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Street photography as courage. Photography philosophy as embodied life. A living archive by ERIC KIM.

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Photo essay / Dec 14, 2022

Hyper Healthy

Not enough to just be “healthy“, but instead, to seek to become hyper healthy . A new level of healthiness ever seen before. Hyper health.

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Photo essay / Dec 14, 2022

How to Reap the Upsides Without the Downsides

A very empowering thought is this; how can we reap the upsides of something, without having the downsides? Perhaps this is what stoicism is all about, to extract the maximum upside of existence and …

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Photo essay / Dec 14, 2022

Driving Philosophy

Assuming you live in Southern California, the suburbs, or pretty much anywhere in America, we are still very reliant on cars. Some thoughts: 1. Walking is supreme First of all, is the ideal life …

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Photo essay / Dec 14, 2022

Money & Passion

The ideal is to do something you’re passionate about, and also something that makes a lot of money. That means, something which is valued in modern day society: Marketing, advertising, product, product design, lifestyle, …

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Photo essay / Dec 14, 2022

(Normal) iPhone Marketing Suggestions

Not good news. Going to an Apple store recently, during this holiday season, the store is practically empty, the workers looked deflated, no zest or cheer, and the consumers look bored. Lots of security …

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Photo essay / Dec 14, 2022

The motivation to upgrade?

For example, let’s say you already have an iPhone 13 Pro. There really a strong enough motivation to upgrade to an iPhone 14 Pro? Things should be designed in such a way in which …

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Photo essay / Dec 14, 2022

How to Deal With Driving Fatigue?

Would a Tesla autopilot really help here? Also — Does different models of a car truly help reduce driving fatigue? For example, assuming you did have auto pilot, would there actually be a difference …

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Photo essay / Dec 13, 2022

Undernourishment is the issue?

All of these maladies, depressions, physiological darkness — a consequence of under-nourishment, not enough carnivore meat consumption?

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Photo essay / Dec 13, 2022

Risk Taking

Take the risk! Becoming the outlier How to become the wolf How to become more gay

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Photo essay / Dec 13, 2022

Why Are We So Into Other People?

A new thought: it is a vice to be interested in other people, whether good or bad. As an experiment, spend a month to not praise anybody else, or critique anybody else. Better yet, …

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Photo essay / Dec 13, 2022

Avert your eyes and your body

When you see or witness something that you don’t like, physically turn your body away from it or that person or those people, and also avert your eyes. This is a good stoic approach …

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Outlier abstract
Photo essay / Dec 13, 2022

Become the Outlier

I remember taking AP statistics in high school, and learning about the notion of the “outlier”. That when you had a certain data point and there was a certain data point which was not …

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Photo essay / Dec 13, 2022

Speak your mind

Have the courage to speak your mind, even if you’re going to get angry, be aggressive, yell, etc.

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Photo essay / Dec 13, 2022

The Brightest Shall Win!

My extreme joy of being able to be outdoors, in the direct light, and the direct sun, while using my iPad Pro.

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Photo essay / Dec 13, 2022

The Philosophy of Hormones

It seems in today’s modern world, we don’t like to think that hormones exist, or affect us. We like to think that our mind is supreme, and can overcome and conquer any sort of …

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Photo essay / Dec 13, 2022

How to Become Gay

Better to be a gay (happy and jovial) monster than to be a sentimental bore. Via Nietzsche — via Galliani. “The gay science” (The Joyful Wisdom) Gai— old French. Joyful, merry. Nietzsche has this …

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Photo essay / Dec 13, 2022

Real Men Drink Robusta

Anyone who is too into specialty coffee is signaling some sort of oversensitivity and weakness. Real men drink robusta. Higher caffeine content, and also, less sugar. Theory; because arabica is very sweet, is it …

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Photo essay / Dec 13, 2022

Why Be Different?

Why be different? What is the upside of being different, living different, and being different?

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Photo essay / Dec 12, 2022

How to Become the Outlier

I remember taking AP statistics in high school, and learning about the notion of the “outlier”. That when you had a certain date of that, and there was a certain data point which was …

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