ZEN ETHOS,,, within a zen body, lies a zen mind.
Where are the zen monks get it wrong
No no no, you don’t 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.  not somebody who throws away his wealth but, rather… Stacks it as Zen capital, Bitcoin, … 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.
zen capital
So one really interesting idea I have is Zen capital, which is bitcoin.
The interesting idea I have is, which is still taking a long time for me to think through it… 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 “cash out”, whenever you want to. Without selling the principal, and also without a taxable event.
Then this becomes kind of insane because… You essentially have an infinite piggy bank, you could buy anything whenever, and then you kind of realize this deep insight,
almost nothing is worth it.
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.
It’s 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… 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  by purchasing a vehicle which is essentially just a wheelchair on steroids? Even the fun and the funny epiphany I had:
better to transform your body into a Lamborghini rather than purchase one.
Elon Musk is a loser
I say this with great love because, I’m like actually the biggest Elon Musk pin boy that I know. But I think the big issue here is once again… He’s essentially kind of a nerd. Like the kids you probably made fun of in school in high school.
I think the problem that I have is, doesn’t 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.
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’s kind of the wrong question, better question is, how can I become more of myself?
Becoming yourself
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… 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.
It’s funny because, the Biaz in today’s world is we are trying to teach critical thinking but, maybe it’s actually not critical thinking we’re trying to teach but independent thinking. What’s the difference?
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, before giving you some sort of answer.
Think different
It’s kind of hilarious that Steve Jobs already kind of figured this out, almost like two decades ago. Think different.
Assuming that sooner or later all these kids are going to be using ChatGPT for everything, then, I think the thing to consider is, what will be the future of thinking, divergent thinking?
First, my idea is, in order to think different you just kind of need to stop consuming the ideas of other people. Or, being more skeptical or having more pride and or… Desiring to be different? 
I think my only criticism or critique of AI in general is, it just kind of makes everyone think the same. It is not going to give you a controversial answer because, what it does is synthesize all of the expert opinions, into an easily digestible, one size fits all situation, kind of like modern day healthcare which is wrong.
Why does this matter?
I take is, it’s kind of a sociological battle for the future of humanity. If you have a bunch of kids people human adults all think the same, all acting the same, the future is going to be pretty boring and lame.
Don’t we desire a more epic life and future, with more grandeur, and differentness? 
ERIC