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 once bitcoin hits $500,000 a Bitcoin, 1 million of bitcoin, 1.2 million of bitcoin, 10 million bitcoin, 21 million a bitcoin, 55 million a bitcoin and beyond.

you don’t want the time machine

 so if you could just wave a magic wand, and have the next 30 years gone on by in a heartbeat, and then the century your family will be worth $200 billion or whatever… Would you make the trade? Probably not. I’m turning 38 years old, and if I was suddenly 68 years old, I mean I’m still happy with it I’m sure that’ll be still super strong and have my six pack in my traps, but probably will not be lifting 1000 kg anymore.

Seneca will be 35 years old, primetime.

My mom will be like 100 years old, hopefully still healthy. But you never know.

Anyways, thinking ahead, 10X, I think the tricky thing is, everyone is always in such a rush to become super insanely turbo rich. But, the tricky thing is… I think for most Americans the desire is to become rich in order to spend the money and consume more. Or changing certain lifestyle things.

House

So one thing off of my checklist or our checklist is getting the big ass single-family house, huge lot, lots of great dirt in the backyard, and also my new beloved detached to car garage which I’ve been using as more of a creative studio for myself. Also my mobile off the grid gym.

Certain things which have improved dramatically for myself, in our new home is that I just been sleeping far better, when I wake up early in the morning I’m less likely to wake up Cindy and Seneca, Senic has been sleeping well through the night, like a champ… And also, finding some good grocery store options close to our house and home which is good because I’ve been able to go ham,… hard as a mofo on my great 80% ground beef chili recipe… I think I ate almost 5 pounds of it last night, my secret recipe:

Just buy five bricks of the 80% ground beef, Amazon fresh is pretty good,,, if you’re lucky enough to get the 30% off clearance discount, and it is typically $4.99 a pound. , Just take out all of the ground beef and first stirfry it all inside a big pot nonstick, cook it thoroughly, then drain the fat, you could save the fat in a plastic container if you want to cook with it later maybe your eggs… And anyways, add soy sauce, fish sauce, cumin, coriander seeds, whole black peppers, they leaves, cut up Mexican chilies, curry powder, and some tomato paste not too much. And later you could chop up some raw onions, cilantro, and squeeze in some fresh limes on top. Really good.

Anyways, certainly to eat well sleep well, and even this morning, I woke up feeling amazing, I didn’t even drink that much coffee and I feel insanely great!

First health

So I think the first obvious idea is, ideally… It is desirable to have insanely great health.

First, no pain. Which is pretty easy assuming that you do a yoga hot yoga and good mobility training, and also weightlifting on the daily.

So then take that off your checklist, no physical bodily pain pains.

Then, having a phenomenal and great physique that you love. Also another good idea.

Third, having insanely great strength physical strength, and also… Knowing that you will indefinitely increase your strength and physical power.

Then what after that?

Travel?

So then it seems that like another thing that people don’t want to do is once they have the dream house or whatever is to travel. But also the tricky thing… Whether you just want to keep indefinitely living on the road automatically and keep traveling for the rest of your life… Or just intermittent travel, intermittent living nomadically?

Cambodia is calling

So for myself, one of my huge passions is Phnom Penh Cambodia. I literally love everything about the place the culture the food environment the weather the people the language etc. And while I love my Los Angeles life, and frankly speaking LA life is kind of perfect for me as well… Still, my soul yearns for Phnom Penh.

It’s also tricky because once you leave the states or your home or whatever… Certainly there are many downsides. For example, you will probably have less space, you’re not gonna have access to the same outdoor spaces as Asya do back home, etc. Typically when you’re on the road, on a superficial level, everything is a disadvantage and a downside.

Yet, I think the thing that is extremely rewarding is a sense of discovery.  and I think this is a big life lesson that I’ve learned is, I think when we are searching for novelty and joy and whatever… What in fact we are actually seeking is discovery. Not the loser Range Rover, but true discovery. I think this is the joy of the traveler the explorer, as well as the scientist.

Even a lot of the creative stuff that I’ve been doing with AI, I love it because to me it is all amazing discovery! To discover new interpretations and things and stuff, blows my mind in a good way.

Photo

Also this is kind of a hilarious idea, everyone is ringing the alarm bell saying that humans are no longer necessary being replaced whatever. I say ignore the noise. It might have also been similar in which people thought that photography was “cheating”, because it was like 1 trillion times faster and more efficient than old-school oil paintings.

The truth is with creativity art life and everything in between… Being able to make things more seamless, less friction, as well as less paralysis by analysis is a good idea.

And this is still wearing photography, having a simple pocketable camera like a RICOH GR still kind of makes the most sense because if you could just snap something out of your front pocket turn it on take a picture, that is the most pure expression of the creative act.

Photo visions and new years

So I think a big thing is that we all want to move around. Even if you have the world’s best mansion on top of the hill… You still just want to go out! And it is my general believe that humans are hardwired to want to go out and walk hike see new vistas travel go on hiking , ride the Tokyo subway, shoots street photography in the famous Shibuya Crossing,  enjoy street photography in Hong Kong like my favorite TST tsim tsa tui… and the riverfront, shout out to Kaiman Wong, aka by and lok… good memories. And also insanely friendly Cambodian people of Phnom Penh.

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AI is just suggestions

SO ultimately you the human agent are the ultimate decider. 

AI is just an option, the real deal is you. 

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Now what

 I mean honestly if your goal is to retire early, live happily ever after it never have to worry about money so we can just focus on your artistic creative stuff, living and moving to Phnom Penh Cambodia probably your best bet. To live happily ever after in perfect bliss, to never have to worry about nothing, and to be surrounded by the happiest people of all time.

are there any upsides to America?

So then the trillion dollar question, why live in America why are we wasting all of our time here?

Well there are certainly a certain things which are very very good for Americans, like a simple one… Assuming you want to be a professional weightlifter or bodybuilder or whatever, America has the best access to beef.  so if you want to become super insanely muscular and jacked, and also… Access to having the privilege to purchase certain weightlifting equipment. For example, my 905.8 kilogram (1,997 pounds) god lift …  simply having the privilege of having access to purchase all this weightlifting equipment and steel plates, my gratitude for being able to purchase this equipment online and having it shipped directly to my house for free via Titan.fitness., Specifically having the ability to buy a bunch of the 50 kg steel plates, which is roughly 110 pounds each, so I could max out my Texas power squat bar.

The truth is if you’re outside of America, there are a lot of very very extremely specific things that you probably don’t have the ability to have the access to. In terms of purchasing.

Do you really want to purchase it anyways?

Once again, there’s a difference between having $10 million in the bank, or having $10 million worth of bitcoin, locked up in cold storage versus going out and spending $10 million.

Everyone wants to expensive vehicle of their dreams, but, this is kind of a silly pursuit because once again, it’s probably better and more fun to transform your body to look like a Lamborghini, rather than to drive it. 

Also a real concern is, especially in America… You actually don’t want the Lamborghini or whatever because it’s kind of like positively putting your life on the line. If you want to be robbed at gunpoint, or put your kids wife family at risk, armed robbery with a gun, probably not a good idea.

So, actually… Even if somebody were to offer you a Lamborghini for free, the intelligence strategy would to be to smile politely, ask to just test drive it around the block, and politely refuse.

 but what about the Porsche 911 GT3 RS?

Or the new Porsche 911 turbo or whatever?

Once again, I think my big epiphany is, it is probably positively a poor idea because, the truth of the matter is it will probably make your life worse than better?

And also the bigger idea is that, any sort of situation in which you are sitting and seated rather than just being on your own two legs and walking, is actually a non-desirable situation. I think we have been sold the sucker idea of somehow… Wanting to drive some sort of high-powered vehicle to feel the pleasure of power thrust and thrills? But actually a more fun and safer version is actually just go to the local go karting K1 speed, and enjoy it there!

What else?

Yeah once again guys, I think it just comes down to like creative, creativity, having the privilege to create creative stuff.

And frankly speaking, now that I have achieved pretty much all of my financial in life and house goals, and also physical strength goals….. what’s next? To me it just comes down to autotelic stuff, –

I actually really enjoyed teaching photography and inspiring and motivating people, the joy of seeing people transformed through photography it’s just like an intrinsic joy. Even if I was worth $100 trillion, certainly I would still enjoy photography for the sake of it.

Also, blogging writing and being creative and also using cutting edge technology for everything! For example, I have infinite joy blogging writing thinking, making videos vlogging,,, experimentation with digital technologies, and AI… ChatGPT ChatGPT pro, SORA 2 pro.

Digital Eric

The thing that’s still the most shocking to me is that it looks like it is official, ERIC KIM, digital ERIC will live forever.

Why? I suppose the benefit of being on YouTube for like 16 years is that, it looks like it got insanely good at scanning all of my videos and making a digital me. I’m actually really really shocked, digital ERIC looks like at least 80% me, less buff, because the old videos that the AI is trained on is before I got into hard-core weightlifting and meat eating.

for the sake of what?

Once again the big idea is kind of getting to the point in life in which everything becomes autotelic, … in which you do stuff for the sake of it. Without needing some sort of vague notion of reward?

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Simple, simplicity?

Autotelic, doing things for the sake of it?

Maybe marching into the new year… Just keep it autotelic, which means, do and pursue things simply for the sake of it, without that much concerned for momentary economic reward?

For example with bitcoin, my primary driver is just the whole ethos of it. Decentralized open source true money, isn’t this like super interesting? Only 21,000,000 coins.,, forever? A true hard cap scarcity? If Fernandinho Galliani, we’re alive today… He would love it.

philosophy future

So I also think there’s lots of new opportunities for philosophy us philosophers of the future.

Good opportunities:

1. Ethics of AI
2. Fitness, bodily, physiological philosophy
3. Philosophy of aesthetics

Much more soon!

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Become a new you:

Some exciting incoming workshops:

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traveling workshops 2026

So this is where it is actually super exciting, some international travel workshops that have… good for you to travel to, and or… If you live in Asia, a good place to go, .. two reinspire yourself your photography and your life:

1. Phnom Penh Cambodia, June 26,27,28 2026 (Friday-sun)
2. Hong Kong, July 25-26 2026, sat-sun
3. TOKYO, AUGUST 8-9, 2026 sat- sun

 Essentially, I love Phnom Penh Cambodia to death,,, to me it’s probably like one of the most underrated or even unknown interesting places on the planet that I feel that everyone should know exists. This one will be epic, and also if you want to fly out to Cambodia, you could even make it into a longer trip and go Angkor wat which is close by.

Hong Kong, July 25 to the 26th…. Hong Kong is like one of the most dynamic places to shoot street photography and to experience the beautiful controlled chaos, it’s like ghost in the shell, meets the matrix, but real life.

Tokyo, the perfect place to go … especially if you’ve never been to Japan or just want to go again. All the super insanely awesome camera shops and opportunities! August 8 to the 9th,,, and also the good thing is because their economy is down right now, that means if you’re an American with US dollars… Everything is like a 50% discount right now.

Also, if you check google flights or kayak.com… There’s so many cheap travel deals to Asia right now. Have you seen some flight flights round-trip from LA for only like $750 bucks? 

Anyways, stay updated on the newsletter and the workshops page, and I’ll send another email when they are live.

Another reason not to buy the sports car or even a Tesla or a second vehicle?

Randomly woke up this morning with a flat in my Prius?

 ultimately when it comes out to it… Reliability is number one. Randomly pulling up to the driveway on my house, and being insanely annoyed that the rear back tire of my Prius was totally flat?

 And then I thought to myself, if you actually had two cars, that’s an additional four tires… The chance of one of them becoming flat as well as even higher?

And then, thinking about the really fun joyride I had with my friend Don Dillon, in his Porsche 911 GT three, and also… Randomly accidentally getting stranded in the middle of nowhere, because I think we accidentally hit a nail in the road? And then him having to tow it all the way to the Porsche dealership, and having a very very expensive tire job. And he told me that he had to replace all four tires because “that’s the way they go”.

And even a bigger thought, the thing that’s very annoying is that, apparently if you have a Tesla, the price to change the tire tires is super expensive?

But I think ultimately, the number one annoyance is, when it comes down to it, you need to be somewhere or you need a reliable car to get somewhere on time, 100% reliability is your number one desire?

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Wealth is different than currency

The last thought to ponder on is this:

–> try to critically think what you define wealth as, as it is different than currency.

ERIC

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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 time, and also the neighborhood is actually highly under known, and also underappreciated. As a consequence, what it essentially makes me think is, so much of this in life etc., is about prospecting digital prospecting.

So do you hear these stories about these early industrial lists or investors,,, who essentially just fought a huge amount of land, and then obviously, looking in retrospect, became fabulously wealthy through development real estate etc.

Now, we’re going through an interesting moment where essentially the new digital industrialists like Michael Saylor of Strategy.com, MSTR, are buying up insane amounts of new digital land, digital cyber property which is bitcoin.

I think I think that’s very very difficult to understand is typically whenever we think about things as digital we think that it means free and easy and cost free to replicate. For example, if I have a JPEG image of one of my famous photos, I could copy it 1 trillion times at no cost. With bitcoin you cannot.

I think the easiest way to think about this is that bitcoin is like 21 million parcels of digital land, perfectly sectioned in cyberspace, and there will never ever ever ever ever be more than 21 million parcels of land. As a consequence, it seems pretty obvious that the more parcels of land you could acquire, right now, it is still year one, or year zero… looking into the future you’ll be insanely rich.

wealthy is perspective

So another big thought I have is wealth, being wealthy or whatever… Really honestly truly is just a mindset thing. For example, even an average an American, with an iPhone Pro is like 1 trillion times more wealthy than the person in the countryside of Cambodia, barely scraping by.

Or even the average Uber driver in America, far more wealthy and powerful than the average tuk tuk driver in Phnom Penh Cambodia.

Or, even if you’re just like an average tech worker, so much more fabulously rich and wealthy and prosperous than the lady cleaning houses making $200 a month.

Anyways, then I suppose this is not really a moralistic thing, … like this whole be grateful for what you got, I don’t really buy it. Better to be practical and strategic about things.

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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 just added to the calendar:

🔥 PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA — JUNE 26 / 27 / 28
🔥 HONG KONG — JULY 25 / 26
🔥 TOKYO — AUGUST 8 / 9

And even insane… I just use ChatGPT Pro, the $200 a month version to create a sizzle reel to promote the workshops, and it looks insanely good.

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The future of AI

So, the first very optimistic thought I have is AI for photographers, the big idea I have is AI is not a replacement, but essentially your photography on steroids.

I’ll give you another example… Let us say that your mother-in-law tasks you with digging up a big hole to get rid of roots of a big tree in the backyard… But she just gives you a tiny kids shovel. Or you have the option of having a real stainless steel shovel. Or better yet, one of those mini caterpillar excavators. Which would you choose?

So, the analogy is like AI. The big idea is with AI, you can simply do things a lot easier and more efficiently.

Or let us say that, I want you to go from LA to Phnom Penh Cambodia, … and, I want you to rule a boat. Would you rather take the $450 one-way airline, with some noise canceling Bose headphones, or paddle yourself?

And also as a note just keep updated… I’m planning a Zoom online AI photography workshop February this year.

AI over equipment

So there’s a very very interesting thought from Marc Andreesen, who says that software is eating the world. I think he meant now to say that AI is eating the world.

It is kind of hilarious, we are willing to sell out $8000 USD on some sort of overpriced Leica Q Camera, which I just consider a panasonic lumix with a body kit, … just get the Lumix S9 instead … yet, we had the idea of paying $200 a month to like create 100 of yous?

Assuming that you use ChatGPT pro a lot, it’s only like paying seven bucks a day to like augment yourself 1000 X?

ideas

So some photography AI ideas:

1. Use AI to cull your images. So you could already use ChatGPT, and select your best images, I made one called photo picker . Just do a screenshot of your contact sheet, and ask ChatGPT which one it likes the most and why. Essentially it’s like an AI version of arsbeta.com –> see an example here.
2. Use AI to check the composition of your photos. About a year ago, I already made composition checker, … try it out.
3. Use AI to brainstorm photo expeditions and also, photo shooting list for yourself for creative assignment ideas
4. Use Grok premium, add an image, one of your street photography portfolio images and ask AI to animated. Very interesting.
5. Even something I haven’t seen yet, take some of Henri Cartier bressons iconic photos and have AI animated? Or any classic images?

AI is the edge

Everyone wants an unfair advantage. But, AI is actually very very ethical and fair.

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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 PENH, CAMBODIA — JUNE 26 / 27 / 28 🔥 HONG KONG — JULY 25 / 26 🔥 TOKYO — AUGUST 8 / 9

And even insane… I just use ChatGPT Pro, the $200 a month version to create a sizzle reel to promote the workshops, and it looks insanely good. 

Video sizzle reel >

The future of AI

So, the first very optimistic thought I have is AI for photographers, the big idea I have is AI is not a replacement, but essentially your photography on steroids.

I’ll give you another example… Let us say that your mother-in-law tasks you with digging up a big hole to get rid of roots of a big tree in the backyard… But she just gives you a tiny kids shovel. Or you have the option of having a real stainless steel shovel. Or better yet, one of those mini caterpillar excavators. Which would you choose?

So, the analogy is like AI. The big idea is with AI, you can simply do things a lot easier and more efficiently.

Or let us say that, I want you to go from LA to Phnom Penh Cambodia, … and, I want you to rule a boat. Would you rather take the $450 one-way airline, with some noise canceling Bose headphones, or paddle yourself? 

And also as a note just keep updated… I’m planning a Zoom online AI photography workshop February this year.

AI over equipment

So there’s a very very interesting thought from Marc Andreesen, who says that software is eating the world. I think he meant now to say that AI is eating the world.

It is kind of hilarious, we are willing to sell out $8000 USD on some sort of overpriced Leica Q Camera, which I just consider a panasonic lumix with a body kit, … just get the Lumix S9 instead … yet, we had the idea of paying $200 a month to like create 100 of yous?

Assuming that you use ChatGPT pro a lot, it’s only like paying seven bucks a day to like augment yourself 1000 X? 

ideas

So some photography AI ideas: 

1. Use AI to cull your images. So you could already use ChatGPT, and select your best images. Just do a screenshot of your contact sheet, and ask ChatGPT which one it likes the most and why. Essentially it’s like an AI version of arsbeta.com
2. Use AI to check the composition of your photos. About a year ago, I already made composition checker, … try it out.
3. Use AI to brainstorm photo expeditions and also, photo shooting list for yourself for creative assignment ideas
4. Use Grok premium, add an image, one of your street photography portfolio images and ask AI to animated. Very interesting.
5. Even something I haven’t seen yet, take some of Henri Cartier bressons iconic photos and have AI animated? Or any classic images?

AI is the edge

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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 is bitcoin is gonna go out forever, underline digital, with extreme volatility and extreme performance. It’s like having a Bugatti on steroids.

Traditional investments are very very standard predictable reliable but very very poor. It’s like driving the old 2001 Hyundai ELANTRA… With some sort of like Ford can exhaust, and some fake Type R stickers. 

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 garage.  and at first, it took him off of guard, and surprised him. Why? 

First, I thought it was just economically irresponsible… But obviously it was a joke, but actually I thought about it… A little bit deeper on a more profound level… Now that I could actually afford to Lamborghinis or multiple Lamborghinis… The truth is, it’s like reverse wealth. 

100 years of prosperity

So it kind of doesn’t really matter …. all this silly short-term stuff. Why? What truly matters is, thinking about the long-term. 

For example, I actually find it very useful to find and research these short term documentaries about rich people in the past because you see how their vehicles… really don’t age well overtime.

For example, if you watch a documentary on the 70s 80s 90s 2000s, 2010… All these fancy sports cars Mercedes Lamborghinis, even Bugatti‘s… Look lame in the long run. 

And only that but, once again, assuming that like wealth is like bodybuilding muscle, and strength and power and also… Indefinitely increasing your one repetition maximum on your weightlifting… The exact opposite of that is to  blow it away on something that is reverse.

Energy leaks

Another thought, in terms of energy energy leaks etc.

So now that I am a new homeowner, proud owner of a glorious 7000 square-foot lot, single-family home… I’m starting to learn about living stuff.

For example, even something as simple as a leaking water faucet. Or leaking showerhead, or water leaks in general. If you think about it… Even if you have like a .1% leak, some more critical… Over the course of a day hour or weeks or months or years… That will probably equate to like millions of gallons of water lost.

Or imagine… You have a tiny leak somewhere in your main house… And you leave for vacation. Even a week or a few days, or let us say six months. Imagine how insane it will be six months from now, coming back home to see your whole house flooded.

So I think we’re also with economics it’s kind of the same. Typically we could easily identify energy leaks, or economic energy leaks.

For example, superfluous subscriptions which bill you ad infinitium, which bill you forever.

If anything, one of the most simple things you can do is just unsubscribe from everything. Unsubscribe from everything, all at once, and then a month or two or three from now later… If you find it insanely critical, and then you could always resubscribe to it.

every day unsubscribe from one thing

Let us say you have an inbox which is out of control. Assuming you have Gmail, literally the easiest thing you do is select all, archive all, and begin with a clean slate.

There is also this service called unroll.me ,,, and once again, mass unsubscribe from everything.

Cars

The number one most obvious thing that is a major energy leak for people is their vehicle.

For example, even something as simple as gasoline, assuming that you have to use premium gas, and your vehicle consumes much premium gas, that is like literally the worst energy leak that you got. It is almost like, if you’re trying to climb a very very steep hill or mountain, and you literally have like 1,000,000,000,000 tons on your back. Or something that is dragging you down or weighing you down.

I’ll give you another good example, a big issue that I had for a really really long time, finally got it resolved , was that my back bicycle tire was out of alignment, which caused my rear brake pad, to perpetually clamp my rear brakes at like 30% intensity, so when I’m like biking around town or uphill or whatever, it’s like the brakes are perpetually engaged. You don’t know how insanely annoying this is.

Finally got it resolved in my life is like 1 trillion times better.

Prius

I’m still pretty convinced that at least in America, also even in Phnom Penh Cambodia,,, maybe everywhere on the planet… A Prius, a 2010 Prius may be the best bet.

First, it all just literally comes down to MPG‘s.

I also think that a Prius prime plug-in seems also interesting… But, it reduces the MPG? I suppose if you have those electric chargers or visit malls which have the plug-in thingy… A Prius prime plug-in is a good idea, but, my long-term suspicion… Typically the more components that your vehicle or house or whatever has… The more points in which it could break. So assuming that a Prius plug-in prime has more components than just a typical Prius hybrid… I think in the long-term like 10, 20 or 30 years… there are probably more components that will break?

And also… I think the built-in battery pack is paltry at best. What like 30 miles or 50 miles? And then once again the way that people are suckered by marketing is they are like thinking wild they could totally live off the grid or whatever but once again… You’re only saving a few dollars here and there?

All electric or not?

 I’m a super mega fan of Elon Musk, Tesla etc.… But once again, my suspicion or my honest thought is, it seems like an economically unintelligent idea.

First, no matter how good your Tesla or electric vehicle or whatever is… The number one critical issue is that, no matter what, within one or two cycles your car will look obsolete? In two or three years?

If we cross pollinate this idea to photography… Or even to iPhones, even if you buy the newest iPhone Pro right now, imagine like you spend $100,000 on a iPhone Pro, with wheels… No matter how good it is, it will always become obsolete very very quickly.

Another good example, a camera which befuddles me… the Leica Q camera… which is essentially a Panasonic Lumix camera with a body kit, no matter how good one you get, once again in a few years the value of it will drop like what 50%?

Cameras

So some honest things I have come to believe:

First, it does seem that modular makes more sense. Even something as simple as a desktop computer, because it is modular, and also because you could swap out the parts in and out, it is a very good idea.

For example, even as a child, or a teenager, when I was like 15 years old, or even my freshman sophomore year in high school, I will never forget that my older mentor and friend ERIC Moon taught me how to build a computer. Choosing the processor of the ram the hard drive… Graphics card, the case, and whenever anything got outdated,.. you could either swap out that part or upgrade that specific piece?

Os of the future

One analogy I heard about ChatGPT and AI at least for highschoolers in university students is that it is like almost the new operating system. Which means,  instead of just googling stuff, they essentially live in ChatGPT, ChatGPT almost becomes like their new macOS?

So assuming that you have a ChatGPT subscription, in some ways it actually becomes quite optimistic because instead of paying for overpriced $1500 iPhone pros for the rest of your life, in theory you could just use an operate a cheap smartphone device or computer or desktop or laptop or iPad tablet whatever, as long as you have access to ChatGPT… Which is the only AI, … you’re good.

Minimum viable AI

I have another big idea, after playing with ChatGPT pro the $200 a month version, which honestly I think is awesome but, even the $20 a month version, is pretty great.

So for example, I’m starting to think this like iCloud storage and even now Google Drive storage, even dropbox storage, all of this is kind of a scam. Maybe my next project is I will slowly migrate everything off of the cloud. 

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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 didn’t notice… I didn’t like 1977, or Knaut was already a millionaire because he was very intelligent and used his money to start buying real estate in Santa Monica, his first apartment building complex, an office building etc. Therefore when he was getting his foot into Hollywood, the good thing is he didn’t need the money he could refuse character roles, because once again, he didn’t need the money. 

Really fascinating to be watching this documentary because Arnold, I think he’s like 78 years old now… About to turn 80… How is find it fascinating to watch a personal biopic documentary on somebody who is successful… And then working your way backwards. 

Which got me a randomly thinking… Obviously, if you were got into a Time Machine and start buying office buildings in Santa Monica or better yet… Culver City, it’s actually super obvious that obviously real estate is going to be the best return. Or a similar idea… Buying apple stock for nickels in the 1980s, before the iPhone would take over the planet. 

Therefore, I also think it’s pretty obvious that 2026 is upon us, thinking to ourselves, that essentially, bitcoin is going to take over the planet. 2026… Wow that number seems so insanely futuristic.

insane preparation

,,, international

“Too big is not big enough!”

Made in America

“The body”, “the face”–> brand value

“I’ll be back”

“The body”

“I was the bravest “

“I lied”

Shmay,,, bullshit

“Come with me if you want to live”

“He’ll live”

“Bullshit!”

Promotion sell

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Spending more time outdoors

“I was looking for a new challenge “

“I was happier”

40 years

Aim for the bullseye

Fire in your belly

He’ll win

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The great American story

Now watching part three of the Arnold documentary, it really truly is true… The American story the American dream

boys and our toys we never grow up 

The heart

Not clicks ,,, but AI searches.

AI is the future of media?

Derail psychologically

“I can drive my hummer through it”

SURGE

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?

So apparently… I was randomly trolling IMDb… And I was very very surprised to see Christopher Nolan putting out a new Odyssey film? This is going to be epic.

So first, my first general thought on the military is I am not for violence or killing people or whatever… Ever since I was a kid, I was a pacifist. I actually remember recalling this very vividly as a kid… Very clearly as even a 12-year-old… If the American government spent even half of their budget on defense and military endeavors, and put it into education… Paying teachers better, attracting better talent or whatever… Then if that were the case, certainly kids would be far better off. For example, even funding after school programs, keeping kids off the street etc.

But anyways a random thought about colors, a new high-gloss military green vehicle wrap caught my eye, it is a very interesting color because it wasn’t really on my radar. I was more about the eye popping colors like extremely insanely high visibility orange, full fluorescent green, insanely hot pink and the like.

Green is fastening because ultimately it is the color of life. Everyone wants to see green grass, green Vista, see you there stock portfolio, their investments go green etc. It’s one of those funny things that a lot of people think that certain other things are better like red, everyone wants a red Ferrari… But nobody wants to see their investments go red?

Anyways, it’s interesting when it comes to vehicles… Living here in LA… It seems that also… Everyone wants their vehicle to look like some sort of military vehicle? If you think about the raised trucks SUVs… They essentially look like armored vehicles on the road. Even if you think about a cyber truck… It’s kind of like an affordable urban tank? Especially since it is bulletproof.

If you think about a military lifestyle, it should be all about austerity. For example, assuming that the summit of military discipline and lifestyle was the ancient Spartans, you don’t have a bunch of Spartans prancing around in purple Lamborghinis, or pink Rolls-Royce‘s,. Rather, they pride themselves on their military discipline their military valor, being outside all day, training for battle, in fact… lusting after battle.

In fact, I have an interesting theory… I think modern day man, the reason why modern day man is so depressed is because he doesn’t have any avenues to express his physical courage and valor? Like, when in modern day life will you ever suit up, get a sword and spear, put on your hub light helmet with the horse crest on top, roar, and go head to head in battle? Never.

I think the closest thing we have in modern day times is either like sports or the gym? Like football… Maybe rugby, something that actually requires some sort of physical courage.

I’ll give you an example I played football in high school, outside linebacker and inside linebacker my sophomore and junior year, starting, and the number one act of courage that you gotta do is go ahead to head with other highly adapt guys, all essentially suited up in their battle armor. To literally do a kickoff, run full speed to another dude, who grabs the ball and lowers his helmet and his body to accost you,,, it’s like one of the most unnatural things that a human being has to override his brain and doing. It’s practically 100% physical courage.

Football is interesting because certainly there’s a lot of skill involved, but I would say it’s like 99% physicality and courage.

There is a lot of other sports which takes physical string stamina, and skill… But not much physical courage?

What is physical courage anyways? Physical courage is like putting your skeleton your bones your muscles your brain on the line, and if you act in such a way that is cowardly, you inflict physical damage on yourself. 

Courage

Also when it comes to investing, there needs to be some sort of exposure. Like you cannot be a fake

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?

So apparently… I was randomly trolling IMDb… And I was very very surprised to see Christopher Nolan putting out a new Odyssey film? This is going to be epic.

So first, my first general thought on the military is I am not for violence or killing people or whatever… Ever since I was a kid, I was a pacifist. I actually remember recalling this very vividly as a kid… Very clearly as even a 12-year-old… If the American government spent even half of their budget on defense and military endeavors, and put it into education… Paying teachers better, attracting better talent or whatever… Then if that were the case, certainly kids would be far better off. For example, even funding after school programs, keeping kids off the street etc.

But anyways a random thought about colors, a new high-gloss military green vehicle wrap caught my eye, it is a very interesting color because it wasn’t really on my radar. I was more about the eye popping colors like extremely insanely high visibility orange, full fluorescent green, insanely hot pink and the like.

Green is fastening because ultimately it is the color of life. Everyone wants to see green grass, green Vista, see you there stock portfolio, their investments go green etc. It’s one of those funny things that a lot of people think that certain other things are better like red, everyone wants a red Ferrari… But nobody wants to see their investments go red?

Anyways, it’s interesting when it comes to vehicles… Living here in LA… It seems that also… Everyone wants their vehicle to look like some sort of military vehicle? If you think about the raised trucks SUVs… They essentially look like armored vehicles on the road. Even if you think about a cyber truck… It’s kind of like an affordable urban tank? Especially since it is bulletproof.

If you think about a military lifestyle, it should be all about austerity. For example, assuming that the summit of military discipline and lifestyle was the ancient Spartans, you don’t have a bunch of Spartans prancing around in purple Lamborghinis, or pink Rolls-Royce‘s,. Rather, they pride themselves on their military discipline their military valor, being outside all day, training for battle, in fact… lusting after battle.

In fact, I have an interesting theory… I think modern day man, the reason why modern day man is so depressed is because he doesn’t have any avenues to express his physical courage and valor? Like, when in modern day life will you ever suit up, get a sword and spear, put on your hub light helmet with the horse crest on top, roar, and go head to head in battle? Never.

I think the closest thing we have in modern day times is either like sports or the gym? Like football… Maybe rugby, something that actually requires some sort of physical courage.

I’ll give you an example I played football in high school, outside linebacker and inside linebacker my sophomore and junior year, starting, and the number one act of courage that you gotta do is go ahead to head with other highly adapt guys, all essentially suited up in their battle armor. To literally do a kickoff, run full speed to another dude, who grabs the ball and lowers his helmet and his body to accost you,,, it’s like one of the most unnatural things that a human being has to override his brain and doing. It’s practically 100% physical courage.

Football is interesting because certainly there’s a lot of skill involved, but I would say it’s like 99% physicality and courage.

There is a lot of other sports which takes physical string stamina, and skill… But not much physical courage?

What is physical courage anyways? Physical courage is like putting your skeleton your bones your muscles your brain on the line, and if you act in such a way that is cowardly, you inflict physical damage on yourself. 

Courage

Also when it comes to investing, there needs to be some sort of exposure. Like you cannot be a fake