The Social Scientist

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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Leaders & Followers or Collaboration?

What a broad topic. I had a discussion with my mother today about leading. I'm not sure how I feel about the word or concept. Group Lead is more along my lines, however people can not really fathom the idea.

People are expecting to have their hand lead, but that's only because of presense. All they have learned through our politics, media, sports, and just about everything else has perpetuated an idea that we need 1 leader for a group to make decisions. I kindly disagree.

We as humans are so far from our peak of spiritual conciousness. The evolution of our species is highly qualitative, but still marginal. The question I ask myself all the time is, "What is the human purpose"?

I must say that it is to engage and share experiences with other humans. This is the simple nature that we should live in, however we are taught to fend for ourselves and become these trained lemmings that need to survive. Nowhere it is shows that we shall work collectively to live sustainable with each other.

Darwinism is just like the bible in how you can take the context out of the true intentions.

Friday, July 31, 2009

Music Update : GZ, Dabooth.com, & More....


Goodfellaz was established in the summer of 2003, while Dave Golombos, Eric Eden, and I decided to make a hip-hop CD with our producer Jerzey Brown.



It was one of the most invigorating experiences in my life. The lyrics we wrote were kind of tactless, but had some catchy punch lines like,
"I treat my girls like beer pong and let the bitches blow"
Around the fall of 2007, I decided to take this a step further & create an audio production studio with my homeboy Andres @dabooth (http://www.dabooth.com). Since then, things have progressed like we could not beleive, but I guess we gotta believe it since its true.

So now here comes the update. I'm working on a new mixtape to drop by the new year. It's gonna be a compilation of styles, but we'll see. I'll keep you updatee!

Monday, July 13, 2009

What people do not get about.... Social Media

Social Media as said by Wikipedia
"Social media is online content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. Social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share news, information and content;. It's a fusion of sociology and technology, transforming monologues (one to many) into dialogues (many to many) and is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into publishers. Social media has become extremely popular because it allows people to connect in the online world to form relationships for personal, political and business use. Businesses also refer to social media as user-generated content (UGC) or consumer-generated media (CGM)."

I agree on many levels, however everyone is still looking to monetize everything. Haven't we discovered by now that money is useless and a pure poison to our entire civilization? Companies like google are empowering individuals and groups to collaborate at the same speed as any corporation who's incentive is to dominate the market.

This fusion discussed in the Wiki excerpt fails to recognize the sense of Quantum Mechanics involved. My personal theory, which I will write and share in the future, is the relationships between the internet & Quantum Mechanics.

Furthermore, these conversations are transforming into a real-time dimension of realization. Does this make sense? If not, lets take this Iranian war for instance. The only thing the people have to survive without becoming beasts is their connectivity with the world through social media via the internet. This then creates a dimension for 'now-thought' which has never happened in the past because our communication has always been filtered.

Now, this brings up the conversation of freedom. The internet has enveloped this idea of freedom to be truly expressed. However, we have some guys that think the internet should be governed & unequal.

We need to use this information to create sustainability for mankind. Not just a couple greedy bankers. As presented by a friend John Lee Blackwell.

Please give me your thoughts. Tell me I'm crazy, or what have you. Lets just have a conversation :)








Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Entrepreneur Batman Belt

For weeks I have been thinking of a quality blog to post, but I continued to procrastinate. Then all of a sudden while watching WALL-E and reading Jeff Widman's post on "The 21 questions my friend asks me every night over the phone"

I don't know why or where it came from, but it came. Basically I will inform you of the tools I use to manage my lifestyle. I understand that most of the people I am friends with know this stuff, but I figured that a lot of others are not aware. So enjoy!

Here we go:

  • GMAIL
  • Google Enterprise
  • Google Reader
  • drop.IO
  • Twitter.com
  • Wordpress.com
  • Scribd.com
  • Vimeo.com
  • Blip.tv
  • Joost.com
  • seesmic.com
  • efactor.com

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Fix Yo Face : Facebook Vanity

Ready for the explosion? Can you say tipping point? Or did the Russians & Microsoft make a bad investment? Time will tell, but I will place my bets on my facebook vanity.

Since big brands will be trying to engage with their audience through social networks, the opportunity for entrepreneurs and small business will flourish. It is a very exciting time and I am looking forward to the journey.

http://www.facebook.com/username/

Thursday, June 11, 2009

2nd Heat

This is my 2nd heat and I am off to the races.

  • blogging will be back
  • sharing is eminent
  • gratitude is life
Looking forward to sharing the rest.

We have been at a break for a minute since the 'team' per se has been developed. New Faces, New Bodies, New Everything.

Cheeers!

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Clothes Swap : How To

Clothes swapping is unfamiliar to me, until I came across THIS!



How To Host a Clothing Swap

Sunday, April 19, 2009

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Hemp For Victory



Above, Hemp for Victory, a 13- minute film produced by the US government in the 1940s which urged citizens to grow hemp during the war.  During this earlier era of American crisis, farmers and 4-H clubs were encouraged to cultivate industrial hemp, the non-intoxicating counsin of what I like to call cannabis gettabis stonerus.  And now, during our current American crisis, the same "non-drug" cannabis strain is the subject of a new bill put forth by Congressmen Ron Paul and Barney Frank.

They and eigh cosponsors, both Republican and Democrat, hope to legalize the plant so American farmers can begin supplying fibers for a wide array of products, with the overreaching goal of opening a new sector in American agriculture.