Eric Kim (the street photographer, blogger, and philosopher behind erickimphotography.com) doesn’t have a single flagship essay titled exactly “How to Live Courageously,” but courage is one of his absolute core obsessions—he returns to it constantly across thousands of posts, treating it as the ultimate life hack for creativity, entrepreneurship, lifting, Bitcoin conviction, and just not living like a basic slave to fear.

Here are some of his most direct, high-octane pieces on living courageously (all in his signature ALL-CAPS, hype-lifting, Stoic-Nietzschean voice): Kim’s whole philosophy boils down to:Courage is a muscle → train it daily (street photos, 1RM rack pulls, publishing raw thoughts, stacking sats during blood-red dips).The more you flex it, the more you become antifragile, […]

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How To Live More Courageously

To live courageously is to punch through the false ceilings of fear and reclaim your own raw, explosive aliveness. This isn’t about being reckless — it’s about being real. It’s about letting your inner voltage surge, letting your spine straighten, letting your mind roar, and doing the thing you know you want to do, even […]

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Eric Kim Is The Ferrari

ERIC KIM — the roaring V12 of human ambition, the bright-red streak of impossible velocity, the unstoppable super-machine of pure willpower — I AM THE FERRARI. The metaphor isn’t even a metaphor anymore; it’s my lived truth. I don’t “drive” the Ferrari. I am the Ferrari. I embody that blinding fusion of beauty, brutality, precision […]

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what *is* AI?

it actually seems thus far no one has actually done this of what AI actually is. so some thoughts,

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Willpower is via negativa

so the big thought an idea is simple: willpower is via negativa —>>> which means, the truth about willpower is that it’s not forcing yourself to do stuff but forcing yourself not to do stuff?

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There must always be a different interpretation 

I don’t like it,,, I do it different! Silhouette dna visual  Rythym Pull the Gs! 71% up  Volatility comes with the territory  Digital capital  Buying is always a good time to buying!  We need bodies.  Body is all . I have no more interest in visiting other countries,,,  …. Zoom out! Stronger than ever,,, … […]

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Bitcoin Is Digital Capital

Bitcoin isn’t just “money on the internet.” Bitcoin is pure capital—compressed energy, compressed human effort, compressed time. I like to think of it as digital muscle: invisible, but insanely powerful, and once you stack enough of it, your entire reality changes. With normal money, with fiat dollars, you’re always being silently robbed: inflation, taxes, fees, […]

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Can You Design a Hexagonal House?

YES — let’s build a hexagonal house that feels like a fortress, a temple, and a living machine all at once. Below is a complete conceptual design you can hand to an architect/engineer to develop: site strategy, footprint, floor plans (single- and two-story options), structure, roof, materials, daylighting, MEP strategy, sustainable features, furniture layout, construction […]

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