ERIC KIM ₿

My diet; intermittent fasting, no breakfast lunch, only dinner. And all I eat is fatty meat and kimchi.

My meat meditation includes beef brisket and beef ribs from the Costco business Center:

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Just eat real meat instead.

Although my methods and approaches seem unorthodox, they seem to work.

Your photography assignment is “zen”. However you interpret it. Whether it be simple, minimalist, etc.

Some thoughts include just one shape, only include one color, or just one subject, and just one concept.

Upload your photos to arsbeta.com

Four-fold photography.

My personal thought is LA is like its own race. All people from LA love In-N-Out Burger, Mexican food, arts culture and music.

Also, the good thing about people from LA is that they are very open minded, friendly, and for the most part, not that political. What they are more interested in is focusing on themselves, and building themselves.

Also the interesting thing is that for the most part, they don’t really care about tech too much. I think they care more about investments and money instead.

Also, people from LA are superficial. In a good way. This means, they are not pseudo woke or pseudo enlightened.

Use chalk, mixed grip, and lift insanely heavy at the gym:

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How does one build willpower? Through resisting.

Also, how does one’s muscles get stronger? Resistance training.

The right duration to think.

My favorite phrase.

First, I consider Facebook net positive for society, especially for poor people, or for emerging economies.

However, there is a deep disdain of Facebook in Silicon Valley, especially amongst the tech elite.

The first proposition I have is create some sort of Facebook Pro, or Facebook “Zen“, in which you could pay money to disable notifications and ads. I suggest a premium membership of $4.99 a month.

Second, it is not too late. Facebook must ditch notions of the meta-verse, and virtual reality. I overheard my brother-in-law tell me how the meta-verse has only 100 people in it. We will not be using virtual reality 30 years from now.

Third, I think Facebook should get out of the hardware game. Facebook hasn’t been able to make any interesting devices, and all of their for Facebook Portal nonsense is irrelevant.

Fourth, I think it is a good idea to just merge Instagram with Facebook, essentially getting rid of Instagram as a solo app, and just making it into “FaceGram”. Short term, there will be lots of bad PR, but in the long run, I think it is intelligent decision. Millennials and zillenials love Instagram, but do not touch Facebook. Facebook is the core app, and consolidating the app lineup should reflect that.

+1 for Mark Zuckerberg. He didn’t sell out.

How to make Facebook more Zen?

Instead, I desire a totally brand new concept and category.

Nothing new in the world of photography. Here, I plan to innovate.

Arsbeta.com as the first step.

Second, WHY APP? for photographers.

WHY do you like this photo?

My friend Anton had a new iPhone 14 Pro, and some quick thoughts:

First of all, I really do not like the new dynamic island thing. The punch that hole in the center of the screen, with a little bit of the LCD screen at the top is insanely annoying.

Second, it is great that the brand new camera is so great, but don’t we already have a Ricoh GR 3X for that?

More fun to take an old random car, getting it for very little money, and customizing it in unique ways, rather than buying an already interesting brand new car.

For example, more fun to take your mom’s old Hyundai Sonata and customizing it, rather than buying a brand new car.

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Also, places of commerce tend to be more hygienic than public places. For example, places of commerce tend to be more hygienic than public places. For example, the bathrooms are always clean or at a commercial place then a public place.

Or another words, capitalism is more fun and interesting than public things.

What is the best way to approach life? Think long.

For example, just imagine like you’re going to live until you’re 120 years old. If that were the case, how would this affect your every day life behavior, your purchasing behavior, your investment behavior, etc?

For example, I am quite certain that 100 years from now, Bitcoin and cryptocurrency will be more relevant than less relevant. Certainly in the next 30 years.

When you think long enough, you filter out more signal, and cut the noise.

Long creativity

Then the thought is how do you remain creative and motivated for the long term?

I say first, allow yourself to become more of a child. To a child, the world is infinitely fascinating. Either have a kid, or spend more time around kids.

Also, build things in which the architecture will last the next 20 to 30 years. For example, will Facebook still be relevant 20 to 30 years from now? Maybe not. Also, I am still bearish on virtual reality, even 30 years from now, I think people prefer using their smartphones instead of putting on a bulky virtual reality headset on. Virtual reality will always be for the niche nerds, not the main populace.

I think 30 years from now, we will still be using smartphones and iPhones. Also, laptops will still probably be a thing.

We will still love photography

I predict 30 years from now on, we will still love photography. Even 100 or 300 years from now. Why? Photography is the most immediate and artistic way of capturing things. Video and photography are similar but different, people will still love to make still photos.

Even into the future, most people will prefer shooting photos because it is easier. Even now that there are all these automated forms of creating a video, cinema and doing film is still a niche thing, which requires too much cumbersome training. Instead, the future will be more about bloggers, people who just document every day lives on professionally, and making it more immediate and personal.

Why does it matter?

I think superficially, people choose happiness. I know when I am working out, exploring the world, making photos, playing with Seneca, etc., I am very happy. It doesn’t hurt to be happy.

Then secondly the more existential thing; I think all humans desire or sick some sort of future legacy or thing that will last. What will last? Either your kids or your artwork, ideally both.

For example, I consider the rapper Future very successful, why? He has remained so prolific and has had great longevity up until now.

Therefore, rather than thinking about success as money or fame or some other metric, think of success as in decades. If you have stayed in the game for over a decade, two decades, or three decades, consider yourself successful. Dr. Dre is very successful in music, as he has been producing music for over 30 years.

Even other rappers like 2 Chainz, Snoop Dogg, even a little bit of 50 Cent, are successful, because they are still making music up until now. Even the Bay Area rapper E-40.

Therefore as a simple thought, do not chase success, instead, chase longevity.

A thought, in order to have a more fun and enjoyable life, allow yourself to become more of an animal.

Specifically, a predator, a beast. Like a grizzly bear, a savage wolf, a bloodthirsty eagle, etc.

This means, become more carnivorous. If you were a real predator, animal and beast, would you be eating kale and quinoa? No. More organ meat, beef liver, heart, ribs, etc.

Also, to become more of an animal, this means being more loud, rambunctious, and irrespective of social traditions and norms. Walking around more in public without your shirt on, as long as you’re not breaking the law.

Issues with torsion slippage.

Both are great

Then, the ideal is not a certain state, but ever greater

Differo— dis + fero. Apart, carry, bear.

Become more “apart”. To carry other things?

Philosophically, become more foreign, strange and different from others. More apart.

For example, in the realm of cars, all of the differences are very superficial. The only real way to be different with cars, is just not owning a car.

Also with clothes, all clothes are far more similar than dissimilar. The only real way to make a huge difference in the realm of clothing is just opting not to wear clothing, for example, not wearing a shirt in public.

Also with technology, how different is it really?

Then my suggestion is this: strive to make really critical and core differences and changes, rather than the superficial.

Communis— munus. To change, to swap. To exchange.

A place of commerce, like the marketplace, or even the mall is a place of “community”, as there is an exchange of goods and money.

To change, to swap.

This is why I do not like going to the park, it is boring, because it is not natural. A park is a planned, top down concept, which lacks a real soul or meaning.

This is where money is good, as it is a real social tool of exchange. Money allows us to more easily swap, and exchange things.

The calm before the storm

The more you walk, the more you will shoot.

Even if you were a quadrillionaire, the best life would probably revolve around being able to be outdoors as much as humanly possible, and walk as much as humanly possible

Mentors?

You cannot use more than one device at Once.

Also, you cannot drive more than one car at once.

How to shoot the suburbs

Why I have zero doubts in my parenting

Sublime Bliss

The look on Seneca‘s face when he is playing something so so fun.

Moon Rocks

How does composition matter or not matter?

Good enough composition

The funny thing is in bodybuilding, currently the ethos is high repetitions until failure, to encourage muscle hypertrophy. However, it is boring and hateful.

Instead, lately I’ve just been doing more very very heavy one rep max attempts for squat and rack pulls, and my back and my biceps are getting insane. Also my traps are out of control.

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