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Try *NOT* to be indexable?
For fun, and just see what Google does and how it goes haywire and gets confused?
EVERYDAY IS DAY ONE
One of the good and optimistic zen thoughts from Silicon Valley.
What does it mean to create new value?
My critique with Facebook is that it looks like they are not creating any new value. They are just trying to figure out more ways to stuff more advertisements in-between the content created by …
Laptops are bad, they cause carpal tunnel.
Perhaps moving forward, I don’t imagine myself ever buying another new laptop. Either a desktop, or just a new iPad Pro.
ERIC KIM SUPER SAIYAN HYPELIFTING RACK PULL 585 POUNDS 6 PLATES
RACK PULL Vid FULL: VID YOUTUBE CHEATING IS GOOD! EK YOUTUBE
Why warm up?
The upside of warming up is that if you warm up, you can lift more.
SHORT META / FACEBOOK
It looks like Facebook, meta-/Instagram is on the way out. Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t look so well, he looks very ill.
KNEELING DESK
We all know about the ‘standing desk’– why not a *kneeling* desk, in which you are just on your (bare) knees, without that silly ‘kneeling’ chair?
SOLO MEDIA EMPIRE
How to build a solo media empire; conquer yourself. VID PODCAST https://anchor.fm/erickim/episodes/SOLO-MEDIA-EMPIRE-e1qgpe8 YOUTUBE AUDIO
LAPTOP IS FASTER.
I love the iPad to death, but the laptop is just waaaay faster.
TESLA MODEL X PLAID
TESLA MODEL X PLAID IN RED; LAMBORGHINI KILLER! Or in other words– Lamborghini is for LOOOOOSERS! I loved being in the middle aisle, leaning out of the car, going ‘stupid dumb and hyphy’! EK …
BE IRRATIONALLY PRIDEFUL IN YOUR OWN ‘INFERIOR’ CITY
Create your own Athens! AUDIO PODCAST VID AUDIO EK YouTube
I am such a hater and generally a mean or bad or insanely judgemental person
Read essay →Maximum sun exposure during the winter time
If you live somewhere in a very cold climate, or with not a lot of sun, I would say shell out extra bucks and live in a high-rise apartment that has floor to glass …
Milked Out
Everyone gets the black on black murdered out aesthetic. Why not the opposite, white on white? Milked out?
Don’t get the Plaid
My confusion with the Tesla model S plaid The whole time I thought that the car could accelerate from 0 to 60 in 1.99 seconds, just just by stepping on the gas. It doesn’t …
Leica is for Losers!
Leica — Leitz Camera. Loser Camera. Loser-ca
Make the arcade games free!
A very good idea for these hipster millennial complexes; make the arcade games free! This will drive lots of people traffic, and they will end up visiting your location more frequently, and then also …
Have pride in your own city, although it may be inferior.
Maybe it is a good idea to be stone headed, and irrationally prideful in your own city, Even if it indeed is inferior.
Louis Vuitton sucks.
Better to rock stone island instead. Loser Vuitton haha
MEDIA IS KING
Everyone watches media, even the nerds. Media: video, film, cinema, blog, vlog, podcast, “showsâ€, “seriesâ€, photos, slideshows, beats, music, poetry, sports, etc. Perhaps instead of trying to build a billion dollar technology startup or …
Don’t intellectualize it so much; just follow your gut, intuition and instinct.
Read essay →I LOVE THE TESLA MODEL X!
So does Seneca! Great how he could just play BLACKPINK in the middle aisle row screen. Model X is the one! Also seating for 6 or 7!!
Open world exploration
I think this is the best way to let your kids loose, especially when they can walk.
Silver is more honest?
Everyone loves to get the space gray on all their Apple devices. However, it seems that silver is actually more honest. More true to the actual materials, rather than the natural space gray. If …
I wish I could gift everyone an iPad!
In praise of the new iPad.
How to Become a Philosopher
Every kid is born a philosopher, because they like to question things. Every child is born curious, and I think the saddest thing is when their curiosity is not enabled. That they are forced …
Chutzpah
My favorite Yiddish word — chutzpah. To be “insolent†or “audacityâ€. In modern-day English, “to have ballsâ€. A thought: Jewish people are American. Much of American culture is the ride from Jewish and Yiddish …
Books are overrated
I’ve been stopping by Barnes & Noble more frequently with Seneca in order to play and just kill time, or be shielded from the elements. However, after looking at all these books in Barnes …
BONE MARROW
Bone marrow is worth its weight in gold! Also as a pro tip, wrap up some Korean seaweed, the crispy stuff, and make a pseudo sushi dish out of it!
KID PRODUCTIVITY
If you only had two hours a day to spare, or even just one hour a day to spare, what would you do with your time? For me, I spend about an hour at …
It is not multitasking which we seek, rather, simply to allow background tasks to continue while we want to do the thing desired.
For example, while I am uploading photos to my WordPress blog media library, I also want to voice dictate out some thoughts on iA Writer, like I am doing now. This is one of …
Potentiality is what interests me.
Reaching your own potential, and also going beyond your potential. Also, helping unlock the potential in others.
First, focus on your own creative thriving. Then after, focus on helping others.
Read essay →INSANELY LIGHTWEIGHT
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 …
Is it possible to live a life in which you never spend any money?
And as you get older, your money keeps getting bigger? You see the numbers increasing in your savings account indefinitely? MONEY 101 How to Become Rich Money for What? Reverse Lifestyle Creep #moneynotes Money …
Why do you want to recover “faster“?
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 …
Sweating won’t cause you to lose fat
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. …