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Photo essay / Nov 13, 2022

How paying rent is intelligent

Honestly, the biggest problem about living in a place is issues with maintenance; stuff breaking, toilet breaking, getting clogged, hot water boiler needing fixing, etc. Paying rent is intelligent because you can outsource the …

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Photo essay / Nov 13, 2022

What Is the Best Camera for Bodybuilding?

RICOH GR IIIX or RICOH GR III. Shoot it in high contrast black and white monochrome mode, and also use videos in extra contrast high black and white. Why? You could see more muscle …

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Photo essay / Nov 13, 2022

Visual Thinker

I am a visual thinker — when I need to think, and I diagram it visually, I can think better.

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Photo essay / Nov 13, 2022

How Samsung can become cool

We all know that Apple, Apple devices are the best. Yet when it comes to competitors like Samsung, how can Samsung become cool and sexy? My first thought is this; optimize and prioritize Samsung …

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Photo essay / Nov 13, 2022

Beautiful Eyes

I beautiful eyes; perhaps one of the most important things in your mate? Why? When you have kids, you’re going to be looking at their eyes a lot. And Seneca, I find one of …

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Photo essay / Nov 13, 2022

HARDER.

Since Vietnam in 2017, the peak of my powers, have I gotten harder, or softer? I think I have gone softer. 2022 and beyond, time to go four-fold harder.

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Photo essay / Nov 12, 2022

How to become more interesting

First of all, speak your mind. No political correctness and no notions of what is proper. Second, get into hypelifting. The louder you get the more interesting you are. Third, ironically enough you become …

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Photo essay / Nov 12, 2022

ON LIVING WITH OTHERS

VID Better to live with others. AUDIO PODCAST Living with others is more ‘drama’, but superior! EK

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Photo essay / Nov 12, 2022

How to Build Your Own Self Brand

Think long. Podcast EK BECOME A PHOTOGRAPHY ENTREPRENEUR Advice I would have given myself in photography, if I started all over again: Until You Own Yourself You Can’t Be Free De-lamify the future. Photography …

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Photo essay / Nov 12, 2022

iPhone Air

My concept for iPhone Air; make it thinner than iPhone mini and even thinner than iPhone SE. Product line of wise, just get rid of the iPhone SE, and replace it with iPhone Air. …

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Photo essay / Nov 12, 2022

Impossibly thin

A design ethos; build things and streamline things to make things as thin as humanly possible. For example, I would love to one day see an iPhone Air, something that is even thinner than …

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Insanely bold Eric Kim squat hypelifting
Photo essay / Nov 12, 2022

NEWS: Insanely Bold

Yo wussup streettogs this is ERIC KIM — some thoughts for you: “We on Bezos trips to Lagos” – Kanye The first random thought on my mind when I woke up was some random …

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Selfie Eric Kim Ricoh GR iiix
Photo essay / Nov 12, 2022

How to Start a Business

In one of Nassim Taleb‘s talks at the American university in Beirut he talks about rather than “trying to change the world” maybe it is better to start a business instead. Why start a …

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Hype squat Eric Kim super saiyan
Photo essay / Nov 12, 2022

How to Start Hypelifting

I might have been the first to have coined the term or concept of hypelifting. Basically the notion is this; before you attempt a new personal record of a very very heavy weight at …

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