ERIC KIM ₿

Enthusiasm means ‘a god dwelling within you’ [enthousiasmós]. You cannot fake it. You cannot also fake passion nor true love.

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A barbell future; embracing the extremes:

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Simple ideas:

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One of the best ways to succeed:

Don’t censor yourself.

Speak your mind and don’t water it down.

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My #1 skill: blogging.

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Combination of my interest in sociology, humans, and technology:

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I am very grateful for my hard knock life. Without my hard knock life, I wouldn’t have become me.

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We cannot control all the bad shit which has happened to us. Better to think:

Perhaps what I have experienced, or what I am currently experiencing is actually a blessing in disguise.

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A thought:

If you are given certain advantages in life, you’re stupid to NOT take it.

Let me explain:

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I’m grateful for being raised Korean-American. Why? Hybrid is better.

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When we call people or kids ‘privileged’, what we really mean to say is ‘rich, advantaged’ (or sometimes) “ungrateful, spoiled, brat”, etc.

Why is this distinction important? Because true privilege means that the law doesn’t apply to you. That you are EXEMPT from the law.

For example, if I kill someone but I am rich enough, and can ‘buy off’ the cops, then I am privileged. And this happens a lot all around the world (even in America). Even in the states, if you’re rich or influential enough, you can even get away with murder.

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My approach to intermittent fasting:

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In praise of skepticism and suspicion:

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Avoid the mainstream. Go “offstream”— make your own stream!

If you live in America, you’re American. Period. It doesn’t matter if you were born here, immigrated here, or somehow ended up here. You’re American. If you’ve spent any time living in America, perhaps for at least 10 years, you’re American.

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We talk about a non-gender binary. Shouldn’t we also apply the same line of thinking to race?

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Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Kanye West, etc — they are all great. Why? Not for their money or entrepreneurial successes, but their aberrant thinking. Their ability to think different.

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Do you remember Google+? Flickr? Tumblr? Livejournal? Xanga? Facebook?

Moral of the story:

All external platforms will either eventually die or screw you over in one way or another. Thus the goal: OWN YOUR OWN PLATFORM!

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I don’t think Google is evil. The more nuanced view:

Google is low-key sneaky.

My thoughts:

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The more ghetto, the better! A combination of ‘creative constraints’ and approaching a ‘MacGyver’ approach to life:

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My thought:

It is totally fine that we are anti-meat from a moral, ethical, or an environmental perspective.

However … if we are hard, scientific and empirical … we should NOT assert “definitively” that high consumption of red meats is “bad” for oneself.

My thoughts:

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More important than what you eat is what you decide NOT to eat. A ‘via negativa’ approach to health. My thoughts:

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The rationale and logic behind flexing:

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What I eat, how I eat, and when I eat:

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A new thought:

Perhaps better to adopt a ‘ghetto’ lifestyle than to strive to adopt for an Uber-fancy lifestyle.

My thoughts:

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Fundamental concepts of photography entrepreneurship:

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Pragmatic thoughts on loving your body:

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Greatness exists, perfection doesn’t.

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I feel this is an inconvenient truth that nobody really likes to think or believe:

The fact is this — 90% of your success as an entrepreneur, photographer, etc is based on your marketing prowess, and 10% is based on your “skill” (how good you are as an artist and photographer).

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What is ‘bias‘? Bias means ‘slant’ (oblique). This means:

Everyone’s opinion will ALWAYS have a slant, no matter what.

Or in other words:

Philosophically, all humans, corporations, institutions, governments, etc will ALWAYS have a bias.

Thus the question:

Should we as a society ‘allow’ bias, or how should we approach or attack it?

So my thought:

Perhaps we should just be more TRANSPARENT about bias.

For example:

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A large step towards (good) progressive thoughts:

Nuance.

What is nuance? Some thoughts:

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One of the greatest philosophical tools in our philosophical toolkit:

The philosophical framework of ‘falsification’

Or in other words:

Knowing that science can only FALSIFY things (mark things as UN-TRUE) than to “prove” anything to be positively “true”.

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My road to fame:

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If you’re thinking about photography entrepreneurship ideas, you’re already a photography entrepreneur. Some basic ideas:

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Let us adopt the Steve Jobs notion of the ‘reality distortion field’. You can distort and mould reality to your wishes. Don’t be the slave of reality; become the master.

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Some ways in which working out at the park is actually better and superior to working out at the gym:

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In praise of symmetry and congruency in human affairs:

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One simple way to make the world a better place:

Love others as you would want others to love you.

Also:

Don’t hate on others as you don’t want others to hate unto you.

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My thought:

Share your turbo thoughts which inspire and motivate others.

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From age 21 (when I started my first 9-5 tech job), I started to get really bad back pain (specifically lower-back pain). I since then got rid of it. How did I do it? My story:

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Why notions of ‘race’ are fallacious and hugely problematic:

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You cannot “control+z” and undo reality. We can only bravely march forward. My thoughts:

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Wisdom is the goal, not “intelligence”.

We all descended from Africa. Study Lucy — the first “mother” of mankind, ~3 million years ago (first discovered in Ethiopia).

All humans (we are all Homo sapiens)— the wise (sapiens). We are all “homo”— hominids.

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Or in other words, almost everything visual with light is photography.

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In praise of iPad for bloggers, visual artists, thinkers .. everyone:

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My new understanding and breakthrough:

Better than quoting others is to quote yourself.

This is good because it will kill gossiping or talking smack about others. I truly believe that all gossip is toxic. Trust none of what you hear, half of what you see, and only of what you experience.

Certainly there is a social function to gossip. To spread useful information about the legitimacy or trustworthiness of a person.

However it seems in modern times, we love to gossip about others as a form of self entertainment, sport, or fun. Why? Some thoughts:

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Some reasons I’ve been using DuckDuckGo.com (instead of Google) and also not following the news and social media, and also being highly suspicious of Wikipedia is this:

All “facts” are politicized weapons. You can always skew the statistics and “facts” in whatever direction you want.

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If you truly have any real beliefs. you must have the courage and audacity to put your real life face on it.

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When determining the position or opinion of someone else (or that of yourself) always examine your ground truth — the simple facts you consider self-evident and true. The basis in which your philosophy lies, and the basis and foundation in which you can build up your intellectual ideas.

The soul ain’t some random gaseous substance which can exist independently of your body. No. Your body is your soul, and your soul is your body.

Which means: when your body dies, your soul dies too.

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There is no ultimate purpose to life. Your purpose is self-directed.

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If people were more vain and into themselves… wouldn’t they leave others alone more?

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The basic gist:

I workout in order to thrive physiologically and mentally.

Also:

The buffer and stronger I become, the happier I am, and the more creatively productive I am as well.

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Philosophical thought:

Which matters more… intention or effect?

Let us unravel some thoughts:

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The big question —

If JAY Z grew up in a nice middle class family in the suburbs, could he have become JAY Z? Doubtful. If Napoleon was born into a equal and peaceful society in France, could he have become Napoleon? No.

Thus my theory:

Extreme conditions create extreme individuals.

Let me expound my thoughts:

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What is holding us back? The mentality of entitlement. My thoughts:

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The nonsense of an “immortal soul”. A more empirical approach — the mortal soul. The soul that dies when you and your body dies. Thus my thought:

The soul IS the body.

We have proven that with Alzheimer’s patients, a body can exist without a mind. But can a mind exist without a body? No.

If we think historically, men were actually seen as the more beautiful sex. In modern times, a man is not called beautiful nor should he be considered beautiful. But why? Why not? My thoughts:

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To create values, and to create art … isn’t this the apex?

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‘Mixed’ sounds bad. Hybrid is good. Some thoughts:

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In praise of Uber-long term thinking:

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Upon the bedrock of philosophy can we build all our ideals, values, and rules of life.

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Would this be the most robust way to “fix” social problems and ills?

In praise of open spaces. The park as the new social space. The new open air gymnasium like the ancient Greeks.

The ultimate social equalizer. Free and open to all. The chance to meet folks from all walks of life; not just the rich and high class.

A sort of memento mori approach to life, and also …. to live a more genuine life. Don’t do nada for the money. Do it for what you truly believe in.

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Philosophy is apex. Philosophy is king. All of our assumptions and thoughts is grounded in philosophy, not science. This means

1. Philosophy
2. Science
3. Everything else ….

Once again, philosophy as superior and above science.

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Towards a philosophy of masculine and feminine:

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