I want to speak personally on our 3rd quarter and our progress. We are on track and working hard to move forward to completing the next phase of our journey. However, the accomplishments I had in life as a Black man have been bittersweet; the people you wanted to help are the ones that switch up on you and you find yourself discovering where you end up is not what you predicted.

I want to talk about the cover photo – that is the log-in section of one of our platforms, The Merchant and the Flow.  All of our platforms are complete and we are wrapping up final touches and will launch very soon – that I can confirm. Our platforms are designed to help our customers enter and manage relevant information and we work on processing workflows and analyzing for optimization. From there, it is a continuous improvement path as we grow with our customers. This is basically a machine-learning version of a big consulting firm and that is how we are moving as The Manufactured Solution.

One thing you should notice on our login page on the cover photo is the “cryptomark” above the platform name – the colorful circle. This is a unique mark and all brands will be assigned one as default when they register their digital entity. This cryptomark can be used as a service mark or logo immediately. I have already written an article on cryptomarks but this is an example when we say we doing something, we actually doing it.

Another thing about Merchant and the Flow which is a product-service-system or PSS platform is our design. Most current e-commerce and content platforms are designed where they create the entity as the top-level and the product or content is the child elements. So you create a store, then populate it with products or offer services. Our design approach is different as we are using an asset-first approach to address omnichannel solutions which are revolutionary - let me explain.

This article you are reading is not created on Dream and Hustle or even “belongs” to Dream and Hustle – this article is written on our View the Vista platform and “distributed” to Dream and Hustle as a channel. This same article can be distributed to a physical QR code poster that we can offer for users to download and read. This same article can be licensed to an external content provider to display on their website and we can arrange a profit-sharing agreement. We have multiple options for this article and the focus is not Dream and Hustle, it is just a container – the real asset is the article I wrote that can be distributed everywhere strategically. We can even translate this article into other languages for global distribution.

The same is with products and services – the focus should not be on a store or e-commerce site; the focus should be on understanding how to distribute the products and services using multiple channels. This means selling in-store, buying online and picking up in-store, reservations over the mobile phone, selling on social media, selling from QR posters, or selling in a pop-up shop or micro-store inside another store. This is how we designed our platforms to be asset-first and we are getting major interest in our platform from around the world as my team sells the concept.

In terms of infrastructure, we fully migrated to infrastructure-as-code where we use cloud and virtualization that can be driven by automated code to create new instances to scale up and scale down on demand and replicate around the world and create redundancy where needed. This gives us a true global scale of our platform and we can ramp up our platforms literally anywhere in the world as our platforms have localization built in to adapt to local language and date/time standards and more.

We have begun progress on pursuing SPAC and preparing our proposals and this is too early to talk about. However, due to the current market climate and many SPACs may be running out of time to find a suitor we are looking at other options. One option and I mentioned this before and mentioned again – I will be traveling to Dubai, UAE, and looking at setting up a free zone entity and seeking investments in that area. I will cover our Dubai experience but overall, I hear a lot of sizzle or hype about setting up digital-first or crypto businesses in Dubai but I need to know what the steak tastes like.

As you see, I have made massive progress in 2022 as promised because I knew we were ready. But let’s be honest – I really started out wanting to empower the Black community and brothas and sistas. But as many of you who know this blog over the years, you saw exactly how the Black community acted towards me. My own people started talking about what I’m doing is “theory” when I’m a certified, experienced, and well-known professional in this industry with over 25 years of receipts. See, our people talk a lot of nonsense over the Internet trying to downplay folks and then I see folks listening to people talking around me when most of you know you can contact me directly. That’s the punk stuff my own people were acting like as we were over here progressing positively doing real work.

Black people want to follow charlatans and shun real folks because they are scared of real work and obtaining real work. The environment we see in the Black community is everybody wants to be a joker talking a bunch of fake success stories to pretend they are special. But I see South Korea, I see India, I see China rising up hard after 20 years. Even Bangkok is a massive mega-city in the past 15 years and Hanoi is coming up hard as well while brothas and sistas still talking lightweight conversations listening to Black charlatans and Black comedians for advice and direction.

Guess who reached out to me now after the Black community acted like they could play me down? Hanoi is reaching out to me, South Korea is reaching out to me, even Thailand is reaching out to me, Indonesia is reaching out to me, and Singapore reaching out to me. Countries in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East reaching out to me. And here in America, a lot of young adults from all backgrounds reaching out to me. I’m moving all around the Black community and yes, I have written off my own people after how they treated me and that’s the topic of this article.

When you make positive progress, you have to make changes to reflect the positive energy manifesting in your life. I got my business off the ground, I got a fine Latina and dependable Japanese girlfriends, I got skills and talent doing what I love, I got money, teams, and tools to deal with fools and I got a customer base around the world manifesting who got money to pay for the services I’m offering. I don’t know how anybody in the Black community thought their negative attitude and switching on someone they never met in person was going to stop me when I’m here with my team, my potential customers, and a real support circle moving me forward.

With that said, I’m changing things up. I don’t want to write another article for the Black community anymore because they rather listen to a Black charlatan talk up some BS, I don’t even feel like writing another article like that. Instead, I want to reach out to my real customers who showed up and that is how I’m going to transition. Because I’m seeing where I’m ending up, flying out to Dubai to roll with real entrepreneurs who are interesting in using my digital asset/blockchain platforms to help them launch their Dubai-based businesses. Do you think I got time for a punk brotha or punk sista who acting foolish while our people got high inflation and low-quality jobs to try to survive and make ends meet?

I was thinking about this whole matter while my feet were healing from an injury. I realize that I had some much good progress and all I got back from my own people was some BS. Brothas are acting like punks, the sistas be trying to gaslight me like she got someone doing better than me (she doesn’t) and cats online be talking on another brotha they don’t know anything about. I’m over 50 years old, nobody knows anything about me because I don’t hang out like that, especially with anybody talking on the Internet.  I realize I had these negative folks in my life while I’m progressing into a whole new level of growth and progress when my venture.

So it’s time to make that change and adjustments – stay tuned.