Last night I went into downtown LA and rented a video shooting studio with a CYC wall.
Hit up one of my favorite videographers - Ryan Schmidt. If you need work done, he's great. Very professional. We've shot a bunch of stuff together over the years. Shout out ryan - @imryanschmidt
And yeah, that's one of the reasons I love being in LA as a creative person.
You have every creative resource imaginable at your disposal. And creative people to collaborate with.
So yeah, I was shooting the new instructional video for the 8AM app—basically the homepage video that shows you how to use it and get the most out of it.
Pretty excited to roll this out. Should be done within the next week.
After the shoot, it was late - got back around 10pm - meditated then had a great sleep.
Shout out to my friend Justin Liao for his amazing sleep supplement, Portal, which I've been on for over 4 years now.
This is not sponsored, but I genuinely had forgotten to take this magnesium / glycine supplement for the past couple weeks. Finally had it last night and had one of the best sleeps I've had in a really long time.
If you want better sleep, i highly recommend getting on it.
This morning, I woke up - did my prayer and meditation. Hopped in the car and went to the gym.
Had a really great workout. I have this mindset that the best ideas hit at least 20 minutes into a good sweat… Endorphins flowing… Frequency high.
Receptive to good ideas…
Then had a great breakfast at Erewhon.
On my drive back to crib, I was listening to something I never thought I would listen to.
My buddy Bryce Crawford - who's like a Christian evangelist, young influencer - had on the infamous Dan Bilzerian onto his podcast.
I never thought I would hear a conversation like this in my life.
And it was pretty interesting.
Bilzerian, unfortunately, has kind of become this massive anti-Semite and seems to think that Jews are the problem for everything in the world.
Which, although of course I'm ethnically Jewish so probably inherently have a bit of bias - and I do know a lot of Jewish people, I can promise you that at least the majority of Jews… of which there's only 15 million in the world… are mostly genuinely great humans.
And perhaps there's a few bad actors, as with any group of people.
But any time we as society just start blaming the Jews, I don't think you get very far in life. It seems to me like a brain fried mental masturbation rabbit hole scapegoat move.
Just notice how you feel and look at yourself going down a rabbit hole trying to prove that hitler was a good guy or that the holocaust didn’t happen. It’s weird.
That being said, I do respect dan for always being bluntly honest. I’m not sure bryce was aware the can of worms he would be opening having dan on - exposing him to his young impressionable audience. But whatever.
Anyway, I then had a conversation with my good friend, Colin Yurcisin.
I actually just got off the phone with him before sitting down to write this.
Colin is a very big Bitcoin guy. He’s in the Bitcoin mining business. He's also a big supporter and follower of Jesus.
And he's been telling me that he's been super close to his scripture and his word lately.
So it was really nice to catch up with Colin.
And he was really red-pilling me on the importance of looking into AI stocks, which I think is something I'm going to devote a bit more time into.
Other than all that, if I'm being honest, I don't have like a major philosophical topic to go into today.
Just tapping in. Sharing some good vibes and some good energy with u.
I'm just in a good work flow & really pretty fired up about everything I'm building.
And from the looks of it, all my effort going into these posts has been generating really great feedback from friends, from people in my audience.
And so yeah, of course, if you're reading these, I always like to see back and forth feedback - Whether it's a DM or a text or response to a tweet, whatever.
I'm in a pretty big lock-in phase as far as working and building, so I'm going to get right back to it.
What I WILL leave you with a is a bitcoin convo i had with my buddy Andy on twitter. You can see my response in the replies…
All that being said, go ahead, crush your day, get a good sweat in, some nature time…
And I'll see you here tomorrow!
- Arlin
