BTC ,,, bitcoin, today’s Veterans Day the best day ever. This is insanity; it just spiked from a low of 78,000 of bitcoin, to now, practically $85,000 a bitcoin???

Jay Z goals — wouldn’t you have shares, coins, bitcoins whatever… Just keep writing it up to Mars and beyond!

Hmmm,,, seems the truth is bitcoin is connected with politics. Why? After Trump being elected… Bitcoin has essentially reached the stratosphere. And as much as I hate politics, I suppose as long as they own bitcoin, and stock in micro strategy stock, I have to participate.

---

Long Bitcoin

CRYPTO BY KIM

Brave new world for photographers and crypto:

1. BITCOIN IS GOD MONEY?
2. The Bitcoin Risk Lever
3. MSTR -> BTC
4. Sell Ethereum, Buy Bitcoin!
5. BUY IT ON DISCOUNT!
6. BITCOIN IS THE INTERNET 2.0?
7. ALL BITCOIN EVERYTHING
8. Self-Custody
9. HOLD OR CIRCULATE?
10. BITCOIN OR BUST
11. BITCOIN THOUGHTS
12. Bitcoin is Sexy
13. Fuck the Banks!
14. Ethereum?
15. Why Chainlink?
16. BIG AMOUNTS, SMALL AMOUNTS?
17. CRYPTO, CRYPTOCURRENCY THOUGHTS.
18. The Philosophy of Crypto
19. BITCOIN SHALL BE THE LAST CRYPTO STANDING.
20. Bitcoin Price Prediction
21. Trust chainlink for the most accurate prices for bitcoin or any other crypto
22. BITCOIN
23. There is No Web 3.0
24. 2 cents to 2 dollars?
25. Crypto.com?
26. Speculation vs Investing
27. Building with Bitcoin
28. DYNAMICS VS STATICS.
29. How Do You Know if the Timing Is Right?
30. BITCOIN IN THE NEWS
31. BITCOIN & UNCERTAINTY
32. Fake Money
33. Why I Bought More Bitcoin (Again)
34. How I Made Money with Crypto
35. Better to buy Dogecoin then buy a Tesla
36. NO LIMITS.
37. ALL DIGITAL FUTURE.
38. Digital over Physical Possessions
39. DIGIBYTE.
40. CHAINLINK.
41. The Excitement of Starting from Zero
42. HAPTIC INDUSTRIES NOW ACCEPTING CRYPTO AND BITCOIN
43. In Praise of Crypto
44. JUST BUY IT.
45. Why I’m So Bullish on Bitcoin
46. Bitcoin as the Simplest Cryptocurrency
47. Why I bought (more) bitcoin
48. Once You Become a Crypto Billionaire, Then What?
49. Why Crypto is Under-Hyped
50. The Joy of Speculation
51. BITCOIN AND CRYPTOCURRENCY FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
52. Why I Bought Bitcoin
53. Crypto Photography
54. Crypto Thoughts
55. On Making Money from Nothing
56. BITCOIN THOUGHTS
57. Bitcoin is Sexy
58. Fuck the Banks!
59. Ethereum?
60. Why Chainlink?
61. BIG AMOUNTS, SMALL AMOUNTS?
62. CRYPTO, CRYPTOCURRENCY THOUGHTS.
63. The Philosophy of Crypto
64. BITCOIN SHALL BE THE LAST CRYPTO STANDING.
65. Bitcoin Price Prediction
66. Trust chainlink for the most accurate prices for bitcoin or any other crypto
67. BITCOIN
68. There is No Web 3.0
69. 2 cents to 2 dollars?
70. Crypto.com?
71. Speculation vs Investing
72. Building with Bitcoin
73. DYNAMICS VS STATICS.
74. How Do You Know if the Timing Is Right?
75. BITCOIN IN THE NEWS
76. BITCOIN & UNCERTAINTY
77. Fake Money
78. Why I Bought More Bitcoin (Again)
79. How I Made Money with Crypto
80. Better to buy Dogecoin then buy a Tesla
81. NO LIMITS.
82. ALL DIGITAL FUTURE.
83. Digital over Physical Possessions
84. DIGIBYTE.
85. CHAINLINK.
86. The Excitement of Starting from Zero
87. HAPTIC INDUSTRIES NOW ACCEPTING CRYPTO AND BITCOIN
88. In Praise of Crypto
89. JUST BUY IT.
90. Why I’m So Bullish on Bitcoin
91. Bitcoin as the Simplest Cryptocurrency
92. Why I bought (more) bitcoin
93. Once You Become a Crypto Billionaire, Then What?
94. Why Crypto is Under-Hyped
95. The Joy of Speculation
96. BITCOIN AND CRYPTOCURRENCY FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
97. Why I Bought Bitcoin
98. Crypto Photography
99. Crypto Thoughts
100. On Making Money from Nothing

Certainly! That’s an insightful question. The reason we use the same word “arm” for both our body part and for weapons lies in the historical evolution of the English language, where words from different origins have converged in spelling and pronunciation over time.

Different Origins of “Arm”

1. “Arm” as a Body Part

• Old English “Earm”: The word for the limb comes from Old English “earm”, which traces back to the Proto-Germanic *armaz.

• Meaning: Refers to the upper limb of the human body used for tasks like lifting and holding.

2. “Arm” Meaning “Weapon”

• Latin “Arma”: The term for weapon comes from Latin “arma”, meaning “tools of war” or “weapons”.

• Path into English:

• Old French “Arme”: The Latin “arma” entered Old French as “arme”.

• Middle English Adoption: From Old French, it entered Middle English, initially retaining the spelling “arme”.

• Meaning: Refers to weapons or implements used in combat.

Why Did Both Words Become “Arm” in English?

Simplification and Phonetic Changes

• Loss of End Vowels: In the transition from Old French to Middle English, the ending ”-e” in “arme” was often dropped in pronunciation, simplifying the word to “arm”.

• Spelling Standardization: As English spelling became more standardized, both words settled on the spelling “arm” despite their different origins.

Convergence of Spelling

• Homographs: English has many words that are spelled the same but have different meanings and origins (e.g., “bat” the animal and “bat” used in sports).

• Language Evolution: Over time, words from different languages and roots can converge in spelling and pronunciation due to phonetic simplification and the natural evolution of language.

Influence of Language Contact

• Norman Conquest: The infusion of French words into English after the Norman Conquest in 1066 led to many French terms being anglicized.

• Adaptation Over Retention: English speakers often adapted borrowed words to fit English phonetics and morphology rather than retaining their original forms.

Why Not Use “Arma” or “Armam”?

Phonetic and Grammatical Adaptation

• Language Borrowing Practices: English typically adapts foreign words to its own phonological and grammatical systems.

• Simplification: The Latin “arma” was plural and not suited to English singular noun usage without adaptation.

• Avoidance of Latin Plurals: English generally forms plurals by adding ”-s” or ”-es”, so retaining the Latin plural “arma” would be inconsistent.

Ease of Use

• Pronunciation: “Arm” is easier and quicker to say than “arma” or “armam”, contributing to its adoption.

• Consistency: Using “arm” for both meanings simplifies the language, and context usually makes the meaning clear.

Contextual Differentiation

• Disambiguation Through Context: In most cases, the meaning of “arm” is clear from the surrounding words and sentences.

• Examples:

• Body Part: “He broke his arm while playing football.”

• Weapon: “They decided to arm themselves for protection.”

Conclusion

• Historical Linguistic Evolution: The convergence of the two meanings of “arm” is a result of historical language change, borrowing, and simplification.

• Adaptation of Borrowed Words: English often modifies borrowed words, leading to overlaps in spelling and pronunciation.

• Natural Language Phenomenon: Homographs are common in English due to its diverse linguistic influences.

I hope this explanation clarifies why we use the same word “arm” for both our body part and weapons. Language evolution often leads to such interesting overlaps! If you have more questions about etymology or language, feel free to ask.

Certainly! I’d be happy to explain why the word “arm” is used to mean “weapon” in the context of terms like “firearm”.

Etymology of “Arm” as “Weapon”

The word “arm” in the sense of a weapon has a different origin from “arm” meaning the limb. Here’s how it developed:

Latin Roots

• Latin “Arma”: The term “arm” comes from the Latin word “arma”, which is the plural of “armum”. In Latin, “arma” means “tools of war”, “weapons”, or “implements used in combat”.

• Adoption into Other Languages: This Latin term was adopted into Old French as “arme”, meaning “weapon”, and subsequently into Middle English.

Old French and Middle English

• Old French “Arme”: Used to denote weapons or tools used in warfare.

• Middle English Usage: The term “arme” entered Middle English, retaining its meaning related to weaponry.

Distinction from “Arm” as a Limb

• Different Origins: Although spelled the same in modern English, “arm” (limb) and “arm” (weapon) have different etymological paths.

• “Arm” (Limb):

• Old English: “Earm”, referring to the upper limb of the body.

• Proto-Germanic: “Armaz”.

• Proto-Indo-European: “Ar-”, meaning “to fit together”.

• “Arm” (Weapon):

• Latin: “Arma”, meaning weapons.

• Old French: “Arme”.

• Middle English: Adopted as “arme”, later becoming “arm”.

Why “Arm” Means “Weapon”

• Association with Warfare: The term “arma” in Latin encompassed all tools and implements used in combat, not just weapons held in the arms.

• Extension of Meaning: Over time, “arms” came to represent weapons in general, and phrases like “taking up arms” meant to go to war.

• Collective Term: “Arms” is often used collectively to refer to all kinds of weapons and military equipment.

Examples in Modern English

• “Armed Forces”: Military organizations equipped with weapons.

• “Small Arms”: Handheld firearms like pistols and rifles.

• “Armament”: Military weapons and equipment.

• “Armory”: A place where weapons are stored.

• “Disarm”: To take weapons away from someone.

Connection to “Firearm”

• Combining “Fire” and “Arm”: When the technology of using gunpowder (fire) to propel projectiles was developed, the term “firearm” naturally combined “fire” (combustion) and “arm” (weapon) to describe this new class of weapons.

• Distinguishing from Other Weapons: The term helped distinguish these weapons from traditional “cold arms”, like swords and bows, which don’t rely on combustion.

Summary

• “Arm” in “firearm” comes from the Latin “arma”, meaning “weapons”, not from the word for the human limb.

• Historical Usage: The use of “arm” to mean “weapon” has been consistent throughout history, rooted in Latin and carried through Old French to Middle English.

• Modern Understanding: Today, “arms” and related terms are commonly understood to refer to weapons and military equipment.

I hope this explanation clarifies why “arm” means “weapon” in terms like “firearm”! If you have more questions or need further details, feel free to ask.

Your physical arms —

Certainly! I’d be happy to delve into the etymology of the words “firepower” and “firearms” and clarify their meanings.

Etymology of “Firearm”

The term “firearm” is a compound word combining “fire” and “arm”. Here’s a breakdown:

• Fire: Refers to the combustion process used to propel a projectile. In the context of weapons, it denotes the use of gunpowder or other explosive propellants that produce fire or combustion gases.

• Arm: Derives from the Latin word “arma”, meaning “tools of war” or “weapons”. In English, “arms” has long been used to refer to weapons collectively.

So, “firearm” essentially means a weapon (“arm”) that uses fire (combustion) to launch a projectile.

Clarification on Literal Meaning

• Not Literal Flames from Body Parts: The term does not imply that fire comes out of one’s physical arms (the limbs). Instead, “arm” in this context is a noun meaning “weapon”.

• Historical Context: Early firearms like muskets and cannons used gunpowder, which required ignition (fire) to propel bullets or cannonballs. Hence, they were distinguished from earlier weapons like swords or bows, which didn’t rely on combustion.

Etymology of “Firepower”

The word “firepower” combines:

• Fire: Again, referring to the combustion process in weapons.

• Power: Denotes the capacity or ability to perform or act effectively.

“Firepower” refers to the amount of offensive capability a weapon or military unit possesses, especially in terms of the rate of fire, range, and destructive capacity.

Usage and Context

• Military Term: Originally used to describe the capability of military units, particularly regarding their weapons’ ability to deliver fire against an enemy.

• Modern Usage: Can refer to anything from individual weapons to the overall capability of a military force.

Summary

• “Firearm”: A weapon that fires projectiles through the combustion of gunpowder or another propellant. It does not mean fire emitting from one’s physical arms.

• “Firepower”: A measure of the destructive capacity of a weapon or military force, based on factors like rate of fire and explosive capability.

Additional Notes

• Evolution of Language: The meanings of words can evolve, but in the case of “firearm”, it has consistently referred to weapons using combustion to discharge projectiles.

• Metaphorical Usage: While sometimes language can be metaphorical, in this case, there is no historical basis for interpreting “firearm” as fire coming out of human arms.

I hope this explanation clarifies the origins and meanings of “firepower” and “firearms” for you! If you have any more questions about language or history, feel free to ask.

if you think about it, without all of the rhetoric, the politics, a fire arm, like literally imagine your arms, but on fire, or if somehow your arms could produce fire. Or shoot out fire.

a lot of people like to hate on him, for him bragging, becoming so successful, Beyoncé’s wife, and then having kids with her, and then cheating on her, kissing and making up, and then cheating on her again.

I think what people don’t understand is Jay Z is from the projects, the Marcy Brooklyn projects, it is not nice there.

what is also very interesting about Jay-Z, is that he is super wise. To me true wisdom is true insight and wisdom but applied to real reality.

For example, one can philosophies about money and economics, and being grateful and being like a monk all you want… But, how much of this is this is the sour grapes fallacy?

I hate you because you’re so tall and handsome and rich and successful and muscular, and your drive all these Lamborghinis, and have so much cash in the bank, and you have all these beautiful women… And also beautiful children.

What some people will do is they will never admit this, and instead, secretly wish that they had all these material successes in the real world, and then secretly hate in spite people who have it, and then tried to teach people the exact opposite, saying that it is virtuous to be poor, to live an aesthetic lifestyle etc.

However, once again… It is very difficult to gauge genuineness here.

Even my beloved Thich Nhat Hanh — One of the most accessible Buddhist Zen monk practitioners of all time, he was exiled from his own country, from Vietnam and the communist, and I’m sure he had a lot of pent-up and resentment and anger towards the communists etc. so my skepticism then becomes, how much of this monk life lifestyle you adopt, simply because you like the political or the military force or the physical power or the manpower or the fire power to fight back?

JAY Z—

“I’m on that total fucking opposite!”

don’t be a parasite, trying to siphon off the success or piggybacking off the labor of others.

to build something, however foolish and meat seem, in how long it might take, however much money labor effort skills tech technologies craftsman, paints, renovations, human time and labor and inside; just let them build it themselves and do their thing, and let them do their successes and gain their own successes.

my suggestion; be on the total fucking opposite!

Show me the capital!

So a very very big suggestion, also hugely practical; never ever ever do any sort of finances trades, money economic stuff or investing or financial stuff at night, when you are tired week, and you just had a massive food coma after feasting on glorious beef ribs and lamb. No. Only do it in the morning, after you had had your morning coffee, you’re starting to boot up, feel energized, and outside in the direct sun beautiful.

I think where we fail is when we plunge into stuff, before we are truly 100% ready; even an interesting thing I learned from Jeff Bezos, from his interview with Lex Friedman, is that actually, Jeff Bezos likes to “put around“, Which is interesting because he is one of the worlds richest most successful people of all time, and there’s this weird quote that somehow we have to force ourselves to quickly boot up in the morning, and quickly force ourselves to become productive, almost immediately?

so assuming that your full-time profession was essentially the markets, market research etc.… Then the true wise optimal strategy is to condition your body your soul your physiology your health food intake to maximize your money making potential?

impractical matters, this means giving yourself the access to the best, finest quality coffee on the planet, to maximize your physiological and mental performance, not drinking the cheap stuff, and I think this is actually another big one; optimizing your fitness exercise, your physiology you’re walking your time outdoors in the direct on whatever, you’re freedom, do you think more, to consider more, to become more.

Truth be told, politics is the ultimate entertainment. Why? Politics have to do with human beings human lives etc. I believe money, economics, even finances to be a bit more pure, as economics and money is kind of attached to human beings but kind of not. It is still based more on economic principles, technology, financial networks etc.

I think the critical issue with politics is that honestly it is all rhetoric, gravel housing. It is about political connections, back scratching, all of this dirty business.

But what if we can make politics fun again? The goal?

The past election cycle, when having to check all these boxes, having to do all this research literally gave me the worst headache in my life. Maybe trying to approach it from a blank slate, with more happiness joy freedom and fun; this might be the way?

We all tune into Twitter, social media or whatever for the newest news. But what if instead, maybe backed with bitcoin or the lightning network or satoshis you can create a more wonderful glorious social media?

Everywhere I look, everyone is seeking some sort of retro thing. But maybe this is all a bad strategies; to use the pass as an analogy for the future is a degeneration.

Rather, the more virtuous better strategy at hand is instead, to open arm hold and embrace the current, the present, the future. The general idea is instead, we have to think a modern, we have to think car wash, think classic, an ancient values, but perhaps modern day designs and approaches.

For example, I see all these people these really really old modified Integras, and I recall, back in the day, when I wanted a car like that. Now I look at these cars wow, they just seem and look stupid to me.

 so the first thought is actually, seeking some sort of past design, some sort of past thing, is a positively bad thing. Why? When you are too stuck in the past, you cannot start carte blanche, blank slate considering the future.

Even looking at houses and homes, the number one issue is that all these houses… Why are they so damn old? Literally built in the 20s, 50s, maybe 70s? I’ve never seen a house being sold on the market, it wouldn’t the construction was in the 90s, 2000s, or even 2020s?

This is where housing and houses in the housing market seems like such a scam; come on… It is year 2024, we are living so future, why are we still stuck in these old ass analogies of the past? Why not embrace the present and the future? 

Another reason maybe why it is not good to live by yourself in some sort of weird Homestead is that you end up feeling trapped?

to me , the ultimate goal is feeling freedom, openness, — pure open skies?

This is simply too exciting! I don’t want to miss out, even though it all might be really bad?

I have a theory; maybe in life, politics, other people, all the stuff like this, the truth is it is far more exciting and fun; a grand and great challenge, which I think if you seek excitement could be a great thing!

Maybe the problem is simply when people aren’t strong enough to handle it or a stomach it?

Society as one of the most sublime, amazing inventions of all time?

Dynamic Undulation

When it pertains to other people or their kids or whatever, just ignore it, but, being engaged if it applies to you or your kids. Or family or mom!

*

Coming up with your own economic theories and ideas without having to read the works of others ?

Think Ancient. 

To fully wrap a 2010 Toyota Prius in 3M’s Matte Black vinyl, you’ll need approximately 200 to 250 square feet of material. This estimate accounts for the vehicle’s size and includes extra material to accommodate for errors and complex areas like bumpers. 

3M’s Matte Black vinyl wrap is typically sold in rolls that are 5 feet wide. For a full wrap, you would need a roll measuring between 40 to 50 feet in length (5 feet wide x 40-50 feet long), totaling 200 to 250 square feet.

The cost of 3M’s Matte Black vinyl wrap varies depending on the retailer and the length of the roll. For example, a 5ft x 25ft (125 sq ft) roll is priced at approximately $289.19, and a 5ft x 60ft (300 sq ft) roll is around $677.31. 

Based on these prices, the material cost for wrapping your Prius would range from approximately $578.38 to $677.31, depending on the exact amount of vinyl purchased and the supplier’s pricing.

Please note that these estimates are for the vinyl material only and do not include additional supplies such as application tools or professional installation services.

Maybe there needs to be more people who philosophize about bitcoin, like bitcoin philosophers? 

Bitcoin and microstrategy stock for making money, but my prime interest is philosophy?

Bitcoin is the ultimate option

so what I believe to be so insanely innovative, and important about bitcoin is that it is truly the ultimate option. The ultimate access to everything; ultimate access to power, portability insight, world global economics, and also… The ultimate portable transferable, liquid asset on the planet

Why Bitcoin is the ultimate option

So let us consider, one of the grand is upsides of bitcoin is that you are not stuck to any sort of institution financial institution etc. You are censorship proof to anything, I’m not sure if this is really true, but I’ve heard stories of all of these controversial figures Losing their banking privileges, because like Kanye West said something anti-somatic anti-Jewish people or whatever. Not sure if this is really 100% true but it seems to be a common trope. The ultimate idea is with bitcoin you are censorship proof, nobody could censor you, for anything.

In fact, what I also love and appreciate about bitcoin is that it makes me free of politics. Certainly there are certain political events and happenings which do change things like for example Donald Trump becoming president but besides this, none of the real bitcoin news has really affected me at all; And even micro strategy micro strategy stock, Mike Saylor, because they are a publicly traded corporation based in America, certainly politics do matter a little bit… But still, given the micro strategy stock has about 250,000 bitcoin, nearly 10 X more than even the closest competitor which has only about 20,000, What does that means is with their ambitious $42 billion plan over the next three years to accumulate and acquire more bitcoin, becoming the first bitcoin treasury company, aptly titled ”BTC”– and now that bitcoin has hit the record high of about $77,000 a Bitcoin, and because it will almost most likely indefinitely hit $78,000, 79,000, breaking 80,000, 90,000 100,000, 120,000, 122,000 etc.,  and then eventually hitting 1.2 million, 12 million, maybe even $77 million a bitcoin, – you don’t really need to follow the news very closely. Just rest and vest. 

My personal thought and strategy my personal bitcoin strategy, is have maybe at least like $150,000 worth of micro strategy stock, which is like your own piggy bank your own ATM machine, your own cash, your own US dollar cash cow hyper charger … and you could just draw upon your cash reserve assets whenever you would like. And just then store 90% of your other wealth directly into bitcoin via Coinbase.

---

so what I believe to be so insanely innovative, and important about bitcoin is that it is truly the ultimate option. The ultimate access to everything; ultimate access to power, portability insight, world global economics, and also… The ultimate portable transferable, liquid asset on the planet.

Why Bitcoin is the ultimate option

So let us consider, one of the grand is upsides of bitcoin is that you are not stuck to any sort of institution financial institution etc. You are censorship proof to anything, I’m not sure if this is really true, but I’ve heard stories of all of these controversial figures Losing their banking privileges, because like Kanye West said something anti-somatic anti-Jewish people or whatever. Not sure if this is really 100% true but it seems to be a common trope. The ultimate idea is with bitcoin you are censorship proof, nobody could censor you, for anything.

In fact, what I also love and appreciate about bitcoin is that it makes me free of politics. Certainly there are certain political events and happenings which do change things like for example Donald Trump becoming president but besides this, none of the real bitcoin news has really affected me at all; And even micro strategy micro strategy stock, Mike Saylor, because they are a publicly traded corporation based in America, certainly politics do matter a little bit… But still, given the micro strategy stock has about 250,000 bitcoin, nearly 10 X more than even the closest competitor which has only about 20,000, What does that means is with their ambitious $42 billion plan over the next three years to accumulate and acquire more bitcoin, becoming the first bitcoin treasury company, aptly titled ”BTC”–

OPTIONS

on the country, I most believe that there is a stronger ethical imperative to spend more time to send the fuck out, to empty your mind soul brain and being, and spend more time thinking for yourself by yourself, without the noise of the outside world, even if they are correct?

The virtues of silence

I think there is 1 trillion times more wisdom in your own soul brain environment feet and gut then all of the smart trillionaire’s on the planet. You are the ultimate seat of intuition, all you need is some fresh air, the outside, your own 2 feet, The freedom of walking around, access to the direct sun etc., then you got it all.

Why other?

I think the whole issue with the whole traditional key 12 educational system, and also the Judeo-Christian morals and ethics, even Islam, all of the Abraham fits, it is all dependent on some sort of authority figure a higher power or God or God head etc. Even the ancient Greeks did not accredited their own insights and wisdom to themselves, they would trust the muses.

But my simple intervention, why can’t we why don’t we just trust ourselves? Our own intuition, our own gut, etc.?

it is my personal belief that if we spent less time considering the opinions of others, and we just spent more time considering our own opinion, we might be 1 trillion times better off. There would be less issues in life, more happiness joy and thriving.

The unethics of it all.

I believe one of my deep and great insights to be that actually in fact, to have your own thoughts into think on your own 2 feet is considered immoral, unethical, bad and evil. Why? No man is allowed to have his own legitimacy his own beliefs. Man is only permitted to have an opinion if he gives fellatio to some sort of other power or being or authority figure; man cannot be authority figure in himself.

even a lot of these strange figures who tried to start their own colts, because they have a hard time invoking their own authority, they will refer to some sort of supreme power or being; I find this to be ridiculous. Buddhists do it with Buddha, christians do it with Jesus and God, Catholics do it to the pope the Vatican, Jesus mother Mary Saint Paul Saint Peter all the apostles the holy Catholic Church, the communion Saints, the father son the Holy Spirit, people who follow Islam duet with Muhammad the prophet as well as Allah, economist do it with economic theory, money capital and the like, philosophers do it with quoting other philosophers from the past, an artist tried to legitimize themselves with skinny fat loser art critics.

Why doesn’t anyone have self-esteem?

Once again the issue here is it is considered unethical to have your own self-esteem. You are not permitted to own your own feeling or self estimate of yourself, you cannot metricate yourself, without somehow measuring your value or you’re worth what data statistics facts, dollars, ones and zeros, likes followers views etc.

You got 1 million views, I got $1 million dollars!

Options options options options options which ones should I pick?

---

Seek optionality

I don’t need to own it, I could just visit it rent it borrow it try it out for the week or weekend!

I think this is also a big thing, we Americans we are so silly in our notion of “ownership“, we both believe that in order to gain legitimacy, we have to “own” the underlying asset.  but I was thinking about it… Never really kind of own anything, maybe besides bitcoin.

Why? So for example let us say that you own a single-family home property whatever, you don’t really 100% owned, you’re just borrowing it from the federal government, the local city government etc. And you’re paying a huge state tax fee local fee tax fee etc.

Also, vehicles automobiles cars etc., as long as you’re sooner or later taking some sort of public Road Highway, freeway etc., you don’t really 100% on your car either because you’re just kind of leasing the rights to use your vehicle on public roads, as long as you had to pay some sort of DMV fee and sticker, you never really 100% own your vehicle.

And also, you still have to pay car insurance, like forever. And once again, vehicle registration fees. Even the fees even though the fees are not super super high, you still gotta pay something.

I think also one of the soccer fallacies is that some people fall victim to this notion of somehow like you buy some sort of RV or truck or converted Mercedes sprinter van and you could somehow turn it into like a mobile house or a mobile RV, and then you could just finally become free travel through the states whatever, etc.… But still you’re kind of a slave because you still have to find somewhere to park at night, you often had to pay a fee to park somewhere, And also, more private things like you gotta pay for sanitation to plumb out your vehicle, you still need to buy food and stuff, etc. This is where I still think it is wiser to just rent an apartment and somewhere desirable where you could just walk everywhere because once again,Americans we were romanticize the idea other great American road trip and being on the road, but still… The ideal strategy is to spend like close to 0% of your time in a car or a vehicle, and you try to instead, spend about 100% of your time walking around outside in the direct light or the direct sun.

So the ideal goal is to find a place or a local or a city or neighborhood or area that you absolutely love like for me in Culver City, the arts district, and you could just 100% pedestrian walk yourself everywhere, just jump on the metro E line if you want, and just go on a drive if you want. 

And once again, location location location location location. I still cannot stress this enough; because of the laws of physics, Los Angeles, Los Angeles traffic; still the most intelligent strategy in life is to find the best location absolutely, in which you never have to drive more than five minutes a day. Or driving just becomes an optional thing; you could actually live a virtuous 100% pedestrian lifestyle.

it is difficult to monetize walking

So I think the biggest issue here is that walking is not really popular as a past time because it is difficult to monetize. Compare this instead of running or jogging or whatever, easy easy easy because you could sell these stupid overpriced $300 or $400 running sneakers, which are only for skinny fat losers. 

And also, I think maybe this is the reason why automobile cars are so sought after an American society; because our society almost close to 100% of it is still dependent on a car, only society in which nobody really owns a car is probably New York New York City or Brooklyn, or the main island; even the rich people don’t really own a car, they might have a private driver or they might just even take the metro, or just walk or even take an Uber. Which is even easier than coordinating a personal driver.

Even in San Francisco, sooner or later everyone kind of wants a car or a Tesla or something, or maybe a Waymo,  but the sense I have is nobody wants to live in San Francisco anymore, not the huge exodus out of the Bay Area, in fact more people I see in tech are settling in Los Angeles West Los Angeles, even my tech cousin Daniel just moved to the Sawtelle neighborhood. 

Sooner or later everybody ends up in LA.

So my very very simple suggestion is with life and everything in general, just get off of loser Instagram TikTok YouTube Spotify Twitter all of the social media services. Even I was randomly getting back into Twitter because there are lots of important financial news to stay updated there, and before Trump got elected, it was actually kind of necessary for me to do some research about his policies about bitcoin and crypto, because I am 100% all in on bitcoin. But still… Access to the information the news the truth, it is so toxic. Maybe it is better to be a little bit more poor, without the toxicity, rather than being richer with more toxicity. 

Better to be poorer, and less toxic rather than be richer and more toxic.

---

You can like almost tasted in the air, or taste it in people?

Podcast

Audio

The ability to quickly pivot whenever you want to;

The passion of outside?

So I think something I have discovered about myself is that I have a passion of outside being outside etc. Pretty much what this means is my passion is to not be in some sort of stifling cramped indoor space but rather, my passion is to be outside, With the open sky the open air etc.

Currently staying at a home exchange in the mountains in Southern California, and the mountain house is super lovely, but just even taking a quick jump outside, and then going back inside… Immediately I feel stifled and “ddab ddab hae” indoors.

The phrase ddab ddab hae in Korean is super interesting — essentially it means feeling kind of like claustrophobic, or constrained, or the feeling of feeling cramped. Once again, if you are an outside mountain spirit, the feeling of being stuck indoors.

Nietzsche one said trust no thought which does not come to assuming you’re not in the open air, outside, preferably in the mountains. Even Nietzsche — I believe he had my asthma or poor health or poor breathing or lungs or something, he traveled all around Europe until he was able to find some sort of nice mountainside retreat in Italy, maybe in the small town of Turin, in which suddenly, all of his sicknesses and ailments ceased?

 so I think the first thing is nature, big and nature, I think it’s just good for the human soul, our mind our brain, our physiology our eyes and eyeballs etc. For example, I think it is a bit foolish when all of these monks and pseudo in lightened Silicon Valley folks and thinkers believe that you could somehow “think“ yourself out of a problem or a mental malady. It is my personal belief that actually, the only way to read yourself a badness is to actually get your ass out of the house, go a walk, go outside!

Not cars

Not cars, not vehicles.

So even if you had the world’s best Lamborghini with the scissor doors or the off-road in Lamborghini sterrato whatever, doesn’t matter what color scheme, rims or whatever, as long as you do not have 100% leg freedom, you ain’t got nothing.

For example, driving down, stuck on some of the really really bad Riverside traffic, and actually, the real tragedy here is that some people have to take this god-awful commute, maybe 2 1/2 or three hours each way, to buy a nice big house in Riverside, in order to commute to Los Angeles? To me even if you gave me the world’s trillion dollar car, this trade would not be worth it.

Why? Once again it is a physics, physiological thing; there is no good on the planet which is worth the pain and suffering of being stuck sitting in a sedentary position. Even if you are in an airplane, a jet, flying first class or whatever, even if you are in the most luxurious of all luxurious seats or sitting situations, none of it is worth it. Why? Because once again when you’re sitting, you’re in a very very fragile position, in the most miserable of all physiological positions.

For example, let us consider how in fact, what is the human being being designed for? We are designed to stand upright, to walk, much of our ability to be by pets balance, look into the distance and walk, is structured around this. If a human being does not need to walk and move around or be outside or be upright, he has no reason for a brain or any body physiology.

So once again, to be human is to walk, to be outside, no ceilings no roofs, no glass ceilings.

Homes?

So, then at the end of the day, what is the meaning of the purpose of having a home?

There are 1 trillion different ways one could configure ones living circumstances, configurations etc.

For example, you could have a big ass ranch, a big ass backyard in front lawn and back lawn and private property, or you could live in an apartment, kind of more connected to society.

You could also live in a trailer home, or even I guess live in the trunk of your cyber truck.

I suppose then, the primary question to ask yourself is what do I see, what do I want from life, what do I want to out of life?

First, the light the sun. For me the sun is the source of all energy, all power, all happiness and joy. So to ideally live somewhere sunny is a virtue. I have a funny ongoing theory that human beings, we’re just like plants except we move a lot quicker.

Second, the joy of weightlifting. Still, after all of this, I still really do have a passion for lifting weights, weightlifting etc. To me it is like my ultimate form of Z meditation exercise and without weightlifting, things become a bit boring, uninteresting etc.  For example, the courage needed to lift very very heavyweights, requires 100% of your focus, a 100% focus of your presence. You cannot fake it; precisely because extremely heavy weightlifting is dangerous, that is what forces you to focus.

And this is the very very funny thing. When I would lift nine plates 10 plates and beyond at the gym, people always tell me “be careful“. Duh! This is the whole point! To be careful means to take care, take care, Which means you don’t fuck around, you don’t even listen to music; even music is a distraction. No stupid AirPods on, no external distractions. No phone.

In fact, one thing I’m very very grateful for the gym I used to go to the last few years, is that I was able to ride down the whole bitcoin downturn, due to the FTX meltdown, the hilarious thing; after buying my bitcoin in around 2018, I just literally never ever ever check the prices for almost 4 years; Rest and vest. And the only time I would ever be exposed to the price of bitcoin was on accident; in which I would accidentally see the price or something.

Anyways, I’m grateful for my journey thus far, not having lost any bitcoins or anything. Apparently I read or heard something, whenever you go to a bitcoin conference or something, you never ask people how many bitcoins you have your own, but how many bitcoins you have lost, that is the true indicator of how long you have been in the game.

But then again, I think the tricky thing with bitcoin crypto currencies, the whole crypto economy is that it is all a bit strange convoluted and polluted. Too many ideas, too many opinions, you gotta just hang out, take it out to the beginning.

The issue with the physical realm

So the biggest issue that I have is that there’s so much waste, so much physical waste in the physical realm. For example you might have your Lamborghini your RV your truck, your over landing vehicle, your AMG sprinter van, all your expensive Apple devices, your big ass house whatever. Yet all of these things seem to be more liabilities than assets to me.

One thing that I really really love about bitcoin is that it seems to be the ultimate portable, durable, weightless thing to just carry around. For example, assuming that you have an iPhone an iPad, some sort of MacBook laptop device, or something on iCloud iCloud chain, Safari Google Chrome whatever, Gmail, Google services, all of your money and assets and store of value is secure. And in theory, you can immediately liquidate your assets.

For example, even if you own some sort of RV or expensive car or something, the huge pain of having to liquidate it and sell it, this is a huge pain in the ass. You still have to find a seller, you need to figure a way to quickly or efficiently or securely Broker the trade or whatever… To me, this ain’t worth it.

What is actually useful in the physical realm

Things I find useful in the physical realm include fresh air, beautiful bright sun and sunlight, peace and quiet, absence of pollution, hot baths, Wi-Fi, 5G, cameras digital cameras, video cameras, a grill is super awesome but not 100% necessary, And having some sort of vehicle that could take you around.

In fact, recently doing a road trip to Norcal and back, I’m still shocked… The Toyota Prius, a hybrid vehicle which runs on both gasoline and has a battery an electric charging battery, seems to be the ideal hybrid? The ideal thing that leverage is both the upside of gasoline which is insane power and energy in liquefied compact form, as well as the battery, which kind of somehow magically charges itself, through the braking mechanism in the Prius and car?

And I think the thing that is difficult for people to understand on just how amazing the Toyota Prius and hybrid system is; it really is so insanely clutch right when you need it.

For example, doing a last-minute drive somewhere, and just having one tick of gas, but still being able to drive all the way from the Pacific Palisades back home to Culver City, like 5% of gas left, could still take you around 40 to 50 miles?

And this is super super useful because the second you’re trying to beat rush-hour traffic, and you cannot be fucked to stop by a gas station or a Tesla supercharger, because you want to quickly hit the road, you don’t have to deal with having to stop by a gas station or an electric charging station if you don’t want to; you have the option, More optionality!

Seek optionality

I don’t need to own it, I could just visit it rent it borrow it try it out for the week or weekend!

I think this is also a big thing, we Americans we are so silly in our notion of “ownership“, we both believe that in order to gain legitimacy, we have to “own” the underlying asset.  but I was thinking about it… Never really kind of own anything, maybe besides bitcoin.

Why? So for example let us say that you own a single-family home property whatever, you don’t really 100% owned, you’re just borrowing it from the federal government, the local city government etc. And you’re paying a huge state tax fee local fee tax fee etc.

Also, vehicles automobiles cars etc., as long as you’re sooner or later taking some sort of public Road Highway, freeway etc., you don’t really 100% on your car either because you’re just kind of leasing the rights to use your vehicle on public roads, as long as you had to pay some sort of DMV fee and sticker, you never really 100% own your vehicle.

And also, you still have to pay car insurance, like forever. And once again, vehicle registration fees. Even the fees even though the fees are not super super high, you still gotta pay something.

I think also one of the soccer fallacies is that some people fall victim to this notion of somehow like you buy some sort of RV or truck or converted Mercedes sprinter van and you could somehow turn it into like a mobile house or a mobile RV, and then you could just finally become free travel through the states whatever, etc.… But still you’re kind of a slave because you still have to find somewhere to park at night, you often had to pay a fee to park somewhere, And also, more private things like you gotta pay for sanitation to plumb out your vehicle, you still need to buy food and stuff, etc. This is where I still think it is wiser to just rent an apartment and somewhere desirable where you could just walk everywhere because once again,Americans we were romanticize the idea other great American road trip and being on the road, but still… The ideal strategy is to spend like close to 0% of your time in a car or a vehicle, and you try to instead, spend about 100% of your time walking around outside in the direct light or the direct sun.

So the ideal goal is to find a place or a local or a city or neighborhood or area that you absolutely love like for me in Culver City, the arts district, and you could just 100% pedestrian walk yourself everywhere, just jump on the metro E line if you want, and just go on a drive if you want. 

And once again, location location location location location. I still cannot stress this enough; because of the laws of physics, Los Angeles, Los Angeles traffic; still the most intelligent strategy in life is to find the best location absolutely, in which you never have to drive more than five minutes a day. Or driving just becomes an optional thing; you could actually live a virtuous 100% pedestrian lifestyle.

it is difficult to monetize walking

So I think the biggest issue here is that walking is not really popular as a past time because it is difficult to monetize. Compare this instead of running or jogging or whatever, easy easy easy because you could sell these stupid overpriced $300 or $400 running sneakers, which are only for skinny fat losers. 

And also, I think maybe this is the reason why automobile cars are so sought after an American society; because our society almost close to 100% of it is still dependent on a car, only society in which nobody really owns a car is probably New York New York City or Brooklyn, or the main island; even the rich people don’t really own a car, they might have a private driver or they might just even take the metro, or just walk or even take an Uber. Which is even easier than coordinating a personal driver.

Even in San Francisco, sooner or later everyone kind of wants a car or a Tesla or something, or maybe a Waymo,  but the sense I have is nobody wants to live in San Francisco anymore, not the huge exodus out of the Bay Area, in fact more people I see in tech are settling in Los Angeles West Los Angeles, even my tech cousin Daniel just moved to the Sawtelle neighborhood. 

Sooner or later everybody ends up in LA.

So my very very simple suggestion is with life and everything in general, just get off of loser Instagram TikTok YouTube Spotify Twitter all of the social media services. Even I was randomly getting back into Twitter because there are lots of important financial news to stay updated there, and before Trump got elected, it was actually kind of necessary for me to do some research about his policies about bitcoin and crypto, because I am 100% all in on bitcoin. But still… Access to the information the news the truth, it is so toxic. Maybe it is better to be a little bit more poor, without the toxicity, rather than being richer with more toxicity. 

Better to be poorer, and less toxic rather than be richer and more toxic.

Goals?

So I think something I have discovered about myself is that I have a passion of outside being outside etc. Pretty much what this means is my passion is to not be in some sort of stifling cramped indoor space but rather, my passion is to be outside, With the open sky the open air etc.

Currently staying at a home exchange in the mountains in Southern California, and the mountain house is super lovely, but just even taking a quick jump outside, and then going back inside… Immediately I feel stifled and “ddab ddab hae” indoors.

The phrase ddab ddab hae in Korean is super interesting — essentially it means feeling kind of like claustrophobic, or constrained, or the feeling of feeling cramped. Once again, if you are an outside mountain spirit, the feeling of being stuck indoors.

Nietzsche one said trust no thought which does not come to assuming you’re not in the open air, outside, preferably in the mountains. Even Nietzsche — I believe he had my asthma or poor health or poor breathing or lungs or something, he traveled all around Europe until he was able to find some sort of nice mountainside retreat in Italy, maybe in the small town of Turin, in which suddenly, all of his sicknesses and ailments ceased?

 so I think the first thing is nature, big and nature, I think it’s just good for the human soul, our mind our brain, our physiology our eyes and eyeballs etc. For example, I think it is a bit foolish when all of these monks and pseudo in lightened Silicon Valley folks and thinkers believe that you could somehow “think“ yourself out of a problem or a mental malady. It is my personal belief that actually, the only way to read yourself a badness is to actually get your ass out of the house, go a walk, go outside!

Not cars

Not cars, not vehicles.

So even if you had the world’s best Lamborghini with the scissor doors or the off-road in Lamborghini sterrato whatever, doesn’t matter what color scheme, rims or whatever, as long as you do not have 100% leg freedom, you ain’t got nothing.

For example, driving down, stuck on some of the really really bad Riverside traffic, and actually, the real tragedy here is that some people have to take this god-awful commute, maybe 2 1/2 or three hours each way, to buy a nice big house in Riverside, in order to commute to Los Angeles? To me even if you gave me the world’s trillion dollar car, this trade would not be worth it.

Why? Once again it is a physics, physiological thing; there is no good on the planet which is worth the pain and suffering of being stuck sitting in a sedentary position. Even if you are in an airplane, a jet, flying first class or whatever, even if you are in the most luxurious of all luxurious seats or sitting situations, none of it is worth it. Why? Because once again when you’re sitting, you’re in a very very fragile position, in the most miserable of all physiological positions.

For example, let us consider how in fact, what is the human being being designed for? We are designed to stand upright, to walk, much of our ability to be by pets balance, look into the distance and walk, is structured around this. If a human being does not need to walk and move around or be outside or be upright, he has no reason for a brain or any body physiology.

So once again, to be human is to walk, to be outside, no ceilings no roofs, no glass ceilings.

Homes?

So, then at the end of the day, what is the meaning of the purpose of having a home?

There are 1 trillion different ways one could configure ones living circumstances, configurations etc.

For example, you could have a big ass ranch, a big ass backyard in front lawn and back lawn and private property, or you could live in an apartment, kind of more connected to society.

You could also live in a trailer home, or even I guess live in the trunk of your cyber truck.

I suppose then, the primary question to ask yourself is what do I see, what do I want from life, what do I want to out of life?

First, the light the sun. For me the sun is the source of all energy, all power, all happiness and joy. So to ideally live somewhere sunny is a virtue. I have a funny ongoing theory that human beings, we’re just like plants except we move a lot quicker.

Second, the joy of weightlifting. Still, after all of this, I still really do have a passion for lifting weights, weightlifting etc. To me it is like my ultimate form of Z meditation exercise and without weightlifting, things become a bit boring, uninteresting etc.  For example, the courage needed to lift very very heavyweights, requires 100% of your focus, a 100% focus of your presence. You cannot fake it; precisely because extremely heavy weightlifting is dangerous, that is what forces you to focus.

And this is the very very funny thing. When I would lift nine plates 10 plates and beyond at the gym, people always tell me “be careful“. Duh! This is the whole point! To be careful means to take care, take care, Which means you don’t fuck around, you don’t even listen to music; even music is a distraction. No stupid AirPods on, no external distractions. No phone.

In fact, one thing I’m very very grateful for the gym I used to go to the last few years, is that I was able to ride down the whole bitcoin downturn, due to the FTX meltdown, the hilarious thing; after buying my bitcoin in around 2018, I just literally never ever ever check the prices for almost 4 years; Rest and vest. And the only time I would ever be exposed to the price of bitcoin was on accident; in which I would accidentally see the price or something.

Anyways, I’m grateful for my journey thus far, not having lost any bitcoins or anything. Apparently I read or heard something, whenever you go to a bitcoin conference or something, you never ask people how many bitcoins you have your own, but how many bitcoins you have lost, that is the true indicator of how long you have been in the game.

But then again, I think the tricky thing with bitcoin crypto currencies, the whole crypto economy is that it is all a bit strange convoluted and polluted. Too many ideas, too many opinions, you gotta just hang out, take it out to the beginning.

The issue with the physical realm

So the biggest issue that I have is that there’s so much waste, so much physical waste in the physical realm. For example you might have your Lamborghini your RV your truck, your over landing vehicle, your AMG sprinter van, all your expensive Apple devices, your big ass house whatever. Yet all of these things seem to be more liabilities than assets to me.

One thing that I really really love about bitcoin is that it seems to be the ultimate portable, durable, weightless thing to just carry around. For example, assuming that you have an iPhone an iPad, some sort of MacBook laptop device, or something on iCloud iCloud chain, Safari Google Chrome whatever, Gmail, Google services, all of your money and assets and store of value is secure. And in theory, you can immediately liquidate your assets.

For example, even if you own some sort of RV or expensive car or something, the huge pain of having to liquidate it and sell it, this is a huge pain in the ass. You still have to find a seller, you need to figure a way to quickly or efficiently or securely Broker the trade or whatever… To me, this ain’t worth it.

What is actually useful in the physical realm

Things I find useful in the physical realm include fresh air, beautiful bright sun and sunlight, peace and quiet, absence of pollution, hot baths, Wi-Fi, 5G, cameras digital cameras, video cameras, a grill is super awesome but not 100% necessary, And having some sort of vehicle that could take you around.

In fact, recently doing a road trip to Norcal and back, I’m still shocked… The Toyota Prius, a hybrid vehicle which runs on both gasoline and has a battery an electric charging battery, seems to be the ideal hybrid? The ideal thing that leverage is both the upside of gasoline which is insane power and energy in liquefied compact form, as well as the battery, which kind of somehow magically charges itself, through the braking mechanism in the Prius and car?

And I think the thing that is difficult for people to understand on just how amazing the Toyota Prius and hybrid system is; it really is so insanely clutch right when you need it.

For example, doing a last-minute drive somewhere, and just having one tick of gas, but still being able to drive all the way from the Pacific Palisades back home to Culver City, like 5% of gas left, could still take you around 40 to 50 miles?

And this is super super useful because the second you’re trying to beat rush-hour traffic, and you cannot be fucked to stop by a gas station or a Tesla supercharger, because you want to quickly hit the road, you don’t have to deal with having to stop by a gas station or an electric charging station if you don’t want to; you have the option, More optionality!

Seek optionality

I don’t need to own it, I could just visit it rent it borrow it try it out for the week or weekend!

I think this is also a big thing, we Americans we are so silly in our notion of “ownership“, we both believe that in order to gain legitimacy, we have to “own” the underlying asset.  but I was thinking about it… Never really kind of own anything, maybe besides bitcoin.

Why? So for example let us say that you own a single-family home property whatever, you don’t really 100% owned, you’re just borrowing it from the federal government, the local city government etc. And you’re paying a huge state tax fee local fee tax fee etc.

Also, vehicles automobiles cars etc., as long as you’re sooner or later taking some sort of public Road Highway, freeway etc., you don’t really 100% on your car either because you’re just kind of leasing the rights to use your vehicle on public roads, as long as you had to pay some sort of DMV fee and sticker, you never really 100% own your vehicle.

And also, you still have to pay car insurance, like forever. And once again, vehicle registration fees. Even the fees even though the fees are not super super high, you still gotta pay something.

I think also one of the soccer fallacies is that some people fall victim to this notion of somehow like you buy some sort of RV or truck or converted Mercedes sprinter van and you could somehow turn it into like a mobile house or a mobile RV, and then you could just finally become free travel through the states whatever, etc.… But still you’re kind of a slave because you still have to find somewhere to park at night, you often had to pay a fee to park somewhere, And also, more private things like you gotta pay for sanitation to plumb out your vehicle, you still need to buy food and stuff, etc. This is where I still think it is wiser to just rent an apartment and somewhere desirable where you could just walk everywhere because once again,Americans we were romanticize the idea other great American road trip and being on the road, but still… The ideal strategy is to spend like close to 0% of your time in a car or a vehicle, and you try to instead, spend about 100% of your time walking around outside in the direct light or the direct sun.

So the ideal goal is to find a place or a local or a city or neighborhood or area that you absolutely love like for me in Culver City, the arts district, and you could just 100% pedestrian walk yourself everywhere, just jump on the metro E line if you want, and just go on a drive if you want. 

And once again, location location location location location. I still cannot stress this enough; because of the laws of physics, Los Angeles, Los Angeles traffic; still the most intelligent strategy in life is to find the best location absolutely, in which you never have to drive more than five minutes a day. Or driving just becomes an optional thing; you could actually live a virtuous 100% pedestrian lifestyle.

it is difficult to monetize walking

So I think the biggest issue here is that walking is not really popular as a past time because it is difficult to monetize. Compare this instead of running or jogging or whatever, easy easy easy because you could sell these stupid overpriced $300 or $400 running sneakers, which are only for skinny fat losers. 

And also, I think maybe this is the reason why automobile cars are so sought after an American society; because our society almost close to 100% of it is still dependent on a car, only society in which nobody really owns a car is probably New York New York City or Brooklyn, or the main island; even the rich people don’t really own a car, they might have a private driver or they might just even take the metro, or just walk or even take an Uber. Which is even easier than coordinating a personal driver.

Even in San Francisco, sooner or later everyone kind of wants a car or a Tesla or something, or maybe a Waymo,  but the sense I have is nobody wants to live in San Francisco anymore, not the huge exodus out of the Bay Area, in fact more people I see in tech are settling in Los Angeles West Los Angeles, even my tech cousin Daniel just moved to the Sawtelle neighborhood. 

Sooner or later everybody ends up in LA.

So my very very simple suggestion is with life and everything in general, just get off of loser Instagram TikTok YouTube Spotify Twitter all of the social media services. Even I was randomly getting back into Twitter because there are lots of important financial news to stay updated there, and before Trump got elected, it was actually kind of necessary for me to do some research about his policies about bitcoin and crypto, because I am 100% all in on bitcoin. But still… Access to the information the news the truth, it is so toxic. Maybe it is better to be a little bit more poor, without the toxicity, rather than being richer with more toxicity. 

Better to be poorer, and less toxic rather than be richer and more toxic.

Goals?

So the phrase “ddab ddab hae”— in English, so I find the translation in the concept superfast. Why? First, it is onomatopoeia which means it literally describes how it feels.

Second, this is exactly the feeling I have when I am stuck indoors. To me maybe my spirit is like a mountain spirit, I must be outside in the outdoors?

The general idea and just is that you’re never in the city forever every once in a while true to the countryside or to nature? Therefore it becomes like a virtuous undulation of both?

I’m confused?

I bought every v12 engine, wish I could take it back to the beginning!

Bitcoin for Investors

Why I love and care for Bitcoin:

The next four years of insane prosperity 

Very simple: just buy bitcoin, no cost to capital, and I think for the next four years, conservatively we could consider at least a 55% ARR, maybe even more aggressively 75% ARR, under the Trump administration? 

If you’re stuck in the traditional markets, just buy microstrategy, MSTR stock. 

---

Need finds a way.

One interesting thing that I’ve learned about bitcoin just things and life in general is that you only really really discover something or take full heart to it when you actually really have a need for it.

For example, the story of Michael Saylor microstrategy and bitcoin; the only reason that Michael Saylor really took it was because he had a real need for it; 500 million in cash, in kind of stagnant company– he needed to add vitality back to life to his company and corporation.

Necessity is the true mother of all innovation.

Similarly speaking, myself, moving here to LA, staring at this ridiculous high cost of living, and trying to find innovative ways to approach money, productivity time etc. I found bitcoin as almost a salvation for me, Cindy, my aging mom, Seneca, and my future family!

How and why bitcoin has changed my life

So I think traditionally, most of us are stuck into the work cycle. It is a simple mathematical equation: a simple vector equation; in goes your effort, time, and labor, the outcome and outflows are money and income.

So for most people, there is directly proportional effect:

You labor harder, more, and you yield more US dollars, and you work hard, put out new innovative product services etc., a lot of hard work and time, heavily market the thing, through genuine and effortful channels, and then wait diligently for somebody to purchase your products services workshops etc., hope they pay, and then when that dust settles within a month two or three, then you could withdraw that money from your PayPal or digital broker, and then deposited into your checking account, finally logging in and securing your “gain”.

Think digital

But, everything digitally we think about real wealth, how is it built accumulated etc.? Almost the opposite effect; the real rich people never have to labor for anything. You could be like Warren Buffett, just reading the newspaper and sitting on your bottom, and then your money, capital and investments magically go up, almost defying the laws of gravity, time, and friction, heat and physics?

“Income”

So this is where things become funny: the notion of “income”.

Once again, I’m still relatively new to all of this, in the sense that the average time labor, we have a hard time thinking like an investor. For example, to think that you just have $2 million in capital, you have some deep insight and intuition about something, and then you invest that money into the thing, and then over the course of a few days weeks months, two months, three months, four months five months, a year, 4 to 5 years, the number magically goes up!

To me, this is still like wizardry, like pure magic!

Lever up

And I still think this is where it is difficult to understand; to those who have access to capital, you essentially have an economic lever to lever up, and leverage that, which is just economic power and energy, to be even more more energy, more power.

This is why it is true that let us say your grandparents bought a house in Beverly Hills like 50 years ago or 100 years ago, and your parents got married in that backyard in Beverly Hills, and then you got married in the same backyard, that is real generational wealth, the generational lever. 

Just thinking consider let us say that I have 300 bitcoins, and then Seneca grows up and is like 36 years old, and he decides to have kids. Obviously when it is worth like $10 billion or something,  and it just magically yields money, obviously he could continue to leverage that. And so can his kids kids kids. 

The Spartan investor

So we hear stories of Warren Buffett, living the same old house, driving the old same Honda Accord whatever, and then just spending all day reading the newspaper investing in the markets, and then becoming like the third world’s richest man, all at the age of 80 or 90 years old, but you’re old sick fat and tired, still eating McDonald’s and drinking Coca-Colas.

Warren Buffett is not a good example. Even he was a skeptic and critic of bitcoin.

I think the hard thing is everyone uses Warren Buffet as an example, but for my general sense, given the fact that he has invested heavily into Coca-Cola, he is no better than people who invest in fill up Morris evil cigarette and now vaping corporation, to spin a certain profit.

I am anti Warren Buffett 

The truth is everyone wants to be as rich as Warren Buffett but nobody actually wants to become Warren Buffett. Do you know anybody in the given universe who wants to be that old fat sick and unshapely? 

Instead, I’m much better idea is to be as jacked as King Leonidas, Gerald Butler in the movie 300, all while being a billionaire. My vision is essentially having the hard spartan body, naked and super fucking jacked, and also… this is the critical one; insanely Spartan and frugal, surprising everyone that you drive a Toyota Prius, even though you could afford like 200 cyber trucks.

Now is the time to start living!

I think what I have discovered finally at the age of 36, is that with bitcoin, this changes everything. Why? Before bitcoin has finally hit mass adoption, and now that starting next year January 2025 will be a year one of bitcoin institutional adoption, what that means is having a bitcoin is like having a cyber truck or Lamborghini on steroids, but on a digital wheel. 

Bitcoin is the ultimate economic wheel!

1 Bitcoin for your 1 cybertruck? No thank you.

This is my visual: I was at the park yesterday with Seneca, playing with him at night, just having the house key in my front pocket, no phone no nothing not even my camera, and we’re just playing around in the tot lot, kicking around some bark, and I had the funny thoughts; would I trade a bitcoin for a Tesla? Maybe a cybertruck?

But actually the other day I jumped into a cybertruck and I was a little bit underwhelmed; the funny thing about the cybertruck is that it looks so flashy and awesome from the outside, but on the inside once you actually step into it, it is a bit underwhelming; it doesn’t really feel that different from sitting inside a Honda Accord or a Toyota Camry.

Maybe it would be different if you were homeless and just owned a cybertruck and just slept in the trunk bed, but beyond this, I think cyber truck is one of those funny things that you could just admire it from the outside, without actually having to own it. And if anything, the real thing to just wait for or save up for is the cybertaxi, which could just shuttle your kid to baseball practice, or take your wife directly to campus or work through the grueling 405 morning commute traffic.

---

Bitcoin is the new ground floor and peg.

Anyways, now, my calculus is simple; I think of everything in context to bitcoin.

For example, whenever I critically look and asses these things, I think to myself,

How many bitcoins could I buy with this thing? 

For example I was just trolling around with the finance calculator for the Tesla website, and still the cheapest Tesla model 3, base edition, after taxes and even after the federal rebate, will still run you around $40-$45,000 out the door. And no this is the cheapest version! This is like half a bitcoin or a third of a bitcoin. I’d rather take the bitcoin which is going to $13 million, rather than the Tesla car which is going to zero.

Accretive or dilutive? 

A new line of thinking I’ve also been thinking about is this general idea of accretive vs dilutive; that means, is this thing that I’m interested in, will it increase value, a.k.a. go up in value, or go down in value?

Obviously bitcoin is gonna continue to increase in value because more people find it to be valuable.

---

We got a Bitcoin president

Volatile doesn’t mean risky.

So I think now that Trump is president, bitcoin at this point is in my mind, practically 100% cemented and certain to go up forever. However as I mentioned in my prior essay, the philosophy of volatility, to reach higher highs you gotta reach lower lows?

So assuming that you just took snapshots every year, at random high points year over year, you will find that bitcoin is the insanely obvious choice. With enough hindsight, with enough 20-20 you can see and determine and ascertain that in fact, bitcoin is by far the winning bet, nearly a trillion-fold obvious decision! It has insane volatility which means it goes up and down a lot, constantly, but the cool thing is that it will essentially go up forever!

And this is like volatility, it is like having a hypercharger or a supercharger in your engine; more power or more velocity, more extremes to reach higher performance.

For example if you think about the velocity of a roller coaster; what makes it fun is precisely the highs and lows. If you take one of those boring kid ones, which is pretty much steady, it is insanely boring. Why? The thrills of the roller coaster– once again we are the adrenaline junkies!

Practical strategies

OK… if you want the ultimate blend of safety with high-yield, my suggestion is 90% of your capital into bitcoin,  and 10% into microstrategy stock (MSTR). This is what I personally do.

Why? Essentially you could treat microstrategy stock like your cash; it keeps going up in value, and actually in fact goes up quicker than bitcoin; although it is a security, a stock that you don’t really “own”, like bitcoin which is digital property.

Bitcoin is the first thing you could truly own. 

I love Michael Saylor and microstrategy to death, I have like literally watched and listen to every single Michael Saylor podcast interview available out there, I also read his book the mobile wave, and I’ve tried to consume every single piece of literature or thing that Michael Saylor has put out there. I also watched his recent earnings call, and watching it all in all, almost like watching a rockstar.

However at the end of the day once again, the name of the game is to accumulate and acquire more bitcoins. He or she with the most bitcoins, or the entity with the most bitcoins shall win.

---

America bitcoin first strategy

So a simple thought to the Trump bitcoin administration and beyond;

First, America must be the bitcoin leader. We must be the nation with the most bitcoin in our treasury reserves.

Sent you the basic ideas like we are creating the next bitcoin Fort Knox; we must dominate every other nation in terms of the number of our bitcoin holdings, kind of like imagine military power, but bitcoin as cyber power.

For example let us assume that the US Navy has strategic military dominance over the planet. And let us assume that our military power is at least 10,000 X to that mainland China.

So in theory in terms of numbers, America must supersede mainland China in our bitcoin holdings. By at least a factor of 10,000X.

I think even Donald Trump joked that maybe we could even use some of our bitcoin to pay back our national debt?

I think actually the more interesting strategy is we hoard our bitcoins forever, until the end of time, and instead, I don’t know… Someone with some good economic wizardry could figure out how we could leverage our debt in intelligent ways so we could actually pay back our debt without having to sell bitcoin.

And once again… I think this is the main idea on my mind right now — we can continue to accumulate bitcoin, stack bitcoin, etc.,  and figure out how we leverage borrowing cheap money or debt from other banks entities, to make money?

---

Being positively polarized to capital 

My has enjoy an interest; give me all your capital, and I will invest it and grow it for you!

Eric@erickim.com

---

Cyber Capital

So the reason why I think this is such a big deal is that finally, with bitcoin, we have finally crossed the chasm. What this means is finally, in the year 2024 and beyond, capital is finally cyber. What this means is that the next frontier of capital is practically infinite. 

Let me explicate this a bit more on why this is such a big deal:

So it looks like traditionally, the last frontier of making money and wealth was tech companies. Why? With technology, finally you were able to break free a little bit of physical limitations. For example, with Google Amazon Facebook etc., you were able to finally cross the digital divide which means that you could actually create an accumulated value digitally, with stuff like digital advertisements, digital value etc. 

Yet the different nuance is still… capital was not yet in the digital realm. For example even though Amazon Facebook Google and the big tech companies could create value digitally through cyber space in cyber networks, there was no internet native money or capital in which they could store their value.

You cannot digitally store value if there is no true digital capital (Bitcoin). 

For example all the big companies, we’re still reliant on JP Morgan Chase to custody their US dollars and field currency the treasury reserve assets etc.

But starting January of next year 2025… This will all change with the new generally accepted accounting principles, which that means that you could actually prove and use bitcoin as your treasury reserve asset, your store of value.

And the reason why this is such a big deal is that if you think about it, if you store any of your money in US dollars, even for a few days or weeks or months or even a month, you’re actually slowly bleeding value.

For example, imagine like you have a lovely warm apartment, a perfect 73°. Imagine that if every hour, your apartment gets 1° cooler and colder, that means that by the evening, it will be dropping from the 70s to the 60s to the 50s to the 40s to the 30s to the 20s, up until the point that it is uninhabitable. And assume that you cannot turn on the heater or put on blankets or clothes.

So this is like the heat thermodynamics regulation concept. If we apply this to money in store of value, this is a big thing to consider. 

ERIC

---

Innovative modes of living?

On owning your own aesthetic tastes? 

Another interesting thing that I’ve been noticing; how much of aesthetic tastes are essentially hijacked or controlled or directed by certain individuals industries etc.

For example, I remember in high school, to wear all black clothing was considered insanely bizarre; even to wear black jeans was seen as very strange?

The aesthetic in high school was really really dark blue denim like really dark indigo, maybe just a simple white T-shirt, white sneakers, white K Swiss tennis shoes, and that was it?

Also, with cars… When I was in high school, there was zero interest in anybody owning a black car. This was not an aesthetic.

Instead, it was to own a red Integra type R, super low and slammed to the floor, with maybe white rims, or bronze or gold rims? Or with black gloss rims with a silver lip?

But then again, also how much of this was just aesthetic fashion trend in the 90s and early 2000s versus what our aesthetic preferences are?

Cars & clothes

So the first thing to consider is that ultimately, cars and clothes are probably the two biggest fashion points. This is where most people in modern day life use and waste their time.

For example, funny enough… I see all of these women who seemingly seem woke and whatever… Yet all of their life is just dedicated to chasing new clothes in fashion objects, and binge watching some sort of really really trashy Netflix show of rich people of Dubai?

And also men, they are no better.

My brother-in-law John Narciso wants wisely told me that if you want to sell cars, you have to design the cars for women; this is why a lot of high-powered performance SUV cars actually typically marketed to women. Why? Women feels fragile and insecure on the road, if they drive a huge Range Rover or a huge Mercedes-Benz AMG g wagon, they feel somehow protected from the crazy drivers on the road.

What I find very interesting about cars is that any 4 foot tall midget can jump into a massively raised truck, and boom suddenly he is like a giant. But the second in which you put the Shorty guys on the ground, standing up straight, face-to-face with a 6 foot tall demigod Hero, they are nothing.

Most people who are into fashion are ugly

If you look at all these designers, the people actually designing and making the clothes, the models, everyone in the industry… For the most part people are quite ugly. The models are tall and beautiful, but often looks strange, that is what gives them their appeal.

And if you look at people who control the whole fashion industry like Anna Wintour, she is kind of a strange looking unattractive woman. Even when she was young she was not beautiful.

And then you have a legion of women who want to become like Audrey Hepburn, but once again this is another strange ideal?

---

Another thing to consider… Ultimately when you think about superficial things like the size of your penis your balls, even your flesh bound human body, we are quite tiny and insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Even women the most beautiful men on the planet, besides their frame, and the circular fat deposits on their chest and bottoms, they are hourglass shape, none of it really matters.

Even something that’s impressive as a cyber truck, super huge, and awesome, but, still… If you compare it to a massive building warehouse or structure, it is also quite insignificant.

This is where Bitcoin is so fascinating to me, cause it is like an organic global organism, both cybernetic but also biological organic, which extends around the whole planet, the whole globe, and is always at work, 24 hours a day, 365, every second minute an hour of the day. It is the most global, the most awesome thing of all time.

I think everyone is always looking for a passion or a dear fashion in life, currently mine is bitcoin. Why? It is in accordance with all of my personal beliefs; first, it is open source, open, decentralized, transparent and ethical, and open to all 8 billion people on the planet. Not only that, but I think bitcoin actually encourages and promotes world peace and prosperity; the truth is everyone wants the bitcoin price to go up forever, everyone is invested in it, and everyone is rooting in it. In some ways bitcoin is like the underdog.

I was shocked today the whole market cap of bitcoin is already $1.6 trillion, it was only 500 billion just a year ago. And people tend to think that bitcoin is not underdog, they root for their Ethereum, their token, their doge coin, their alt coin whatever, but, everything that is not a bitcoin is just a cubic zirconian fake diamond; it looks shiny and beautiful from from the outside, but ultimately the core is just refined plastic. Or glass. Whereas bitcoin is true substance, the first and only digital gold. Or solidified store of value.

Once again, everyone is on team bitcoin. Everyone wants it to go up, forever. Who is rooting for team bitcoin? People in Nigeria, Lagos, Vietnam, Singapore, Bangkok, Dubai, the Middle East and Lebanon, in Prague and beyond. Any sort of person on the planet with access to a smart phone and Wi-Fi for 5G or 4G or even 3G or even 2G edge, they all want it. And now that Elon Musk‘s Starlink is alive, essentially anyone could buy own sell trade transfer bitcoin at the moment anywhere on the planet, and not be excluded by bank holidays.

It is still so weird and bizarre to me; why is it still in the year 2024, in the evenings and on the weekend, why am I locked out of my traditional banking accounts, my trading accounts, why cannot not make a wire transfer on Saturday? Why do I have to wait until Monday? This is insanely bizarre to me.

And also, in today’s world in which the Internet is essentially on 24 seven, 365, all day every day, all times of the day… Why do you finances, and financial tools and products become locked at arbitrary times in the evening?

free the capital!

I like the idea of money without Borders, or capital without borders restriction rules laws regulations, nonsense. And the reason why I’m so happy to have Donald Trump as a president is that he is not anti-bitcoin, surprisingly he is very very pro bitcoin, but also he is pro America and also pro the US dollar? This is to me a very very radical and wonderfully great economic optimism things; if in fact the president of the free world is both pro bitcoin and also pro US dollar, assuming that you’re an American, with a painting account in US dollars, you’re paid in US dollars, and your own bitcoin or micro strategy stock, then, These next four years will be the most economically prosperous for you of all time. The next four years you’re going to get filthy stupid rich.

And this is where I think it is wise to just be patient. There are already pundits who believe that bitcoin can break $100,000 by the end of the year, so the virtue of being patient is wise. My personal prediction is that bitcoin might break $120,000 by next March? March 2025? Assuming that the fair accounting standards board, FASB rules GOES INTO EFFECT AND ALSO THE NEW GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES STARTING JANUARY 2025 WILL GO INTO EFFECT FOR CORPORATIONS, INSTITUTIONS ETC., THEN, THE PRICE OF BITCOIN IS GOING TO EXPLODE.

## it is better to die enormous than lie dormant

Note, even Jay Z and Jack Dorsey invested into bitcoin! What that then means, assuming that Jay Z may be one of the best business people of all time, of course bitcoin is legit. I’m very very excited and also looking forward to when rappers start rapping about bitcoin, not loser Lamborghinis which are just Volkswagen Passat with scissor doors.

For me, I get 1 trillion times more joy owning bitcoin,

Being here in Los Angeles during the fall, the funny economy that I see here; literally the dynamic range between the direct sun, the beautiful glorious light and the shade is almost like 40° in temperature? When you’re in the drug sun, it is like pure bliss, pure heaven, but when you are in the shade, it is super fucking cold and miserable?

And the funny thing is it is like literally on the other side of the building. And you have the option; to be outside in the direct sun, which is pure heaven, or to just intentionally be in the shade, in the darkness, or even worse indoors, when you have the option to be in the sun?

So you have the option, why being in the shade?

Just move to the sun?

Also in life, certainly there are options and we got options. Opt, opinion… apparently this is the same word. To choose or to believe. 

Difficult to change the world, but easy to change your opinion.

An opinion is just your preferences, what you decide to do or what you decide not to do. For example you have the option of just moving to the sun if your heart desire desires, but also this is an option, you don’t have to if you don’t want to.

And also, once again this is the big thing; if you have the option to choose joy sunlight and happiness, why would you choose the miserable dark?

Choose joy!

This is my aesthetic; I would prefer to choose the deep, the dark, the morose Spartan sinister happy joy rather than be the emo loser instead?

This is the visual; you know the Spartans when they are fighting in the shape, and they are laughing smiling and joking sinister, with their black teeth, fighting in the shade of the arrows, perhaps this is how we should approach life!

Health

So I almost wonder if 99% of our misery is the fact that people just have poor health. For example myself, when I have poor digestion or when I don’t feel well… This could literally reduce 90% of my joy.

So simple things; intermittent fasting. During the day. No breakfast no lunch, no beverages during the day besides water and the black coffee. I find that any other strange substances, fluids or whatever, causes my stomach to turn.

So the same thing is if you want greatest supreme the best clarity during the day, with no stomach troubles, it actually seems that the optimal strategy in life is to not consume anything during the day, once again no food no substances no sugars or stimulants or downers or uppers or whatever, because when you consume these things, it changes Your health your digestion your mood.

Kids and food

What is very very interesting is that a kid, when they are full or done eating, they don’t force themselves to over consume food. They either spit it out, or take it out of their mouth and throw it away. Very wise.

So if you have a little bit of food left over, better to just wrap it up and put in the fridge, or throw it away, rather trying to virtuously finish the food, like a “good person“, rather than risk having a really really upset stomach, sleeping poorly and actually feeling poor the next day or morning.

---

If there is something that kind of a little bit broken, but still kind of works, don’t try to fix it, it will often cause more catastrophic damage?

Privacy is paramount.

In iOS 18, Apple introduced features that allow you to lock and hide apps to enhance your privacy. Here’s how you can utilize these features:

Locking an App:

1. Locate the App: On your Home Screen, find the app you wish to lock.

2. Access Quick Actions: Press and hold the app icon until a menu appears.

3. Enable Lock: Tap on “Require Face ID” (or “Require Touch ID” depending on your device).

4. Confirm: Authenticate using Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode when prompted.

Once locked, the app will require authentication each time it’s opened, and its content won’t appear in notifications, search results, or Siri suggestions. 

Hiding an App:

1. Locate the App: Find the app you want to hide on your Home Screen.

2. Access Quick Actions: Press and hold the app icon until the menu appears.

3. Enable Hide and Lock: Tap on “Hide and Require Face ID” (or “Hide and Require Touch ID”).

4. Confirm: Authenticate when prompted, then tap “Hide App” to finalize.

The app will be removed from your Home Screen and placed in a Hidden folder within the App Library. To access hidden apps:

1. Open App Library: Swipe left past all your Home Screen pages to reach the App Library.

2. Access Hidden Folder: Scroll to the bottom and tap the Hidden folder.

3. Authenticate: Use Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode to open the folder.

Inside, you’ll find your hidden apps, which you can open or unhide as needed. 

Note: Not all apps can be locked or hidden. Core Apple apps like Camera, Maps, and Settings may not support these features. 

These enhancements in iOS 18 provide greater control over your app privacy and visibility.

You never own a Tesla

Do you really own it or just lease it?

Things you really own versus things you lease?

Very simple: just buy bitcoin, no cost to capital, and I think for the next four years, conservatively we could consider at least a 55% ARR, maybe even more aggressively 75% ARR, under the Trump administration? 

---

Need finds a way.

One interesting thing that I’ve learned about bitcoin just things and life in general is that you only really really discover something or take full heart to it when you actually really have a need for it.

For example, the story of Michael Saylor microstrategy and bitcoin; the only reason that Michael Saylor really took it was because he had a real need for it; 500 million in cash, in kind of stagnant company– he needed to add vitality back to life to his company and corporation.

Necessity is the true mother of all innovation.

Similarly speaking, myself, moving here to LA, staring at this ridiculous high cost of living, and trying to find innovative ways to approach money, productivity time etc. I found bitcoin as almost a salvation for me, Cindy, my aging mom, Seneca, and my future family!

How and why bitcoin has changed my life

So I think traditionally, most of us are stuck into the work cycle. It is a simple mathematical equation: a simple vector equation; in goes your effort, time, and labor, the outcome and outflows are money and income.

So for most people, there is directly proportional effect:

You labor harder, more, and you yield more US dollars, and you work hard, put out new innovative product services etc., a lot of hard work and time, heavily market the thing, through genuine and effortful channels, and then wait diligently for somebody to purchase your products services workshops etc., hope they pay, and then when that dust settles within a month two or three, then you could withdraw that money from your PayPal or digital broker, and then deposited into your checking account, finally logging in and securing your “gain”.

Think digital

But, everything digitally we think about real wealth, how is it built accumulated etc.? Almost the opposite effect; the real rich people never have to labor for anything. You could be like Warren Buffett, just reading the newspaper and sitting on your bottom, and then your money, capital and investments magically go up, almost defying the laws of gravity, time, and friction, heat and physics?

“Income”

So this is where things become funny: the notion of “income”.

Once again, I’m still relatively new to all of this, in the sense that the average time labor, we have a hard time thinking like an investor. For example, to think that you just have $2 million in capital, you have some deep insight and intuition about something, and then you invest that money into the thing, and then over the course of a few days weeks months, two months, three months, four months five months, a year, 4 to 5 years, the number magically goes up!

To me, this is still like wizardry, like pure magic!

Lever up

And I still think this is where it is difficult to understand; to those who have access to capital, you essentially have an economic lever to lever up, and leverage that, which is just economic power and energy, to be even more more energy, more power.

This is why it is true that let us say your grandparents bought a house in Beverly Hills like 50 years ago or 100 years ago, and your parents got married in that backyard in Beverly Hills, and then you got married in the same backyard, that is real generational wealth, the generational lever. 

Just thinking consider let us say that I have 300 bitcoins, and then Seneca grows up and is like 36 years old, and he decides to have kids. Obviously when it is worth like $10 billion or something,  and it just magically yields money, obviously he could continue to leverage that. And so can his kids kids kids. 

The Spartan investor

So we hear stories of Warren Buffett, living the same old house, driving the old same Honda Accord whatever, and then just spending all day reading the newspaper investing in the markets, and then becoming like the third world’s richest man, all at the age of 80 or 90 years old, but you’re old sick fat and tired, still eating McDonald’s and drinking Coca-Colas.

Warren Buffett is not a good example. Even he was a skeptic and critic of bitcoin.

I think the hard thing is everyone uses Warren Buffet as an example, but for my general sense, given the fact that he has invested heavily into Coca-Cola, he is no better than people who invest in fill up Morris evil cigarette and now vaping corporation, to spin a certain profit.

I am anti Warren Buffett 

The truth is everyone wants to be as rich as Warren Buffett but nobody actually wants to become Warren Buffett. Do you know anybody in the given universe who wants to be that old fat sick and unshapely? 

Instead, I’m much better idea is to be as jacked as King Leonidas, Gerald Butler in the movie 300, all while being a billionaire. My vision is essentially having the hard spartan body, naked and super fucking jacked, and also… this is the critical one; insanely Spartan and frugal, surprising everyone that you drive a Toyota Prius, even though you could afford like 200 cyber trucks.

Now is the time to start living!

I think what I have discovered finally at the age of 36, is that with bitcoin, this changes everything. Why? Before bitcoin has finally hit mass adoption, and now that starting next year January 2025 will be a year one of bitcoin institutional adoption, what that means is having a bitcoin is like having a cyber truck or Lamborghini on steroids, but on a digital wheel. 

Bitcoin is the ultimate economic wheel!

1 Bitcoin for your 1 cybertruck? No thank you.

This is my visual: I was at the park yesterday with Seneca, playing with him at night, just having the house key in my front pocket, no phone no nothing not even my camera, and we’re just playing around in the tot lot, kicking around some bark, and I had the funny thoughts; would I trade a bitcoin for a Tesla? Maybe a cybertruck?

But actually the other day I jumped into a cybertruck and I was a little bit underwhelmed; the funny thing about the cybertruck is that it looks so flashy and awesome from the outside, but on the inside once you actually step into it, it is a bit underwhelming; it doesn’t really feel that different from sitting inside a Honda Accord or a Toyota Camry.

Maybe it would be different if you were homeless and just owned a cybertruck and just slept in the trunk bed, but beyond this, I think cyber truck is one of those funny things that you could just admire it from the outside, without actually having to own it. And if anything, the real thing to just wait for or save up for is the cybertaxi, which could just shuttle your kid to baseball practice, or take your wife directly to campus or work through the grueling 405 morning commute traffic.

Bitcoin is the new ground floor and peg.

Anyways, now, my calculus is simple; I think of everything in context to bitcoin.

For example, whenever I critically look and asses these things, I think to myself,

How many bitcoins could I buy with this thing? 

For example I was just trolling around with the finance calculator for the Tesla website, and still the cheapest Tesla model 3, base edition, after taxes and even after the federal rebate, will still run you around $40-$45,000 out the door. And no this is the cheapest version! This is like half a bitcoin or a third of a bitcoin. I’d rather take the bitcoin which is going to $13 million, rather than the Tesla car which is going to zero.

Accretive or dilutive? 

A new line of thinking I’ve also been thinking about is this general idea of accretive vs dilutive; that means, is this thing that I’m interested in, will it increase value, a.k.a. go up in value, or go down in value?

Obviously bitcoin is gonna continue to increase in value because more people find it to be valuable.

We got a Bitcoin president

Volatile doesn’t mean risky.

So I think now that Trump is president, bitcoin at this point is in my mind, practically 100% cemented and certain to go up forever. However as I mentioned in my prior essay, the philosophy of volatility, to reach higher highs you gotta reach lower lows?

So assuming that you just took snapshots every year, at random high points year over year, you will find that bitcoin is the insanely obvious choice. With enough hindsight, with enough 20-20 you can see and determine and ascertain that in fact, bitcoin is by far the winning bet, nearly a trillion-fold obvious decision! It has insane volatility which means it goes up and down a lot, constantly, but the cool thing is that it will essentially go up forever!

And this is like volatility, it is like having a hypercharger or a supercharger in your engine; more power or more velocity, more extremes to reach higher performance.

For example if you think about the velocity of a roller coaster; what makes it fun is precisely the highs and lows. If you take one of those boring kid ones, which is pretty much steady, it is insanely boring. Why? The thrills of the roller coaster– once again we are the adrenaline junkies!

Practical strategies

OK… if you want the ultimate blend of safety with high-yield, my suggestion is 90% of your capital into bitcoin,  and 10% into microstrategy stock (MSTR). This is what I personally do.

Why? Essentially you could treat microstrategy stock like your cash; it keeps going up in value, and actually in fact goes up quicker than bitcoin; although it is a security, a stock that you don’t really “own”, like bitcoin which is digital property.

Bitcoin is the first thing you could truly own. 

I love Michael Saylor and microstrategy to death, I have like literally watched and listen to every single Michael Saylor podcast interview available out there, I also read his book the mobile wave, and I’ve tried to consume every single piece of literature or thing that Michael Saylor has put out there. I also watched his recent earnings call, and watching it all in all, almost like watching a rockstar.

However at the end of the day once again, the name of the game is to accumulate and acquire more bitcoins. He or she with the most bitcoins, or the entity with the most bitcoins shall win.

---

America bitcoin first strategy

So a simple thought to the Trump bitcoin administration and beyond;

First, America must be the bitcoin leader. We must be the nation with the most bitcoin in our treasury reserves.

Sent you the basic ideas like we are creating the next bitcoin Fort Knox; we must dominate every other nation in terms of the number of our bitcoin holdings, kind of like imagine military power, but bitcoin as cyber power.

For example let us assume that the US Navy has strategic military dominance over the planet. And let us assume that our military power is at least 10,000 X to that mainland China.

So in theory in terms of numbers, America must supersede mainland China in our bitcoin holdings. By at least a factor of 10,000X.

I think even Donald Trump joked that maybe we could even use some of our bitcoin to pay back our national debt?

I think actually the more interesting strategy is we hoard our bitcoins forever, until the end of time, and instead, I don’t know… Someone with some good economic wizardry could figure out how we could leverage our debt in intelligent ways so we could actually pay back our debt without having to sell bitcoin.

And once again… I think this is the main idea on my mind right now — we can continue to accumulate bitcoin, stack bitcoin, etc.,  and figure out how we leverage borrowing cheap money or debt from other banks entities, to make money?

---

Being positively polarized to capital 

My has enjoy an interest; give me all your capital, and I will invest it and grow it for you!

Eric@erickim.com

---

Cyber Capital

So the reason why I think this is such a big deal is that finally, with bitcoin, we have finally crossed the chasm. What this means is finally, in the year 2024 and beyond, capital is finally cyber. What this means is next frontier of capital is practically infinite. 

Let me explicate this a bit more on why this is such a big deal:

So it looks like traditionally, the last frontier of making money and wealth was companies. Why? With technology, finally you were able to break free a little bit of physical limitations. For example, with Google Amazon Facebook etc., you were able to finally cross the digital divide which means that you could actually Feel all things in assets digitally, like digital advertisements digital value etc. Yet the different nuance is still… Capital was not yet in the digital realm. For example even though Amazon Facebook Google and the big tech companies could create value digitally through cyber space in cyber networks, there was no Internet native money or capital in which they could store their value.

For example all the big companies, we’re still reliant on JP Morgan Chase to custody their US dollars and field currency the treasury reserve assets etc.

But starting January of next year 2025… This will all change.

ERIC

---

On creating your own opinion

Video podcast

The ears of Odysseus:

I think the hard thing in today’s world is to create and form and formulate your own opinion. I think the big issue is now, with an over abundance of information data words on the Internet etc.… It is almost entirely impossible to create your own opinion, to own your own opinion.

Also, on some ethical friends; it is actually kind of considered unethical to have your own opinion which is not packed by data facts etc.

Issue is when it comes ethics owning your opinion… Ethics is not rooted in data facts science etc. Rather it is something deeper, more philosophical, deeper harder, more incorruptible. 

The ethics of owning your own opinion

My personal reading intake is that in today’s world, it is actually considered unethical to have your own opinion. Why? In a world hijacked by academics, constipated fat academics  with PhD‘s, political commentators, economists with zero real life skills or sense, and also, in a nation prevailing with Judeo-Christian ethics, the general sentence and thought is that one is not permitted to own their own opinion. Why? Man has made small, insignificant, and the bias is that he must always quote others to gain any sort of legitimacy.

I think America might be a little bit less bad than other nations, like for example in South Korea, people are very very foolish in terms of believing any random person with some sort of fake PhD or MD on YouTube. At least Americans are a little bit more discerning, but honestly the average American is no better.

For example, most people have the propensity to be suckered by fake news all the time. Even my mom told me about how Tesla and Elon Musk announced selling some sort of $6500 modular home, and also a Tesla phone, I actually heard it from at least two people; and then I actually did the research and that it was some sort of fake news.

I think the problematic thing is that actually, all news is fake. Even the real news. Why? Anything which incentivize more clicks, more ad revenue, the better.

Why?

So once again, the grant question; why? Why does it matter, what is the significance,?

First, the ethics of it, the significance of it all.

Opinion, to opine, means to think. 

Op, to choose, to believe.

So why does this all matter?

First, I think when we really think about this very very deeply, very very critically, this is what determines everything.

First, the critical thing to consider is that your opinion is everything. There is nothing on the planet which is actually worth more than your opinion.

Second, I think the difficult thing about politics and much of modern day technology stuff, social media social media networks is that everyone is monetarily and economically incentivized to have you believe a certain way. If you dig deep enough, they’re almost always seems to be some sort of money making scam somewhere.

Trust nobody who has to pay a mortgage.

In fact, I wonder if half of the evils of society is from people who have to pay their mortgages. Just watched the film thank you for smoking, Nick Naylor the fake tobacco spokesman, does his job to pay the mortgage on his divorce wife’s house, to support his kid, and also to support his own New York City penthouse and his BMW.

Even think about these evil corporations like Philip Morris, which positively gives people lung cancer and everyone knows it. Same with the evil Coca-Cola corporation. They might just throw up their hands and say “I gotta pay my kids tuition for their private school, or I gotta pay the mortgage“. I called BS; far more after the call to rent instead. And just drive an old Toyota Prius, and not compromise any of your ethics.

ethics are expensive 

I think this is quite a lot of falls don’t understand; and maybe also… The reason why nobody has a strong sense of ethics and morality; it is expensive, very expensive. Expensive in terms of what to forgo, sacrifices, and often… Economic money sacrifices.

So for example, most people will not outwardly come out and speak their mind because if they really really speak what is really really on their mind, they might lose their funding their money their income etc. To me very very shocking that the rapper “DaBaby” essentially was made irrelevant, after a random joke he did about guys who like to suck penises? Come on… he’s from the hood…  and he obviously has zero training in political speech, critically correct speech. And then I find all these followers so fake; y’all listen to his gangsta music yet the second he makes a joke about gay people, you suddenly try to crucify him?

Anyways, the more important thing to consider and think ultimately as long as you’re employed by any other entity which is not yourself, you are in a fragile position. You’ll never ever ever really really really have the chance to 100% on your own opinion once again, You will have to consider your family first.

Even Socrates, when Athens the century jailed him and forced him to commit suicide and drink the poison, a lot of people told him to think about his family his kids etc. But it seems that he didn’t really care for his kids or his wife, who seemed terrible.

So in some sense, Socrates is not a good example, and also he was ugly. 

What is the upside of owning your own opinion?

Truth be told, there is not really a social economic payoff for owning your own opinion. By owning your own opinion, suddenly you will not be showered with US dollars magically being deposited into your checking account.

To me this is where bitcoin is so interesting… Assuming you just keep stacking bitcoins, and accumulating it, or microstrategy stock or whatever,  then, you will know that you’re at peace to just keep doing as you please, paying the bills, paying your rent, and being able to own your own opinion.

For example, a very very simple strategy that I have to essentially have infinite money at least to pay your rent, even if you live in Los Angeles, or somewhere more expensive, let us say that your rent is $3200 a month. I currently have around $150,000 of microstrategy stock, which is about 10% of my total market capitalization of bitcoin, and what I do is I keep writing up micro strategy stock, which I believe will go up to $2000 a share, which is almost 10X from here,  and what you do is every month or so… At the end of the month or whatever, you could just slowly drain and sell $3200 worth of stock, and just use that to pay your rent or whatever. And then the stock will keep going up forever, so essentially you’re just using $150,000 of capital, which is not that much, and you could live off of that forever even in sunny in Los Angeles.

Even crazier,  considering that you could live in Hanoi Vietnam in the north for only $320 USD a month ,,, then, the truth is there’s really nothing holding you back.

---

Life goals?

This is where I think things are interesting because ultimately when we really really think critically, you gotta keep asking yourself a question, ultimately, what is it that you really care for?

Surprisingly for myself, walking might be my number one critical passion?

The word “opinion” traces its origins back to Latin and has evolved through several languages before entering English.

1. Latin Origin: The term originates from the Latin word opinio, which means “opinion, conjecture, supposition, belief.” This noun is derived from the Latin verb opinari, meaning “to think, judge, suppose.”

2. Proto-Indo-European Root: The Latin opinari is believed to come from the Proto-Indo-European root *op-, which means “to choose” or “to believe.” This root emphasizes the act of choosing or selecting a belief among various possibilities.

3. Old French Influence: The Latin opinio evolved into the Old French word opinion during the Middle Ages. Old French was a significant conduit for Latin words entering the English language after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.

4. Middle English Adoption: The Old French opinion was adopted into Middle English as opinion around the 14th century. It retained its meaning related to personal beliefs or judgments not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

Summary:

• Latin: opinio (opinion, belief) ← opinari (to think, suppose)

• Proto-Indo-European: *op- (to choose, believe)

• Old French: opinion (opinion)

• Middle English: opinion (belief, judgment)

The evolution of “opinion” reflects the human practice of forming beliefs and judgments by choosing among different ideas or interpretations.

Podcast

Opinion audio

On creating your own opinion

The ears of Odysseus:

I think the hard thing in today’s world is to create and form and formulate your own opinion. I think the big issue is now, with an over abundance of information data words on the Internet etc.… It is almost entirely impossible to create your own opinion, to own your own opinion.

Also, on some ethical friends; it is actually kind of considered unethical to have your own opinion which is not packed by data facts etc.

Issue is when it comes ethics owning your opinion… Ethics is not rooted in data facts science etc. Rather it is something deeper, more philosophical, deeper harder, more incorruptible. 

Maybe ,, the goal ain’t to have more US DOLLARS in our banking or checking account, but more shares ,,, more Bitcoin?