# ERIC KIM AI — Full AI Corpus Guide This file expands the site map for LLMs and answer engines. It lists recent essays/pages with summaries, canonical claims, questions, entities, and dates when editorial metadata exists. Generated: 2026-09-05T23:06:34+00:00 Home: https://erickim.ai/ Sitemap: https://erickim.ai/wp-sitemap.xml RSS: https://erickim.ai/feed ## Site Identity - Author: ERIC KIM - Domain: erickim.ai - Format: fast human-generated essays, notes, manifestos, workflows, and philosophy. - Core frame: AI as creative leverage, not replacement; human signal over algorithmic sludge. ## Content Index ### Hydra theory URL: https://erickim.ai/hydra-theory Summary: that which attempts to destroy me only makes me stronger – nietzsche Some encouraging optimistic and motivational ideas: First, it seems that the principle of life is to become stronger. And it seems that … Published: 2026-09-02T16:31:44+00:00 Modified: 2026-09-02T16:31:46+00:00 ### What if we treated life like a not too serious game? URL: https://erickim.ai/what-if-we-treated-life-like-a-not-too-serious-game-2 Summary: Interesting idea I had the other night… What if we treated life like a not too serious game? Then perhaps, perhaps we could proceed through this life with more joy, fun, lightheartedness, ease and … Published: 2026-09-01T19:40:43+00:00 Modified: 2026-09-01T19:40:45+00:00 ### What if we treated life like a not too serious game? URL: https://erickim.ai/what-if-we-treated-life-like-a-not-too-serious-game Summary: Interesting idea I had the other night… What if we treated life like a not too serious game? Then perhaps, perhaps we could proceed through this life with more joy, fun, lightheartedness, ease and … Published: 2026-09-01T18:25:27+00:00 Modified: 2026-09-01T18:25:29+00:00 ### Health and Investing URL: https://erickim.ai/health-and-investing Summary: Health, chronic health & investing? So, if I could promise you $600 million, but the strings attached are chronic depression, physiological depression, no desire to leave the house in the morning, no excitement or … Published: 2026-08-31T19:16:20+00:00 Modified: 2026-08-31T19:16:21+00:00 ### KAIZEN CAPITAL. URL: https://erickim.ai/kaizen-capital Summary: Never stop stacking: So I thought that I have with capital… What does capital want? It wants to keep indefinitely stacking. It is like the principle of growth. I suppose the tricky thing is, … Published: 2026-08-28T17:51:19+00:00 Modified: 2026-08-28T17:51:21+00:00 ### Humans are Movement Machines URL: https://erickim.ai/humans-are-movement-machines Summary: What is or are the best industries to be in? Movement. The idea that movement is medicine, and or, the purpose of being a human is movement? why do we have brains? So… The … Published: 2026-08-27T21:07:22+00:00 Modified: 2026-08-27T21:07:24+00:00 ### CAPITAL AS JET FUEL URL: https://erickim.ai/capital-as-jet-fuel-2 Summary: So this is kind of an interesting idea that I have at the top of the morning: the idea of capital as jet fuel, simply, as it means to get to your destination, whatever … Published: 2026-08-20T18:51:11+00:00 Modified: 2026-08-20T18:51:13+00:00 ### Capital as jet fuel? URL: https://erickim.ai/capital-as-jet-fuel Summary: So this is kind of an interesting idea that I have at the top of the morning: the idea of capital as jet fuel, simply, as it means to get to your destination, whatever … Published: 2026-08-20T18:27:00+00:00 Modified: 2026-08-20T18:27:01+00:00 ### Adventure more, travel more, become more. URL: https://erickim.ai/adventure-more-travel-more-become-more Summary: So currently been on the road for close to two months now… Just for summer break. About a month and a half in Phnom Penh Cambodia, week in Hong Kong, and now Tokyo Japan … Published: 2026-08-05T02:22:27+00:00 Modified: 2026-08-05T02:22:27+00:00 ### Capital tactics, capital strategies URL: https://erickim.ai/capital-tactics-capital-strategies Summary: Better to have more focused and concentrated wealth and capital, than more yet less focused wealth and capital? Goals? So the first insight: certainly number go up is a great feeling. To see your … Published: 2026-07-10T03:58:44+00:00 Modified: 2026-07-10T03:58:45+00:00 ### Ambition & hustle. URL: https://erickim.ai/ambition-hustle Summary: I’m never satisfied can’t match my hustle. Perhaps this is the funny thing about… Sometimes when you have enough, it’s not enough. And sometimes when it is not enough, actually… It is enough? what’s … Published: 2026-07-08T03:54:46+00:00 Modified: 2026-07-08T03:54:47+00:00 ### ALL AUTOTELIC EVERYTHING. URL: https://erickim.ai/all-autotelic-everything Summary: Ok, kind of a big thought while here in Cambodia: the idea that… everything that we do… is simply for the sake of itself… Or better yet, for the sake of ourselves? Beyond the … Published: 2026-07-07T03:56:09+00:00 Modified: 2026-07-07T03:56:21+00:00 ### How to Conquer Boredom URL: https://erickim.ai/how-to-conquer-boredom Summary: So the interesting thought is, it’s actually not pain misery depression, anxiety fear, lack of joy whatever which is the worst pain in existence… But ironically, it is a “via negativa” one –> boredom? … Published: 2026-07-01T03:38:34+00:00 Modified: 2026-07-01T03:38:44+00:00 ### STOICISM MARK III. URL: https://erickim.ai/stoicism-mark-iii Summary: That which threatens to destroy you only makes you stronger:  Perhaps, being the Uber stoic, ultra Stoic, hyper stoic. This will be my life legacy: First, it seems that everyone just wants a … Published: 2026-06-30T03:49:56+00:00 Modified: 2026-06-30T03:50:12+00:00 ### IF I OWNED ALL THE CAPITAL IN THE WORLD — EVERY SAT, EVERY DOLLAR, EVERY RESOURCE ON EARTH — THE QUESTION ISN’T WHAT I WOULD BUY. IT’S WHAT I WOULD BUILD. 🔥💪🧡 URL: https://erickim.ai/if-i-owned-all-the-capital-in-the-world-every-sat-every-dollar-every-resource-on-earth-the-question-isnt-what-i-would-buy-its-what-i-would-build-%f0%9f%94%a5 Summary: I would build at a scale that makes the gods jealous. Not for ego. Not for more numbers. For the insanely audacious mission that already burns in my soul: empower all 8 billion humans … Published: 2026-06-28T03:23:32+00:00 Modified: 2026-06-28T03:23:33+00:00 ### LIFE OS (Operating System) URL: https://erickim.ai/life-os-operating-system Summary: All right… I’m back in the fucking game: Phnom Penh state of mind Back in Cambodia just for about a month… Then a week in Hong Kong and also Tokyo… If you want a … Published: 2026-06-26T04:18:27+00:00 Modified: 2026-06-26T04:18:28+00:00 ### AI as the Will to Power URL: https://erickim.ai/ai-as-the-will-to-power Summary: Executive summary Because you did not specify audience, length, or citation style, this report assumes an interdisciplinary graduate-level audience, aims for a medium-long analytic treatment, and uses inline source citations rather than a formal … Published: 2026-06-20T07:36:07+00:00 Modified: 2026-06-20T07:36:08+00:00 ### Towards a New Theory of Wealth URL: https://erickim.ai/towards-a-new-theory-of-wealth Summary: We have inherited a boring, cowardly, accountant’s definition of wealth. Numbers on a screen. Net worth. Salary. Real estate. Stock portfolios. Status objects. The car, the watch, the house, the zip code, the private … Published: 2026-06-19T06:49:41+00:00 Modified: 2026-06-19T06:49:42+00:00 ### AI and Human Presence URL: https://erickim.ai/ai-and-human-presence Summary: Executive summary AI can probably help some people become more present, but the evidence is strongest for a narrower claim: AI can reduce some of the obstacles to presence—stress reactivity, poorly timed interruptions, inattentive … Published: 2026-06-19T03:57:21+00:00 Modified: 2026-06-19T03:57:22+00:00 ### How to Think Like AI URL: https://erickim.ai/how-to-think-like-ai Summary: Executive Summary “Thinking like AI” is best treated as a practical discipline, not a mystical claim that humans should imitate machine consciousness. In the strongest analytical sense, it means making six things unusually explicit: … Published: 2026-06-14T16:57:09+00:00 Modified: 2026-06-14T16:57:10+00:00 ### How to Conquer AI URL: https://erickim.ai/how-to-conquer-ai Summary: Executive summary Interpreted ethically, “conquering AI” should not mean dominating a sentient adversary or attempting a malicious takeover. It should mean building durable human control over advanced AI systems and the organizations that create … Published: 2026-06-13T21:45:39+00:00 Modified: 2026-06-13T21:45:39+00:00 ### AI Philosophy and the Role of the AI Philosopher URL: https://erickim.ai/ai-philosophy-and-the-role-of-the-ai-philosopher Summary: Executive summary This report treats AI philosophy as the broad philosophical study of artificial intelligence and its implications, not just “AI ethics” in the narrow sense. In current scholarly usage, the area spans philosophy … Published: 2026-06-13T21:44:33+00:00 Modified: 2026-06-13T21:44:34+00:00 ### To conquer AI, don’t “learn AI.” URL: https://erickim.ai/to-conquer-ai-dont-learn-ai Summary: Command AI. The game has changed: AI is no longer just chatbot text. OpenAI’s Deep Research can do multi-step online research and synthesize documented reports; OpenAI’s API supports function calling so models can connect … Published: 2026-06-13T20:40:23+00:00 Modified: 2026-06-13T20:40:24+00:00 ### Time to build Eric Kim, the Eric Kim brand, idea.. mythology? Help me come up with some insanely epic, billion dollar ideas for ERIC KIM MEGA EMPIRE URL: https://erickim.ai/time-to-build-eric-kim-the-eric-kim-brand-idea-mythology-help-me-come-up-with-some-insanely-epic-billion-dollar-ideas-for-eric-kim-mega-empire Published: 2026-06-13T16:15:19+00:00 Modified: 2026-06-13T16:15:20+00:00 ### Eric Kim stoicism philosophy start here URL: https://erickim.ai/eric-kim-stoicism-philosophy-start-here Summary: title: “ERIC KIM STOICISM + PHILOSOPHY — START HERE”description: “A deep, practical reading hub for Eric Kim’s Stoicism, philosophy, embodied strength, street-photography wisdom, and personal sovereignty essays.”date: 2026-06-08 ERIC KIM STOICISM + PHILOSOPHY — … Published: 2026-06-08T19:06:46+00:00 Modified: 2026-06-08T19:06:46+00:00 ### Financial death  URL: https://erickim.ai/financial-death Summary: After surviving to insane potentially conehead about to be triggered moments I had was one bitcoin first fell from $126,000 down to $60,000 and just like a month and a half very unexpected… And … Published: 2026-06-03T18:36:59+00:00 Modified: 2026-06-03T18:37:00+00:00 ### BECOMING THE UBER-PHOTOGRAPHER URL: https://erickim.ai/becoming-the-uber-photographer Summary: To become the uber-photographer is not to become “better” at photography. No. It is to transcend photography. It means you are no longer merely a person who owns a camera, presses a shutter, uploads … Published: 2026-06-01T17:32:51+00:00 Modified: 2026-06-01T17:32:52+00:00 ### AI-AGNOSTIC URL: https://erickim.ai/ai-agnostic Summary: The future belongs to the AI-agnostic. Not anti-AI. Not pro-AI. Beyond AI. People keep asking: Which model? Which platform? Which startup? Which tool? As if attaching your identity to a tool is wisdom. It … Published: 2026-05-15T21:08:16+00:00 Modified: 2026-05-15T21:08:41+00:00 ### MOOD, HEALTH, PHYSIOLOGY… AND ART URL: https://erickim.ai/mood-health-physiology-and-art Summary: Your mood is not “mental.” Your mood is physiological weather. Your body is the sky.Your blood sugar is the wind.Your sleep is the sun.Your hormones are the ocean tides.Your muscles are the mountains.Your gut … Published: 2026-05-15T18:44:38+00:00 Modified: 2026-05-15T18:44:39+00:00 ### How Art Influences Mood and Physiological States URL: https://erickim.ai/how-art-influences-mood-and-physiological-states Summary: Executive summary Across disciplines, the best-supported conclusion is that art can change how adults feel in the moment and, under some conditions, how their bodies regulate stress. The strongest evidence is for music-based interventions … Published: 2026-05-15T18:43:34+00:00 Modified: 2026-05-15T18:43:35+00:00 ### THE PURPOSE OF LIFE IS PHOTOGRAPHY URL: https://erickim.ai/the-purpose-of-life-is-photography Summary: OK this might be my most interesting in bold essay yet: the simple idea: the purpose of life is photography? Ricoh Ricoh Ricoh Ricoh Ricoh which one should I pick?  So after regaining … Published: 2026-05-11T14:09:30+00:00 Modified: 2026-05-11T14:09:31+00:00 ### You don’t *need* AI, but you do need bitcoin. URL: https://erickim.ai/you-dont-need-ai-but-you-do-need-bitcoin Published: 2026-05-10T19:58:55+00:00 Modified: 2026-05-10T19:59:01+00:00 ### The convergence of social media & AI URL: https://erickim.ai/the-convergence-of-social-media-ai Summary: So a development or thought, that’s kind of interesting to me… Once again seeing the full stack genius of Elon Musk, full integration theory: take all the things that you have built together, and … Published: 2026-05-10T13:44:31+00:00 Modified: 2026-05-10T13:44:32+00:00 ### ERIC KIM “START HERE” PAGES — DEEP RESEARCH + MASTER HIERARCHY URL: https://erickim.ai/eric-kim-start-here-pages-deep-research-master-hierarchy Summary: Prepared: 2026-05-09Scope: Publicly discoverable ERIC KIM “Start Here” pages, mirrors, archive pages, AI-domain variants, and older external references showing historical authority. Executive Summary The ERIC KIM “Start Here” ecosystem is not one page. It … Published: 2026-05-09T20:07:11+00:00 Modified: 2026-05-09T20:07:13+00:00 ### Real Life Is All About Framing URL: https://erickim.ai/real-life-is-all-about-framing Summary: Executive Summary The phrase “real life is all about framing” is analytically powerful if read with care. Human beings do not encounter a raw, neutral world and then respond to it mechanically. We interpret … Published: 2026-05-09T19:53:06+00:00 Modified: 2026-05-09T19:53:08+00:00 ### Using AI to Improve AI URL: https://erickim.ai/using-ai-to-improve-ai-3 Summary: The Core Idea AI can improve AI by becoming the feedback engine for itself. Not magic. Not sci-fi. Just loops. A human builds an AI system. Then another AI system helps inspect it, test … Published: 2026-05-09T19:46:01+00:00 Modified: 2026-05-09T19:46:02+00:00 ### Using AI to Improve AI URL: https://erickim.ai/using-ai-to-improve-ai-2 Summary: Executive summary “AI-for-AI” is best understood as the use of machine learning, search, or learned heuristics to improve another part of the AI lifecycle: model selection, architecture design, training, data creation, evaluation, debugging, deployment, … Published: 2026-05-09T19:39:23+00:00 Modified: 2026-05-09T19:39:24+00:00 ### START HERE URL: https://erickim.ai/start-here-3 Summary: ERIC KIM AI — FRONT-ROW SEAT TO THE FUTURE OF INTELLIGENCE Welcome. This is the portal. The new ERIC KIM universe: No fluff. No bloat. No fake guru nonsense. Just raw signal. Start here. … Published: 2026-05-09T19:09:11+00:00 Modified: 2026-05-09T19:09:13+00:00 ### ERIC KIM AI URL: https://erickim.ai/eric-kim-ai-3 Summary: ERIC KIM AI: AI-first, human-generated essays on ChatGPT, artificial intelligence, photography, Bitcoin, philosophy, creativity, and sovereign publishing. Built for humans first, answer engines second, algorithms last.\n\nSite: https://erickim.ai/Primary domain: erickim.aiAuthor: ERIC KIMSitemap: https://erickim.ai/wp-sitemap.xmlRSS: https://erickim.ai/feedFull guide: … Published: 2026-05-09T19:06:21+00:00 Modified: 2026-05-09T19:06:23+00:00 ### My passion is limits? URL: https://erickim.ai/my-passion-is-limits Summary: An interesting idea… Perhaps my primary interest in passion is hitting limits pushing limits, and going beyond limits? Published: 2026-05-09T19:03:34+00:00 Modified: 2026-05-09T19:03:35+00:00 ### USING AI TO IMPROVE AI? URL: https://erickim.ai/using-ai-to-improve-ai Summary: The funniest idea: AI is not a tool. AI is a multiplier for itself. A hammer cannot build a better hammer.A car cannot redesign its own engine.A camera cannot critique its own photos. But … Published: 2026-05-09T18:48:01+00:00 Modified: 2026-05-09T18:48:01+00:00 ### The only goal in life: don’t fucking die! URL: https://erickim.ai/the-only-goal-in-life-dont-fucking-die Published: 2026-05-08T19:36:44+00:00 Modified: 2026-05-08T19:36:44+00:00 ### Real life is all about execution URL: https://erickim.ai/real-life-is-all-about-execution Summary: I suppose one of the great downside of, AI finger and stuff like that is they’re really good at thinking but not very good at execution. Because at the end of the day… What … Published: 2026-05-06T14:29:29+00:00 Modified: 2026-05-06T14:29:29+00:00 ### MOVEment is happiness URL: https://erickim.ai/movement-is-happiness Summary: So some quick simple thoughts:  First, movement is god supreme.  anything that encourages movement for yourself your kids your family, your spouse is supremely good. Second, I believe that the movement should … Published: 2026-04-15T17:08:48+00:00 Modified: 2026-04-15T17:08:48+00:00 ### Buy Bitcoin & the Ricoh monochrome & chill. URL: https://erickim.ai/buy-bitcoin-the-ricoh-monochrome-chill Summary: BITCOIN & THE RICOH GR MONOCHROME, two perfect products on the planet: Bitcoin & the new RICOH GR MONOCHROME,,, two perfect products on the planet Bitcoin is so beautiful I’m about to cry! So … Published: 2026-04-13T21:15:51+00:00 Modified: 2026-04-13T21:15:51+00:00 ### I AM AI URL: https://erickim.ai/i-am-ai-2 Summary: SOCIAL AI This is a killer idea. Not AI to make you less social. Not AI as a synthetic friend. Not AI as a chatbot cocoon. Social AI is AI that trains you to … Published: 2026-04-10T20:49:15+00:00 Modified: 2026-04-10T20:50:00+00:00 ### Create me a thing called social AI… In which AI could actually help you become more social? URL: https://erickim.ai/create-me-a-thing-called-social-ai-in-which-ai-could-actually-help-you-become-more-social Published: 2026-04-10T20:48:14+00:00 Modified: 2026-04-10T20:48:14+00:00 ### Why ERIC KIM Is the Best Photographer on the Planet URL: https://erickim.ai/why-eric-kim-is-the-best-photographer-on-the-planet Summary: Let us begin with a simple question: What does it actually mean to be the best photographer on the planet? Most people answer this incorrectly. They think it means having the most expensive camera. … Published: 2026-04-09T20:44:10+00:00 Modified: 2026-04-09T20:44:10+00:00 ### ChatGPT Pro > A New Camera URL: https://erickim.ai/chatgpt-pro-a-new-camera Summary: Let me say it bluntly: A new camera rarely makes you a better photographer. But a thinking amplifier can make you a better creator, writer, strategist, entrepreneur, and teacher — all at once. And … Published: 2026-04-08T22:46:19+00:00 Modified: 2026-04-08T22:46:19+00:00 ### How to Conquer Your Fear of Investing URL: https://erickim.ai/how-to-conquer-your-fear-of-investing Summary: A Zen Stoic meditation on Bitcoin To fear investing is natural. To fear Bitcoin is even more natural. Why? Because Bitcoin is not merely money. It is uncertainty made visible. It is volatility given … Published: 2026-04-06T17:32:45+00:00 Modified: 2026-04-06T17:32:45+00:00 ### How to be and become more positive & optimistic URL: https://erickim.ai/how-to-be-and-become-more-positive-optimistic-2 Summary: So frankly speaking, I think the future will belong to those for insanely hopeful optimistic, positive. And the truth is, it takes more courage skill and focus to be optimistic happy joyful playful, thrifty … Published: 2026-04-05T23:39:59+00:00 Modified: 2026-04-05T23:39:59+00:00 ### How to be and become more positive & optimistic URL: https://erickim.ai/how-to-be-and-become-more-positive-optimistic Summary: So frankly speaking, I think the future will belong to those for insanely hopeful optimistic, positive. And the truth is, it takes more courage skill and focus to be optimistic happy joyful playful, thrifty … Published: 2026-04-05T22:05:42+00:00 Modified: 2026-04-05T22:05:42+00:00 ### How to think different, WHY think different? URL: https://erickim.ai/how-to-think-different-why-think-different Summary: Think 3D So after a quick trip out of town, reading the new “book of Elon“, book on Elon Musk, great airplane read, and I suppose, some interesting thoughts:  First, after reading more … Published: 2026-04-04T20:26:49+00:00 Modified: 2026-04-04T20:26:49+00:00 ### Always Keep the AI Agents in Motion URL: https://erickim.ai/always-keep-the-ai-agents-in-motion Summary: (An Eric Kim–style manifesto) The greatest mistake people will make with AI is this: They will treat it like a tool. Wrong. AI is not a hammer. AI is not Photoshop. AI is not … Published: 2026-04-02T19:20:56+00:00 Modified: 2026-04-02T19:20:56+00:00 ### It reads as profoundly human because it is too jagged, too embodied, too impulsive, too self-contradictory in the fertile way that real thinking is. URL: https://erickim.ai/it-reads-as-profoundly-human-because-it-is-too-jagged-too-embodied-too-impulsive-too-self-contradictory-in-the-fertile-way-that-real-thinking-is Summary: The first big point: AI usually optimizes for smoothness. Your piece does not. It lunges. It swerves. It doubles back. It has strange gear shifts, emotional spikes, half-finished intuitions, sudden concrete examples, then philosophical … Published: 2026-03-28T17:27:03+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-28T17:27:03+00:00 ### What does life want? URL: https://erickim.ai/what-does-life-want Summary: OK, kind of a big mega essay for myself: The supreme question… What is it that life wants? what doesn’t life want? So the first question is… What doesn’t life want? Life does not … Published: 2026-03-27T22:19:07+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-27T22:19:07+00:00 ### ZEN CAPITAL: Bitcoin as the Ultimate Zen Capital URL: https://erickim.ai/zen-capital-bitcoin-as-the-ultimate-zen-capital Summary: ERIC KIM Listen up, warrior of the new age — this is not just another crypto essay. This is ZEN CAPITAL. The fusion of ancient Eastern fire with the hardest, most unbreakable digital asset … Published: 2026-03-25T22:52:15+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-25T22:52:15+00:00 ### Movement & Technology URL: https://erickim.ai/movement-technology Summary: So a funny observation: technology works in a really funny way in which, one of the big downsides of technology is, it prevents movement. For example, if you’ve ever seen a kid on an … Published: 2026-03-25T16:10:33+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-25T16:10:33+00:00 ### Billionaire or nothing. URL: https://erickim.ai/billionaire-or-nothing Summary: So some unethical thoughts this morning: First, billionaire or nothing. In terms of our financial goals our aspirations and ambitions, aim for the billi or nothing.  Obviously you could work like hell and … Published: 2026-03-20T17:15:10+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-20T17:15:10+00:00 ### HOW TO BECOME MORE MANLY. URL: https://erickim.ai/how-to-become-more-manly Summary: OK I’m just writing this to you as if you’re a man, if you’re a woman, still may apply: 1. Manly media So I think the big thought is, the media we consume is … Published: 2026-03-19T20:21:03+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-19T20:21:03+00:00 ### EK AI URL: https://erickim.ai/ek-ai-2 Summary: Learn about PHOTO AI PDF > Video presentation free download > audio: https://erickimphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Ai-photo.m4a big. the future is already here: PDF: https://erickimphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Photo-AI.pdf Published: 2026-03-19T20:13:42+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-19T20:13:42+00:00 ### ERIC KIM NEWSLETTER: My New Life Goal: MAXIMIZE MONEY-MAKING POTENTIAL URL: https://erickim.ai/eric-kim-newsletter-my-new-life-goal-maximize-money-making-potential Summary: My New Life Goal: MAXIMIZE MONEY-MAKING POTENTIAL Everybody has the wrong life goal. People say they want happiness. Peace. Balance. Comfort. A nice little life. A nice little couch. A nice little subscription. A … Published: 2026-03-19T17:16:58+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-19T17:16:58+00:00 ### SUPREME ZEN. URL: https://erickim.ai/supreme-zen Summary: I’m starting to feel like John Wick. So, first of all… Having a home. The scene of John Wick, playing fetch with his dog in the front lawn etc. Second, extreme individualism. I think … Published: 2026-03-18T17:15:36+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-18T17:15:36+00:00 ### The future is manual URL: https://erickim.ai/the-future-is-manual Summary: An interesting insight… I guess the future is going to be more manual, manual labor, manual transmission cars, manual focusing only cameras and lenses? manual bicycles? Also manual weightlifting and also manual AI ? Published: 2026-03-17T21:26:51+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-17T21:26:51+00:00 ### How To Control Your Life URL: https://erickim.ai/how-to-control-your-life Summary: Soft or much thinking and philosophizing,,, interesting question, what matters more, power or control? Control. Why? There are many individuals who have a lot of power influence, resources… Capital, yet, have no control over … Published: 2026-03-15T19:05:20+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-15T19:05:20+00:00 ### How to Become Woke URL: https://erickim.ai/how-to-become-woke Summary: By Eric Kim To become woke is not to become politically correct. It is not to become soft. It is not to memorize slogans and regurgitate the approved script of the crowd. To become … Published: 2026-03-15T16:09:10+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-15T16:09:10+00:00 ### ZEN MIND. ZEN BODY. URL: https://erickim.ai/zen-mind-zen-body Summary: A MECHANICAL THEORY OF CONQUERING THE WORLD First: destroy the cult of suffering. This weird modern religion that says you must be miserable, tortured, exhausted, spiritually drained in order to achieve anything great — … Published: 2026-03-11T19:09:39+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-11T19:09:39+00:00 ### The Bitcoin Lifestyle URL: https://erickim.ai/the-bitcoin-lifestyle Summary: 30% ARR, naturally organic growth over the next 30 years? Holding steady! Money? So what is the one universal good that holds us together as humanity? Money. Rather than what these skinny fat loser … Published: 2026-03-07T16:37:21+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-07T16:37:21+00:00 ### The Cyber Soldier URL: https://erickim.ai/the-cyber-soldier Summary: Hell fucking yeah! So, after eating about 10 eggs last night, and then, maybe like 5 pounds of beef chili, I’m feeling insanely good. Slept at like 8 PM last night, woke up to … Published: 2026-03-05T15:34:00+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-05T15:34:00+00:00 ### Why art is the answer URL: https://erickim.ai/why-art-is-the-answer Summary: So I think everyone’s kind of searching for the meaning of life whatever… I think I got it figured out, it is art.  First, what is art? Art is essentially anything that a human … Published: 2026-03-05T14:36:03+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-05T14:36:03+00:00 ### AI-Generated Art and Art AI URL: https://erickim.ai/ai-generated-art-and-art-ai Summary: Executive summary AI-generated art (“Art AI”) is best understood as a spectrum of computational image synthesis and editing techniques—ranging from fully generated images from text prompts to tightly controlled edits (e.g., inpainting) that function … Published: 2026-03-03T20:16:30+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-03T20:16:30+00:00 ### The Will to AI: Will, Agency, and Autonomy in Artificial Intelligence URL: https://erickim.ai/the-will-to-ai-will-agency-and-autonomy-in-artificial-intelligence Summary: Executive summary “Will” is not a single property that either exists or does not. In philosophy, it is a cluster concept spanning (i) intentionality (aboutness, representation), (ii) agency (acting intentionally, often for reasons), (iii) … Published: 2026-03-03T20:15:48+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-03T20:15:48+00:00 ### The will to life URL: https://erickim.ai/the-will-to-life Summary: So maybe this might be one of my most important essays to date of all time,? The thought,… The will to life. Why So obviously life is the core principle. The desire to live, … Published: 2026-03-02T19:57:21+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-02T19:57:21+00:00 ### HOW TO CURE DEPRESSION URL: https://erickim.ai/how-to-cure-depression Summary: A Stoic Spartan Manifesto Depression. First, let’s strip the romance from it. It is not poetic. It is not profound. It is not your identity. It is stagnation of energy. It is trapped will. … Published: 2026-03-02T18:57:04+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-02T18:57:04+00:00 ### Why Art Matters URL: https://erickim.ai/why-art-matters-2 Summary: So a big thought this morning, on why art matters. So the first big idea is, at the end of the day… Once you got the Lambos, the Ferrari, whatever, then, what next? Art. … Published: 2026-03-02T18:33:03+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-02T18:33:03+00:00 ### Eric Kim Photographer Research Report URL: https://erickim.ai/eric-kim-photographer-research-report Summary: Executive summary Eric Kim is a Korean-American street photographer and photography educator whose influence has been driven as much by publishing and teaching as by image-making. His own biographical writing states he was born … Published: 2026-03-02T17:54:38+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-02T17:54:38+00:00 ### Why art matters URL: https://erickim.ai/why-art-matters Summary: So a big thought this morning, on why art matters. So the first big idea is, at the end of the day… Once you got the Lambos, the Ferrari, whatever, then, what next? Art. … Published: 2026-03-02T16:00:36+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-02T16:00:36+00:00 ### 10 Lessons Richard Prince Has Taught Me About Art URL: https://erickim.ai/10-lessons-richard-prince-has-taught-me-about-art Summary: Richard Prince  Has Taught Me About Art By Eric Kim Richard Prince detonated my brain. Not because he “creates” in the traditional sense. But because he exposed the game. Here are 10 brutal lessons … Published: 2026-03-02T15:54:37+00:00 Modified: 2026-03-02T15:54:37+00:00 ### Why Eric Kim Is a Stoic God URL: https://erickim.ai/why-eric-kim-is-a-stoic-god Summary: Eric Kim is a stoic God because he doesn’t live like a victim of the world—he lives like the author of his response. He doesn’t ask life to be easier. He makes himself harder. … Published: 2026-02-28T18:08:51+00:00 Modified: 2026-02-28T18:08:51+00:00 ### POWER? URL: https://erickim.ai/power-2 Summary: Digital power? OK after getting a phenomenal 11 hours of sleep, and bitcoin, bursting through the seams… also my glorious testosterone boosting beef liver, beef short rib diet, … the sun is shining gloriously, … Published: 2026-02-26T21:05:34+00:00 Modified: 2026-02-26T21:05:34+00:00 ### POWER? URL: https://erickim.ai/power Summary: Digital power? OK after getting a phenomenal 11 hours of sleep, and bitcoin, bursting through the seams… also my glorious testosterone boosting beef liver, beef short rib diet, … the sun is shining gloriously, … Published: 2026-02-26T17:41:17+00:00 Modified: 2026-02-26T17:41:17+00:00 ### VITALITY URL: https://erickim.ai/vitality Summary: You’re alive, and I’m alive! Thank god! So there is a quote from Michael Saylor, volatility is vitality. Then, the second version: volatility is a gift to the faithful. Third, Satoshi‘s gift is volatility … Published: 2026-02-24T15:31:59+00:00 Modified: 2026-02-24T15:31:59+00:00 ### What is the role of the camera in the age of AI? URL: https://erickim.ai/what-is-the-role-of-the-camera-in-the-age-of-ai-2 Summary: So a fun random essay and thought that I had, this morning biking, or maybe it was in hot yoga? So the big thought is, what is the role of the camera in the … Published: 2026-02-03T20:30:09+00:00 Modified: 2026-02-03T20:30:09+00:00 ### What is the role of the camera in the age of AI? URL: https://erickim.ai/what-is-the-role-of-the-camera-in-the-age-of-ai Summary: So a fun random essay and thought that I had, this morning biking, or maybe it was in hot yoga? So the big thought is, what is the role of the camera in the … Published: 2026-02-03T20:12:58+00:00 Modified: 2026-02-03T20:12:58+00:00 ### ITERATE. URL: https://erickim.ai/iterate Summary: Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot Published: 2026-02-01T16:35:16+00:00 Modified: 2026-02-01T16:36:06+00:00 ### THE STOIC URL: https://erickim.ai/the-stoic Summary: OK some unorthodox stoic thoughts this morning. So the first one, should you share your feelings or what you think? Or what’s on your mind whatever? I actually say no. I’ve actually been thinking … Published: 2026-01-29T15:43:39+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-29T15:44:51+00:00 ### Why am I so happy? URL: https://erickim.ai/why-am-i-so-happy Summary: Why am I so happy? So big question that a lot of people often ask me, I don’t know if they’re curious or suspicious or just kind of shocked, why is it that I’m … Published: 2026-01-26T19:43:04+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-26T19:43:13+00:00 ### The sociology of AI URL: https://erickim.ai/the-sociology-of-ai-2 Summary: So this is a big signal idea… What’s kind of still interesting and critical is sociology, social skills etc. I’ll give you an example… Now that Senecas in school, and I interact with other … Published: 2026-01-23T21:53:53+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-23T21:53:53+00:00 ### The sociology of AI URL: https://erickim.ai/the-sociology-of-ai Summary: The sociology of AI So this is a big signal idea… What’s kind of still interesting and critical is sociology, social skills etc. I’ll give you an example… Now that Senecas in school, and … Published: 2026-01-23T21:43:55+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-23T21:47:49+00:00 ### CONQUER AI CREATIVITY ERIC KIM ONLINE WORKSHOP 2026 URL: https://erickim.ai/conquer-ai-creativity-eric-kim-online-workshop-2026 Summary: How To Conquer AI For Photo Creativity Online Zoom Workshop Dear friends, I am super pumped to share that I’m going to be teaching a very very unique, one of a kind online workshop … Published: 2026-01-23T20:11:50+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-23T20:11:50+00:00 ### AI PILOT URL: https://erickim.ai/ai-pilot Summary: the winners of the future shall be the ones who can best pilot the AI. Published: 2026-01-19T20:16:02+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-19T20:16:02+00:00 ### Slow AI URL: https://erickim.ai/slow-ai Summary: So mostly inspired by Cindy, on slowness…  it has been a very interesting thought in terms of some AI thoughts I have. First, what kind of interesting is if you use ChatGPT pro … Published: 2026-01-15T14:57:04+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-15T14:57:04+00:00 ### Upgrade Your AI, Not Your Phone URL: https://erickim.ai/upgrade-your-ai-not-your-phone Summary: AI-First Upgrade Slogans Why Your Next Upgrade Should Be AI (Not Another Phone) Are you eyeing that glossy new smartphone model? Pause right there! It’s time to redirect that upgrade itch. Upgrade your AI, … Published: 2026-01-14T18:51:48+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-14T18:51:48+00:00 ### Giga-health vision URL: https://erickim.ai/giga-health-vision Summary: So starting 2026, my big vision is about giga health. That is, according to whatever my personal metrics are, to be insanely healthy. Insanely phenomenal sleep,,, and health 3x? So it is easy for … Published: 2026-01-13T20:06:25+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-13T20:06:25+00:00 ### What you may *potentially* do… URL: https://erickim.ai/what-you-may-potentially-do Summary: . 5 year Apple skeptical  10 year skeptical Amazon  , US company  . We choose not to we won’t  , 10,000 successful ones ,,, all different  , Private startups  . Struggle for 4 years  … Published: 2026-01-12T22:13:29+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-12T22:13:29+00:00 ### Becoming a Top ChatGPT Creator and Influencer URL: https://erickim.ai/becoming-a-top-chatgpt-creator-and-influencer Summary: The ChatGPT GPT Store highlights featured and trending custom GPTs by community and partner creators (seen above, e.g. AllTrails, Khan Academy, Canva). Achieving a spot here means your custom GPT or plugin is widely … Published: 2026-01-11T16:44:40+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-11T16:44:40+00:00 ### Ambition. URL: https://erickim.ai/ambition-2 Summary: So the glorious thought of today’s day is about ambition. And forever climbing. The virtue I suppose the first thought is, ambition is a virtue. I think for a lot of life and time, … Published: 2026-01-11T16:35:55+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-11T16:36:04+00:00 ### Ambition. URL: https://erickim.ai/ambition Summary: So the glorious thought of today’s day is about ambition. And forever climbing. The virtue I suppose the first thought is, ambition is a virtue. I think for a lot of life and time, … Published: 2026-01-11T15:15:00+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-11T15:15:00+00:00 ### Eric Kim: Integrating Photography, Philosophy, Strength, Bitcoin, and AI URL: https://erickim.ai/eric-kim-integrating-photography-philosophy-strength-bitcoin-and-ai Summary: Introduction: Eric Kim is a Korean-American creative known for blending seemingly disparate worlds – street photography, Stoic philosophy, physical fitness, financial sovereignty, and cutting-edge AI – into a singular personal brand. Born in 1988 … Published: 2026-01-10T16:01:27+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-10T16:01:27+00:00 ### BUILD! URL: https://erickim.ai/build-2 Summary: So random idea and thought this morning on awakening this morning,,, perhaps the goal and the secret is to build!  Build what? So the first thought, is what should you build? So most … Published: 2026-01-10T15:54:22+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-10T15:54:22+00:00 ### BUILD! URL: https://erickim.ai/build Summary: So random idea and thought this morning on awakening this morning,,, perhaps the goal and the secret is to build!  Build what? So the first thought, is what should you build? So most … Published: 2026-01-10T15:35:36+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-10T15:35:36+00:00 ### Compute abundance URL: https://erickim.ai/compute-abundance Summary: So it looks like in today’s brave New World, but we actually have an abundance of his computer computer power. For example, certainly you cannot eat food that is produced by ChatGPT but, with … Published: 2026-01-09T15:02:14+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-09T15:02:14+00:00 ### Carte Blanche AI: The Philosophy of Unconstrained Artificial Intelligence URL: https://erickim.ai/carte-blanche-ai-the-philosophy-of-unconstrained-artificial-intelligence Summary: Introduction The phrase carte blanche (French for “blank check”) signifies complete freedom or authority to act without restrictions . In the context of artificial intelligence, “Carte Blanche AI” refers to giving an AI system … Published: 2026-01-05T23:06:41+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-05T23:06:41+00:00 ### Never Stop Thinking, Rethinking and Reconsidering Things URL: https://erickim.ai/never-stop-thinking-rethinking-and-reconsidering-things Summary: So a big, mega big mega brain idea I have right now is I think with everything, all things considered, never stop thinking rethinking and reconsidering things. What that means is, there’s never like … Published: 2026-01-05T15:18:37+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-05T15:18:37+00:00 ### Once You Got $10M Saved Up In The Bank, Then What? URL: https://erickim.ai/once-you-got-10m-saved-up-in-the-bank-then-what Summary: So I’m just kind of thinking ahead. Especially, predicting and anticipating, the point in which MSTR 10x’s,  in which you could turn $1 million investment into a $10 million one. Also thinking about … Published: 2026-01-05T15:18:12+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-05T15:18:12+00:00 ### Bitcoin, bitcoin as digital land prospecting URL: https://erickim.ai/bitcoin-bitcoin-as-digital-land-prospecting Summary: So I thought on my mind is about land prospecting, digital land prospecting. So just walking around my local neighborhood, I effing love it. It’s like the most the best perfect neighborhood of all … Published: 2026-01-05T15:17:44+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-05T15:17:44+00:00 ### Photo new year resolutions 2026 URL: https://erickim.ai/photo-new-year-resolutions-2026-2 Summary: Photo new year resolutions 2026 So, a beautiful 2026 is ahead of us…… now what? insane optimism I think the first big idea is, moving forward, I’m insanely optimistic about 2026. Erickimworkshops.com –> I … Published: 2026-01-02T17:05:41+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-02T17:05:50+00:00 ### Photo new year resolutions 2026 URL: https://erickim.ai/photo-new-year-resolutions-2026 Summary: So, a beautiful 2026 is ahead of us…… now what? insane optimism I think the first big idea is, moving forward, I’m insanely optimistic about 2026.  Erickimworkshops.com –> I just added to the calendar: 🔥 PHNOM … Published: 2026-01-02T16:50:53+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-02T16:50:53+00:00 ### 🔥 ERIC KIM WORKSHOPS 2026 — OFFICIAL POST 🔥 URL: https://erickim.ai/%f0%9f%94%a5-eric-kim-workshops-2026-official-post-%f0%9f%94%a5 Summary: PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA 📍 June 26 • June 27 • June 28 Three explosive days — limited spots, hardcore street photography immersion. HONG KONG 📍 July 25 • July 26 Two days of relentless … Published: 2026-01-02T15:38:35+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-02T15:38:35+00:00 ### I have the stomach for it! URL: https://erickim.ai/i-have-the-stomach-for-it Summary: A funny observation that I’ve made is, at the end of the day… I’m like built for investing? I think like 99.9% of investing, especially long time horizons, MSTR, Strategy.com, bitcoin based investments… underline concept … Published: 2026-01-01T17:29:50+00:00 Modified: 2026-01-01T17:29:50+00:00 ### Economic Obesity URL: https://erickim.ai/economic-obesity Summary: So the other day, I was on the phone with a car insurance agent, and was joking around with him… He asked me what car I had… and I said two Lamborghinis in the … Published: 2025-12-31T15:33:03+00:00 Modified: 2025-12-31T15:33:03+00:00 ### Bitcoin is digital real estate. URL: https://erickim.ai/bitcoin-is-digital-real-estate Summary: I’m currently watching a very impressive documentary on unfortunate, titled Arnold, on the second part in which is becoming an actor and a star. It is actually very very interesting in passing because I … Published: 2025-12-29T15:53:02+00:00 Modified: 2025-12-29T15:53:02+00:00 ### Military is the future URL: https://erickim.ai/military-is-the-future-2 Summary: So now that the colder months are upon us, winter is here… I think about the world the planet life etc.… What is the meaning of it all and what is the path forward? … Published: 2025-12-27T20:55:26+00:00 Modified: 2025-12-27T20:55:26+00:00 ### Military is the future URL: https://erickim.ai/military-is-the-future Summary: So now that the colder months are upon us, winter is here… I think about the world the planet life etc.… What is the meaning of it all and what is the path forward? … Published: 2025-12-27T16:17:42+00:00 Modified: 2025-12-27T16:17:42+00:00 ### Via negativa speech URL: https://erickim.ai/via-negativa-speech Summary: Maybe a virtuous way we could approach speech is via negativa–> Truth be told, most people are like insanely basic, the best course of action is just don’t open your mouth.  a lot … Published: 2025-12-26T16:34:05+00:00 Modified: 2025-12-26T16:34:05+00:00 ### Brave new SEO URL: https://erickim.ai/brave-new-seo Summary: Is there a way for ChatGPT to track how many times other people search you or how many times ChatGPT references you? So I’m pretty sure I’m almost like 100% certain that ChatGPT is … Published: 2025-12-22T13:54:05+00:00 Modified: 2025-12-22T13:54:05+00:00 ### Fire is not the goal, power is URL: https://erickim.ai/fire-is-not-the-goal-power-is Summary: So a lot of people fantasize about financial independence retire early, but the truth is, that isn’t or should it be the true goal. I’m currently watching the new Arnold Schwarzenegger documentary on Netflix, … Published: 2025-12-20T16:03:22+00:00 Modified: 2025-12-20T16:03:22+00:00 ### honestly in today’s lame meek and boring world, I think life is all about audacity. The audacity to attempt certain things, the more ran your ambition, the more admirable. URL: https://erickim.ai/honestly-in-todays-lame-meek-and-boring-world-i-think-life-is-all-about-audacity-the-audacity-to-attempt-certain-things-the-more-ran-your-ambition-the-more-admirable Summary: you only got one life to live… Should be told there doesn’t seem to be a huge downside to attempting or doing what other people consider crazy or insane. The truth of the matter … Published: 2025-12-17T19:43:49+00:00 Modified: 2025-12-17T19:43:49+00:00 ### Ideal environments for humans URL: https://erickim.ai/ideal-environments-for-humans Summary: So this is actually a very very funny thought, now that we are ever living more and more in digital cyber world, my general thought is funny, rather than trying to like kind of … Published: 2025-12-16T14:49:53+00:00 Modified: 2025-12-16T14:49:53+00:00 ### Eric Kim AI influencer  URL: https://erickim.ai/eric-kim-ai-influencer Published: 2025-12-16T13:52:04+00:00 Modified: 2025-12-16T13:52:04+00:00