Ernie: I just looked over our earlier correspondence. Yeah, I got your replies, etc
and it is clear (to me anyway) that we have been talking past each other. So, let me try and untangle the Gordian knot. What I was trying to say was that, yes, a website to promote the book should be priority #1. OK, we can start with that. However, in a sense there is a more important objective, namely: I need to learn some basic skills that I simply do not now have. Sure, a book promotion site is necessary. But I need to learn how to use the site. Better still, if at all possible, I would like to gain the skills to build the damn site myself. If I can do that, then my other goals could be met in due course, too. In other words, I'd like to learn the skills I do not now have as part of the process of creating the site for the book. You seem to think that I already have most of these skills. But I do not have those skills. "And is there any way you can now work with Google Docs or exchange Word files, so we can keep track of revisions more easily than just email?" Uhhh, exactly where would I have learned how to use Google Docs or Word files? I'd be happy to learn but there is no-one to teach me. This is why, a month or so ago, in one of my e-mails, my suggestion was to hire a tech person to tutor me. I outlined a 3 week program for the purpose. Look, for all I know, maybe I can learn this stuff in one week, not 3 or 4 weeks. It would be great to learn everything necessary in just one week. Trouble is that it is anyone's guess if that is possible for me. I just do not know. Anyway, if I can't learn the basics then everything else is pretty much pointless. Can we discuss this first? Billy ----------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________ From: Centroids <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2018 11:14 AM To: [email protected] Cc: Billy Rojas Subject: Re: Contract document Re: [RC] WTH ??? "blue skies ,blue skies, etc" Hi Billy, Did you not get any of my early replies? I said: - be clear on precisely what kind of website you want to build - focus this contract only on the book, not fixing all of RC I was (and am) expecting a first draft of a document that captures what you want, which we can iterate on. It doesn’t have to be an Official Legal Document, but it needs to be something more than a list of potential ideas. Otherwise we will keep getting stuck in the toxic cycle where we each aren’t clear what the other wants. Can you write up something like that for us to start with, or do you want me to or together a first draft? And is there any way you can now work with Google Docs or exchange Word files, so we can keep track of revisions more easily than just email? — Ernie P. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 6, 2018, at 20:32, Billy Rojas <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Ernie: Hmmmm. My working assumption was that there should be some sort of negotiation or meeting of the minds prior to any kind of legal document. Along the lines of "here are my objectives, 1, 2, 3...n" And: "Do you have any comments or suggestions?" I don't know what is feasible from your perspective, what limits are advisable, and, just as important, "what am I missing or overlooking?" This said, what I had expected was some kind of reply to the effect that I was or was not on the right track as a basis for further discussion prior to writing out something in contract format. Tell you what, if you want to drop the whole thing, fine with me. At this point I have arrived at a place where my feeling is "what's the use?" Something always goes wrong. I have other ideas to develop, just because I may not be sending stuff doesn't mean I'm not busy; the opposite is the case. Billy ________________________________ From: Centroids <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 10:27 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Cc: Billy Rojas; Ernest Prabhakar Subject: Contract document Re: [RC] WTH ??? "blue skies ,blue skies, nuthin' but blue skies from now on" Hi Billy, I sent two (2) e-mails to you on May 18 each under the heading of "Contract Ideas," the second e-mail adding some new stuff. Yes, I saw the ideas. But I thought you were actually going to send me an actual Contract. Like: “I Billy want to create a website exactly like THIS, which I expect will cost $1000 and generate $10000 in revenue of which you Ernie will get 10% for helping bring to reality.” Or whatever numbers you like. But a single concrete document we both would commit to and sign, not just a list of things we -might like- to do. THAT is what I meant by a Contract. Did you mean something else? Were you expecting me to take your ideas and write that contract for you? Or is there some specific question you want me to answer first before you create that official contract? E Sent from my iPhone On Jun 5, 2018, at 18:55, Billy Rojas <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Ernie: I sent two (2) e-mails to you on May 18 each under the heading of "Contract Ideas," the second e-mail adding some new stuff. My "Inbox" shows that you received these e-mails. I believe there was a previous email from a day before that also was headed "Contract Ideas" The 2 emails for the 18th are based on that earlier version. My best guess is that you deleted these emails back on the 18th for reasons of your own. I recall something similar for the Bugle prospectus back a few years ago. I wrote the whole thing up, twenty pages or so, a week of my time, and sent it, and my (at the time) AOL inbox confirmed that the email had been received. My best guess is that you also deleted that one. so that you could say I never sent it. Billy ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Centroids <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Tuesday, June 5, 2018 6:20 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [RC] Re: [ RC ] Reinvention of America viz., "blue skies ,blue skies, nuthin' but blue skies from now on" Hi Billy, In case you want my opinion. Actually, I’m still waiting for your contract... 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