Steady as She Goes: Navigating Towards the Future at Synergy Global Summit New York 2017

by Mark W. Gaffney

As a writer I am going to begin this article with a rhetorical question, What is this article about? My new freelance article is about writing, business start-ups, macroeconomics of societal growth as related to microeconomics of personal growth as individual. 

My new freelance article provides value added insights about leveraging power of information superhighway social media internet technologies to provide a helpful service for professionals to enhance their career with a nationally distributed advertising supported print magazine start up. My new freelance article provides value added insights into an article entitled, The Hack: Having a Media Company Mentality, written by Gary Vaynerchuk as published by Medium.

Euphoric hope and optimism of unlimited growth and opportunity spurred by the digital revolution exploding in the early 1990s was immediately challenged by realistic practical economic concerns. Realistic practical economic concerns leading toward the dot.com bubble stymied the digital revolution. 

The Dot.com bubble is a truly facinating epoch in human history that provides insights and revelations about human behavior. An understanding of historical implications of the dot.com bubble may be helpful to moving forward during an era of accelerating scientific and technological returns that the 21st century will bring. Wikipedia provides a detailed historical account of what happened during the dot.com bubble fiasco on the Wikipedia webpage entitled, Dot.com Bubble.

One thing that is absolutely certain is that future progress must be tempered by rationality and respect for those who have made a contribution. In my Linkedin freelance article entitled, Synergy of Ideas: Crowdfunding to Attend Synergy Global Forum 2017 New York October 28 - 29th, I provided a discussion about how my past writing and content is taken out of context and distorted to fuel misguided "bets" and unfounded groundless speculation during the 2008 financial collapse within United States markets. 

The 2008 financial collapse is the pinnacle of corporate irresponsibility and biggest bank heist in history. The 2008 fiancial collapse ultimately lead to the Occupy Wall Street movement.

The Synergy Global Forum in New York October 28 - 29 is conference where thought leaders will discuss moving forward during and era of rapid scientific and technological progress.


Should society as a whole have values that should be upheld by private sector markets, especially start ups? What unique product or service is offered by start ups that significantly adds value to lives of other people? Is it possible disruptive Influence of start ups may be more harmful than helpful as a consequence of introduction of unnecessary competition ? 

What sets a free market capitialist society such as the United States of America apart is that individuals have freedom to choose their lifestyle as elegantly expressed in the Declaration of Independence, "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ".  Other forms of government around the globe clearly tell people how they should live and what they should do.

Governmental control or regulation may be necessary to move forward during an era of rapid scientific and technological progress in a manner tempered by rationality and respect for those who have made a contribution. Services and products offered by a plethora of dot.com start-ups shortly after the digital revolution began had questionable or dubious value to consumers. The dot.com business model often included lavish spending and excessive exorbitant over optimistic partying.

It requires a humongous amount of financial resources to build a superior quality product or offer a truly helpful beneficial service. An introduction of a huge number of start-ups into the market can potentially have a negative economic impact of reducing financial resources necessary for bigger more specialized corporations to build superior quality products. 

The hallmark of a healthy highly functional capitalist free market society is competition. Competition is a socioeconomic force that strongly supports (1) manufacturing of superior quality products and/or (2) offering services of great value for consumers.

A major consequence of excessive competition within markets is price deflation. As stated above, an introduction of a huge number of start-ups into the market can potentially have a negative economic impact of reducing financial resources necessary for bigger more specialized corporations to build superior quality products. 

Price deflation as a consequence of introduction of too many start ups offering dubious questionable products and services oftentimes leads to unemployment. If a company cannot make a profit from selling products and services the company must reduce hiring and may have to let employees go.

The book What Color is Your Parachute? 2016: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers, by Richard Nelson Bolles provides a discussion of networking to climb the career ladder. Is it possible that people who network to establish start-ups inadvertently destroy their safety net? The answers to achieving success for job hunters and career changers are found in Richard Nelson Bolles book, What Color is Your Parachute? 2016: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers.


An elimination of competition by larger established gigantic corporations as a way to control price deflation may actually contribute to unhealthy spiraling inflationary trends within a free market capitalist society. Socioeconomic trends related to rapid scientific and technological progress is a major driving force of political division within the United States of America, as outlined in my freelance article entitled, 
Tao is an Intuitively Understood Mystical Expression of Quantum Physics Operating within the Physical Universe.

In my writing I often reference paradox, quagmires, and irony. Paradox, quagmires, and irony in society represent quantum uncertainty. Pendulum swings back and forth in political ideology is reflective of quantum mechanics operating within physical universe as described within the Hegelian dialectic philosophy of thesis and anti-thesis leading toward synthesis of ideology.

 As referenced in my freelance article entitled, Synergy of Ideas: Crowdfunding to Attend Synergy Global Forum 2017 New York October 28 - 29th, in a Ted Talk entitled, What Happens When Our Computers Get Smarter then We Are?, Nick Bostrom identifies uncertainty as problematic in future evolution of Superintelligent AI. Quantum uncertainty is also a contributing factor to political division within society as outlined in my article, Tao is an Intuitively Understood Mystical Expression of Quantum Physics Operating within the Physical Universe.

Although universal values should never ever replace traditional believe systems, in a Ted talk by Nick Bostrom entitled, What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? , Nick Bostrom emphasizes how important meeting of the minds in terms of universal values in the modern era has become given an accelerating rate of technological progress, as outlined in my freelance article entitled,Understanding Psychodynamics of Progeny Destined to Inherit Physical Universe .

In my freelance articles entitled, Escaping Oblivion of Cold Hearted Mechanical Robotic Deadness Inside: Becoming Sentient or Self Aware During Travel Excursions, and 
Love for the Created Physical Universe is the Ultimate Intelligence, On this Earth Intelligence is in Short Supply , I suggest a meditative reflex of cessation of thinking within gestalt make up of the ultimate thinking machine may be a psychodynamic solution to avoid catastrophe as depicted in Hollywood Terminator movies. A meditative reflex of cessation of thinking within gestalt make up of the ultimate thinking machine may be a psychodynamic solution to resolve cognitive uncertainty naturally inherent in the physical universe.  However, a meditative reflex of cessation of thinking cannot be externally programmed, but may naturally arise from internal self diagnostic functions of Superintelligent AI. 

In the final analysis, given an infinite complexity of a physical universe created by an omnipotent Almighty God, what can any human or future Superintelligent being possibly know? And any truly Superintelligent AI arising from mankinds God given co-creative intelligent prowess with the Almighty maker of everthing will fully understand that principle.

A Facebook post by NoLabels.org political organization sharing a quote by former U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt sums it up nicely, "In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people ".

Price deflation as a consequence of introduction of too many start ups offering products and services of dubious value to consumers may be harmful to the economy, yet people have the lawful right to pursue their passions. It is often said that if a person does not love whatever they do then they are wasting their time. 

Oftentimes, determination of real value is a complicated process. Real value is sometimes not immediately and readily apparent. In a competitive society criticism is quickly forthcoming about any and all positive constructive human endeavors. The sharing of passions inherently implies one must be open and transparent. 

The Law of Attraction media recently posted three things that should be kept private: (1) An individual should keep one's income private, (2) An individual should keep one's next move private, and ( 3 ) details about ones personal life. Currently I am working on a new freelance article about privacy issues as related to public marketing of a business concepts that I am not ready to make public yet, hence I am making this a private post for now.

As a single man living alone I tend to share too much on social media. Physical intimacy in marriage is the ultimate form of emotional sharing. Single people who suffer a deficit of physical intimacy in their life may feel a greater need to share on social media.

In an article written by Gary Vaynerchuk entitled, The Hack: Having a Media Company Mentality, two ways to grow a reading audience are outlined, Hacking culture and buying ads.  Since I am on a tight budget my observations about human behavior of sharing on social media as related to lack of physical intimacy is my effort to hack into popular culture. Since my effort to hack into popular culture may not be politically correct I may have to eventually resort to buying social media advertisements.

Currently, my next move includes networking with the Sharpr Networking Application. I was introduced to the Sharpr Networking Application by my online involvement with the Synergy Global Forum October 28 - 29 in New York City. The Shapr application is the chosen networking application for those who plan to attend the Synergy Global Forum.

Networking with professionals helps me to more fully delineate and refine my business model for a nationally distributed advertising supported print magazine start up. A corporate business model can be established whereas no member incurs libility and all contributing members share equally in profits.

I understand your view that print media is an unusual medium to discuss social media. From my perspective, digital media will never replace the the print market. Paradoxically, digital media is cutting into profits of quality journalism. Reduction of profits as a consequence of digital media cutting into profits of mainstream media is one reason quality journalism is declining. The decline of quality journalism is the reason everyone is crying, "Fake news", including President Donald Trump.

Anything of value has a monetary price tag, including quality journalism. Hence, social media has opened up a new market for a print magazine start up to highlight citizen journalism.

I welcome connecting with your friend who wrote, Paper God, and anyone interested in my business ideas. I lost my job in printing as a consequence of new computer to plate technologies therefore I view publishing as the next logical career step for me. I dedicated myself to the printed word for many years of my life .


I am interested in the concept of socially responsible business for the greater good. I provided a discussion of social responsibility in private sector markets within my freelance article entitled, Role of Public - Private Partnerships after Repeal and Replacement of Obamacare. 

http://introspectivetimes.blogspot.com/2017/10/role-of-public-private-partnerships.html