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For example, the new powder.design WordPress theme from Brian Gardner is only a few kilobytes kb!!

As a personal aesthetic, always optimize for insanely lightweight. Titanium, carbon fiber, the lightest thing possible.

When comparing products, don’t compare power, simply compare weight.

For example, the best iPhone is the lightest and newest one — iPhone SE, the best iPad is the lightest one, and also the best MacBook laptop is the lightest one.

For camera, the lightest camera. RICOH GR 3X.

Also, better to get the lightest thing, with less durability, like carbon fiber, than get the heavier thing, which is more durable but heavier.

DESIGN THOUGHTS

1. MORE AGGRESSIVE DESIGN
2. COMPROMISE DESIGN.
   ‘WASTEFUL’?
3. Tight vs Loose
4. Thick vs Thin
5. Why Lamborghini is No Longer Interesting to Me
6. DESIGN PHILOSOPHY IS AN ETHOS.
7. LESS SURFACE AREA.
8. ANTI IN-BETWEEN
9. CLASSIC/TIMELESS IS BORING.
10. Photographers are Designers
11. Why Perfect?
12. Beautiful but Boring
13. AGGRESSIVE DESIGN.
14. DESIGN IS KING.
15. WHY DESIGN?
16. THE RAGING BULL.
17. BARE BONES.
18. The Best Car for Thinking
19. Zen Aesthetics
20. Why Minimalism?
21. SPARTAN DESIGN.
22. Generic Design
23. An Elite Aesthetic
24. Not Hateful Design
25. New Forward Facing Design vs Retrospective and Nostalgic Design
26. Depressing Design vs Uplifting Design
27. The Best Design Towards What Ends?
28. Exciting or Boring Design?
29. On Design & Photography
30. A Designer Desires to Design and Create Things!
31. Delightful Technology and Design
32. Dynamic Aesthetics
33. Design vs Brand Prestige
34. Classic Proportions, Modern Design
35. Why Does Design Matter?
36. The Best Design
37. MUSCULAR DESIGN.
38. Camera Design
39. Watch Design

And as you get older, your money keeps getting bigger? You see the numbers increasing in your savings account indefinitely?

MONEY 101

1. Money Thoughts
   Via Negativa Wealth
2. Wealth is Mental
3. Money Moves You
4. How to Monetize My Passion
5. Just Follow the Money
6. My Money Philosophy
7. Eternal fame and glory over money
8. The Trillion Dollar Question: How to Make Money on the Internet Without Advertising?
9. Entrepreneurship that Doesn’t Involve Money-Making?
10. Money Ain’t Real
11. Making Money for Fun, Not to Get Rich
12. Why Money?

How to Become Rich

• Money for What?
• Reverse Lifestyle Creep #moneynotes
• Money isn’t Real
• Money Thoughts
• Don’t do it for the money
• What is the Practical Utility of Money?
• Why Save Money?
• Less Money, Less Problems
• 35 Money Tips To Become Wealthy
• Should I Make Money From My Photography?
• The 3 Principles of Making Money With Photography

Photography Entrepreneurship 101

I don’t really 100% understand steroids, but it seems that steroids are a healing agent. It speeds up your body’s ability to heal and rebuild itself. Therefore, you don’t just inject yourself with steroids and magically get buffer. Rather, it seems that the upside of steroids is that it allows you to frequent the gym more often, recovering quicker, heal quicker, and therefore get more gains quicker.

But the more philosophical question is this; why heal or recover quicker? For the sake of what?

My thought is that it is this line of thinking when it comes to capitalism, quick gains, quick growth, etc. However, it seems that it is actually better for your personal happiness to gain 1% every single day, for 120 years, instead of gaining 300% every day for only 10 years, and then lose all your gains. Note how depressed Ronnie Coleman must be, given the fact that he is still alive, and he is simply a shell of his former self. Having to live with that shame until he dies, maybe in the next 50 years, is hell.

There is this funny Jewish saying; the first generation earns the money, the second generation conserves it, and the third generation wastes it. Then the cycle repeats, ad infinitum.

For the most part, it seems that we humans like to see instant results. The joy of noticing a change, at a daily level.

The joy of just going to the gym is getting a creative boost, or a good bodily blood boost after frequenting the gym. For me, the joy is going to the gym and making new friends, shooting the shit, and the fun metabolic boost I get after going to the gym.

Even if I am not strong enough today to attempt a new personal record, that is OK. The joy of simply moving my body is the reward in itself!

The funny thing is that a lot of people try to do certain “cardio“ workouts, running, etc. in order to sweat, because for some reason they think that sweating causes want to lose fat. This is not the case.

It seems that the only real way to lose fat is to stop consuming any form of carbohydrates, sugars starches dairy, etc.

This means no more eating fruit, whether “natural” or not. No juice. No beer, no alcohol.

Also, no nuts. Even almonds. If you want to lose fat, stop eating almond butter. Eat beef ribs instead.

Also, only consume water, black coffee, green tea, Matcha green tea, black tea, etc. No coke zero, or any of these other nonsensical artificially sweetened “zero calorie” stuff.

No bread rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc. No beans legumes or tofu.

For example, I don’t want to get sick, or catch Covid, and risk the ability to not going to the gym for a few weeks. Or lose my strength, which prevents me from taking care of Seneca.

Therefore, a very pragmatic reason to still wear facemasks indoors.

Living with others is more drama, but also less lonely and more interesting and fun!

Currently paying $500 USD a month chilling at Cindy‘s mom‘s house. Anything more seems too expensive.

Even the thought of spending $1300 a month on a one bedroom or studio seems too expensive.

Why is rent so expensive?

Perhaps then the intelligent strategy is figuring out how to leverage things in order to not spend that much money on rent. For example, living with your parents at their house, and paying rent, or having a roommate or several roommates. Not living alone or solo.

Or, living abroad. When means in the were living in Hanoi we only spent $350 USD a month on a brand new studio apartment in Hanoi.

Think Tyler Durden from fight club; I don’t own a car.

For example, at a Pac-Man machine, the high score is a meaningless, arbitrary number. Nobody cares for the high score. Rather as a player, you’re just interested in seeing how far you could go.

The more important metric is the credits, or the number of lives you got.

Pro Tesla, anti Porsche. Even my pediatrician just sold his Porsche 911 and bought a Tesla S Plaid instead in black. White interior.

In the long run, the new shall win.

For example, all of these new millennial arcades and shopping centers with vintage and retro video games. Why not invest in the new?

Everyone loves the classic streetfighter, but why not just buy the brand newest streetfighter machine instead?

Even the ancient Greeks lined the interior of their armor with lamb wool.

The upside of taking your kid to the park, or other places where they could exercise their physical faculties.

And deal with the consequences later.

We must become the new creative barbarians!

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The Art of Creativity

Re-discover your inner-child like PICASSO:

1. The Art of Featured Photos
2. Remix Your Photos
3. In Praise of Creativity
4. EXTREME PRIDE.
5. How to Conquer Creative Stagnation
6. CREATIVE UPCYCLING
7. Fewer Choices, More Creativity
8. CREATIVE DARING
9. CREATIVITY over PRODUCTIVITY
10. HOW TO BECOME A MORE CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHER
11. The Simplest Creative Workflow
12. The Artistic Impulse
13. The Photographer as Painter
14. Home Photography Assignments
15. Creative Optionality
16. All Photos are Creative Photos
17. In Photography Even the Smallest Thing Can be a Leitmotif
18. 5 Creative Photography Motivation Ideas
19. Creative Cross-Pollination
20. In Praise of Creative Repetition
21. The Joy of Glitching Your Photos
22. How to Master Creativity
23. Creative Work and Physiology
24. Enough is Never Enough.
25. Become More Uninhibited
26. Utilitarianism is the Enemy of Creativity
27. CONQUER CREATIVITY
28. ERIC KIM Thoughts on Creativity
29. What Do You *Really* Want in Life?
30. Creative Iteration
31. In Photography, Even the Smallest Thing Can Be a Leitmotif
32. The Art of Creativity
33. Why Constrain Yourself in Only Color or Black and White?
34. In Praise of Collaging Your Photos
35. The Purpose is to Create
36. Photographing With No Filter in Small JPEG
37. The Impetus to Create
38. On Focusing on Your Own Self Development
39. WHY COME UP WITH NEW IDEAS?
40. Visual Stochastic Resonance
41. Future Creativity
42. Eternal Re-Creation
43. How I Come Up With My Ideas (Ideation 101)
44. How to Be Creative During Quarantine
45. Constraints are Creative
46. HOW TO BE MORE CREATIVE DURING COVID
47. It is All Connected.
48. What is Interesting to You is Very Likely to Be Interesting to Others
49. Happiness as a Means to Creative Productivity
50. How I Remix My Photos in iPad and ProCreate
51. Creative Productivity
52. In Praise of Repetition
53. The Eternal Creative Loop
54. CREATE!
55. The Goal is Spontaneous Creative Activity
56. Ignore Your Haters.
57. You’re on a Winning Streak
58. Ultralight Photography
59. How to see.
60. CREATORS SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH.
61. How to Ignore Your Inner-Critic
62. How to Unlock Your Inner-Genius
63. Success is Your Only Option
64. How to Make Your Photos More Artistic
65. Creative Lessons Rick Rubin Can Teach You About Photography
66. Why I Love Shooting With an LCD Screen
67. How to Shoot Abstract Photography
68. How to Be More Spontaneous in Your Photography and Life
69. How to Re-Invent Yourself in Photography
70. How to Photograph Like a Child
71. How to Be a More Imaginative Photographer
72. Provoke
73. Never Rust
74. Limit Your Palette
75. Follow Your Intuition
76. Have Creative Confidence in Yourself
77. How To Find Your Unique Voice in Photography
78. Beginner’s Mind
79. There is No Wrong Way to Shoot Street Photography
80. You Can’t Control the Results, Only Effort
81. On Capturing Beauty in the Mundane
82. On Searching For the Maximum
83. The Beauty of “Creative Constraints”
84. How to Stay Curious
85. Enjoy the Process

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A thought–

Perhaps grip strength is the most important factor?

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1. 565 POUNDS ONE REP MAX ERIC KIM HEAVY RACK PULLS
2. CREATIVE BARBARIAN
3. HOW TO REAP THE UPSIDES OF SUBURBAN LIVING
4. SENECA MAKES IPAD GARAGE BAND BEATS
5. ERIC KIM HEAVY RACK PULLS

Lots of espresso in the morning, and green tea, Matcha and or bagged. Very bright lights. Reviewing your photos on your iPad, standing.

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Get rid of the bloat!

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We even got an Apple store now!

#streetgods x #streettogs

Use chalk. Good grip strength testing and strengthening.

How I Hype myself up.

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Getting rid of the old guard at Twitter is a very intelligent idea. Can be a good strategy towards long-term profitability. Also, I have deep admiration for any person who has balls.

Also lots of water throughout the day.

For example, trying to figure out the optimal way to clean the floors. Rather than just buying a new Dyson, better to just have two wet wipes, get on your knees and just wipe the floor.

Don’t do anything not urgent. It can wait.

Because — I am insanely important and don’t have time for it!

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Don’t give a fuck about what is proper or not:

Become the creative barbarian:

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GO ‘WOO!’ like Ric Flair:

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How to go super saiyan:

SUPER SAIYAN BABY!

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Refresh this blog every day, several times a day.

Should you do things for others, or share things with others, even if they don’t appreciate it?

I say if people don’t respond, or show gratitude, or don’t seem to care, don’t share it with them.

The naïveté of thinking that all grams of protein are equal. If you eat beef ribs, the quality and the testosterone content of it is far superior than eating proteins in white chicken breast.

For example, 100 g of protein in beef ribs is 1 trillion times superior to 100 g of protein in chicken breast, and one zillion times superior to any plant protein.

The sign of mental and philosophical advancement and upwards evolution.

Go to the gym every day, get meat at the Costco business Center, drink espresso, don’t stay at home, island hopping.