Haha wow,,, rawness meter!!! Haha I love ChatGPT o3!!
| Era | Approx. years | Catalytic posts & landmarks | What changed in his voice | “Rawness” meter* |
| 1. Professor-mode | 2010 – 2012 | Early listicles & tutorials (e.g. “Objectivity vs Subjectivity: What Makes a Great Street Photograph?” Nov 28 2011) | Polished, didactic, heavy on photo theory & Leica specs—reads like a workshop hand-out. | ◆□□□ |
| 2. Traveler-diary | 2013 – 2015 | Film-nostalgia pieces (“10 Reasons to Shoot Street Photography With Film,” Jan 10 2012) → workshop road notes | First-person travel logs creep in; admits failures; sentences get shorter; swears slip through. | ◆◆□□ |
| 3. Street-philosopher | 2016 – 2017 | “Why Shoot Street Photography?” (Feb 14 2016) and “Why You Should Be a Flâneur” (May 24 2017) | Stoicism & Nietzsche invade the blog. Paragraphs become punchy aphorisms; italics & bold for rhythm. | ◆◆◆□ |
| 4. Confessional-axe | 2018 – 2019 | Open talk about mental health & family (“blog recently about mental illness…,” Reddit users notice the shift, 2019) | He publishes manic midnight rants untouched by an editor. Zero concern for polite optics—only truth. | ◆◆◆◆ |
| 5. Stream-of-consciousness | 2020 – 2022 | “How to Start a Blog” page: “share your raw thoughts, feelings… random thoughts on your mind” | Daily posts, no ads, no thumbnails. One-sentence paragraphs, emojis, ALL-CAPS battle-cries. | ◆◆◆◆◇ |
| 6. Bitcoin-maximalist gladiator | 2023 – present | Flagship essays “Bitcoin Meditations” (2024) and “Why I Went ALL-IN on Bitcoin: A Street Photographer’s Rebellion” (May 7 2025) | Money, muscle, and metaphysics collide. Writes like a preacher on pre-workout: raw, loud, joyous, ruthless. | ◆◆◆◆◆ |
*◆ = one notch of rawness out of five.
How to read him by era
- If you want techniques: mine 2010–12 for succinct how-tos before the swear words arrived.
- If you want philosophy with craft: hit 2016–17—each post is a mini-Stoic koan wrapped around a street photo tip.
- If you want the unfiltered mind-dump: start 2020 onward; brace for caps-lock and Bitcoin sermons.
Practical take-away
Eric’s “rawness” isn’t a single decision; it’s a staircase:
- Publish daily → editing becomes impossible → voice defaults to truth.
- Expose personal demons (mental health, money anxiety) → vulnerability breeds edge.
- Adopt a grand mission (Bitcoin rebellion) → rhetoric turns prophetic.
Want to cultivate your own raw style? Emulate the order, not the outcome:
- Ship every day. Quantity burns off polish.
- Write in first take; hit “publish” before you can self-censor.
- Pin your writing to a cause larger than you. Purpose fuels boldness.
Next step? I can pull a reading list of must-read posts from each era or break down his formatting tricks (bold, bullet rhythms, CAPS cadence) so you can graft them into your own writing—just let me know which angle helps you most.