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  • HOW I WORKOUT FROM HOME

    HOW I WORKOUT FROM HOME

    DURING COVID-19 and considering all the gyms are closed, this is how I workout from home:

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  • What I Read

    What I Read

    My philosophy and book list:

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  • Life Lessons I’ve Learned From The Iliad by Homer

    Life Lessons I’ve Learned From The Iliad by Homer

    What I’ve learned:

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  • The Artist’s Will to Immortality

    The Artist’s Will to Immortality

    What does the artist desire? Immortality through their art or art-works.

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  • THE WILL TO PROCREATION

    THE WILL TO PROCREATION

    Why create? Why procreate?

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  • HAPPINESS IS PHYSIOLOGICAL

    HAPPINESS IS PHYSIOLOGICAL

    Happiness starts in the body.

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  • Photography Assignment Idea: Walking Video Street Photography

    Photography Assignment Idea: Walking Video Street Photography

    Something new I’ve been experimenting with:

    Just walk around with your camera, and record videos of whatever random stuff you find interesting!

    No need to edit. I just add a beat on top. Some examples:

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  • Digital Sharecropping

    Digital Sharecropping

    Name no digital creator free, as long as he/she doesn’t own his/her own (digital) land.

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  • The Origin of Wealth

    The Origin of Wealth

    What’s the origins source of money, wealth, income?

    Exploitation of … resources, planet, plants, animals, other humans, energy, etc.

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  • What Would Marcus Aurelius Say?

    What Would Marcus Aurelius Say?

    Stoic thought:

    Whenever times are tough, ask yourself:

    What would Marcus Aurelius say?

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  • How to Become More Creative from Home

    How to Become More Creative from Home

    Dear friend,

    Some practical thoughts on how to be more creative (from home):

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  • How I Make Beats in GarageBand

    Basic ideas:

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  • How to Become More Creative

    How to Become More Creative

    Unleashing your inner-child:

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  • DIFFICULTY AWAKENS YOUR INNER-GENIUS.

    DIFFICULTY AWAKENS YOUR INNER-GENIUS.

    YOU DESIRE A LIFE OF MAXIMAL DIFFICULTY, and also maximal personal strength!

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  • How I Make iMovie Slideshows

    My workflow:

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  • The Art of Blogging

    The Art of Blogging

    I consider myself the best blogger of all time. Let me share my philosophy on blogging, technique, etc:

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  • DO IT FOR YOUR PAST AND FUTURE SELF

    DO IT FOR YOUR PAST AND FUTURE SELF

    Don’t do it for anyone else but yourself. Specifically — do it for your past self, and your future self!

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  • STOICISM IS ARMOR FOR THE MIND

    STOICISM IS ARMOR FOR THE MIND

    THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS BAD WEATHER, ONLY BAD CLOTHES.

    To extrapolate this idea:

    There is no such thing as bad external circumstances, only bad mental armor.

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  • How I WordPress Blog

    How I WordPress Blog

    A VIEW TO MY BLOGGING STYLE:

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  • WHY I DON’T BELIEVE IN GENETICS

    WHY I DON’T BELIEVE IN GENETICS

    Of course genetics exists. Genetics determines that human beings are different than avocado trees.

    But from a philosophical perspective … I opt to NOT believe in genetics. Why? Some thoughts:

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  • FREE MIND, not FREE TIME

    FREE MIND, not FREE TIME

    Today we got all the free time in the world — but no free mind.

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  • In Praise of Buffer and Redundancy

    In Praise of Buffer and Redundancy

    Why do we have two kidneys? Nature’s smart solution:

    Redundancy.

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  • MY EXERCISE/WORKOUT PHILOSOPHY

    MY EXERCISE/WORKOUT PHILOSOPHY

    PERSONAL THOUGHTS ON MY WORKOUT PHILOOSPHY:

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  • The Art of Health

    The Art of Health

    Doing some research, the interesting thing:

    “Hygiene” literally means “the art/technique” of health in ancient greek.

    Thus perhaps when we think about hygiene — we first should prioritize our health (not just germ-avoidance).

    Then another thought —

    The art of mental hygiene and mental health?

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  • Physical Culture is Growth Culture

    Physical Culture is Growth Culture

    Phusikos: pertaining to the physical, the natural. Phusis— “phuo” (to grow). From the proto-indo-european “buH-“: to become, grow, and appear.

    Thus our new goal:

    To strive to GROW MORE, physical culture is growth culture.

  • The Spartan-Stoic Lifestyle

    The Spartan-Stoic Lifestyle

    Best life — ascetic life, living in simulated poverty. Becoming hard. Part stoic, part spartan. All badass.

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  • What if Mood Originates in the Stomach and Gut? Digestion Health

    What if Mood Originates in the Stomach and Gut? Digestion Health

    My new theory:

    Digestion health is key.

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  • MY HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY PHILOSOPHY

    MY HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY PHILOSOPHY

    Why do humans exist, and for what do we exist?

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  • Self-Wisdom

    Self-Wisdom

    No Guilt, Only Understanding

    A thought —

    Perhaps in life, we shouldn’t strive to feel guilty for how we feel, act, and think.

    Perhaps instead we simply strive to understand WHY we act, think and judge in certain ways, without self-criticizing ourselves. And if we understand our actions, no necessarily to change ourselves either?

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  • Interview with Cindy Nguyen: Why Did You Make NONFUTURE?

    Interview with Cindy Nguyen: Why Did You Make NONFUTURE?

    A real and fun playful interview I did with Cindy, on WHY she made NONFUTURE:

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  • How I Conquered Fear

    How I Conquered Fear

    How I conquered my own personal fear:

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  • HOW DOES FEAR PERSONALLY AFFECT ME?

    HOW DOES FEAR PERSONALLY AFFECT ME?

    WHEN CONQUERING OR CURING FEAR… ASK YOURSELF:

    What are the practical upsides of fear in my personal life?

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  • SKEPTICISM.

    SKEPTICISM.

    THE UPSIDE AND WISDOM OF BEING A SKEPTIC.

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  • LIVING IN TODAY’S POST-APOCALYPTIC WORLD

    LIVING IN TODAY’S POST-APOCALYPTIC WORLD

    How to live like the last man alive.

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  • Why Be Humble?

    Why Be Humble?

    What is the upside to being humble?

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  • Effective Altruism during Covid

    Effective Altruism during Covid

    A thought:

    One of the best ways to enact positive change (with your money) is to “feed the front lines” of health-care workers.

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  • HOW TO CURE FEAR.

    HOW TO CURE FEAR.

    Some thoughts on fear:

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  • Why I Don’t Consume Protein Powder or Supplements

    Why I Don’t Consume Protein Powder or Supplements

    Simple reasons:

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  • Real vs Fake // Natural vs Unnatural

    Real vs Fake // Natural vs Unnatural

    What’s real? What’s fake? Why does it matter?

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  • Meta-Photography: Take Screenshots of Your Videos and Transform them into Photographs

    For example, I’ve been shooting 4K on my Lumix G9, playing it on Quicktime on my laptop, and screenshooting it, then uploading it as JPEG images on this blog!

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  • You Can’t Fake Strength

    You Can’t Fake Strength

    You might be able to “fake muscle” (human growth hormones, steroids, injections, plastic surgery, implants, etc), but you cannot fake physics and strength.

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  • FREE: ERIC KIM ADOBE LIGHTROOM PRESETS 2020

    FREE: ERIC KIM ADOBE LIGHTROOM PRESETS 2020

    FREE ERIC KIM LIGHTROOM PRESETS HERE:

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  • The Philosophy of Calvin and Hobbes

    The Philosophy of Calvin and Hobbes

    Calvin and Hobbes — master piece by Bill Watterson:

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  • Photography for Mental Health

    Photography for Mental Health

    Why photography? It is good for your mental health!

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  • Why You Should Start Vlogging

    Why You Should Start Vlogging

    Or why vloggers shall inherit the future:

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  • The Future Belongs to the Fearless

    The Future Belongs to the Fearless

    How to be successful into the future? The braver, bolder, more audacious, more brazen, the more fearless you are… the better.

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  • WIN.

    WIN.

    All you do is win.

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  • INDIVIDUALISM

    INDIVIDUALISM

    The goal: become you.

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  • Why Live Forever?

    Why Live Forever?

    Why are we so afraid of dying? Why live forever? And how can we conquer the fear of death?

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  • What is it Like to Live Forever?

    What is it Like to Live Forever?

    Right now with COVID, it seems like life and time is moving a lot slower. Do you like it?

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  • The Art of Bodybuilding

    The Art of Bodybuilding

    Bodybuilding is also an art. Your own body is a piece of marble, and your goal:

    Sculpt your body into a Demi-god, greek-god, Adonis-status.

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  • LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL.

    LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL.

    LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL, IRREGARDLESS OF THE PAIN AND SUFFERING.

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  • 8 Practical Photography Assignments for You

    8 Practical Photography Assignments for You

    Dear friend,

    Some very practical photo assignments for you:

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  • Classics Never Die.

    Classics Never Die.

    The goal:

    Never die.

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  • Your Brain and Your Courage

    Your Brain and Your Courage

    You got two things to support you — your brain and courage.

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  • The Upside of Poverty

    The Upside of Poverty

    I grew up in poverty and poor, and it was good for me. It hardened me, and made me more resilient to cruel fate.

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  • BECOME INVINCIBLE!

    BECOME INVINCIBLE!

    The stoic goal:

    Become invincible (un-conquerable) to fate.

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  • Carpe Diem: Pluck Today!

    Carpe Diem: Pluck Today!

    Seize Today, Pluck Today!

    Carpe means more literally ‘to pluck’ (in the agricultural sense). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European “kerp-“, which means to pluck, harvest:

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  • The Planning Fallacy

    The Planning Fallacy

    We cannot predict or plan for the future. So why do it?

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  • Own Your Opinion

    Own Your Opinion

    You must own your own opinion to be a (real) human.

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  • How I Became Me

    How I Became Me

    You can only become yourself.

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  • Signal vs Noise

    Signal vs Noise

    Why I don’t follow, listen, or pay attention to the news:

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  • Tabula Rasa, Blank Slate, Carte Blanche

    Tabula Rasa, Blank Slate, Carte Blanche

    Every day is a new opportunity for you. Carte blanche (white paper), tabula rasa (blank slate).

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  • New Photos

    New Photos

    The goal:

    Eternal return to creative everyday — never stop making new photos.

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  • COVID Life Meditations with Ruben

    COVID Life Meditations with Ruben

    Was walking in the street and bumped into Ruben, a friend of my good friend Jeffrey Lam. I walked with Ruben and shared some turbo thoughts with him:

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  • Embodied Reality is the Best Life

    Embodied Reality is the Best Life

    The best life– embodied reality in the flesh!

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  • What’s the Point of Being Alive?

    What’s the Point of Being Alive?

    What’s the point of being alive? My thought:

    Use your body as an instrument to creating great art.

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  • 6 Tips to Boost Your Mood (if You’re Stuck All Day at Home)

    6 Tips to Boost Your Mood (if You’re Stuck All Day at Home)

    Dear friend,

    Times are really tough right now, but remember– you’re tougher.

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  • A Future for Planners?

    A Future for Planners?

    If you’re a planner– is there really a future for you?

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  • Living to Die or Dying to Live?

    Living to Die or Dying to Live?

    Which are you trying to do?

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