You have big picture dreams and big sky goals but the problem is you are Black Excellence in a world of low-frequency characters. Folks want to try to pick and choose who in our community is worthy of celebration and try to collective shun what they cannot comprehend and understand – which is Black Excellence like yourself.

There is a concept called “bikeshedding” where people will get together and argue with their big mouth about what color to paint a bike shed but they all stay quiet about what materials to use to build, what kind of insulation to apply and the rest of the real work to build a bike shed.   

It is the same concept when we talk about big goals and big handles. We got folks who want to big mouth celebrate some simple hustle that a basic person is hyping like they handling things. But if we talking about someone who wants to create an artificial intelligence solution, a multi-national digital service provider solution, proptech, fintech, green energy solutions then those same folks go quiet because the brotha and sista handling that kind of stuff are operating way above their heads.

That’s the problem I had to deal with and experienced – these characters don’t understand the empire and what I do so they are confused as hell in those comment sections they occupy out there. Instead, they worried about how much money a person got not realizing that you can smartly output on 10 cents versus their dumb $10 due to the level of expertise that you developed in the craft and execution efficiency. See, that messes them up in the head because they want to figure you out so bad so they focus on simple metrics like how many followers you got on social media or some other nonsense.

You don’t need to explain to these folks how you made money or the metrics you operate against to measure your progress towards your goals. All you got to do is handle yours, work with those that know the value of what you put out and just keep doing what you doing. If they don’t know you are using machine learning, let them keep staying stupid. If they don’t know you signed a contract in Vietnam to deliver microservices that calculate loan optimization for scale, keep them stupid in the dark about what you doing.

What you focus on is staying flossing in the Model X – focus on the future-facing and leave them at the gas station pumping gas and at the oil change station changing motor oil. You focus on your complex moves, your global scale, and what’s important is you understand what you are doing. Don’t worry about some generic content creator at Black Enterprise who cannot translate your 21st-century hustle and cannot do a proper writeup. We are in a new paradigm where digital transit of data is the new driver of information, not some cornball outdated content platform like a magazine or news media.

Our Toshikiso platform going to have folks create solutions people have never imagined before. Like I said, you can create a digital music label that distributes Indonesian music or I-pop around Latin America while our folks sitting there smiling about some cornball who made some white-label gym shoes to sell on Amazon but cannot move enough to break even on margins. Don’t worry about them or care what our folks choose to celebrate and follow, just remember they have simple mindsets and will follow simple things.