Deuce Mindset

Wealth Is Simple, Easy, Uncomplicated

It is amazing to me. The more money I make, the more I see just how Easy Business Is!

I like to consider myself a smart person.  I have a Masters Degree.  I have created neworking websites for organizations.  I have started my own design firm.  And yet, Real Wealth has eluded me.

As I walk this new path for creating wealth, I am floored just how simple the formula is for making money.  And I am not taking advantage of people. I am not in a fruadulent scheme.  I bring great benefit to other people's lives.  I give them healty products and ways of making money.  Poverty and Sickness are the 2 major concerns of every human being.  I bring health and wealth.  And when I succeed, both I and the other person benefit. 

The ways of Wealth Development are just so easy to master. 

Look, every economic system is based on a pyramid.  On the top are the few people that have mastered a system.  On the bottom are the ones that work the hardest and view the system as complicated.  Look around you.  It is the ones with no money and poor health that are walking around all confused!  They think the economic world is just so complicated.  They have no idea how to get themselves out of their current situation.  They are convinced that only higher education will get them better jobs.  They think that only the brains that can master complex systems are the ones that run things.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

In reality, the ones that can keep things real simple are the ones that make the most money. The top of the pyramid is simple.  The ones that are sitting there know that life is not complex.  It is simple.

You want to have your own business and make money?  I will give you a simple business that will make you money.  Go to your kitchen and squeeze some lemons into a glass.  Put some sugar in it.  Try an unusual ingredient, like molasses, just a touch.  Then put a table outside with a sign that says "Lemonade".  You will make money.

Eventually, you will get someone who also wants to make money, hire them to work on days you don't want to work and pay them 25 cents per glass.  You have your first employee.  One day, some one will want to bring your lemonade to their neighborhood.  Offer to sell them your recipe and tell them they can sell your lemonade as long as they pay you 25 cents a glass.  You will provide them with the table and chairs and glass pitchers and cups.  You have your first francise.  Simple.

Network Marketing Made Easy

For a long time I tried to massage network marketing to fit into a self-made system that I thought would be more palatable to the people I knew.  I tried to use it as a Sponsorship Drive and a way to Raise Money for non-profits.  I came up with great sub-systems that married the business model with other systems.  I kept coming up to resistance.  Why?

Subconsciously, when you tell a person about your business, they are not really hearing what you are saying so much.  What they are doing is Imagining Themselves Doing What You Are Doing. 

You want them to relate to you.  Talk in their language.  Talk about what interests them.  Let them be the expert of their own lives.  Tell them you had the same problems they have, but you found a solution.

The more complex you make it, the more they will believe they cannot do what you are doing.  So, do not become the expert.  Play stupid.  Sure, you know the compensation plan and how the products works.  But you want them to relate.  Let them know that you don't care about the compensation plan.  You just like it when you get a check!  Who cares how the product works, it just works.

The reason people ask you these questions is just to test  you.  They want to see what you are made of. They want to see if they can do what you are doing.  If you make it complex, they will feel stupid.  But if you act stupid and you make money, they are very excited.  They want a job that is easy and makes great money.  They want less complication in their lives!

When they ask you questions about what you do, reply to their questions with your own questions.  The person that asks the questions controls the conversation.  If they ask you, "How much money do you make?", reply, "How much money do you want to make?"  Remember, asking people about their finances is personal.  You don't have to answer them. 

People want to change their lives, and you hold a solution to their problems.  But they don't want more complication.  They want to simplify. 

Behave in a simple manner and they will be attracted to you and your solution.

Google Chrome Fighting Divide & Conquer Strategy of Mac and Microsoft

Seems that Google is about to take over the world!

It's funny.  When we get sick of the status quo and the puffed-up arguments between two apposing parties, we desire another force to jump in and save the day.  The strange thing is, when the new party takes power, we immediately wish there was a way to tame the new beast. 

Our capitalist system always moves towards monopoly, though most of us wish it to stay a open market for competition.  We have enacted laws against monopolies, so the big busineses have used another strategy for market control: Divide and Conquer!

Look at some examples:

• USA and USSR
• Coke and Pepsi
• Republican and Democrat
• Microsoft and Mac

The strategy is to have large, apposing parties constantly battling, making every person have to chose one side or the other? 

Look at the Cold War situation: USA and USSR.  They used competition to dominate the world, forcing every other country to pick sides, thereby removing all forms of competition.  While we thought there was a real war going on, It was just a friendly game of competition!

I know this is just my opinion.  But I believe that Modern Monopolies are disguises for business agreement between two (seemingly) apposing parties, using deceptive marketing to conquer and divide the market, thereby removing all other competition.

One of the modern economic monopolies that went under the radar for years is the Cola Wars of Coco-cola and Pepsi.  Until then, it was unethical and illegal to mention another brand's name your television coommercial.  But, when the Cola Wars started, Coke and Pepsi made it a habit to constantly compare their two products.  The result?  We were so caught up fighting over which one was best that all the other cola products dissapeared from the shelves!

Then we have out Two Party System.  Seems great.  But, I feel safe to say that, under all the arguments, both parties are really following the same plan.  Republicans Borrow and Spend to get us into wars that benefit special business interests without any observable possitive result for the rest of the population.  Then the Democrats swoop in to Tax us for the National Debt and Spend the rest on Social Programs that make us feel better. 

It's just "Good Cop Bad Cop" to me.  Or perhaps like a parent with Split Personalities.  What do you think?

The latest economic Modern Monopoly is run my Mac and Microsoft for their Operating System control over our laptops and desktops.  Yes, there are others (phew!).  But, the media hype is all about these two.  They have been at it for years. 

But, under the OS radar, Google spreads its tentacles...

Based on the perceived standard that computers should be based on software and files stored locally, the typical OS conciders the Internet as a separate entity entirely.  Great fun to look at web pages.  A great way to gather information, yes.  But as a place to store files and run software for basic desktop needs?  No way!

So, then comes Google, poising itself to take over one of the spots of competition by making a new operating system that puts the web first, before saved documents and computer-housed software...

"The operating system is a reversal of traditional computing, where the Internet browser is a subset of what the computer does. With the Google system, the Internet comes first, and the stuff we do on computers happens to be there too.

"'We believe the Web platform is a much better way,' said Google co-founder Sergei Brin."

Many people already utilize the web for these tasks, from storing bookmarks and contact lists, to using open-source Google Docs.  And most of us are used to software that is stored locally (like Typepad for instance).  So, it makes sense that Google would make an Operation System that utilizes this new trend.

If you haven't figures out the why yet, realize that the amount of space and memory saved by focussing the total energy of a computer on the internet, without having to store and read massive files, is huge. 

Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management at Google, says "Instead of managing software, you are managing data. As a model of computing it is very, very different."

Also, it opens the way for running a whole computer from Flash Memory (like an SD card), rather than from a hard drive, which still uses moving parts and is susceptible to magnetization.  I am sure you have realized the speed it takes a computer to read your SD card is much faster than a CD Rom, right?

"One result is that the Chrome-based computer can go from "off" to actively "on" in under 10 seconds."

Other than the time it will take to make online software like Google Docs as intricate as and less buggy than Word, Security is the most pressing issue to me.  They claim that their "centrally managed" system will be more secure.

"...with encrypted signatures between every step--security in this system is arguably stronger, because all information away from the OS and browser are centrally managed and updated."

Wait a minute!  Did I just get a vision from I-Robot?  "Centrally Managed" sounds a little too much like a massive AI brain organizing all my contacts and documents!  I am sure the government is already able to access my computer, how much more when all my software is running online?

Whatever.  It is the world we are living in.  And Google seems to be poising itself at the top of the world.  Anybody want to compete?

(Quotes from Forbes.Com's article Google Aims To Remake Computers.)

Black Author wins The Matrix Copyright Infringement Case

This little known story has met a just conclusion, as Sophia Stewart, African American author of The Matrix will finally receive her just due from the copyright infringement of her original work!!! 

A six-year dispute has ended involving Sophia Stewart, the Wachowski Brothers, Joel Silver and Warner Brothers. Stewart's allegations, involving copyright infringement and racketeering, were received and acknowledged by the Central District of California, Judge Margaret Morrow presiding. 

Stewart, a New Yorker who has resided in Salt Lake City for the past five years, will recover damages from the films, The Matrix I, II and III, as well as The Terminator and its sequels. She will soon receive one of the biggest payoffs in the history of Hollywood, as the gross receipts of both films and their sequels total over 2.5 billion dollars. 

Stewart filed her case in 1999, after viewing the Matrix, which she felt had been based on her manuscript, 'The Third Eye,' copyrighted in 1981. In the mid-eighties Stewart had submitted her manuscript to an ad placed by the Wachowski Brothers, requesting new sci-fi works.. 

According to court documentation, an FBI investigation discovered that more than thirty minutes had been edited from the original film, in an attempt to avoid penalties for copyright infringement. The investigation also stated that 'credible witnesses employed at Warner Brothers came forward, claiming that the executives and lawyers had full knowledge that the work in question did not belong to the Wachowski Brothers.' These witnesses claimed to have seen Stewart's original work and that it had been 'often used during preparation of the motion pictures.'  The defendants tried, on several occasions, to have Stewart's case dismissed, without success. 

Stewart has confronted skepticism on all sides, much of which comes from Matrix fans, who are strangely loyal to the Wachowski Brothers.  One on-line forum, entitled Matrix Explained has an entire section devoted to Stewart. Some who have researched her history and writings are open to her story.

Others are suspicious and mocking. 'It doesn't bother me,' said Stewart in a phone interview last week, 'I always knew what was true.' 
Some fans, are unaware of the case or they question its legitimacy, due to the fact that it has received little to no media coverage. Though the case was not made public until October of 2003, Stewart has her own explanation, as quoted at www.aghettotymz.com.

'The reason you have not seen any of this in the media is because Warner Brothers parent company is AOL-Time Warner.... this GIANT owns 95 percent of the media... let me give you a clue as to what they own in the media business... New York Times papers/magazines, LA Times papers/magazines, People Magazine, CNN news, Extra, Celebrity Justice, Entertainment Tonight, HBO, New Line Cinema, DreamWorks, Newsweek, Village Roadshow and many, many more! They

are not going to report on themselves. They have been suppressing my case for years.' 
Fans who have taken Stewart's allegations seriously, have found eerie mythological parallels, which seem significant in a case that revolves around the highly metaphorical and symbolic Matrix series. Sophia, the Greek goddess of wisdom has been referenced many times in speculation about Stewart. In one book about the Goddess Sophia, it reads, 'The black goddess is the mistress of web creation spun in her divine matrix.' 
Although there have been outside implications as to racial injustice (Stewart is African American), she does not feel that this is the case. 'This is all about the Benjamins,' said Stewart. 'It's not about money with me. It's about justice.'

Stewart's future plans involve a record label, entitled Popsilk Records, and a motion picture production company, All Eyez On Me, in reference to God.  'I wrote The Third Eye to wake people up, to remind them why God put them here. There's more to life than money,' said Stewart. 'My whole to the world is about God and good and about choice, about spirituality over 'technocracy'.' 

If Stewart represents spirituality, then she truly has prevailed over the 'technocracy' represented in both the Terminator and the Matrix, and now, ironically, by their supposed creators. 

Stewart is currently having discussions with CBS about a possible exclusive story and has several media engagements in the near future to nationally publicize her victory. June 13th 2004. Sophia Stewart's press release read: 'The Matrix & Terminator movie franchises have made world history and have ultimately changed the way people view movies and how Hollywood does business, yet the real truth about the creator and creation of these films continue to elude the masses because the hidden secret of the matter is that these films were created and written by a Black woman...a Black woman named Sophia Stewart. But Hollywood does not want you to know this fact simply because it would change history. Also it would encourage our Black children to realize a dream and that is...nothing is impossible for them to achieve!'

Integration and the Destruction of the Black Community

I was following Russell Simmons on Twitter and came across a great post about a visit he had from the Nation of Islam's Minister Louis Farrakhan.  The article is great, but my focus now is on the discussion on the comments section about Integration and the Destruction of the Black Community.

I will repost what was said and my reply:

Allahtheoriginalman Wrote - The part that saddened me was the fact that the corner where you grew is no longer black owned...the almost total collapse of the Black American Business structure. Integration wasn't such a good idea after all.

Russell Simmons Replied - i totally disagree about integration its here and even though it destroyed the fabric of the old black communities business it opened up the opportunity to compete for the other 90percent of american consumers hip hop like jazz blues and rock and roll before it is the cornerstone of american culture but it is different because this time the performers and some of the gatekeepers are african american 8 of the top 8 downloads are hip hop today if u limit your vision to 10percent of population u will loose 90percent of your potential i totally support ebony jet black enterprize etc but i also know blacks who dont want their financial business's limited to black investment and will loose value if anyone gives them money based on any affirmative action grant (i do believe that blacks are owed this form of reparations) then how will they sell their company .. to another african american? the nation will integrate the question is when are u ready to compete ? that is one of the reasons why u have a suit so u can love yourself enuff for the world to have no choice but to love u back.. i submit to u that the world is integrating and business is integrated if u dont have friends at harvard because of their race u could likely loose a great part of the benefeit from going there there are so many businesses that need diversity so they can survive. if u are not open to integrate u will have a more difficult time in most businesses then if u embrace the concept we are merging and integrating and becoming one your blood line is never gonna be black afican again even the minister himself has a beautiful mixed grandchild who he loves .. at the million family march your leader told um if "u marry for love all things are possible"

Deuce Replied - Excellent discussion.  I have degrees and experience in Architecture and Urban Planning, with my work focus on neighborhood development.  I only give this background to help illustrate this:  I always wanted to help the black community hold onto its neighborhoods, stop gentrification and keep the money within the black community.  Then, while driving though Detroit one day and seeing the old buildings and trash, I realized, "we didn't design this place, we didn't build it for us, it was never ours, it was just the place we found ourselves living in and made the best out of our situation."

When it comes to business, building and nature, the old falls back to the earth, is recycled, and gives birth to the new. 

We should be focusing on building our new neighborhoods, investing in our new business mindset, and allowing the natural order of things.

Let the old, tired, worn out neighborhoods go back to where they came from.  The trick is, can we focus our minds together, unified for the future, so that our culture doesn't get washed out by "American Culture" and retain our heritage and collective conscious.  The key is not the stuff you see, but what is inside our collective sub-consciousness.

Washington DC

DC is a visual pleasure to me. So, here are some photos.

Resveratrol

I didn't know anything about Resveratrol (sometimes called ResV) before trying Euforia.  But I did hear about the so called "French Paradox", or simply, why do people that historically consume great amounts of fat and red wine, have lower rates of heart disease than the US. 

Fox News video of Dr. Jennifer Ashton, OB-GYN

There are various pills out there that will give you Resveratrol.  (I guess that is better than getting drunk from red wine?!?)  However, I have noticed that taking pills is usually not an efficient way of integrating vitamins into our system.  I question if pill-popping is the best way.

Euforia, a new organic, super-food, juice product from NuVerus, might offer the best solutions for those that want to efficiently absorb great amounts of Resveratrol, without drinking wine or popping pills.  Plus, Euforia contains more than just Resveratrol, so you are getting most of your anti-oxidant in one form.  That means less money spent on supplements.

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