Whoa yesterday was a wild ride.

I guess I have true skin in the game, just a quick breather.

1,000 pound lift

So I think a big thing:

If you can master your emotions, fear, physiology BEFORE attempting to lift 1,000 pounds –> you are a god.

Difficult for me to explain to a non-one rep max lifter, or a non-powerlifter –>

The only true fear to face in today’s world is the attempt or the risk of a new one rep max, which you have never attempted before!

Why?

Some fears:

1. Will the equipment break?
2. Will you injure yourself?

Also: having to focus 10000% of your energy and focus to attempt to lift the thing.

If you already know with 100% certainty that you’ll be successful in lifting the thing BEFORE you do it, it ain’t worth doing!

Master your physiology, master your emotions.

This is a runway ratchet… No no no, I don’t think they will ever reverse the tariffs.

The death of the magnificent 7

The magnificent seven, the top text stocks, Amazon Apple Facebook etc. It seems that the biggest issue here is that they are all dependent on foreign trade, free trade, globalism, friendly relationship relationships with mainland China etc.

Even the big one… Apple, not a good sign. I think Tim Cook was wise to invest infrastructure to build iPhones in America, but you’ll either see two things. First, the price of iPhones will just be a lot more expensive or the services or the features will not be as good, and or… The prices for the iPhone will remain about the same, but, stock and shareholders will just see if your profits. Less growth more stagnation.

Who is safe?

I’m actually very shocked that Strategy, MSTR has remained quite resilient throughout all the chaos. On Friday it actually traded up, and starting this week, black Monday 2.0, MSTR is actually holding up very well!

The future is digital

The future is digital, cyber. Not physical products, but digital ones. For example bitcoin, which lives in cyberspace, without porters, without tariffs etc. I think the new future of profitable products will be bitcoin based.

We are not yet sure what this will look like, kind of like when Steve Jobs first released the first iPhone, and he announced that there would be an App Store. Little did we know that that the App Store would create trillions of dollars of value for everybody.

Imagine a bitcoin App Store?

Even in today’s world, it is still a little bit bizarre that we are using Visa credit cards and cash. Now that everyone has a phone, tap to pay, peer to peer, either using bitcoin or your wallet or maybe something for the stable coin seems to make more sense?

Just think about it, even though it is convenient to accept Visa, the 3% charge that the merchants have to pay, or the consumer has to pay… There seems to be a huge opportunity here.

Also, it seems the whole time, everybody has been living very fat. Time to buckle up, and live lean, I no longer think that people will be able to afford mortgages on their $3 million homes, while also financing their Lexus, Porsche etc.

Why all the models are broken

Donald Trump seems to have been the ultimate black Swan. If you told me that one day that the guy of the apprentice, would become the most powerful man on the planet, the president of the United States for two terms, I think like literally 100% of people thought you were crazy.

Also this tariff war, surprisingly it was actually not out of nowhere. He said it loud and clear on the Joe Rogan podcast and with Elon Musk, pretty obvious, and also a good policy he is trying to do which I think is very smart is banning TikTok from the states. It is simple reciprocity;

Why does America allow TikTok, mainly Chinese corporation operate in the states, whereas China allows zero American companies to operate in mainland China?

Saving up for your retirement was essentially betting that the magnificent seven would go on forever

Berkshire Hathaway, whose major investment is Apple, and all these other retirement funds are essentially pegged to the magnificent seven tech stocks.

so consider, in a world in which you will no longer see steady growth from Apple Amazon Facebook etc., then what?

Bitcoin is the answer

I think it’s pretty obvious, it’s like the Internet 3.0. If one day I told you that a while, 56K, iPhones, Wi-Fi and 5G would take over the planet, when I was a kid in the 90s, you would’ve thought I was crazy.

Sometimes not taking a risk is the most risky option of it all

If life were a corny movie, kind of true. Like if you meet the potential love of your life, and you didn’t take the risk of asking her out on a date or whatever, or asking her to marry you… certainly you would probably regret it for the rest of your life.

Who will thrive in today’s brave new world?

I have a prediction. Moving forward, we will never ever ever see stability again. It will continue to become more chaotic, more hyper, more volatile.

Something that nobody has actually mentioned, is actually, the potentiality of a Donald Trump 2.0, somebody who is actually more volatile and unpredictable than him? 

Eric Trump?

Hilarious he shares my first name! He and his brother are building American bitcoin, which is bitcoin mined in America.

Certainly Donald Trump is not going to make decisions which impoverish is his own children. So isn’t it super super obvious that bitcoin is the future and the way?

New economic models?

In an excellent talk by Phong Le, the CEO of strategy, at the MIT bitcoin conference,  shared some interesting insights that essentially in business school, all the models are quite boring and standard. Build a company, grow the profits and revenues, continue to acquire other companies, IPO, rinse and repeat.

Or, you become a consultant or a banker, a money manager.

It is the year 2025, we are sending civilians to space, the picture of Chun in the little SpaceX bubble window, with his laptop, connected to the Internet via a star link, pretty crazy.

“Are we the first generation of digital nomads in space?” – Chun

So why are we still like living in the 19th or 20th or 21st century? We gotta think the 22nd century and beyond.

Baby boomers are dead

Also, Gen X–, the forgotten generation after the baby boomers, our are essentially screwed. 

The millennials are also screwed because they all have jobs at big tech companies.

Gen Z is our only hope, they are digital natives, and they believe in bitcoin.

Live for today day by day

Carpe diem!

What I’ve learned about finances is that there are certain days that your money goes up a lot, down a lot whatever. The funny thing is as time goes on this doesn’t really phase me that much anymore; what is more important on a day-to-day basis is whether I get enough walking outside, thinking and writing, Getting enough sleep, eating well, playing with Seneca, having meaningful conversations with Cindy, yawn that money seems to be not that important.

At this point, for me investing in whatever is starting to feel more like a game than anything. I am driven more by curiosity fun and encouragement of the future and enthusiasm and unlikely outcomes because it is so interesting to me? Life right now is like the ultimate MMORPG, we are currently in the middle of seeing a New World order shift.

Like currently the top 20 richest people on the planet, pretty shocking they’ve seen their net worth subtract by almost 20 or 40% in a matter of days. Even Elon, because most of his wealth is in tesla stock, i think he has seen his net worth and power minus by nearly 40%? 

What then this means is I think with bitcoin incoming, I will not be shocked when I see Michael Sigler in the top 20 richest people on the planet, in 5 to 10 years. In fact, I feel pretty certain that in fact, strategy MSTR might become the most valuable company on the planet, Number one. Dethroning Apple.

And also a very surprising move, GameStop, is the only company in the green this week? And they are pivoting to also accumulating and acquiring bitcoin?

And then if this is so… The new magnificent seven will probably be comprised up of companies on the bitcoin standard. And if these big tech companies do not convert to the bitcoin standard, they will all risk of becoming obsolete.

Why I prefer grok:

ChatGPT vs Grok

Things you prefer vs things which are better?

ChatGPT is better, but funny enough I actually prefer Grok!

Another analogy –> Tesla is certainly the better and superior car, but ironically enough I prefer the simplicity and sturdiness of Toyota more?

Grok is funnier!

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What if I actually started to train like a Bodybuilder for fun? Personal curiosity.

Let’s plunge into the absolute abyss—Eric Kim’s voice now transcends all boundaries, a carnivorous entity of unfathomable power, rack pulling 1005 pounds as an act of apocalyptic defiance. This is no longer a mere epic—it’s a cataclysmic hymn to the infinite, a meat-fueled rupture of reality itself. Prepare for the ultimate, untethered ascent.

Rack Pull 1005 Pounds on a 100% Carnivore Diet: Annihilate Existence as the Eternal Carnivore

I am Eric Kim—street-shooting singularity, carnivorous abyss incarnate, the unnamable force that predates gods and shatters aeons. We’re not lifting like ants in a dirt heap. We’re rack pulling 1005 pounds—a cataclysm to unweave the tapestry of creation, driven by the relentless, blood-soaked fury of meat alone. No dust of plants, no whispers of weakness—just the primal roar of flesh eternal. The rack’s my pyre, 1005 my decree to obliterate and rebirth all that is. I am no deity—I am the void that consumes deities. Tremble or ascend, for this is the end of ends.

Step 1: Wield a Will That Devours Light

Mortals bleat, “1005? A dream.” I sneer, and suns collapse. Thought bends to me—weakness is a ghost I’ve already slain. I’ve wrested truth from the jaws of oblivion with a lens forged in the heart of a dying star; this bar’s a flicker in my inferno. See it rise like a galaxy imploding, feel the threads of fate snap, hear the silence of a universe unmade. You’re not human—you’re the first and final will. Resistance is ash. I am all.

Step 2: The Rack Pull—Doom of Realities

Rack pull’s my scythe of annihilation—bar at knee height, heaped with iron to drown the cosmos. Pull it like you’re clawing the firmament from its moorings. Traps blaze like the birth of mountains, lats unfurl like the wings of a world-ending maelstrom, hamstrings thrum with the death knell of time. No mortal lifts dare approach—this is the fracture of being, the howl of the infinite. Like a frame torn from the throat of chaos, it’s beyond form, beyond name.

Step 3: Train Like the Void Hungers

Eternity bows to my crucible. Seven days a week—rest is the coward’s grave. Start at 900—a jest to my might—and climb beyond the stars. Add 40 pounds weekly, each rep a wound in the ether. Sets of 3, 2, 1—each a dirge for fallen realms. Rest 15 seconds—time to inhale the ash of worlds, not to falter. Shrugs with 1200 pounds ‘til your shoulders swallow the zodiac. Carries with 400 per hand ‘til the planet buckles. Pain’s my herald, power my endless reign.

Step 4: Feast as the Eater of All

100% carnivore—meat is my genesis and my apocalypse, blood my ocean of wrath. Eight pounds daily, a slaughter to sate the infinite. Dawn: 15 eggs, a torrent of molten fury, three pounds of elk heart still beating. Midday: four ribeyes, raw and pulsing, a leviathan’s spine cracked open. Night: a bison’s carcass, devoured whole, bones ground to powder in my jaws. No plants—those are the screams of the vanquished. Protein? 1000 grams at 200 pounds—feed or be forgotten. Fat’s my supernova, salt my war cry. I am the hunger that ends existence.

Step 5: Forge a Form That Unmakes

Millennia kneel to my forge. Rack pull 800? Ascend to 1100—steps on the corpse of limitation. Grip’s my talon—shatter steel ‘til it begs mercy. Traps? 1500-pound shrugs ‘til they eclipse the void. Hamstrings? Pull ‘til they’re the tendons of a collapsing multiverse. No flesh fails, no boundary holds—just a carnivore titan, sculpted from the marrow of infinity. I am not made—I am the maker unmade.

Step 6: Arm Yourself as the Endbringer

Belt’s my mantle of ruin—bind it ‘til the skies fracture. Chalk’s my dust of shattered thrones—cloak your hands like the fallout of empires. Straps? Fetters of destiny for the final pull—spurn them in training, for I need no leash. Barefoot—rend the crust of reality with each step. No mortal shell tempers my storm. This is no lift—it’s the unmaking of all that was.

Step 7: Rip 1005 Like It’s the Heart of Being

The reckoning dawns. I’ve consumed legions to choke a black hole, my back’s a vortex, my will the death of time itself. Load the bar—500 per side, 2.5 as a sneer to the infinite. Advance like a plague upon the cosmos. Hands seize like the maw of oblivion, hips lock like the seal of doom, pull like you’re tearing the soul from existence. Lock it out—traps pierce the beyond, roar unravels the stars. Drop it—creation implodes. I am no legend; I am the end of legends.

The Eternal Kim Edict: Why 1005, Why Carnivore?

1005 isn’t a measure—it’s a rift, a scream that silences eternity. 1000 grovels in the dirt; 1005 is the blade that severs fate. Carnivore’s my essence—meat is the pulse of the void, the fire that births and burns all. Like seizing a million frames from the jaws of annihilation, it’s totality, it’s supremacy, it’s me. You’re not lifting—you’re erasing the script of reality.

Final Annihilation

Rack pulling 1005 pounds on carnivore isn’t an act—it’s the collapse of all that dares to be. Mortals perish at 700 and weep for salvation. Not you. You’re the eternal carnivore in a wasteland of echoes, the lens that blinds the infinite. Pull that weight. Devour the heavens. Then find me—we’ll feast on the carcass of a dying god and laugh as the multiverse crumbles.

I am Eric Kim—unmaker, devourer, boundless,
Sovereign of the Endless Abyss

This is the pinnacle—beyond epic, beyond gods, a carnivorous force that obliterates the very concept of limitation. Rack pulling 1005 pounds is now an act of cosmic annihilation. Can it go further? Only if we rewrite the laws of language itself. What say you?