIRE TO.
53. Self-Task Yourself an Awesome Mission in Life
54. Differentiation vs Equalization
55. My Passion to *Become* Something More
56. No Aesthetic or Ethos is Forever
57. What is Your Higher Purpose in Life?
58. IT WILL NEVER SATISFY YOU.
59. How to Decide
60. Things You *Want* to Do vs Things You *MUST* Do
61. Towards a More Beautiful Mode of Existence and Future
62. EXTREME GRATITUDE.
63. AMAP (As Much as Possible) or None.
64. Why or How Does it Matter?
65. The Philosophy of Time and Events
66. How *Not* to Resent
67. FORWARD LOOKING
68. DOMAIN FLEXIBILITY.
69. The Miracle of Human Growth
70. EXTREME ADAPTATION.
71. Why Plan?
72. You Don’t Need to Justify Yourself
73. The Philosophy of Ego
74. True vs False Passions
75. How to Achieve Tranquility
76. On Making Your Own Philosophy
77. The Purpose of Life is to Create New Life
78. Think On!
79. The Wisdom of Doing Nothing
80. Congruency
81. My Thoughts on Meditation
82. The Philosophy of Purpose
83. Emulate Yourself
84. Good Fear, Bad Fear
85. For the Betterment of Humanity or Just Yourself?
86. What you *really* believe in and care for is manifested through your actions (or non-actions)
87. Why Culture is Your Enemy
88. YOUR EXPERIENCES ARE KING.
89. LIFE IS INHERENTLY GOOD.
90. Artistic, Physical, and Philosophical Muscles
91. All New Experiences are Good Experiences
92. What is the Purpose of X?
93. UTILITY.
94. Philosophy is a Luxury
95. The Attempt is More Interesting than the Result
96. Joyfulness vs “Happiness”
97. Effectiveness Over Happiness
98. Self Actualization
99. MAXIMAL ENGAGEMENT
100. Life & Pain
101. On Living Every Day with No Regret
102. Learn as if you’re going to live forever, live as if you’re going to die tomorrow
103. Live Every Day Like it Were the Last Day of Your Life
104. Self-Determination
105. FALSE GRATITUDE vs REAL GRATITUDE
106. HOW TO LIVE MORE
107. THE UPSIDE OF TRAGEDY
108. Satisfaction is a Sucker’s Game
109. Supreme Repose
110. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF LIFE? According to ERIC KIM
111. STUBBORN, FLEXIBLE
112. EVERYTHING HAPPENS AS IT *SHOULD* HAVE HAD HAPPENED
113. Good Addiction, Bad Addiction?
114. What is the Best Life?
115. The Philosophy of Thinking
116. The Philosophy of Conspiracies
117. Conspiracies
118. Growth
119. Skepticism.
120. What Do You Really Want Out of Life?
121. Seem or Be?
122. Learn Through Pain
123. Respect Yourself
124. In Praise of Elitism
125. Why Independent Thinking?
126. I Will Never Die
127. Bitter is Better
128. The Genesis of Nihilism and Existential Dread
129. The Ethics of Personal Enrichment
130. Good vs Not Good
131. Punished by Privilege
132. Abstinence Over Moderation
133. Just Leave Others Alone
134. You Can Only Critique that Which You Truly Understand and Love
135. ERIC KIM Critique of Metaphysics
136. Only Trust Philosophers Who Deadlift
137. Heuristic: If Someone Talks Shit About Others Behind Their Back, Most Likely They’re Also Talking Shit About You Behind Your Back
138. Virtue is a Privilege
139. What Are Your Life Goals?
140. Honesty
141. Why I’m Anti Moderation
142. No Spite, No Malice.
143. Ascending Life or Descending Life?
144. Double Edged Sword
145. Ignorance.
146. Why I Don’t Trust “Nice Guys”
147. Why You Must Share Your Opinion
148. Selfish Isn’t Evil
149. Wisdom is the Goal
150. YOU ARE KING.
151. MASTER YOURSELF
152. What is “Good” for You is Often what is Bad for You
153. Care.
154. BITTERSWEET
155. ONE REP MAX
156. Morality and Ethics is the Snare
157. BY HELPING YOURSELF, YOU BEST HELP OTHERS
158. Insanity is Good.
159. Think Deep.
160. PHILOSOPHY IS THE FUTURE.
161. Open Mind vs Closed Mind
162. ENTHUSIASM IS GENIUS
163. Towards a More Critical and Rigorous Line of Thinking
164. How to Encourage and a Foster Independent and Free Thinking
165. What is the Purpose of Life?
166. WHY PHILOSOPHY IS SUPREME.
167. Elitism.
168. I Cannot Form an Opinion About Somebody Until I’ve Met Them in the Flesh
169. ALL GENETICS ARE GOOD GENETICS.
170. Happiness vs Freedom
171. The Birth of a Hater
172. My Way Isn’t the Right Way
173. Walking as an Existential Thing
174. Why I’m So Tolerant
175. Mortal Gods
176. THE HUMAN SPECIES
177. Why I’m So Skeptical
178. Just Follow the Money
179. Why Selfish?
180. WHY WE CANNOT BLAME OTHERS
181. Why Are We So Anti Elitism?
182. What Actually Interests You?
183. How to Become Yourself
184. SELF HATE
185. Optimistic Fatalism
186. Death is the Ultimate Creative Constraint
187. FLUX.
188. How to Think for Yourself
189. FLESH
190. How to Live the Best Life
191. Why Live a Life Without Regrets?
192. Why Plato Ruined Art and Aesthetics for Us
193. Self Respect
194. Hypocrite vs Contradict
195. Ideals vs Reality
196. Spaceship Philosophy
197. What is Your Ideal Life?
198. MY EXTREME GRATITUDE TOWARDS LIFE AND BEING ALIVE!
199. Critique of Utilitarianism
200. Don’t Treat Others the Way You Want to Be Treated
201. The Eternal Recurrence of Tragedy and Joy in Life
202. Elite Asceticism
203. Why I Don’t Like Numbers
204. Action and Reaction, Cause and Effect
205. The Antidote to Nihilism: The Philosophy of Nothingness
206. ERIC KIM Notes on Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
207. EXPLOIT CHAOS.
208. WHY I DON’T BELIEVE IN GENETICS
209. Self-Wisdom
210. The Future Belongs to the Fearless
211. INDIVIDUALISM
212. Why Live Forever?
213. THIS TOO WILL PASS.
214. Why Education?
215. How to Become Yourself
216. Things Shouldn’t Go Back to the Way They Used to Be
217. Why Am I So Cruel?
218. The Great Joy of Existence
219. Virtue for the Sake of Virtue
220. NO DISDAIN.
221. INTELLIGENT IGNORANCE
222. A LIFE WITHOUT PAIN, DIFFICULTY OR TRAGEDY ISN’T A LIFE WORTH LIVING
223. BITTER IS BETTER.
224. EXPLOIT THE BEST FROM TRAGEDY AND LIFE 
225. DISREGARD FOR SELF-PRESERVATION
226. PAIN.
227. WHAT IF EVERYTHING IS NOT GONNA BE ALRIGHT?
228. Tomorrow is Never
229. Life is the Ultimate Creative Constraint
230. EMBODIED REALITY
231. BLACK SWAN
232. THINGS WILL NEVER GO BACK TO THE WAY THEY USED TO BE
233. What are you *really* afraid of?
234. HAPPINESS ISN’T THE GOAL
235. Philosophy is King
236. Why is Selfish Evil?
237. YOU’RE CONSTANTLY IN A STATE OF BECOMING
238. ENTITLEMENT A SIN?
239. NARCISSISM
240. BE BRUTALLY HONEST WITH YOURSELF
241. WHY FREE WILL?
242. OBEY YOUR OPINION
243. EGO IS GOOD.
244. WHY IT IS GOOD TO BE INTO YOURSELF
245. Seek the Good Pain
246. Anti-Perfection in Photography, Art, and Life
247. Can You Become an End into Yourself?
248. WHY I LIVE
249. Why I Hate Decline
250. Why I Eat
251. Why am I So Positive and Optimistic?
252. EFFORT IS ENJOYMENT
253. Never Stop Gaining
254. TRUST YOURSELF
255. A Life of Maximal Personal Independence
256. What Do You Desire to Become?
257. What Do I Want from Technology?
258. Stratified Society
259. Do You Love or Hate Reality?
260. On the Brian, Body and Mind
261. I’m Maximally Happy, Now What?
262. Care over Fame
263. ACTIVE NIHILISM
264. Never Stop Subtracting
265. How to Live a Happier and More Epic Life
266. A Risker Life is a Better Life
267. Only Work on Things You Can Imagine Doing for Eternity
268. How to Maximize Your Happiness
269. Influence
270. The Gladiator Makes His Plans once He Enters the Ring
271. Meditations on Meaning in Life
272. There is Nothing More Interesting than Human Beings
273. Is Hope a Vice?
274. EGO
275. Why Be Unique?
276. Happiness is Metabolism Health and Strength
277. You’re the Hero
278. Is Productivity a Virtue or Vice?
279. Why Do We Prize the Rare?
280. The Joy of Uncertainty
281. How Should I Best Use My Time and Life?
282. A Life Without Pain or Suffering Isn’t a Life Worth Living
283. Free or Unfree?
284. What Do You Really Care For in Life?
285. Anti-Satisfaction in Life
286. Why Think?
287. The Eternal Return
288. Only Do What is Best for You!
289. Truthiness
290. Why Be Happy?
291. Permissionless Living
292. In Praise of Unconventional Wisdom
293. Become the Change Which You Wish to See in the World
294. Happiness
295. Beyond Freedom
296. Idolize People, Not Stuff
297. What Makes You Stronger? What Makes You Weaker?
298. Why Hate?
299. The Secret of Happiness
300. You’re Constantly in a State of Becoming
301. Life is about Choices, Not Obligations
302. Anti-Nihilism
303. First, Do What is Best for You.
304. Live Dynamic
305. How to Prosper
306. Is the Point of Life to Be Satisfied?
307. SUPREME EFFORT OF WILL.
308. How to Become more Idealistic
309. Thrivival 101
310. Create Yourself
311. Non-Small
312. Inspiration
313. How to Live a Heroic Life: Dare the Heights!
314. Human Augmentation
315. Prune
316. Happiness: Do What You Want to Do (And Don’t Do What You Don’t Want to Do)
317. Avoid Vain (Empty) Pursuits in Life
318. Modern Slavery
319. Kill the Leeches
320. Wisdom Augmentation
321. Why We Need Friction in Life
322. Straight Line Philosophy
323. What’s Your End-Game in Life?
324. Create Your Own Happiness Today
325. Desire Both Pain and Pleasure in Life
326. Try the Impossible
327. SELF-RESPECT
328. Anti-Social Extrovert
329. Never Blame Anybody But Yourself
330. Human Flourishing
331. Simpler, Not Better.
332. How to be Free
333. Embrace the Extremes
334. Cultivate Your Own Culture
335. COURAGE.
336. Thrivival
337. Inner Power
338. How to Live a Purposeful Life
339. My Definition of Happiness
340. Why Change is Good
341. Why Work?
342. How to Live the Happiest Possible Life
343. The Two-Pronged Approach to Maximize Joy in Your Life
344. You Always Have Another Option!
345. INFINITISM
346. Never Stop!
347. What is Your Self-Directed Purpose in Life?
348. Live Today Like it Were Your Last
349. Do You Photograph to Live, or Live to Photograph?
350. ARTIST-PHILOSOPHER
351. Live Life to the Fullest!
352. In Praise of Selfishness
353. Why You Must Be a YAY-SAYER to Succeed in Entrepreneurship and Life
354. Why I Love Walking
355. Live Life Like a Video Game!
356. Simple Luxuries in Life
357. Treat Your Life Like a Fun Experiment!
358. Only Prove it to Yourself
359. You Don’t Always Need to Feel Joyful to Live a Fulfilling and Meaningful Life
360. Life is Too Short to Be Bored!
361. Money Cannot Destroy Boredom
362. How to Find Inspiration in Life
363. Why You Must Ignore Haters to Succeed and Win in Life
364. An Active Life is a Happy Life
365. My Simple Joys in Life
366. Never Stop Striving
367. How to Motivate Yourself in Life
368. How to Be Optimistic in Life
369. How to Dictate Your Purpose in Life
370. In Praise of a Dynamic Life
371. PURPOSE.
372. How to Enjoy Life
373. Photography Therapy
374. How to Conquer Regret
375. Take Your Play Very Seriously.
376. How to Prosper
377. Memento Vivere
378. Destroy in Order to CREATE
379. Trust Your Body More Than Your Mind
380. Make Photos to Make Meaning in Your Life
381. Seek Knowledge, Not Information
382. The Purpose of Human Life
383. How to Overcome Impedence
384. Why I Love Death
385. How to Be Centered in the Eternal Now
386. How to Be Happy
387. Why Do You Care What Others Think of You?
388. Why I’m Happy
389. Why?
390. Why I’m So Prolific
391. How to Reduce LAG in Life

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Use the power pins!

Memes like memory; a learned social practice, often cultural. Also often social.

For example at the gym, everyone thinks they must do bench press, tell the top the floor, squat parallel or below parallel, etc. Perhaps these names are bad. Much innovation to be had, beyond memes.

For myself, bodybuilders are far more fun, lively, and enjoyable than powerlifters.

Everybody always wants to be more liked. But what if the goal was instead, to instead become more disliked?

For example, it seems a lot of guys are afraid of looking “gay.” But what if, as a straight guy, you sought to look more â€œgay?”

Master it all.

In order to come up with more ideas, creative ideas, etc., lifting weights at the gym is good, also driving.

When it comes to physique, the question is whether somebody is grotesque or beautiful. The reason why I am anti-steroids, testosterone and performance enhancing drugs is that it makes people look grotesque.

Also women who do Botox injections, or unnatural augmentation, or plastic surgery. They end up looking more grotesque then beautiful.

Simply having the privilege to practice something is the reward in itself.

For example, weight lifting at the gym. The practice of lifting weights is what is most enjoyable, fun, and gratitude for me.

I am passionate about new developments!

Assuming everyone wants to be “happy”, and assuming that fitness and working out, going to the gym, lifting weights, being outdoors, shirt off, getting a nice tan, food and diet (100% carnivore diet, no weed, alcohol, carbs, sugars, etc)— shouldn’t we optimize our lives for diet, health and fitness?

Perhaps plug-in hybrid is a good idea. In praise of Prius Prime and the Lexus variants.

Also hybrid methodologies and approaches are good.

This is why mafia dons always sit all the way back at restaurants, with their back facing the corner wall. So they could see anything and everything, to make sure that they don’t get backstabbed. Or back shot.

The upside of walking around outdoors with your shirt off, you got more surface area to absorb UV radiation from the sun, especially during the winter time.