Published: Aug. 30, 2022, 12:36 p.m.

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VLOG: Less is Better

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Better is Less

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Why is there this bias that more is better? My thought is that actually, better is less.

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Some examples

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For example, fewer repetitions and weight lifting is superior to more repetitions. Also, with design, more features and more functions is inferior.

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Also, with life and lifestyle, having fewer options, is superior to having more options.

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What is luxury?

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Spartan luxury is this: less is a luxury. For example, if you step in to a Ross or an H&M, there is a quadrillion options, which suffocates you. I far prefer going into a small Balenciaga store, where there is only a very few options.

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Curate less

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This is the tricky thing; a lot of people strive towards having nothing. This is the big problem with too much emphasis on Zen or Buddhism; essentially you become a beggar. I would prefer to be instead, to look like or seem to be a billionaire beggar.

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How to make better photos

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On the path to making better photos, show less. Feature fewer details and show less. I think this is also why black-and-white is superior to color; by shooting in black-and-white, you strip out options.

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Also, the reason why I like very high contrast black-and-white is that it also strips away the midtones. I don\\u2019t like mid tones, as I don\\u2019t like middle or medium things.

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Better to lose it all, when you clip the downside at only 10%

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For example, one thing Nasim Taleb says is avoid \\u201cmedium risk\\u201d investments at all costs. Better to put 90% of your money in boring, cold hard cash in your savings account, and invest 10% and extremely risky speculative things, like cryptocurrency, where the value can go to zero. The reason why this is intelligent is this:

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Rather than having a boring 3% return, year-over-year, it is better for your 10% investment to 1000X, or potentially go to zero.

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For example, let us see you have $100,000 in savings. Or your net worth for your money totals $100,000 USD. Better to keep $90,000 of your money in a boring savings account, and keep it in liquid cash, and put the other 10% into a highly volatile and risky cryptocurrency investment. Because at worse, you lose 100% of your $10,000, but at best, your $10,000 investment could 1000x, netting you $10,000,000.

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Or, if you are a solo bachelor and you have nothing to lose, just put 100% of your fiat currency into cryptocurrency. This is how I met a guy who is a whale, who invested his $50,000 life savings into Chainlink, when it was only at about three cents a Chainlink, and it made him so rich that apparently, he has to pay $10 million in taxes this year.

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This is where I currently am, between the net worth of me and Cindy, I put 10% of our savings simply into Bitcoin. I plan to HODL (hold onto dear life), until Seneca becomes 18, and he could just do with it whatever he wants.

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At worst, Bitcoin goes to zero, and we have only decimated our savings, which is only 10%.

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10% is the ideal number

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This is apparently what the ancient Roman Empire Army used to do; if they lost a battle, in cowardice was suspected, they would at random kill 10% of a squad. Why 10%? If you lose 10% of your army, it is not enough to seriously injure you, but it is a strong enough motivator to keep your army from acting like a bunch of sissies.

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Also, if you have a manager, or you are doing some sort of profit-sharing scheme, which I believe to be a good idea, b'