Flagship blog / human artist archive
Street photography as courage. Photography philosophy as embodied life. A living archive by ERIC KIM.
And the details are unusually instructive. One important distinction first: “went broke” does not appear to mean Ray Dalio filed for formal personal bankruptcy. Dalio uses the phrase to describe being financially wiped out to the point that…
Executive summary The proposition that suffering and loss might themselves be virtues and “eminently desirable” becomes much less plausible once its components are distinguished. In standard virtue ethics, a virtue is a relatively stable excellence of character or…
Executive summary “The joy of social society” is best treated not as an established scientific term, but as an integrative construct: the positive affect, belonging, meaning, trust, vitality, and life evaluation that arise when people experience themselves as…
You may be thinking of Morita Therapy, a distinctly Japanese school of psychotherapy created by psychiatrist Shōma Morita (1874–1938) in the early 20th century. Nature is important to it, but it is deeper than simply “spending time in…
Autotelic thinking What to concern myself with? Think deeper Master your capital , or is your capital your master? Anchoring fallacy Maybe perpetual dissatisfaction is in fact a good thing? I’m too beyond? It doesn’t really matter what…
The Spartan way . Conquer yourself
Start from the beginning 
Japanese innovations: A place of boundless creativity So Japan is kind of a magical place, especially after visiting the studio Ghibli museum the other day with the family. It’s kind of been a while since I’ve witnessed magic…
As long as you have enough wealth to be independent, you’re wealthy. That’s it. The point of money isn’t to stare at the number. The point of money is to buy independence. Independence from bosses.Independence from bullshit.Independence from…
Executive summary “The will to consume and subsume everything” is not an established technical term or unified theory in philosophy or the social sciences. The closest explicit scholarly formulation I found is Ryan Gunderson’s “The Will to Consume,”…
Nietzschean Core: Incorporation as Will to Power Nietzsche reframes Schopenhauer’s blind, suffering “will to life” as Wille zur Macht. Life is not primarily self-preservation (a secondary, defensive result) but the discharge and increase of power. The simplest expression…
The photographer –> digests all his life experiences into his photos?
The purpose of life is overcoming? Overcoming gravity, circumstances, challenges, and obstacles?  Interesting challenges, un interesting challenges?  The thinking, man, the walking man? It does seem that with novel environments, breed stimulus to new thoughts? …
The will to freedom
How to retrain your brain,,, to truly believe that your NEW SCENARIO and NEW POSITION is actually, superior than your old one… even though you think the old one was superior?
Just focus on my own self development? Physiological accumulation . Less wealth but more power? Diet & physiology Self overcoming Aspire to totality Skillful in all bodily accomplishments . How to transform downsides into your own benefit and…
The most effective approach is sequential and heavily hands-on. Skipping foundations is the most common reason people stall. 1. Build the four non-negotiable foundations (4–8 weeks) You cannot reliably exploit what you do not understand. Do these properly…
I Study Cybersecurity Penetration Testing? Yes — but I’d study it as intellectual and technical cross-training, not necessarily as a career. Penetration testing teaches an unusually powerful mode of thought: adversarial thinking. Most people learn systems by asking,…