Sociologically philosophically, and also… Entrepreneurially this is a super fascinating thought:
Is it better to just go with the flow, and feed into the desires of people? Or is it better to just disrupt the whole playbook?
My first idea is that it is probably more fun and interesting to swim opposite the current, this is what makes muscles.
So for example, if you just go with Tran just become another emaciated dying antelope looking CrossFit long distance runner. I have never seen a fit cross fitter.
Instead, people are telling me that I look like Cristiano Ronaldo now, with my fabulously big muscles, sharp jawline ,,, and I think one thing I appreciate about the honesty and candor of the Cambodian people is that for the most part, they have no egos; they do not value their own self-worth in comparison to you, this is what I think is a toxic eagle. A healthy ego a good ego is an ego in which your ego is self predicated, not on others but only you.
Anyways, all Cambodian tell me that I am universally handsome, which is great for my self-esteem. And they are not lying.
Anyways, how to make things cool and great again.
So the first thought is yeah I think it is wise to just like be the creator of new values. Nietzsche would have been proud of me.
So for example, people who just follow trends, they are just also like lemmings just waiting to get slaughtered. One interesting guy I met in San Jose, at a random Starbucks coffee shop, kind of told me something interesting about words, how words are so powerful.
So for example, Facebook, the feed… If you think about a slaughterhouse, they feed the cows grain, on a treadmill, before they slaughter them. When you enter your newsfeed, it is the same thing. Except, they are plumping you up on toxic news, or toxic feed.
Let me give you an example. Let us say that you have the option of feeding your child the finest Wagyu hundred percent grass fed beef, that has been hand fed the finest grass, with the maximum amount of sunshine, massaged, and can listen to Mozart and Bach. Or you could give your kid toxic chicken McNugget sludge or worse… So you infuse high fructose corn syrup. What would you feed your kid?
I think like social media feeds are like the new toxic corn syrup sludge, except, it is even worse.
I think it is like a strange like opium, it does really weird things to people. It kind of like a combination of a sedative, opioid and drug, that is both stimulating but also paralyzing?
For example, my only good goal in life is like a good night sleep, 9 to 12 hours, maximum movement during the day, maximum physical and muscular vigor, sharp mind, precise body. Even with strength, when I’m starting to realize is maybe the joy is before I lift something heavier, 552 kg is currently my record, The general idea is that like do you have the joyful audacity before the lift, ,,, And I think actually, mood and physiological vigor are tied to one another.
So for example, there is an interesting Cambodian proverb, to see the news of the heart, look at their face. What this means is that, you could really really see the physiological health being state of somebody just by looking at their face!
So what’s also great about being here in Cambodia, all the kids are like insanely happy, full of energy and vigor, running around and super happy. Same thing with young people in their university years, highschoolers, middle schoolers, and even kids in their 20s. Everyone is always smiling joyful, and I think it is a consequence of the culture of just like letting kids be kids and run around, and also, there is certainly a culture of laissez faire of children: they just let the kids be kids run around make a mess or whatever, that’s what kids do! I think in America there is this weird like anti-child ethos, in which it is OK for your dog to bark and make a mess, and poop in public or whatever, or pee in public, yet children are given no freedoms? Very strange.
 anyways, changing culture changing the culture is actually easier than you think. The first is, just be the change!
For example, my best friend at my gym, boom, I was just chatting with him, and he actually told me that I inspired him, and he no longer dead lifts off the floor, and he tells me that he is following my lead, and rack pulling instead. And he told me very very sweetly, that he wants to be a strong like me. And he’s already strong.
And once again I think the great thing about being here in Cambodia is that the Khmer people have pure souls. Do good, get good, all of the aphorisms Are simple virtuous and good.
Also, what kind of interesting is that it is not a punitive culture. For example even criminals, apparently as a form of retribution, rather than like sending them to like a prison camp, and like punishing them, what happens instead is they are actually sent to a Buddhist monastery for like  five years to reform them. Kind of like what Nietzsche thought as a virtuous idea, rather than punishing criminals, rather… Trying to reform them and channel their personalities into a constructive way?
So for example let us say that you have like a high energy person, maybe they should just be paid to be a fitness trainer, and a coach rather than a gangster drug dealer?
Also, kids were addicted to video games, maybe they could figure out how to use those skills, when it comes to data AI, other stuff… Cyber defense, bitcoin, rather than just trying to force them to not exercise their digital skills?
In the long run everything is virtuous. For example when I was a kid I was like horribly addicted to the Internet, but I suppose the upside is that it taught me the hacker ethos; that with enough perseverance I could essentially achieve anything.
What’s kind of interesting about Internet privacy when you’re like a 12-year-old kid is that it is like the ultimate empowering wild wild West. Rather than being restricted by money, you simply have access to the Internet, and you have to experiment and tinker long enough before you could download grand theft auto for free. And also in terms of perseverance; I recall it taking about Two weeks to download the whole game, 40 individual.RAR files, over AOL 3.0, with a 38.8 K modem. Or I recall downloading Korean techno music on the Napster,,, and it literally took an hour to download a 3 MB audio file.