It has been an amazing journey. How are you? I’m great. Over the years I have so enjoyed writing here on WordPress.
The last year or so has been wild. I took a side track over at Substack. Starting on September 16, 2024, I started writing on Substack instead of WordPress and for the most part I really loved the platform.
Substack from my perspective is a combination of a blogging platform, media platform and social network.
Why did I shut it down? Well, it was fun to reach 4,850+ Subscribers and over 6,700+ Followers. Substack had a really fun groove to it.
The best part of the experience was that I had 19 live phone calls on my iPhone 16 Pro Max with various Subscribers from around the world.
Over the years that I have been walking this earth, I have developed a “global network” of contacts from England, Canada, Bulgaria, Poland, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, and South Africa.
There is a life we learn with and a life we live with! ~ Mitch Santell
Whatever we do in this life, we have to follow our intuition as best we can.
PS Thanks for reading my ramblings, pontifications, and insights here at Stoner.Studio! Get ready to have some fun as I give you some of my greatest observations of what is happening in this world. Take good care.
Being an early adapter is not for the faint of heart. Now in retirement with 4 grown children and 3 grandchildren, I’ve been passionate about technology since my youth, I’m not as scared as others about the advancement of technology.
Of course, there is good tech and bad tech. Once you unleash something new onto a society, you can’t take it back.
In 1984 Pacific Telephone (Yeah, it’s an old MA Bell Company) turned on their first cellular system.
Side note: In my youth, I was in the finance business and later as an entrepreneur, I helped new companies raise their seed capital. It was so much fun, I’ll admit it! Seeing the look on the Founder’s face as you handed them that first $50K they knew their life would never be the same and they would have a lot of work ahead of them.
My employer at the time was the Orient-U.S. Leasing, a joint venture between two of the world’s largest equipment leasing companies.
The Japanese are very innovative and they wanted to give their sales team an advantage that other leasing companies did not have. My boss at the time was willing to invest in cell phones.
The phone cost $3700 Dollars (USD) plus tax, plus installation came in at over $4100 Dollars.
The phone transmitter was installed in the trunk of my 1983 Z28 that I had bought new from Clippenger Chevrolet. It took about two hours to get it up and running. It was a trip driving down the Hollywood 101 Freeway with the phone to my ear as people looked over at my car. I remember this one guy who almost ran his car off the road watching me. How old was I when this happened? 25.
There was something very special and magical about those first first phones.
Why?
It was considered by today’s standards to be a “dumb phone,” no touch screen just push the buttons and dial. It simply worked. You never had to look for a pay phone again, or ask an officer manager if you could use the phone in the lobby to call your boss.
Fast Forward to 2024
At first glance, since a.i. being so new, I know a lot of people are scared of it, not me. Maybe this makes me a “contrarian.”
We have to look at the “big picture” and open our eyes to the global population collapse that is coming. As more and more enter America through border states it used to make me nervous until I saw part one of this documentary. It’s something to think about. I had 4 children. Out of those 4 children only 1 daughter had 3 children with her husband. Do the math. It’s a fascinating transition.
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