Looking back at my entire life, 2021 was the most difficult year because it was a combination of me versus the world, me versus others, and me versus myself. What made 2021 difficult as everything was out of our control.

Authoritarian Governments ordering lockdowns, closing businesses, imposing travel bans limiting our ability to make power moves.

Corporate Media outright lying and mislead the public promoting fear, uncertainty, and doubt to push narratives and agendas for special interest groups and corporate advertisers.

Corporatists like big tech operating as if they are Gods choosing who should be celebrated and who should be canceled on their platforms. Fighting against student loan cancellation and social benefits to keep young adults broke in student loans rendering them unable to innovate and compete against status quo corporatists.

All of these issues were out of our control and impacted our ability to make moves and see people. But the worst was the relationships I had with people. I had to cut off the water from the bad areas and redirect that water to where the flowers bloom better.

Cannot See My Choom. My biggest agony is not being able to see my boo in Japan. I could have brought her here to America but not with all this nonsense going on in America – she is better off staying in Japan. The fact is she has my back more than any woman ever in my life and as a result, I accept nothing less from any woman below the level of love she brings to me.

Family Cutoff. Some of my own family members were acting funny – they see it as a problem to see one of their own working hard and succeeding for themselves. They go quiet and withhold praise – everybody does not have a supportive family, be thankful if your family supports you leaving the nest and spreading your wings. This is not recent, they have been this way my whole life at every success milestone. Now at my age, I’m just too damn old to keep putting up with this. It’s time for them to be left alone and I focus on my journey and the future legacy.

Friends Breaking Social Contract. I had cut off the water on folks who revealed they were on some stupid belief system. I knew a lady for over 20 years here in Atlanta and we had a solid depth relationship. I thought she was a cool person and someone I would know well into our golden years. But when the pandemic hit, me and her witnessed people ending up in ICU, and some of them did not come out alive. One day, we talked about the third shot booster and she said something that change everything. She started talking anti-vaxx nonsense I realize something – this woman is not even vaccinated. I realize I’m having a 20-year relationship with a dumbass ignorant woman who witness others we both knew died but held on to some stupid ass belief she has no scientific/education knowledge to speak upon.

Holding on Like LTD Cutoff. I’m sitting here like Jeffrey Osborne holding on to a woman I knew since I was 18 and considered a lifelong soulmate. She was acting funny back then acting too busy, not calling, and some other silly stuff, me liking someone who ain’t showing the same vibe. In 2021, kinda like 25-30 years later, she finally decided after we were both over 50 years old to come to see me. Now this woman came down here to Atlanta, all these fine young, thick, sistas running around Atlanta – she comes down here looking like a broken mess. I didn’t care about how she carried herself, what she did was start acting like I was secondary to what she considered her #1 – yall sistas be dating garbage brothas, don’t act like that ex-dude was on some better shit than me or brothas of my caliber. But she pull that same old mess, not calling me on my birthday, I BLOCKED HER ASS off all communication at exactly 12:01 am the next day and cut her off my life permanently, I will never talk or know her again and she will never get another chance to pull that shit ever again in my lifetime or next.

The Black Community Cutoff. Supporting our Black people is like downhill racing with a soapbox car – not going to end well no matter how hard you try to make it work without crashing. I spent my time actually learning things, traveling the world, spending my money to create an urban economic solution to uplift my people. The Black community responded by following charlatans and engaging in fuckery and clicking on clickbait, reading it as the truth. Man, I’m really pissed about this, for real. This is not an LTD song; we both do not deserve each other’s love. The Black community does not deserve a brotha like me and I do not deserve the Black community if this is how they treat their own folks.  I’m hood and anybody bring anything to me, they going to get a response.

What I’m going to do after all this cutting off is do it like an LTD song and concentrate on you. I’m going to focus on the Early Adopters who supported me, I’m focused on my team in Japan who worked their asses off, focus on my son and by boo and our future, focus on our customer base that is emerging worldwide and focus on my real inner circle of friends, elders, and networks.

Creative Destruction to Constructing the Creative

Now that you saw how I had to cut loose a lot of loose ends – trust me, when you get older you stop tolerating things that you put up with because life is too short to be entertaining foolishness. It was about building up and getting ready for the journey. My company have made the most gains and advancements ever in 2021. This is due to having real talent, real work and for me, having real leadership to lead in this game.

New Identicons. We have shown our system where we generate identicons that will be used as brand marks for physical and digital entities. We have a pipeline to add more identicons series and working with partners around the world to offer premium identicons. The breakthrough is allowing us to display customer order information without providing personal data on digital information radiators like food orders, receipts, waitlists, reservations, stock boards, and logos.

Microservices and Containers. We migrated to microservices and containers to be able to offer domain-based services that can be managed by teams around the world. We can have folks in Japan working on payment-related microservices and a team in India working on blockchain-related microservices. This design will have us ramp up our resources and talent teams fast around the world with resiliency. The services are also resilient as well where we can switch the services quickly to another team around the world.

API Platform and SDK. While everybody else talking about they want to be a venture capital firm and invest in people, all we have to do is give folks API keys and they can start as soon as that email inbox hit different. In reality, they need access to membership, account ledger and start developing digital/physical business models, the hell she/he needs to beg a VC for money with conditions attached? We built out a software development kit or SDK for professional developers around the world access to download and build solutions against our API. BTW, that’s how we distribute our product to our customers – product discovery, not smiling in some cornball magazine looking for attention.

API and Payment Gateways. We built gateways around the world in strategic locations to just switch on when it’s time to move globally in those markets. We could not do cloud gateways because they were too expensive for our heavy API traffic and we need a system that is distributed throughout the world for resiliency. The same with payment gateways that I will cover later – we can take payments using our own payments gateways around the world where we partner with a provider who funds our local accounts, got money sitting all over the world, and focus on tax avoidance strategies like big tech be doing. We can also take cryptocurrency and we already have vaults ready to accept crypto and pay for things in crypto.

As you see and these are just a few major accomplishments, this Chicago West Side brotha who is 100% Black-owned handling his, set up a global operation designed for global growth with global scale and ability to move fast. I want you to laugh with me at all these other Black characters acting like they are special while Ed Dunn over here quietly handling this at this level. They ain’t nowhere near this level and can make this move this big and this fast.

We built up like this in 2021 because of what we plan to do in 22. We are going to move forward on the path for SPAC for The Manufacture Solution and we have been working proper in stealth in that direction. People around the world love our company and what we doing, kinda cats’ way richer and nicer people than the folks I had to cut off and the others out there second-guessing on someone they don’t know and technology they don’t understand.

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” – The Art of War

See, these cornballs are reading dumb stuff like 48 Laws of Power while real warriors, real generals read a book by a real war strategist. Let me tell a story about Sun Tzu the author – it was recorded an Emperor asked Sun Tzu a casual conversation about how to discipline his troops. Sun Tzu who was a respected general asked the women consorts to pick up weapons and start practicing with the swords. The girls were swinging all giggling and stuff and then Sun Tzu told them to stop. He then proceeded to cut off the heads of a couple of girls acting silly in front of all of them. Sun Tzu told the rest of those women to start practicing with the swords – yeah, they got disciplined really fast and took things seriously after that moment. So remember that story when Ed Dunn read the Art of War written by a real war general while these punks read Bob Greene's 48 Laws of Power and are in a chatroom giggling like women.

I told you before, we won this war before even going to battle. I didn’t need to get social media likes, get features in magazines and corporate media, that’s the cornballs who trying to go to battle and have no clue about the war they going to face. All I had to do is recruit the right folks, set up shop in Japan away from Americans who act entitled during that critical startup phase, and focus on a global-first distributed gateway and API-based resilience platform. And we did all of this full-stop in 2021 and here we are today. I’m the only Black-owned company ever that has this level of global scale and global positioning and I moved in silence on these loudmouth talking characters. The game is over and the shutdown show is on.

One more thing – we making a 2022 announcement that I kinda mention before. Using our Toshikiso platform, which is what this Dream and Hustle is running on. We are moving Dream and Hustle to a new platform that is similar to SubStack as a paid content distribution feed where subscribers can support their favorite writer, blogger, podcaster.

This new platform not only going to host Dream and Hustle, but it will also host contributors from all over on various topics. After seeing how that Napolean complex midget Twitter founder Ev Williams was throttling people on Medium and seeing how he busted up unionization efforts, I decided there need to be a better platform run by a real brotha from the West Side of Chicago letting people express their voice. I don’t even know how to create suppression throttling technology against content creators and don’t have that kinda mindset either.

We are focusing on platforms now with our Toshikiso technology and we can pay folks. We can create micro-metaverses or small open-world cities micro-cities and space stations that look like the world created by Parliament and George Clinton. We going to be announcing a whole bunch of show and tell and I’m going to act like those people I had to cut off don’t even exist or thought, including the Black community. I want you to watch these characters, especially the ones who have been running their big ass mouth about themselves as we move with fundamentals, foundations, global scale, real talent, real skills real vision with what this Black brotha from the West Side of Chicago has been moving in silence on.  

As you see, a lot happen in 2021 for me. I had to make some hard cutoffs and pivot towards what I wanted out of life and make my vision a reality. Let me say something – this pandemic flooded and drown down a lot of those fake characters out and you going to start seeing more real work, real hustle brothas and sistas rising up, not that cornball egg-headed no talent token Tristan Walker flossing stunts working with White Privilege to prop him up. I got global operations, Tristan Walker got nothing but token positions and fluff pieces writeups, see how that shit works?

The 2022 environment going to require hard folks, go-getters, Art of War disciplined folks. And if you wake up and realize this is the season of champions what we going through now, then this is the moment and your time.