Unveiling the Ultimate Path to Empowering Minds in the AI and Crypto Domains

Alexandre Franco - Growth_Nerd
14 min readMay 11, 2023

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That’s no Clickbait

It’s a bold claim to say that I’m offering you the ultimate path to empowering your mind in the fields of AI and crypto, but that’s the goal and vision of Mindscope Academy. I intend to create an e-learning academy that will provide you the knowledge you need, to use AI tools effectively, maximise your productivity and creativity, and navigate the world of cryptocurrencies and invest wisely and responsibly if you so choose. If you have no idea what all the fuss is about with these technologies, that’s about to change. If you do know what the fuss is all about but find it difficult to take advantage of them, that’s about to change too.

Went for a walk

I do walk a fair bit, now more than ever. I think it’s fair to say that I walk for a living. Even though I do not monetise my blog and it’s possible I will never do, as I think I’m being handsomely rewarded already, I do not walk only to write and critique my writings. I also strategise and work on the business while I walk. Some businesses have 90 day receivable accounts, I might have 180 or 360, hopefully not more, because my familia.

Mental exercises

After writing my last blog two things happened that I thought I would comment on, now that I have a chance to do it. One is due to something I thought about but didn’t write and the other is about something I wrote but something happened right after it that I think it’s worth mentioning.

The former is about the rebooting scenario. When I initially thought about it, my argument was that even though the technology is basically code and we might lose control of what that code can do, it ultimately lives on hardware and we can definitely control that with the flick of a switch.

I know I’m removing all nuance and it’s not as easy as it might sound to have a data centre redundancy in place capable of housing all the computational power required to pretty much reboot even just the minimum acceptable world network services, but there’s something fundamentally true in that argument that can be exploited, especially at this stage of AI development. And the argument that it’s unaffordable is just laughable when considering the positive benefits this technology will offer humanity and the many billions we spend yearly on climate hysterics just to name one.

Many people throw around the AGI acronym, but in reality that’s science fiction at the moment. Possible but not yet real.

Setting the record straight

The latter has to do with the fact that I believe I gave the impression that all those pundits I referred to, were calling for a catastrophic outcome and failing to consider some more probable scenarios and arguably more serious problems.

Well, just the day after I hit publish, I watched one interview with one of those pundits where he pretty much touches on most if not all of the points I made and had very similar conclusions and suggestions. That interview was two weeks old when I watched it.

I know that there’s still a number of those pundits that are locked in to their view of disastrous outcomes and don’t believe in our ingenuity being enough to solve the challenges ahead. But clearly not all of them think that way and my insights were not as unique as I thought they might have been but clearly not too off either.

The silver lining is that I think that tells me I’m able to carry out a proper analysis and come up with insightful conclusions. I have that pundit in high regard even though I vehemently disagree with him on a couple of subjects.

Mindscope Academy

The “Mindscope Academy” is a forward-thinking e-learning platform that aims to equip learners with the skills they need to succeed in the dynamic fields of AI and cryptocurrency. Our goal is to equip people with the knowledge and practical skills needed to turn AI advances into personal benefits, rather than challenges.

At the heart of Mindscope Academy is the belief that you can use AI with tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney and others to be creative, innovative and successful in a variety of fields. Our carefully crafted courses combine theory and practice to ensure that our students understand the intricacies of these sophisticated technologies and can apply them effectively in real-world situations.

But we’re more than just an educational institution: we aim to foster a vibrant community of like-minded individuals who are passionate about exploring the frontiers of AI and crypto. We envision this community as a collective brain trust where students, enthusiasts and experts can share insights, experiences and breakthroughs. To this end, we’ll create a dedicated Discord group to facilitate meaningful interactions, provide support and foster a sense of camaraderie among our members.

Guild

The decision to use Discord instead of Facebook is a practical one, but not a rigid one. We’ll consider a Facebook group if the community prefers that approach or even have 2 groups with different goals. Facebook for support and get ideas from the community of new courses we should create or updates to existing ones. And Discord to be used more as a workshop for content creation. We will listen to the community and create what is clear is what the community wants and needs.

As we grow and develop, so will our team. Without the invaluable help of some people, I wouldn’t be able to bring you the final product, and we’ll be looking to find and hire people who share our vision, from community managers and group moderators to researchers and subject matter experts, when the time is right. Each new addition to our team will strengthen our collective knowledge and enhance our ability to deliver high-quality education.

Mindscope Academy isn’t just a stepping stone, but a launch pad that will lead our students to a future where they not only survive, but thrive amidst the technological advances of AI and cryptocurrencies. Welcome to the future of learning; welcome to Mindscope Academy.

Show us the goods

We launch the Mindscope Academy with the course “Mastering ChatGPT & Midjourney: The Ultimate Prompt Engineering Course for Content Creators and Entrepreneurs”. The name is a mouth full but it’s not even the best name possible since the course is aimed at anyone who wants to understand what this technology is all about and how to use these tools at an expert level. It’s aimed at absolute beginners as well as regular users that are looking to take their prompting skills to the next level. You can easily find fairly good prompts to use out there on the internet, but what we offer is the knowledge of how to create your own prompts with such expertise that you’ll undoubtedly stand out from the rest, be it in your current job, job search, business creation, management or development. See who we got to put in a good word for us.

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How much?

Thanks for your interest. This course offers an in-depth yet accessible journey into mastering ChatGPT and Midjourney tools that are changing the AI landscape. With lifetime access, continuous updates and hands-on practise, we’ll make sure you stay ahead of the curve in these rapidly evolving fields. When you join Mindscope Academy, you’re not just buying a course, you’re investing in a future-proof skill set and becoming part of a community dedicated to the success of AI and crypto.

The course is up and live, but I’m not going to tell you where to find it just yet. Instead, today we’re offering 5 free seats to a lifetime subscription to the course. In return, we ask for just one thing: your objective, unbiased feedback. Ideally it’ll be constructive feedback, but even if you don’t have any suggestions on how to improve the areas you think need improvement, raise them with us anyway.

Our aim is for the first fruit of our educational efforts, which could also be our keystone course, to reflect our pursuit of excellence and what you can expect from us in future courses. That’s not to say we don’t intend on increasing its production value in the future. If you’re interested in one of these free spots please fill in this form. All we ask is for your email address so we can contact you with details of the course. We’ll add you to the Mindscope Academy mailing list which you can unsubscribe at any time.

Ok, but how much?

This course is launching as a lifetime subscription that not only gives you access to all current and future lessons and resources, but also gives you access to a community of like-minded people. Our goal is to create a Discord group where you can create content without needing a Midjourney subscription, which currently costs $ 10 per month.

Given all that, we don’t think a price of $150 would be fair, it would be unfairly cheap. We know that for $99 it’s much better received and more accessible to some people. But we also know that despite the high quality of our course, we’re just starting out and haven’t made a name for ourselves yet. That’s why we don’t sell the course for $49 for a lifetime subscription or even $19.99 for such an opportunity.

The people who are helping me with this venture and want only the best for Mindscope Academy have tried to dissuade me from going ahead with the $14.99 price for a lifetime subscription, plus the option of a 30-day money-back guarantee. But that’s exactly our offer.

Please note that pricing, lifetime subscription and money back guarantee terms are subject to change at our discretion. However, any changes won’t affect those who have already enrolled under the existing terms. We recommend early enrollment to secure the current terms and conditions.

You must hate money

What’s the logic here? It’s very simple. I think in the end we all agree that it makes much more sense to sell 2000 courses for $ 14.99 than 200 for $ 149.90 or even 1000 for $ 29.99. Our goal and vision is to make this knowledge available to everyone because everyone will need it. We also know that by pricing it unfairly cheap, we’ll gain a customer for life and it’ll be much easier to sell our next course, which by the way is about cryptocurrencies.

We’ll give you all the knowledge and tools you need to research effectively, find new and existing projects, assess risks and potential for success, minimise risks as much as possible and invest responsibly even if deciding to venture into sassier; that is, much riskier projects.

It won’t be a course on day trading, swing trading, scalping or any other type of trading, but it’ll provide the basics needed to understand what can be considered a better entry and exit point as well as market cycles. The course will have my input as someone that was able to grow an investment of around 30k€ to close to 1 million and has managed to lose most of it as well. So I believe I have a pretty good idea of what you can do to maximise your chances and what mistakes you can avoid at all costs. I can’t tell you all the possible mistakes you can make but I have a good list that will put you in an advantageous position.

Why should I part with my money

With the 30-day money-back guarantee for such a low price, our main aim is to make sure that anyone who doesn’t get any benefit from the course gets their money back. If the course doesn’t benefit you and doesn’t significantly improve your life, we don’t want your money. I’m naive enough to really believe that most who ask for their money back because they don’t see the benefit of the course for their particular situation, will be happy to buy the course again when that perception changes and they see the benefit they’re getting or have got from the course and the community. Maybe by then the conditions will have changed, but that’s another issue.

There are people who will never value the work that went into creating the course, no matter how much benefit they get out of it, but I think that’s a minority and the price to pay to give the crowd I mentioned above, the opportunity to get their money back.

Every single area of our personal and professional lives will be touched by the advent of AI, and this technology will be so ubiquitous that we’ll use it without knowing that we’re using it, or we’ll be aware that everything uses AI technology in one way or another and so we’ll know that we’re using it because it’s everywhere and in everything.

This course will enable you to start your career, improve it or just change course and use this technology to help you achieve all your goals. It doesn’t matter if you’re a nurse, a bus driver, a student, an unemployed person, a CEO, a lawyer or a programmer. You’ll not only win if you do this course, but you’ll also lose if you don’t do it.

I can get all that info for free

That’s wrong, it’s factually incorrect. Even if you’re a geek who is passionate about researching complex topics and good at it too, you still have to spend the time to carry out that research. Your time isn’t worth 0, so you don’t get everything for free.

What you can do is have many hours of research, all distilled and compiled into a few hours of information that you can access in a single place at any time, for the incredible price of $14.99. And best of all, you’ll be able to go there in the future and find updated content on the latest developments in the field too. So much so, that the course was just completed and we have to create a new lesson already since Midjourney just launched Version 5.1 and we want to show you a couple of interesting things about it. ChatGPT is very slowly rolling out plugins and some of those will for sure be worth a lesson as well. So let me backtrack what I just said: Yes, you can get everything for free, when you buy the Mindscope Academy course.

Source

I promise you that very soon you’ll see a link to the Mindscope Academy course and homepage, either on one of my blogs, possibly the next, on social media through paid advertising or a normal post if you follow one of the social media accounts. If you fill in the form posted above, you’ll receive an email from us with an update, even if you aren’t one of the first 5 to fill in the form.

It’s just business

Even though Mindscope Academy is part of the Fusion Consortium, just like BestSites0x, they’re separate entities, and soon you’ll witness a separation of all social media accounts. My goal, as I mentioned before, is to separate my personal blog from my business activities as much as possible. I have decided to move my personal blog to Medium for the time being mainly because it’s free. Although I’m losing some things with this move I’d rather not lose, it is a temporary move.

I also have a new business project that I’ve taken on that will take up a lot of my time to complete within the 6 months that I and my new business partner have projected. This means that when Mindscope Academy gets going, we’ll need to recruit fast not only for our Brainchild course, but also for the next course on cryptocurrencies. So if you think you can contribute to this project in any way, please get in touch at support@mindscope-academy.online

The blogs

I want to give you an idea of what I’m thinking of writing in the next couple of months. Expect much of my content to be about the state of the world and what I believe we can do in order to be successful despite all that. Don’t get me wrong, much of what I talk about, I have to go out of my way to find it since it’s not part of my immediate reality until I go searching for it and find it. That does not mean it’s not a part of objective reality and that it won’t come to bite me in the future if I’m not aware of it and very importantly, that it’s not having an impact already but I’m not aware of it either.

I’m not running a financially successful business yet but you can think critically about what you read and avoid having to wait until I am indeed successful. Time is money as they say. In queue to be written I have: Reasons for and excuses we give ourselves why we’re not successful and are doing nothing about it. How and why we sell ourselves short. How our apathy and “whatever” attitude can lead to dark times and why we have adopted such a way of being in the last couple of decades. Why it pays to be loud and intransigent. How to become uncensorable and uncancellable. When the time is right, I will write about the philosophy, management style and culture we want to implement in the Fusion Consortium businesses — if you’re reading that blog, it means we’re hiring. As hinted before, I will write Disrupt Yourself — Again (later).

Airbnb

You will find me at alexandre-franco.medium.com ricardo-rodrigues was taken so now you get to know my full name. Bookmark that page and make sure I’m one of your 5 free readings a month, or pay 5€ a month for unlimited reads. It’s the price of a pint or 1 or 2 coffees that you might just want to skip once a month.

If you ever wondered why I use so many headings or section titles, it’s actually an SEO tool I use that keeps pushing for headings every few sentences or paragraphs. I completely misuse this, because the headings are supposed to help search engines understand my content and bring traffic to the site and the headings I use do not work for that end in any way shape or form. I still do it for your entertainment only, so if they’re entertaining for you, no need to thank me, it’s my pleasure.

This blog comes at a price both for me and you, I know that. I’m happy to pay my price and really hope that whatever you get out of it pays for your time.

It’s all personal

If you read my blog, you’ll know that I promised to give you the blueprint for success or for what not to do. If anything I do turns out a success, you will witness it. I won’t need to tell you. But my failures might not be so obvious and that’s why I focus on writing about my failures or learnings and let my successes speak for themselves. I don’t have any business write-offs or accepted failures yet.

The BestSites0x business was started at the worst possible time, when my target market is suffering due to the shenanigans of the elite that causes unsustainable periods of fake growth with cheap money, just to try to reign in the euphoria and inflation they created and bankrupt any unsuspecting businesses that acted accordingly to the reality they found themselves in. There are many companies spending good money refreshing their 2 year old websites, but they’re not my target market.

Whilst banks are suffering no one will have credit to invest in their businesses and what not. And until we see the consolidation of a good number of smaller banks into bigger banks, the current monetary policy might not change. I know they have no option but to turn the money spigot back on soon so it’s a case of a waiting game and don’t die until they do just that. Any business that can survive the next 2 years will see things improving even if momentarily, to eventually get worse again.

So the BestSites 0x is not a failure yet, but definitely a false start. It will give me the time to further develop this skill and the opportunity to practise it by putting it to work on my own projects.

My Way

There’s a piece of me in everything I do, and I made the conscious decision to do it my way. That means that some of the “mistakes” I make are conscious mistakes. I’m aware that what I’m doing or how I’m doing it, is not the proven way to be successful in that specific subject. But if it makes me happy, I feel it’s a success already. I know I need to support myself and my family and I will not be financially successful due to my mistakes, but I might be despite them. And if that happens, then I’m truly successful. At the moment, I do what I want and I say what I want, or what I think I have to say. For me, true success will be to be able to maintain this while making money at the same time.

Conclusion

There’s power in numbers and there’s power in being early. Join us.

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Alexandre Franco - Growth_Nerd

Entrepreneur, Blogger, Educator - Follow for my musings on topics such as business and personal development, technology, crypto and world affairs