And, important.

A way we think to be more interesting than if we slathered this entire section with nothing but stuff. Artifacts academics and Human Resources people love to display.

Things like ...

• Our university degrees
   
• Our mind-boggling eclectic experiences.
   
• Our earth-shattering and dazzling achievements.
   
• Our Do-Gooder acts that would make Mother Teresa weep rivers of tears.

It's helpful if you know and understand how we TRY to think.

While we could present an impressive literary library display, we think that would only make your eyes glaze over. (if they aren't already.)

Instead, this short list of books will ....

let us tell you more about our philosophy and thinking ...

than all the Poobah Hollering Dissertations in a university full of phd candidates.

Extropy means seeking more intelligence, wisdom, and effectiveness, an open-ended lifespan, and the removal of political, cultural, biological, and psychological limits to continuing development.

Perpetually overcoming constraints on our progress and possibilities as individuals, as organizations, and as a species. Growing in healthy directions without bound.

Extropy means affirming continual ethical, intellectual, and physical self-improvement, through critical and creative thinking, perpetual learning, personal responsibility, proactivity, and experimentation.

Using technology — in the widest sense to seek physiological and neurological augmentation along with emotional and psychological refinement.

Extropy means fueling action with positive expectations – individuals and organizations being tirelessly proactive.

Adopting a rational, action-based optimism or "proaction", in place of both blind faith and stagnant pessimism.

Extropy means designing and managing technologies not as ends in themselves but as effective means for improving life.

Applying science and technology creatively and courageously to transcend "natural" but harmful, confining qualities derived from our biological heritage, culture, and environment.

Extropy means supporting social orders that foster freedom of communication, freedom of action, experimentation, innovation, questioning, and learning.

Opposing authoritarian social control and unnecessary hierarchy and favoring the rule of law and decentralization of power and responsibility.

Preferring bargaining over battling, exchange over extortion, and communication over compulsion. Openness to improvement rather than a static utopia. Extropia ("ever-receding stretch goals for society") over utopia ("no place").

Extropy means valuing independent thinking, individual freedom, personal responsibility, self-direction, self-respect, and a parallel respect for others.

Extropy means favoring reason over blind faith and questioning over dogma.

It means understanding, experimenting, learning, challenging, and innovating rather than clinging to beliefs.

OUR "What's A Girl To Do?" MOMENT

HOW "THE ECONOMY" CHANGED OUR LIVES

As stated earlier, we prefer a different way to let you know "about us" and to begin a process of mutual trust.

We think there's a better way for inquiring minds to know about whom they're wanting to make important conclusions and <gasp> rational judgments.

Consider the principle of "judge and be prepared to be judged".

Regardless of any biblical admonishments, we all make hundreds of judgments every day.

They are prerequisites for making choices.

So, in every choice we make in life there is an implied judgment.

it follows, then, that YOU are the only judge that counts here.

Like a recalcitrant mule named Transition.

I ran across an U.S. Federal Court Judge Boyko foreclosure case in Cleveland, OH.

Surprisingly, Deutsche Bank had  16 home foreclosure cases thrown out of court by Judge Boyko.

As one who lived five years as a Commercial Realtor in Spokane, WA, this was a "pattern" way outside the norm.

"What's going on", I wondered.

Knowing Deutsche Bank would always have an abundance of grizzled, gnarly, and experienced lawyers in-house and on retainer, I wondered why they couldn't just ...

"Prove they own what they say they own?"

Prove they had the RIGHT to foreclosure.

Well, it seems the judge required them to produce properly assigned ORIGINAL Mortgage Notes which would prove they "had standing" and the right to foreclose.

They could NOT do so.

This inability to have standing in a foreclosure action stunned me. 

A flash of mind-lightening made me realize the economy would begin to unravel in catastrophic ways over the next few years.

[Mortgage fraud and defense against FORECLOSURE will be
the topic for a future series of mind maps.]

Skipping ahead a few weeks to late December 2007.

So, the Boyko case initiated a serious study of what it meant for the future of America, our company, and our family.

After two weeks of perusing a ton of serious information, asking big questions, and deeply thinking about the situation ...

Equivalent, or <gasp> even worse.

Many [most] folks laughed RAUCOUSLY.

They thought we were totally mad.

24 months later, they're NOT laughing.

Not even smirking. [Even a little.]

They're catatonic with fear and angst.

WHY so? Because, NOW, at the beginning of 2010 ...

they're  experiencing a worldwide economic meltdown that finally authorizes their mind to recognize hard-core reality.

After completing the research, we carefully decided to radically change the direction of our company.

Subsequently we reorganized G2F, Inc. and established this web site and the Library Of Mind Maps (LOMM).

At this point, many so-called "marketing gurus" insert a long (often boring) super-hyped-up sales letter that attempts to tell you how awesome, wonderful, and smart they are.

We won't [can't] do that.

Instead, we prefer to SHOW you the quality of our work. That's why we created the Library Of Mind Maps (LOMM).

if you're suitably impressed, we hope and trust you'll find our radical bleeding-edge method for funding the library to be interesting, friendly, and fair.

Prepare to be more than a little surprised.

Believe it. [Or not.]

The game is afoot. We mean the game is really ON.

In addition to the books we listed at the beginning, reading the following list of recent best-selling books can put you far ahead of "The Madding Crowds".

• The Science of  Ray Kurzweil
  (Author of The Singularity Is Near)
   

• The Economics of Julian L. Simon
  (Author of The Ultimate Resource 2)
   

• The Anti-terrorism of Brigitte Gabriel
  (Author of Because They Hate)
   

• The World of Social Media of Lon Safko and David Brake
  (Authors of The Social Media Bible)
   

• The Culture of Clay Shirky
  (Author of Cognitive Surplus and Here Comes Everybody)
   

• The Future of Kevin Kelly
  (Author of The Technium, soon to be released)

You'll understand why and how everyone is experiencing ever-quickening CHANGE. The Singularity is near. An increasing rate-of-CHANGE never experienced in the history of man.

Best learn how to deal with it.

It's not going away.

All is not lost. We can genuinely help: Living With Change!

Well, we've said all we want to say for now.

So, what's NEXT for you?

Maybe it's time to create your own

"virtual books".

Mind Maps about whatever world you want.

We wish you great joy in your exciting journey towards a life of tranquil peace-of-mind,  freedom, and prosperity.

Your choice. Your decision. Your life.

AFLAC  loves me more than Yogi Berra.
She told me so after I fed her.