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Growth Strategist. Freelance Diplomat. Singer/Songwriter
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Hi. My name is Rolando. Many people call me Grow.
I love music. I love art. I respect the spirit world and think with my heart. I sing, appreciate entrepreneurial & artistic approaches to operating in the world, and generally work to make systems more harmonious.
Working with small business owners, creative professionals and social change agents, I've helped thousands of people gain new skills, leverage new technologies, strengthen operations and grow their base.
Mostly I perform strategic assessments and facilitate programs that help them reach their goals. This normally includes a combination of strategic advice, communications support and technical assistance.
I believe people are made to grow. Thankfully, every day can provide an opportunity to get better. An overview of my contributions can be found in the links below.
In brief, if you're out there trying to become a better person, live a better life, and help others do the same, I have resources to share, and people to connect you with.
-Rolando
Growth Strategist. Freelance Diplomat.
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From data to application in 2.5 seconds.
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Caroline Jost and I talking human development, transitions, Montreal, New York and of course #iGrow. #stoic #sutoiku . :-) (at sutoiku)
my first callabo with Nelson-Mandela Nance
Lyrics
Swimming in your skin again
blinded by your elegance
it seems I never get a chance to win
even when you meet defeat
Where you thinkin we should vacay
or will I ever get to see that day
and from your grip I gotta get away
and from your grip I gotta get away
It’s early morning
and I try my best to not forget your kiss
It’s early morning
and I try my best to not forget your kiss
Wake up, wake up, wake up,
Breakup,
Roll out, breathe in, exhale,
Take a… breathe…
Jr take a breathe….
Now really listen for a moment.
There is a morning, and a mourning time.
You, you’re on your morning
plus your mourning…
Time is likely best
you go refresh and let
#reshapingyourbreathe
be what you call this…
A breakup is simply much better than breakdown
You break apart the part of you that feels you need to stay down
You wake up
there’s nothing left for you to say
The fun times with that sunshine, is yesterday…
Yeah, she had to go
Yeah, she couldn’t stay
Yeah, you let her go
Yeah, you’ll be ok
This here is opportunity
for you and she
to reshape the shape of your soon to be
Evolve early morning
Evolve early mournings
Evolve early morning
Evolve
And this is how poems gets passed down through the generations. Family conversations. #màsomenos
This is how you make basic instructions Art. Color. Contrast. Copy. Emphasis. FIRE. EXIT. Underlined STR. Reminded me of “Steps To Reproduce.” In computing, used for bug filing and testing. (at ZeroDivide)
Shout out to all the teachers.
Staying Warm In The Cold, thanks to Namibia Donadio & Augustina Warton of @artisloveandaction singing a song I posted on @soundcloud via @Instagram! @myndrevolutions @augustinaw
“Wake up in the morning with the yearning to learn! http://m.soundcloud.com/rolandobrown/so-alive-on-a-cloudy-day so we’ve been singing this all day @rolandobrown #stayingwarminthecold #loveinthetimeofcapitalism #disqueRemix”
I wake up in the morning with a yearning to learn… To understand what it takes for my people to earn… I feel so alive on a cloudy day… Thanks @myndrevolutions for listening to and sharing my morning song. #grow #soundcloud
“Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.”
— Alan Kayvia Stowe Boyd
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"Life is like…" meets "Life, I wonder… If I ruled the world (Imagine that)…"
I’d probably have epic comedic drama filled conversations on benches like this one. I’d definitely make sure they put benches back in the front of all the buildings on Richmond Terrace and Jersey St. (That’s where I grew up on Staten Island). Why?
The entire intergenerational fabric of my neighborhood changed when they removed those benches. Hmmm. Yes, I remember that loitering and cornering in NYC in 1994 was, hmmm, “complicated.” Felt like some policy somewhere read “Let’s just get and keep everyone in the building.” Hmmm.
Now, I remember those benches being more helpful than harmful actually. As a youth, you’re just a little more mindful of everything you do and don’t do when you know there’s an elder sitting out there watching you, watching out for you, etc. you also just learn to be and sit outside.
I know it’s complex. I get it. I got it then. But, looking deeply, the elders don’t gather outdoors like they used to. I’m not sure we do either. You know? As expected, I’d be inclined to ask if others, in other neighborhoods, wanted the same thing (those story telling benches).
So, if life were like a box of Rolando, especially if I was sharing the story of 1994, I’d probably enjoy explaining my life to a group of elders waiting for the bus. I’d probably keep coming back to the miracles of love and friendship.
For the epic, I’d rely on sprinkles of critical connections between 131, Now Born Click, Ruthless Bastards, 456, Genocide, Wu-Tang Clan, T.M.I, The Hoody Men, Forest Gump, Steve Jobs, the Bee Gees, Gucci Mane, Outkast, Ceelo Green, Common, Missy Elliot, Charan P, Abstrek Genius Tha Funksta, Dead Prez, Jay Z, Tupac, Sarah Montgomery Glinski, Biggie and of course, Nas.
I probably wouldn’t say something like “Life is like a box of Rolando…” However, being that this is an Instagramed Bitstrip, and I am part of a generation working to be “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant,” you really never know. You probably need to read The Forest Gump page on Wikipedia to really get all of this). Maybe. Maybe you get it. Maybe you been got it.
I do know this. It takes a lot of mind, body and spirit work to navigate all of these spaces with grace. Sometimes I need to move. Sometimes I need to sit down. Forest Gump seemed to know how to both “make a miracle” and “let a miracle.” We need such people.
I do know this. While it might be a bus ride to war, to storm, to loss, or a ride to one of worlds many joys, I look forward to the next bus ride.
You?
#grow
Picture me teaching tech, building websites, sharing art online, etc.
I’ve been taking screenshots, making screencasts and producing screen shows for a while now.
Below is a post from Ismael. I really like the idea of “screenflow.” This language and idea makes sense on so many levels. So much so, that I read his post and responded with a flow.
Wish I had Screenflow enabled right now!
Producing this post would have been so much easier.
Why?
I would much rather flow than stop and stop the show /
every time I realize there’s something you need to know /
How, What?
How will they learn? Screenshot, cast or screen show? /
He’s like ”no my suto, we need a screenflow" /
François like “cool, let’s do it, I’ll start the seed code” /
Maybe by end of this month. Let’s see where we go!
I hate screenshots, with a passion. You might have a hard time believing this if you’re a regular reader of this blog knowing how many of them I post on a regular basis, but I really despise them. Why? Because they have a ridiculously short shelf life. I think there is a better way, and I’ll call it screenflow. The idea is to automate the generation of in-app screenflows from simple meta-data, for the purpose of supporting the rapid development of tutorials that can be easily localized down the road…
We know sutoiku.
Great information here.
"…a way of thinking and doing, making decisions from large amounts of information, then taking actions upon them in the pursuit of your goals or objectives."
"I know kung fu."
—Nemo, The MatrixWith these words, Nemo claimed mastery of the Chinese martial art, which he had just learned on The Matrix. "Show me!" asked Morpheus. A practice fight ensued, during which Nemo demonstrated his remarkable skills. He had just become a master of the ancient…
Congrats #Grow. You use your brain equally. Who would have known. Thanks @smglinski for putting me on.
“What will this book be about? I’m not exactly sure. What I know is that it will cover the broad topics of work, productivity, and collaboration, with the simple thesis that most people would rather be harvesters than hunters, but don’t really know how to go about it. It will be short, but not too short. It will be mostly text, with just a handful of simple diagrams. It will have rhythm, with quotes and short stories surrounding a mostly-linear narrative. If we succeed, it will be a worthy counterpoint to David Allen’s Getting Things Done, which should be considered as a major inspiration for this project. If we fail, it will be recycled into a set of blog articles. Either way, it should be a fun project, and we’ll document our progress on this blog.”
I really like to write. That’s pretty much what I do. Mostly boring prose in the form of blogs posts, and a little bit of code here and there. Over the years, a few people have suggested that I write a book. Unfortunately, I had nothing special to write about, and I didn’t want to write something…
#thatsright RT @bamuthi: @rolandobrown we grow to harvest…multiple channels at once…red jacket swag at the speed of sound…
STOIC Harvest is the brainchild of Paul Maritz (one of our investors and board members), with trailblazing input from Rolando Brown, a certified STOIC ninja, community organizer, hip-hop producer, and all-around amazing guy. Rolando is working with us as a consultant to help us define and design the product. Down the road, he will also provide consulting services for it.
So, what is STOIC Harvest? Well, you can think of it as an extension of STOIC Prism aimed at marketing and sales people. But instead of focusing on the needs of managers like many marketing automation solutions do, we’re focusing on individual contributors who directly contribute to the top-line. And instead of focusing on a particular aspect of the end-to-end lead development process, we’re taking a holistic view of it, trying to provide a fully integrated solution. To be more precise, STOIC Harvest will address the following fragments of this process:
MORE:
http://sutoiku.com/post/66846521144/stoic-harvest

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