Brown (Indigenous?) Man for Hire ...

The world is getting more crazy, and convoluted, as the days pass ...

And most people don't even know where to start.

I do.

I've already been through this.

I help individuals and organizations personlize their offerings and interactions, building greater consideration for their clientele, and each other, increasing retention and optimizing outreach.

For technical and social development I provide structure, accountability and support; making teams, and individuals, more efficient, resilient and dedicated to the tasks at-hand.

ExoCTO is the primary technical offering, available on retainer through subscription.

While I'm in the process of writing the guidebook, which can be previewed here.

Exo-CTO Guidebook

No AI, all OI ... Original Intelligence.

DreamFreelyCanin Carlos

I am not anti-AI; I originally studied statistics because I was already working with the Python Natural Language Toolkit, for linguistic / sentiment analysis.

I view AI as a tool, that has a use.

It is a tactic.

Not a strategy,

and certainly not a plan.

So here's what I'm really looking for ... one or two more clients for ExoCTO; and executives who want insight on what they don't know about the burgeoning social/cultural environment.

For Executives

Information is almost everything, especially within efficient organizations.

Though what is more important is having structures in-which to place, and process, that information effectively and efficiently;

I provide this, and practical applications tailormade for your industry, interests and aspirations.

MEMDA - Manifesting Empathy Multi-Dimensional Assessment

A four-hour assessment applied through three meetings over four-weeks; at the end of which you will have the beginning of the edge you've been looking for, and the tools to continue honing it.

We'll have a follow-up conversation four-weeks afterwards to check-in, and fortify the work.

Below is my sob story, so you can understand exactly wherefrom the system is derived.

While I graduated high school from a little place called Orono, if you know you know; if you don't ... you might not have a partner, and are not looking for "the best schools" to send your children.

This offering is geared towards men, though I am open to helping women and non-binary as well.

Regardless, that education, plus life experience, plus time as a developer for the Institute of Social Research and Data Innovation; with a degree in Economics, Statistics and Communications.

That is wherefrom the assessment is derived.

The assessment costs $2500 and consists of a personal survey that we will build together, and navigate through the course of our conversations.

Five total hours of conversation + five hours of outside research = $250 / hour.

Manifesting Empathy provides the structure of the survey; and for most this may be your first encounter with a non-white individual unafraid to be critical, and compassionate.

We'll learn about why that is by learning about human, and social, development through the lens of personal development; upon a solid foundation of science, and statistics, made accessible.

If we're being honest, as I said earlier, this is the edge you've been looking for ...

The education matters because I was introduced to molecular biology near the age of 12 (7th grade); I took advanced calculus and physics classes in high school.

We read the classics, were taught the basics of psychology, sociology and anthropology; and we were challenged to challenge the conversations in these fields as well.

We were taught crticial thinking.

A skill in short supply, not because it isn't available, but we do not have a mechanism to process all the information we receive on a daily basis - as we exist in a deluge of data.

Though for me, everything compounded atop that initial education; and so I created a structure and a mechanism to collect and process this deluge data.

I still think of Orono as a white supremacist executive prep school, regardless; to this day, with good reason.

Though I digress ... to discuss what intelligence enabled me to survive, and how I define survival.

The Sob Story

I was adopted from Colombia by an Evangelical woman, and her Vietnam War veteran husband, who paid the money.

I respect veterans; his father was an alcoholic and a womanizer.

He was neither, and he never abused me.

That is both a blessing, and a credit to his strength. Although he was mentally and emotionally absent in the relationship; and this too had an effect.

This inhibited my ability to build any type of a network for myself; this page, essentially a For Hire ad, started as a GFM ... though the idea is to provide greater context; as again, I'll be a relatively new face to most people.

And for those who want to support, this page has all of the necessary links!

I also helped in the conception of a child about 20 some years ago, and that child was kept from me.

Family Court was used as justification for all of it, even against the advice of the guardian ad litem.

My primary crime being the consumption of cannabis. Though even after that was overcome, the reunification therapist was a story all its own.

Nonetheless, I was able to say happy birthday to my child this year for the first time since they left their mother's womb, and we welcomed into my waiting hands.

I was the first person to ever hold my child in this world (not a doctor, me!)

And I am happy to report that they are well, they know that they are loved by me, and that they are thought of every moment of every day and every night.

Beyond which nothing more need be said.

Except that, that is the second greatest achievement of my life ...

The first is that I'm able to communicate with my child, I am able to laugh, share jokes and information, give and receive advice and support, to be honest, even in my shortcomings ... I am able to have a conversation with my child, the foundation for a relationship ...

People did things to make that difficult, let's just say.

My success is founded on processing my own sources of pain, anger and frustration ... to identify negativity and resolve it, having a structure through which to do this, consistently and reliably – in a healthy way; as this was the only way I would ever be able to have a relationship with my child.

Manifesting Empathy is the tangible consequence, and outline, of this journey; it is an extrapolation of the process, after having completed it, or rather having internalized it, and so having arrived to where I hoped to be, welcome in my child's world.

Which I guess leads me to my third greatest achievement ... to know and have connections to my ancestral roots, not just my biological roots. And to be able to share these connections with my child so that they never need question their genetic and ancestral roots.

What made this all possible was strategy, negotiation, discipline, dedication, perseverance and near visionary foresight; all buttressed by science, and critical, structural, thinking.

These skills, and the experience with which they were purchased, are what I bring to every table at which I sit.

The key is also the pitfall; I was given a very good education (acdemically and spiritually), and I've applied it, which has rendered me nearly unemployable.

Because I'm more intelligent than most anyone who tries to employ me, most anyone who does not recognize and embrace their own capacity, desire and need to learn and grow.

This does not mean I'm perfect, nor infallible, by any means; though I've spent my life paying for the imperfections of others, while those same people expect me to be perfect for them, if I am to ever have any expectation of acceptance as human by them.

Which leads to the one thing that life has taught me, I'm not smart, and I'm not special – but the world is, the planet is.

And so it is in my interest to be able to listen to what life, and the world, is saying; though this is really about understanding our own individual language of being.

Manifesting Empathy is the structure that provides the embryo into which our stories provide the seeds to make it grow.

What is life trying to say to you?

Presently I am working as an English teacher, and as a programmer helping to maintain a rather bespoke installation of Wordpress.

My aspiration is to expand the English language classes, eventually using an application for which I've started writing the database architecture, and serverside instructions.

Things are done differently in DreamFreely, this is a simple application designed to bring two communities together; and our job is to curate the teacher side of the equation.

So all the application has to do is provide that valuable service of pairing students, teachers and classes. Duolingo failed because it became marketing with no density; idioki is density with no marketing – and so that is the engine being started.

That is one project; there are others, ergo I'm not looking for full-time.

I'm looking for fractional work, and to help individuals and organizations on an individual basis; no more than four clients per month across all ExoCTO offerings.

The Obstacle

I would like to get a stable place to live ... for one-year – my own place - I haven't had this since ever, we're only in the womb for nine-months.

Then it was an orphange for six months, and then it was into the care of someone who voted for Trump with religious conviction/blindness, in a racially isolating community.

I struggle to get an apartment in Colombia because one needs a fiador, or a property-owner to co-sign the apartment lease, often a family member. And while this is a very innovative idea for security purposes, it's a pain for someone such as myself. While the places that do not require this are often either of lower quality or more expensive; one or the other.

About 10 years go I found my mother, and my sister.

Though the truth is that we all have much learning to do; my mother was abused by men, I think, too much to have been able to raise a man herself. She was a young mother who put my sister through a good school, in Colombia; and that is to her credit!

Regardless, neither her, nor my sister are able to provide as fiador.

I thought that my employer might be able to, but that's no longer an option; they've grown beyond their capacity to offer that service.

I've been working with them for nearly a decade at this point ... not continuously, I took a few years off, but am back with the company and will start leading a newly forming teacher development community within the office.

So here is what I'm really looking for ... one or two more clients for ExoCTO; and executives who want insight on what they don't know about the burgeoning social/cultural environment.

Like I said, I did not have a network growing up, and so this is my method to grow my network quickly and efficiently - honesty, directness, and transparency.

Dogfooding my own advice, at day's end.

The way I tell it to myself, it wasn't until my late 20's that I was physically in a place to feel physically, and subsequently mentally, safe enough to start processing and enacting what it would take to feel emotionally safe.

Given the education I received I knew that feeling emotional safe was the foundation of everything; not just for me, but for my child.

And it wasn't until I was 40 that I had a "real job"; though I was "laid-off" at the behest of a manager who said that I was "unstable".

Though again, this is why I'm nearly unemployable, somene gets jealous eventually.

Because I do know more, and I am better, but I want to help others know more and be better as well.

And so my goal is to take on ExoCTO clients; granted the one client that I have, I've been building that relationship for nearly 15 years. They know me, they see my value, the foresight and the intellect, not as a threat but as an asset.

I work best with small technical teams of two to five; I can and am happy to interface with others in the organization, and am a great technical assistant for technical leaders.

I first started building webpages in the late 1990's; that's the trick, but it wasn't until the late 2000's that I installed my first instance of Arch Linux, with OpenBox (though now I prefer i3, thinking of moving to dwm, or there's a Rust implementation as well.)

A wonderful friend is also a mentor in this work, and for all things technical and musical; while we each have a host of applications and projects that we are building and with which we help each other.

This is partly what makes me such a good technical assistant, I'm already plugged into core conversations, and ecosystems; and I'm actively involved.

Additionally, I'm a business owner myself; I relate to the needs, perspectives and expectations of executive leadership.

Whether that be in-support of, or in-assessment of, my insight and tools reveal not just key insights, but also to the doors to the worlds the keys unlock.

Furthermore, I am able to provide the guidance necessary to explore, and make-use of, these new worlds.

If none of that's for you, and you still want to support; subscribe to the newsletter, or grab some apparel from FvckVanity!

What I haven't talked about yet though, is DigiSnaxx ... that's my pride and joy ... my dreamboat ... the flagship of DreamFreely's fleet of projects.

These are the things that I would like to have a chance to work on from a place of greater stability and security.

Therefore I'm looking for work; confident enough to say, if I'm anywhere near the realm of what you're looking for, you won't find better elsewhere.

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