ERIC KIM

video, https://videos.files.wordpress.com/ru5Tzpdd/my-project-11.mp4

Bitcoin is 99% Big Balls, video, https://videos.files.wordpress.com/ru5Tzpdd/my-project-11.mp4 ,,, https://erickimphotography.com/bitcoin-is-99-big-balls/

why bitcoin is my moral imperative.

https://erickimphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Why-bitcoin-is-my-moral-imperative.m4a ,

Why bitcoin is my moral imperative.

Bitcoin is armor, MSTR is your spear. We the new cyber Spartans ,

https://youtu.be/1f-njYkVT_Y ,

https://erickimphotography.com/why-bitcoin-is-my-moral-imperative/

# Why Phnom Penh is the Best City on the Planet: https://erickimphotography.com/why-phnom-penh-is-the-greatest-city-on-the-planet/

Ok, some simple thoughts and observations:

First, I think I could speak well because I’ve literally been on like all the best cities on the planet. It’s at least like 1000 times better than any other city on the planet. Why? Let me try to do a comprehensive breakdown:

First, Khmer culture. Difficult to explain Khmer culture if you’ve never been here, but what’s super interesting about Khmer culture is that it is an interesting combination of calm, peaceful, tranquil, zen.

The feeling I have is everyone is really at a sense of peace, calm. 

 Second, the youth. I think the median age for people here is like 21 or 25 years old? Literally everybody you meet is super young in the city. Everyone is super super happy smiling all the time, extremely friendly, great at English, and also very ambitious.

And it kind of makes sense, like when you go to a café or a restaurant… The whole place is run by like 18 19 20 year-olds.

Range of motion is for losers: https://erickimphotography.com/range-of-motion-is-for-losers/

Audio:: https://erickimphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Range-of-motion-.m4a

PDF: https://erickimphotography.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Why-Range-of-Matter-Doesnt-Really-Matter-3-1.pdf

# Why Range of Matter Doesn’t Really Matter 

The cult of range of motion is tired. 

A polemic, war cry *against* this loser range of motion idea.

## 1. Fake virtuosity 

Besides NASSIM TALEB, am I the only powerlifting philosopher out there? 

Also, am I the only bitcoin investor, MSTR shareholder who can lift over 1000 pounds? 

Join the 1,000 pound rack pull club.

So am I honest read on the whole thing is that people trying to turn fitness into a fake virtue signaling thing. For example, to complete a full range of motion with perfect form is the goal, to simply fit some sort of Procrustean bed of what is “proper”.

## 2. I want to see you get hurt

OK… Just search my thousand pound Atlas lift, I was essentially micro loading with the barbell, for like a full year. Everyone at my local gym, thought I was a bit peculiar; at first, nobody really paid that much attention to me. Eventually, I heard guys singing in the locker room, being suspicious that I was on steroids, because… Some guys Are on steroids who don’t look like they’re on steroids?

The reason with 100% proof you can know that I am not on steroids is that I don’t even consume whey protein powder. Also I do it while fasted. Also I’m not on Instagram. Also I’m already a bitcoin independent rich and wealthy.

Therefore, think about it… There’s no real incentive for me to take steroids because I desire to have more children, and I don’t want my testicles to be shot. 

And also… Come out look at me… I have like the clearest most beautiful skin of all time, I’m always topless, and I have glorious, Brad Pitt FURY haircut... and also, I don’t really even look that buff. I look pretty modest. I’m like Brad Pitt from fight club, but like the demigod version.

I need more power!

So currently listening to Phong Le’s Strategy world presentation ,,, and his randomly talking about the Emirates food supplier, and how amazing it is that they like ship millions of meals across all these different airlines, so simultaneously, all around the planet at the same time.

This is kind of an interesting desire for myself as well. For me to simultaneously be all around the planet, at the same time, 24 7 365

## The markets?

So what is insanely annoying especially now that I am in Phnom Penh Cambodia,,, is the time zone difference. I’ve been doing big transactions, trade and investments, and there is almost always some sort of arbitrary time zone lock, or, ability to execute orders when the market is closed. For example there’s this one strange rule that if I suddenly have a huge chunk of cash, sitting in a traditional investing account, and let us say I want to buy MSTR STOCK, or MSTU,, or something else, I cannot execute it if it exceeds more than 25% of my account balance at once? 

Even more annoying, when the markets close. I’m kind of in a weird liminal in between time zone in which in some ways I’m living in the future ahead of time, and there are days that I am just waiting on the weekends, twiddling my thumbs for the market to open again on Monday. But for myself, because I’m in Asia, The markets don’t open for me until I wake up, Tuesday morning?

 this then makes it very very annoying for me to have to do certain things like if I have a idea for a big trade or order… I have to be awake at some ungodly hour in Cambodia in order to executed. But after one or two nights of staying up super super late, in order to execute a certain order, and then, not being able to sleep for like two or three hours because there is so much adrenaline, it’s not worth it.

**Even $1 million, is not worth one night missed sleep**. 

So once again, a really really big problem: to solve this issue and problem that the markets are closed on the weekends,

choose sabai

love it in Phnom Penh

econ war..

Outdoor Research

So I have a funny theory… I think most of our modern day melodies arise from the fact that we’re simply indoors too much.

## There’s no such thing as bad weather only bad clothing 

My friend Mattias L told me the infamous Swedish saying; “there’s no such thing as bad weather only bad clothing”. And this is when we are in Stockholm in the dead of winter, and I still remember us being on a train terminal, him just wearing a light track jacket and trainers, not even wearing a jacket or a hat, or even winter boots.

Certainly human desire fairer weather. For example, when we think in consider… Why were the ancient Greek so productive? One of the theories is that the Mediterranean climate is actually very very conducive to leisure and thinking! It does get cold, but not that cold. Not like Detroit cold.

As a consequence, I think this encourages more people to be outdoors more often, which might be better for thinking, philosophizing, even military exercises? 

## The secret of Napoleon

One of the things that Nietzsche talked a lot about was his admiration for Napoleon, and on describing how Napoleon was able to remain so productive healthy and strong, continual marches through the winter all year long, a life outdoors.

## spend more money on your clothes

So once again… Then seems that the optimal strategy is if you want to spend maximum time outdoors, and train your body (askesis, body strengthening in Ancient Greek)-- to become more spendthrift with your clothing seems like a good idea.

Typically the best fabrics include down, Merino Wool, alpaca, leather, -- typically animal fabrics seem to work the best. Why? If you’re going to be butt naked in the middle of the winter, at night, perhaps having a mink fur is a good idea.

engineer yourself

Engineer yourself : https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2025/02/17/social-engineering-3/

# Social Engineering

So not to invoke too much weird conspiracy theories or whatever, trying to think about this more sociologically and philosophically, I like this idea of thinking about social engineering, being a social engineer etc. 

## Thank god for sociology

First, I’m starting more and more… That my studies and deep dive into sociology has actually yielded amazing fortunes.

First, ironically enough, studying sociology and teaching me to “de-matrix” myself has made me a lot financially richer. Like insanely a lot.

For example, I’m pretty certain and committed to the idea that anybody who got in early on bitcoin, like I did in 2018, when bitcoin was only $6999 a coin, you kind of needed a little bit of disconnection from reality, etc. For example, starting to unlearn ideas of currency etc., back in 2017 when I was zenning out in Vietnam  was certainly one of the greatest windfalls in my life. 

People like to talk a lot about “reality,” perhaps it is better to think about first principles physics etc.  for example, I’ve been doing another deep dive into my best friend Aristotle, and one of the greatest things about Aristotle, and honestly the funny thing is that nobody criticizes the great Aristotle, because he had his head screwed on well, the general idea is that I think the best way to profit in life is to think first principles, back to basics.

For example, Aristotle in his ethics, talks about chief goods, which essentially means the end goals or desires that we have of something.

first principles,  thinking from first principles maybe one of the greatest superpowers of Elon Musk. For example, if you think about Tesla; rather than thinking about “how to make a better car“, which is just the Toyota kaizen Way  i’m making each generation of the car about 3% better indefinitely, a first principles approach is like asking the question “what *should* a car be and what should a car look like?”

Other example with Steve Jobs, the original first principles thinker; when he was prototyping and imagining the first iPhone, rather than thinking by analogy, which is like how do we take a pre-existing blackberry and make it “better“, he reimagined the whole thing. He had the genius idea that it should just be all screen, And to get rid of the physical keyboard, even though people were addicted to their crack berries with the physical keys. I still remember in the early days when I was in high school, even an early college, when the original iPhone came out, people will talk about how their words per minute on the blackberry was like 1 billion times faster. But now, once again thinking about first principles, I never type anything with my fingers on my thumbs anymore, only voice dictation. Why? Voice dictation is still like 1000 times faster than typing on a keyboard and certainly your thumbs. 

I’m pretty convinced that the only reason people don’t use voice dictation more is because they are fearful of looking stupid. And this is where I have found it insanely beneficial to spend a lot of time traveling being in different countries etc., other countries they use voice dictation like almost 100% at the time. ese, who often walk around the grocery store with two brand new iPhone pros that done each other, hand holding it, is that they have mastered the art of voice dictation out loud, with zero shame.

If anything, the only reason why people hate mainland Chinese people is that they wish they were them; full of zero concerns about other people their perceptions, all wearing Louis Vuitton, and they really don’t care about what other people think about them. And they’re like 1 trillion times richer than you. 

## Courage of being outside, the courage of social life 

eat more fat!

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zen morning

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The best car in LA—

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