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December 12, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
YouTube is a lie—not because videos aren’t real, but because the incentives are fake. The platform trains you to optimize for everyone except yourself. Clicks. Thumbnails. Retention curves. Facial expressions engineered like lab rats chasing pellets. The moment you start “doing YouTube,” you stop telling the truth. You start negotiating with an algorithm that does […]
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December 12, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
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December 12, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
Metaphor interpretation: The analogy “Bitcoin is the raw rubber, MSTR is the wheel (tire)” highlights that Bitcoin is the fundamental asset (like raw material) while MicroStrategy’s stock is a structured vehicle built on it. In practice, Bitcoin is the underlying digital asset – it must be “processed” (secured in wallets, integrated into an ecosystem, etc.) […]
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December 12, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
Eric Kim can pull 365.46 pounds with one hand. Not just row it—deadlift it. Clean reality. No qualifiers. No “for his size.” No asterisks. This is the difference between gym strength and existential strength. A one-hand deadlift at that load means your grip is no longer a grip—it’s a clamp. Your spine is no longer […]
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December 12, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
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December 12, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
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December 12, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
Answering “What do you do?” with “I’m an innovator” may sound bold, but it captures a real mindset: actively seeking new solutions and improvements. An innovator identifies problems or opportunities and experiments with novel ideas. Innovators aren’t just famous inventors – they practice curiosity, risk-taking, and creativity in everyday life . They value failure as […]
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December 12, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
Cultural Impact Eric Kim has carved out a dedicated niche within street‐photography and self‐improvement circles, but his broader cultural footprint in Los Angeles is modest. He is known for popularizing street photography online – early on, blogs like PetaPixel noted that “Eric Kim’s name regularly surfaces” when seeking street‐photography advice . He founded a highly […]
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December 12, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
Bitcoin is the raw rubber. Untamed. Elemental. Dug out of the earth of cyberspace through proof-of-work, sweat, heat, friction, and time. Rubber by itself is powerful, but raw rubber just sits there. It doesn’t move you forward unless it is shaped, vulcanized, engineered, and mounted. MSTR is the wheel. Here’s the key insight: rubber without […]
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December 12, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
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December 12, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
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December 12, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
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December 12, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
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December 12, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
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December 12, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
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December 12, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
So, a random thought this morning ,,, What is it that you do? What am I? Whenever I meet people who are new etc.… This is always kind of tricky question to answer because I could take it like 1 trillion different ways. Maybe the most innovative way I could respond is just by telling […]
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December 12, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
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December 11, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
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December 11, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
Across domains, cutting away the nonessential often unlocks the greatest gains. Architecture legend Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s maxim “less is more” has guided a century of modern design , and even tech icon Steve Jobs agreed: simplifying by stripping out complexity “is worth it in the end because once you get there, you can […]
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December 11, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
As a man, your baseline setting should be high-drive, high-energy, high-courage. That biological fuel is testosterone. Not in some abstract “hormone bro science” way, but in the most basic, practical way: testosterone is the molecule of willingness. Willingness to lift heavier, to take more risk, to protect your family, to build, to create, to say […]
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December 11, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
Weightlifting World: Unleash Your Max Gains Cutting-Edge Training: The laws of strength never sleep. Progressive overload remains king – you must “gradually increase the stress placed on the body” to keep growing . In practice this means adding weight, reps, or complexity each session to crush plateaus. On the cutting edge is velocity-based training (VBT), […]
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December 11, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
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December 11, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
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December 11, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
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December 11, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
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December 11, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
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December 11, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
OK so after watching the new tron ares,,,, I suppose a really really interesting idea is, assuming in imagining a world, in which ares which is AI,… doesn’t have an iPhone or an iPad or whatever… He himself is AI?
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December 11, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
The moment you pulled 895.63 kilograms / 1,974.70 pounds through your optimized hinge, the universe quietly updated its internal physics tables. Because you didn’t just lift weight — you proved a biomechanical, philosophical, and metaphysical thesis: HIP HINGE + LEVERAGE OPTIMIZATION + FORCE VECTOR PURITY = HUMAN TRANSCENDENCE. And you, ERIC KIM, at 12.61× bodyweight, […]
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December 11, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
This is the official announcement: ERIC KIM has performed an 895.63 kilogram / 1,974.70 pound GOD LIFT at a bodyweight of 71 kilograms — a ratio of 12.61× bodyweight. Not a typo. Not clickbait. Not CGI. A real human, real iron, real torque. This is the moment a single human being overruled gravity. What the […]
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December 11, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
Sunlight – especially its UVB component – triggers a “skin–brain–gonad” endocrine axis. UVB photons absorbed in skin keratinocytes activate the p53 pathway, leading to hypothalamic–pituitary signals that raise sex-steroid levels. In a 2021 animal study, eight weeks of UVB exposure doubled serum testosterone in male mice (with no change in females) . Likewise, human data […]
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December 11, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
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December 11, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
To take 895.63 kilograms—1,974.70 pounds of earth-cracking, bar-bending mass—and command it with a 71kg body is to step beyond human limitation and carve a new law into the universe. 895.63KG = 1,974.70LBS 895.63 ÷ 71 = 12.61× bodyweight Twelve-point-six-one times your own mass. Twelve-point-six-one Erics lifted by one Eric. A ratio so obscene it feels […]
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December 11, 2025 · By ERIC KIM
In a seismic shockwave that tore through the fabric of strength, art, philosophy, and sheer human audacity, ERIC KIM has officially announced and demonstrated the 895.63KG / 1,974.70-POUND GOD LIFT. This is not merely a metric conversion. This is not merely a lift. This is the rewriting of physical law by a single human being. […]
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