ZEN ETHOS,,, within a zen body, lies a zen mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No no no, you don\u2019t got to shave your head, adopt a vegetarian diet, and get rid of your iPhone. To me, I envision a more muscular and strong type of Zen warrior monk, part street photographer, part zen stoic samurai Spartan 300 warrior. \ufffc\ufffc not somebody who throws away his wealth but, rather\u2026 Stacks it as Zen capital, Bitcoin, \u2026 and has no use of the money but, always keeps it in store ready to deploy whenever he or she needs it, kind of like John Wick, bearing his gold coins under the cement of his basement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So one really interesting idea I have is Zen capital, which is bitcoin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The interesting idea I have is, which is still taking a long time for me to think through it\u2026 Not even AI is intelligent or wise enough to help me flush through the ideas is, if you just buy bitcoin on Coinbase, and you have the borrow feature, then, you could post your bitcoin as collateral, and essentially \u201ccash out\u201d, whenever you want to. Without selling the principal, and also without a taxable event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then this becomes kind of insane because\u2026 You essentially have an infinite piggy bank, you could buy anything whenever, and then you kind of realize this deep insight,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nalmost nothing is worth it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
To me the only thing worth money spending is perhaps travel, living abroad, flight expenses, etc. No vehicle, no device no watch, not even Camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s so funny because it was always my dream to get a Lamborghini but, once you could afford it, and then, you realize the whole time\u2026 You essentially have been suckered by some sort of low testosterone loser notion that you could essentially purchase your masculinity and increase your penis size and your sex appeal \ufffc by purchasing a vehicle which is essentially just a wheelchair on steroids? Even the fun and the funny epiphany I had:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nbetter to transform your body into a Lamborghini rather than purchase one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Elon Musk is a loser<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
I say this with great love because, I\u2019m like actually the biggest Elon Musk pin boy that I know. But I think the big issue here is once again\u2026 He\u2019s essentially kind of a nerd. Like the kids you probably made fun of in school in high school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think the problem that I have is, doesn\u2019t really care about health or physical fitness or his body. I think a lot of people in that segment somehow I think that your life your human life can just be qualified into calories in calories out, and thinking of your body has some sort of static computational machine, rather than seeing it as a sort of sublime, majestic dynamic creature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And truth be told, I think one of the big insights that I have in philosophy is, the whole goal is to become yourself not somebody else. When people say oh, how do I become more like so-and-so, it\u2019s kind of the wrong question, better question is, how can I become more of myself?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Becoming yourself<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
This is also another great insight that I have is, ultimately the goal is to be calm yourself. I think this takes a long time, because\u2026 99% of your life is just removing nonsense from your brain, all these fake sociological desires etc., all notions of what is virtuous and what is not. In fact, perhaps my strongest strength is, thinking first principles, thinking philosophical, thinking independently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s funny because, the Biaz in today\u2019s world is we are trying to teach critical thinking but, maybe it\u2019s actually not critical thinking we\u2019re trying to teach but independent thinking. What\u2019s the difference?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you have ChatGPT pro, can you just turn on deep research mode, or you throw more power at it, it will probably critically think really deeply about deep questions for a long time before giving an answer. Like for example, when trying to answer difficult questions ChatGPT will too deep research for like 20 or 30 minutes or so,\ufffc before giving you some sort of answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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