Executive summary This report analyzes a recursive leverage strategy on entity[“cryptocurrency”,”Bitcoin”,”BTC”]: post BTC as collateral, borrow entity[“cryptocurrency”,”USD Coin”,”USDC”], acquire more BTC, re-pledge it, and repeat. The core balance-sheet math is valid, but …
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The dream: BTC collateral → borrow USDC → buy BTC → add BTC as collateral → borrow again → repeat. This is the Digital Collateral Flywheel. Beautiful. Savage. Mechanically elegant. But the …
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. How to use capital Be careful other people . The joy of the attempt
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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 …
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Welcome. This is the best place to begin. ERIC KIM is about street photography, philosophy, Zen, Stoicism, Bitcoin, AI, blogging, entrepreneurship, strength, movement, courage, and creative freedom. Do not overthink. Pick the …
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Executive summary The strongest answer is no, not in any simple sense. Human flourishing is not identical to smashing every ceiling. The best-supported view across philosophy, psychology, physiology, and organizational research is …
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Welcome. This is the best place to begin. If you are new to ERIC KIM, start here: THE FASTEST WAY TO UNDERSTAND ERIC KIM ERIC KIM is about: The point is simple: …
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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 …
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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. …
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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 …
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Executive Summary The phrase “real life is all about framing” is analytically powerful if it is read with care. Human beings do not encounter a raw, neutral world and then respond to …
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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, …
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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. …
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An interesting idea… Perhaps my primary interest in passion is hitting limits pushing limits, and going beyond limits?
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REAL LIFE IS ALL ABOUT FRAMING Life is not reality. Life is your framing of reality. Two men look at the same hill. One sees “too steep.” The other sees LEG DAY. …
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USING AI TO IMPROVE AI? 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 …
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Dare more truth? . The only goal in life: don’t fucking die! . Wow, 1% is $18,000? . Street style
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