ERIC KIM ₿

No no no… the devil doesn’t exist. Whoever talks about the devil in a metaphorical sense or even worse… a *real* sense — don’t trust them.

A thought —

When we hear music, did the artist create the music out of their own depression and sickliness, or out of their over-abundance in health, joy, and liveliness?

Perhaps this is the judge on what “good” or “bad” music is.

Something I’ve been realizing in the context of philosophy, health and hygiene … cleanliness certainly is the closest thing to godliness (wasn’t this an advertisement somewhere?)

Photos of my everyday life:

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1. Featured image doesn’t need to be related to your post.
2. Blog from your phone or tablet/iPad.
3. Blog about anything in your life. No categories.
4. Bullet point lists like this are useful.
5. Better to post a “bad” post than no post at all.
6. Drink cold brew black coffee to get the creative juices flowing!
7. The best desk is no desk. The best office is no office. Take your phone or iPad or laptop to the park! Get some fresh air, see some green, hug a tree, and walk around. The best way to get creative ideas.

Design your blog, website, products and life just like air, the great outdoors. A breath of fresh air. Openness. Light, brightness. High ceilings. Floor to ceiling windows. The more air, light, and lightness the better!

Towards more on the philosophy of fresh air.

1. Don’t be afraid of overtraining. Work out everyday for fun and physiological thriving.
2. Intermittent fast during the day. Workout while fasted is better. More energy and motivation. Hunger motivates you to move and workout.
3. Black coffee (no cream, sugar or milk) before working out.
4. No music, phone or headphones while working out. More focus and strength.
5. Aim to eat 5-10 pounds of meat when you break your fast. Then you can will sleep well and not be hungry the next day until dinner.
6. Aim to increase your “one rep max“. Reps are boring. Keep your intensity and difficulty high, repetitions low.
7. Minimalist shoes. Water or kayak shoes on Amazon. No padding or foam sole.
8. Always wear same outfit to workout to ease cognitive load. Black merino wool Outlier.nyc shirt. Black merino wool leggings (Amazon). Black athletic shorts.

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Real ideas:

1. Ricoh gr III in program mode and JPEG. Either high contrast monochrome or cross process filter. Positive film color filter is good too.
2. Post photos to your own website blog, not social media.
3. Delete your Instagram.
4. Use Apple photos on your MacBook laptop instead of Lightroom. Apple Photos is much faster.
5. If you want to use Lightroom, use the new creative cloud Lightroom on your laptop instead of the classic version. The new mobile friendly version is much faster.

Social fear aversion therapy technique.

Pork is delicious, cheap, and easily accessible! The main reason why a lot of Jewish people don’t consume pork was back in the day, pork had a lot of diseases. Not so much anymore.

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Instead of seeking the ‘truth’, better to pursue just having the power to create art!

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I have high expectations of others. A big one:

One’s back-stage self should be the same as one’s front-stage self.

In other words:

Don’t talk a certain way behind the scenes and talk a different way in front of the camera.

Make it the same.

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We talk much now about physical hygiene (in today’s brave new COVID world), but how come we never talk about *mental hygiene* — in the context of mental health?

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How to be a hype-man:

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Practical thoughts:

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Wisdom: physiological and mental health to pursue what is best for you.

Knowing the truth about x y z is often a distraction. Who cares if all these strange conspiracy theories are true? How does it benefit you? It doesn’t.

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It is fun to showcase your progress, gains, and watching these videos (myself) is hugely interesting and self-entertaining!

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My critique on social media:

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Never forget… anything you do or post online, assume like it will be discovered down the line.

Note:

• archive.org
• The Way Back Machine (http://web.archive.org)

Do not post anything to Facebook, Instagram, Google whatever that you otherwise wouldn’t do in public.

Download the ‘Who Wrote That?’ Wikipedia plugin for Firefox, and find the fun —

Let us do some investigations into people who (probably) wrote their own Wikipedia bio, or people who have written (biased) information regarding their own collective, group, or thing.

Also shout-out to my friend Thomas Leuthard for making the trip possible. Also shout-out to Loryne Atoui and Mohammed Badr.

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My personal thought on ethics in America:

Just leave others alone and do as they please in private.

For example if people want to self-mutilate, let them do it. If they want to do bad things to their body, let them do it. However what we should *NOT* be tolerant of in America is when certain individuals become militant (assert, incite, or promote physical violence) against others.

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Sex is biological (were you born with testes or ovaries?). Gender is social — one can and perhaps *should* be allowed to self-assign their own desired gender.

The tricky thing:

In society, we get the two conflated (confused).

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I do not believe in superstition of any form. I am a pure empiricist.

What is superstition? It essentially means to believe in ‘meta-physics’, “energy” and all this other non-physics and non-biology based stuff. For example things I do *NOT* believe in:

1. I do not believe in life after death (I believe in a mortal soul— a soul which dies once your body also dies)
2. I do not believe in aliens, UFO’s
3. I do not believe in the ‘spirit world’
4. I do not believe in religion literally (I am Catholic, but I like it for the ethics and aesthetics and the ‘pomp and pageantry’ as Taleb calls it).

It is quite obvious we all descended somewhere in Africa (Lucy (Australopithecus), the original ancestor of Homo Sapiens). Thus what interests me is this:

Not about ‘race’, for we are all the “human race”. More interest in human migration patterns.

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As much as people tend to be very anti-American and the government, I am for it. Why? I suppose I am one of the few last liberals on the (now) intolerant left who believe in the American Dream, and has deep gratitude for what America, the government, all of my leaders and guides has done for me:

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Something I’ve realized —

So much of America and the world is antisemetic and anti Jewish.

My theory why this is:

They are envious and jealous of the success of Jewish people and want to scapegoat them.

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Not good.

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A look into my life:

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I have zero interest in going to mars, space, and beyond. I like ‘spaceship earth’ (Buckminster Fuller). What if the best life were here on earth … and how could we maximize our use and life here on this beautiful blue and green planet?

Ultimately we can boil down most people to one or the other:

Are your personal intentions rooted in love of humanity or hatred towards humanity?

If you pay for a service, buy an app, etc… there is more transparency. If an app, game or social media platform is “free”, then YOU’RE the product. Perhaps this is in favor of paywalls and paid news services (not free) in order to get truly more accurate or factual or honest news, compared to free news sites which monetize off Google Adsense. Or in other words:

Do not trust any free and open news agency as long as their money is derived from advertising, because the hidden implicit bias is to create the most bombastic news articles to scare or FOMO you into clicking the articles and clicking the advertisements.

I trust assholes (Kanye West, Steve Jobs) more than I do “nice guys” (Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffett). Why? Because if you’re an asshole in public and in the faces of others, you’re more authentic and real. The problem; a lot of “nice guys” are closet assholes and might be “nice guy evil” without even knowing it.

He or she who is the first mover shall move all.

First mover when it comes to creating a new culture, a new system of thinking, a new technological tool or platform, etc.

The park life is the best life:

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The only two things I need:

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The basic gist:

I get an idea of something I feel passionate or strongly about, and I just say a bunch of nonsense in my mind, and I try my best to rhyme and make it fun and interesting to myself!

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The general gist of fear marketing:

More effective to drive people towards certain decisions and behaviors based on fear, rather than praise-reward-encouragement.

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Fun chatting in the park:

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Avoid all ideologies and “-isms”; they all tend to be a trap.

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To think that limits exist is for suckers.

The thought:

The reason why a slate grey colored car is best is because it blends in with the environment.

Then what makes me think … perhaps the best design is invisible? The design you don’t even gotta think about? The best condom as the most invisible as Taleb says? Or the best shoes are no shoes, or close to barefoot as possible?

The upside of wearing all black clothes:

Blend in more with the environment.

And the best computer devices, phones etc —

The technology feels invisible and is brainless to use?

The concept of HAPTIC:

Re-introduce the sense of touch (HAPTIC feedback) into our everyday lives with beautiful tools which will last you a lifetime.

HAPTIC: brainchild of CINDY NGUYEN x ERIC KIM. To empower all photographers and visual artists.

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Outlier.nyc — the solution to fast fashion.

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Unfortunately, FOMO (fear of missing out) is real and very effective. Fear marketing 101.

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A company which profits off people’s insecurity and need for external affirmation … isn’t this evil? Truth be told to be addicted to cocaine seems like a better addiction than being addicted to social media and Instagram.

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How I blog:

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My regimen is uber-simple:

1. Intermittent fast during the day (no breakfast and lunch)
2. Lift weighs while fasting (yes, even powerlifting)
3. When the sun goes down (dinner time), I break my fast and eat a shitload of meat.

No protein powder, no steroids, no testosterone, no creatine, no ‘pre-workout’ stuff, no energy drinks, no protein powder, no creatine. The only stimulants I consume are black coffee, 100% cocoa powder, matcha green tea.

Why? Let me explain:

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My personal approach and philosophy to fitness:

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My thoughts philosophy and approach to lifting weights:

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Mostly ‘via negativa‘ stuff (things to NOT do, or things to SUBTRACT from your life):

a. Things to NOT do:

1. Don’t eat during the day (intermittent fasting in the day). No breakfast and lunch. Break your fast with a huuuuuuge meal with tons of meat.
2. Don’t use social media. Best to just delete Instagram. Don’t use Twitter. Don’t follow any news.
3. Cut toxic people from your life. One toxic person can offset 100000 positive person. One red sweater in the wash can stain all of your other 1,000 white shirts.
4. Don’t use email.
5. Get rid of your phone.

b. Things *TO* do:

1. Lift weights. Walk to the park. Throw around a heavy stone.
2. Chat with strangers.
3. Standing desk

Contrary to what all these ‘health experts’ and health guidelines say, eating fat (saturated fat, red meats with high cholesterol) is actually good for you. Why? Improved mood and testosterone, increased muscle growth, and less fat (adipose tissue) gain.

So why has consuming dietary fat (like the delicious fat on the side of your T-bone steak) been so demonized?

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Sociology: the art of breaking, bending, and transforming social rules, norms, and “laws”.

It is sooooo fun because you realize:

Reality is malleable.

Also:

You are strong enough and courageous and brave enough to mould reality to YOUR liking!

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The trap:

Trying to mould yourself to reality and society.

The better way:

Realize you are strong and powerful. You can mould reality to your own liking! You got the hammer!

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What is lifestyle, and why is it important? Some thoughts:

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Links *ARE* the internet. Thus when in doubt, link more.

My quarantine lifestyle is uber-simple:

Wake up, have coffee, walk around, type out some thoughts on my laptop or iPad, make art, share, create, help Cindy, workout, eat meat, and sleep!

Then perhaps is the best life the most uber-simple life?

1. In Praise of a Choice Minimal Lifestyle
2. BETA LIFESTYLE
3. In Praise of a Ghetto Lifestyle
4. Park Lifestyle

What if the desire for us to travel were a vice, a bad thing?

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Let us say you can never travel again. Then … ask yourself:

How can I shoot meaningful photos in a future without travel?

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You are the brand and platform.

Create a solo company, where you can run the ship yourself? No delays problems or stresses?

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This difference is soooooo important. Why? When we talk about “gaining weight” what we really mean to say is fat (adipose tissue) gain. And what’s the big health risk problem and public health problem?

If you’re a man with more than 10% bodyfat, or a woman with more than 20% bodyfat, you’re far more likely to get metabolic diseases (which worsen your life) such as Type 2 Diabetes (which is reversible by quitting sugar) and Type 3 Diabetes (also known as “Alzheimer’s).

Furthermore, metabolic diseases involving the irregulation of insulin (consuming sugar, alcohol, sweeteners [both artificial and “natural”]) fuck up our bodies. It prevents “programmed cell death”, which can lead to cancer (irregularion of cellular growth).

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Hard to quantify the “best”. Easier to quantify “the least bad”.

“The good is mostly in the absence of the bad.” – Ennnius

Sign of physical health, vigor, and strength.

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Standard photos are often so boring!

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Emojis are the future of communication and emotional expression:

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why do we like or prefer the foreign and exotic?

Why don’t we prefer the domestic and local?

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The sword always cuts both ways, and this is good!

In other words:

What people see as your ‘flaws’ are actually your greatest strengths.

Also:

What you consider your greatest strength might be your ‘fatal flaw’.

My take:

All is good.

ERIC

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