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Published: Aug. 27, 2022, 8:27 a.m.

How to Maximize Your Impact and Reach on the Planet\n\n

Something which has been very interesting, currently living here in Phnom Penh Cambodia, at this point, it seems that Cambodia is just a new colony of mainland China. For example, if you look into the Belt and Road Initiative, something I witnessed very interesting was a map of it, and Vietnam, Cambodia, Southeast Asia in general, we\u2019re all painted in red. My point of thought that is that all of these countries which are bordering China, have essentially become assimilated into China.

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Therefore my basic idea is this:

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Can people in mainland China access your photography, website, and stuff via their Internet?

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Or via baidu.com (their local Google)?

\n\nhow open source is the future\n\n

I believe the reason why open source is the key to maximize your impact and influence in the world is this:

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Stuff is open source, it is more likely accessible by anyone on the planet.

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And something else I\u2019ve realized is this: maximizing your impact, notoriety, fame, and influence is more important than money or any other metric of success.

\n\n\u201cBaidu yourself\u201d\n\n

And one of my life goals was to become number one on Google for \u201cEric Kim\u201d. Now that I have achieved that life goal, a simple thought:

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If you search your first and last name on baidu.com, will you show up?

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\n\nThink globally\n\n

Something I really like about the new iOS beta is one of the default wallpapers is a GPS coordination of planet earth. It is a nice visual, as it has us to think bigger, more globally, at the earth scale, rather than our myopic and shortsighted view of our own locale.

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For example, I like the Socrates quote \u2014 when somebody asked him where he was from, he said \u201cI am a citizen of the world\u201c. I believe this is an attitude we should all adopt.

\n\nWhy are people so racist towards mainland Chinese?\n\n

Why is everyone so fearful of mainland China, and why do so many people disdain Chinese tourists?

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Several thoughts:

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1. First of all, mainland Chinese tourists often do not act with \u201cproper\u201c notions of Western modernity. For example, yell yell, speak loudly in public, spit in public, etc. They order and boss people around like they are their slaves or servants. This is very anti-western notions of what is considered \u201cproper\u201c, if you think about the UK British notions of Victorian properness.
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2. Second, honestly, I think a lot of people hate mainland Chinese because they are so rich. For example, when I was in Hong Kong, it seems that everyone is low-key jealous of the mainland Chinese tourists, because they are so rich, and can just buy out the Gucci, Louis Vuitton, or Herm\xe8s store by themselves.
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3. Third, it seems that all nations, in order to thrive, need some sort of enemy. For example, if you observe the goldeneye movies, or even modern day American politics, there is always a foreign enemy. Whether it be the communist, the Russians, the Chinese, etc. Funny enough though, now that a lot of mainland Chinese people prefer to watch American cinema, anti-Chinese sentiment is being toned down. For example, when I watched the pacific rim two movie, which was funded by a Chinese company, the western guys and the Chinese guys all worked together to fight off the aliens. I think this is a good thing.
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4. Censorship, whether <a href="https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2022/08/27/hard-vs-soft-censor