Same is true for my education technology platform. Who do you think wants it more?

Some 19 year old acting like a college dropout out, who’s accomplished very little and lacks humility or a 28 year old man with bills to pay and a future with less and less room for error?

So you can go ahead and never get started for free at FreeCodeCamp, you can pay an arm and a leg to a private equity firm at Codecademy, or you can participate with a small business that invests more and more in YOU, the same way you invest in them: to create real outcomes.

Mfers are so mad about Mr Beast & Lunchly but just think about who the market is:

Do you really think it’s a chronically online dork with an opinion and resentment against things like capitalism or do you think it’s a busy 37 year old mother that’s buying her kid a half-decent lunch made by people that make their kid feel happy?

Haha I use these notes to post on other apps so sometimes it doesn’t make sense here chronologically

You are overprescribing a problem to the people that you could make a difference with because you’re being lazy about what you believe.

You don’t hate capitalism. You hate helping people get ahead, yourself included.

Thoughts on Mr Beast’s Lunchly and my education technology business

Many of the times, we refuse to support people because of poorly adjusted attitudes toward “capitalism”.

We want entrepreneurs to not only promote their business, but to defend it and to justify it. And sometimes we even want entrepreneurs to give a piece of it up too.

This is because you see entrepreneurship as entertainment. You don’t value the work or the service because you aren’t choosing to value it the right way. You aren’t a participant.

Obviously, building good business is more sustainable. It creates more non-existing profit, and it creates more abundance.

I get to reinvest the money and I get to, above all else, afford the ability to work longer and more consistently for the people I care about.

A non-profit is exactly that, a business model. The problem is, non-profit money should go to where it should go to, like St. Jude’s Children Hospital.

Not a fucking online education platform that overintellectualizes socioeconomic hardship.

Often times, Hispanics try to romanticize heroism and generosity by desiring to run non-profits because they value reputation, a key necessity in building a good profitable business.

The reality is you’ll often drain your entire energy and opportunities with the only option of begging larger institutions, backed by the wealthy, for grant money to survive.

Folks genuinely lack so much common sense.

I can either:

A) Work 40-80+ hours a week and capitalize with my community for $10/months+

or

B) Work 5-10 hours a week as a “non-profit” and provide education things for free

Test 1234

im just sharing an email im working on, but they're to previous subscribers on Patreon that I eventually introduce to nostr. about 500 paying folks and 500 free members : - )

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Writing cold emails because things don't happen on hot algorithms:

Hello!

It’s Sheilfer from the Robots Building Education Patreon platform that you signed up to previously. As a member, you qualify as the top 1% performance from folks I communicate to. I’m writing personally to you to talk about the next stage of the platform and why I believe your participation is important and needed. To get straight to the point, I’m happy to answer any questions in an email reply and registering again enables the following:

I’ll be able to more realistically afford the capacity to be directly involved in people’s outcomes with regular meetings, calls or events.

A significant milestone becomes achievable, the platform will have the capability to generate one $1000 per week and the ability to run the platform full-time.

You’ll learn underrepresented, evergreen and super valuable skills for a modern market during a period of history where we can create abundance and opportunity.

You’ll save time, money and energy so that you can afford to explore other prospects, like the ability to create businesses with your friends, family or colleagues.

Here are three examples of students finding success, not just because of me, but because of their own personal direction and hunger:

Celebrating Citlali’s Microsoft Software Engineering Internship.

Creating Influanto, a startup for music business founded by gen.wav

A business called AeroGrow by our member Armando, a startup for agriculture.

In short, I’m reaching out because I’m wondering if you would like to help me in building a bridge from Robots Building Education to unaffiliated organizations like NAHREP Or L’Attitude Ventures in order to access and expand to healthy, productive and serious networks off of the internet.

The way I want us to accomplish this is by being dedicated to quality education and service. I like to think of this as our way of extracting value from trillion dollar algorithms and creating opportunity for our community the way our parents created possibilities for us. As always, things are going to be done in a fair and modest way. The platform is $10/mo now, or $8.50/mo for the annual rate, while still remaining to be super refund-friendly. We ought to treat this subscription as an investment because that’s what it is - we apply knowledge and leverage and seek returns. In the same manner, I try my best to multiply the value of the money I receive too!

This can totally be a “no thanks”, but either way I would still like to write a message at least thanking you for signing up and I still encourage you to continue carving out your own path. That’s my ultimate goal; I want to help folks unlock the confidence to overcome their doubts and to do the things they want. I believe the result of that is things falling into place.

Writing this letter reminds me of a pretty important experience that I had when I was in high school. I was 14 and had decided to stop pursuing an education in music. I received a surprising call over the summer from my music teacher who had essentially pleaded and urged me not to give up the study. He was honest about why, given the shortage of trombone players he was experiencing, but the other reality was that he cared enough about my education to call me personally and encourage me to continue learning. This was in juxtaposition to how I stopped playing soccer, despite it being an important aspect to my identity.

That phone call was a small effort that had long-lasting consequences in my life. Years later I pursued an interest in jazz music, tutoring and an exploration in a number of instruments like the piano, the clarinet, the baritone and many more musical skills. It had the consequence of being more connected to my culture too, gaining something that I had previously lost with soccer. In fact, I still use a lot of those creative skills today because I ended up developing a profound appreciation for improv jazz music in particular. I credit my study in music as a significant contributor in my ability to learn new creative skills.

I remember that experience fondly because it was probably the only time that a teacher went an extra mile to simply encourage my growth. I learned that the art of teaching is ultimately to move the needle for a student rather than to transfer knowledge, and there’s a lot more that gets accomplished if a teacher focuses on encouragement rather than intelligence. This is something I invest a lot to represent in the technology I build because I believe education technology should focus on this. Education should belong to you, and it produces security & safety for people because it’s a stabilizing constant of life. When you learn, it can’t be taken away from you. You can’t lose something you practice.

Knowledge is only gained through commitment and motivations derived, rationalized and actualized by the student, not the teacher. So, like music, it’s a very emotional and creative field, and requires a lot of the same work needed for a performance. This is something I write about passionately.

This is all a long way to say that I’m here to encourage your learning in the spaces that we share together. I’m hoping you decide to give it another shot. The technology has recently improved and is a lot closer to what I want it to look and feel like. I want to invite you to give it a try. In 2024, I’m sure most of us are trying to de-mystify how powerful tools like AI can create opportunities for us and I believe the platform I’ve created meaningfully introduces it to folks.

So thank you either way and I appreciate the time you're taking to read through my various ramblings and ideas. I’m often grateful for the chance to write a message like this to you and I’m eager to continue its success.

Sheilf

Life is better when you participate with a sense of urgency and a profound awareness of your mortality. It is tough on the soul at times but it’s the kind of toughness that you want.

I always found it kind of amusing how creators like Carlos, Tony Vara, Barragan, Snow, Juixxe, etc always watch my content and even take inspiration from my content but never once bother to boost it because they disagree with my criticisms of the community, including themselves and the BS that they’re on.

You’re welcome for the $2000 donation and getting that ball rolling for Edin Alex Enamorado btw.

You folks are no different than Shawty Bae and Willito, you use reactionary tactics to manipulate your audiences and keep them placated rather than doing the hard work to push people beyond their comfort. You simply feel morally superior due to your cultural posturing and pseudo-intellectualism.

I’m glad not to associate with this digital “culture” anymore. It is 🗑️. End to end.

Nostr and cashu embedded into instagram’s UX #LearnWithNostr https://video.nostr.build/fd09177bac9aff10f495515f9512d3f731c36a56ecd33be37cc467c6bf62d911.mp4

Send them this link and tell them it’s nostr

https://program-ai.app

The future of the internet, IMO, will look like small and personable collectives that are passionate about certain ideas.

They’re driven by the fact that AI unlocks an enormous amount of productivity and opportunity.

TikTok and the algorithm apps have a place in this reality, but it no longer becomes the beginning, middle and endgame of the internet.

After experimenting with 8000 TikTok videos, I’ve mostly concluded that the next wave of social media will likely be smaller communities empowered by Intelligent Assistance.

The TikTok version of the internet is an is an Artifical Intelligence fad but it’s too top-down and uncontrolled for both the creator and the user. This results in two things:

1. Increasingly bored viewers

2. The NPC-ification of creators

The boring-ness comes full circle until users & creators realize that they’ve discovered the reinvention of Public Access TV

Never underestimate this guy.