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Stop Chasing the Leaves: Why the Consumer Matrix is Killing Our Roots

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Stop Chasing the Leaves: Why the Consumer Matrix is Killing Our Roots Let’s stop playing nice with the systems that are actively draining us. Everyday, we are bombarded with the toxic gospel of the hustle—told to stack another gig, download another finance app, and buy into external validation. We’ve been conditioned to trade our cultural inheritance for temporary, cosmetic luxury. We are out here changing our leaves to survive the corporate winter, but we are letting our roots rot in the process. The Amharic proverb explicitly warns us: "Don't abandon your foundation; even trees change their leaves but keep their roots." Our foundation is Ujamaa —Cooperative Economics. But we’ve allowed a predatory system to distort our vision, turning us into the ultimate consumers instead of the ultimate creators. Think about the old tale of the maiden and the magic fish. Her husband couldn’t stop demanding more—more property, more status, a bigger empire—completely devoid of gratitude...

Tribe over Business part 2

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Tribe Over Business part 1

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Greens, Streaming, New Camera Gimbal, Greens & Fish on Nia, Adsence and $3 an Hour

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Great day Fam: Today we talk about taking over the Green market, argue with my gimbal, look at how we can actual take some action to take control of the green market here in Columbus. I believe we need to start with our Tribes & village. If we come together around one idea I believe that others will follow. Some of our ventures I believe are misguided because we want to touch the world before we touch the hood. Lastly I am struggling trying to understand internet marketing, how to do digital ads. I talk about a goal of making $3-5 per hour, and you have to watch to understand what I mean. I will see you tomorrow.

Sending Props to Seth Godin

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On this Journey you have to sometimes adjust your trajectory. You sometimes end up on a dead end trail, because the Journey is about gaining the experience so that you can share what you know. At these times it is good to humble yourself and admit that you are lost. What I have found in life is  that when you let your ego go and ask the universe for help, something always appears. Sometimes it's a book, a map, gift, and if you are lucky  a person. During one of my lost moments, I happened to be on TED.com looking for videos. This is when I ran into Seth Godin's presentation entitled " The Tribes We Lead ". He presented answer to questions I had been wrestling with. I suggested that those on the Journey check the video out. Now I want to send props for a few major things I learned from @sethgodin: 1. I was not trying to build organizations, but Tribes. It was something I had being doing but did not know what to call it. By being introduced to this idea, I have cha...