The following may be considered a prototype for Terms of Service on this website.
In general, I endorse or promote the following uses of this website:
If you are using this website, you are doing so in good faith to the common good of the public, and to all relevant parties, namely, me (Bree), and you, (site visitor). Also, that cat jumping up to your monitor right there.
Learning: If it’s in text, it isn’t AI-slop. It’s a vestige of what we used to call “conscious thought” where the words you are reading were consciously thought by me (or perhaps, a member of my team).
I believe many users of my site will largely leave confused or un-intrigued, but some smaller proportion may actually be reading my careful words, and listening to me. This is actually a major challenge of communication: how do you truly connect into the minds and hearts of others, particularly when you know the message is important?
I feel Big Business asks this same question solely for the end-goal of profit. That corrupts what could be opportunity for something else: knowledge. This is because I feel knowledge is a shared, persisting form of non-monetary profit (or, value). So where I can, I inject speckles of factoids into what I type, make, create, etc. Where I have time, I try my best to teach and advocate for high-quality public education for all.
Business: Yes, I believe in the basic principles of cash flow and market exchange. Projects must be funded from somewhere, arguments for a budget must be presented with sound cost and planning. These things matter because a real plan must be a real sustainable plan. And I know this from personal experience because I was raised low-income, where numbers sting in the form of hunger.
It is that same personal experience that guides my principle of investing business resources, particularly through philanthropic projects and progressive companies, back into the public both as a form of gratitude for its base and as a means to show what socially-beneficial business practice looks like.
We all have ideas, and we all have causes we are fighting for every day. If you and I have a shared cause, we should talk to exchange ideas. When our ideas complement one another and begin to form into a renewed plan, that’s what I call collaboration. It is a beautiful process, and I say give it a try.
Communication: As of right now, this site is what I like to call an open portfolio of sorts, but it’s also a direct line of communication to and from me. And believe it or not, cheaper than buying a kit of business cards, but with more space for words and more processing power than bleached pulp.
To me: I am likely to use this site as “scenic route” to my Contact Me, making it an entertaining opportunity to impress a few fun spirits along the way.
From me: I will provide news, updates, and other up-to-date information on occasion.
Some other global rules or definitions:
If you’re looking at an outdated listing and the price has reduced, I will match down to my lowest listed offer, to ensure fairness. This also applies if the price dropped on a listing of mine on a third-party site. This helps me do my best to honor that I changed it somewhere else, and you’re not paying more because I forgot to update an old listing somewhere else.
This only applies to listings of my own, and cannot be applied to a competitor’s price.
This does not apply if the listed price on any of my own listings shows lower solely due to site error.