I am ridiculously humbled!!!! Aggroed- Witness 18!
This is easily one of the most meaningful days of my life. It's up there with earning my PhD, my wedding, and the birth of my kids. I'm incredibly touched by the support I've gotten from the whales, dolphins, and minnows that put me here. I have over 900 votes now, and it's growing daily. Today, for the first time I hit the top 20 witness list.
I've run for public office before. I received 6,000 votes in my race. I lost, but I learned a ton doing it. I really love public service, but I couldn't be happier or more excited to do it for Steemit. This place presents unparalleled opportunity to change the world around us.
Steemit teaches peace on a daily basis.
Steemit creates abundance at a click.
Steemit promotes free trade and free speech with every transaction and post on the block.
This place is incredible, and I'm so happy to have found a digital home here.
I'm the founder and general manager of the Minnow Support Project. My mission since day one as a Witness has been to promote Peace, Abundance, and Liberty. It's a learning process, but I try to execute to the best of my ability on that mission every day. I want to see this place grow. So, through my professional career on college campuses I'll pitch journalism and communication professors to share the gospel of the Steemit blockchain with the next generation of college educated youth. I want to help grow and maintain minnows on the block. So, I'll continue to support MSP and the community members to form deep connections, encourage posts that spread our values, and quicken the journey from minnowhood to whalehood.
I'm so grateful for the support, and am excited to use this position to continue growing the Minnow Support Community with new bots, new curation teams, new training teams, and our own Radio Station (mspwaves.com). I'm looking forward to continuing to foster relationships with the other witnesses to find overlap in our missions.
I'm deeply indebted to the Minnow Support community as a whole and especially the Witnesses and moderators that help keep the lights on and the wheels spinning.
Witnesses
Jr. Witness and Honorary Witness
Moderators
Medal of Honors Winners
MSP Delegators
This project wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the generosity of so many community members who share this vision and mission. Thank you for the support we have. It's amazing to see nearly 400 people delegate their steem power to this project and it's remarkable to have extremely generous supporters like @benjojo, @justtryme90, @neoxian, @eturnerex, @timcliff, and @v4vapid.
A great mentor
I've been extremely fortunate to get some invaluable mentorship from @timcliff. I'm extremely grateful for his counsel and know I wouldn't be half as far along without his guidance. Thank you sir!
We do our best work collectively and collaboratively
We all go to the same moon, and I'll do my best to help steer us there.
I'm incredibly grateful, truly humbled, and ready to continue serving this community.
Thank you and many blessings of peace, abundance, and liberty to you and yours.
Aggroed
Whale Witness Voters
Congrats to you,
and thank you for your support thus far as well. I believe I voted for you; but I can't prove it..
I don't understand bots very well. I approach this more from a client / user perspective; social and user interaction, experience. But I'm an avid crypto guy too. UI engineer, 20+ years on web/ javascript.
Any guidance in the future, I would appreciate, and I will start to read your blog more often now; I hope you will do the same; I could use some direction at this point. Cheers!
My direction is simple. Help other people. It's easy to do on the platform and it pays dividends with friends, connections, and community.
Congrats for reaching that aim! :)
Thanks jaki! Thanks for your support on my Witness!
Congrats @aggroed! I can't imagine how awesome it must feel!
Thank you for all the hard work you're putting into Steem.
Thanks teamsteem! It's been fun working with you up to this point, and I'm looking forward to a long future of collaboration!
Thank you for everything you've done for this platform! I am excited to be following you :).
i don't know you had a phd, all i knew about you was your incredible ability to share complicated information in a wise compassionate way, that won my vote! plus you have a lovely wife and kids, it's all about family <3
Yeah. I was a high school teacher and professor for just shy of a decade. Always teaching what I've learned. Thanks for your support! You're awesome and it's great to see you active in the community.
I have my little art niche and help minnows communicate in a proactive way through interaction on my comment threads. I figure if we all did this steemit would become a portal to a positive future. I delegated some of my SP to help the creative community at large with you because of your awesome ability to touch many. I don't have the talent or energy to do that. Together with the help of your bots this will form a very positive online community!
Do what you do best and trade for the rest. I never have enough time to curate. That's why I'm happy that some of the mods have chosen curation projects for their community service project.
I agree!
For those curious about my own delegation I put over a third of my stake into msp-lovebot to support the moderators that run the channel.
Yep, we minnows aprecciate that a lot! thanks!
Ditto... One of my favorite scenes in movies...
Robin Williams was one of our Best...
Thank You SCG... Hope You're having a Good Weekend...
Cheers !!
:)
One of my favs. Thanks!
@aggroed, leaders have followers but great leaders create and lead leaders... With one look at your roster of outstanding leaders, no doubt Steem is going to be written up in history books as an experiment that changed the world! 🤣 Just added my witness vote for you. Thanks for everything you do!!!
You get a follow for that. Thanks Karen. Here's to that vision!
OMG! Now, I'm humbled. I always thought you were like Oz... the mysterious man behind the curtain. Had no idea you were such a nice guy. LOL. Thank you for the follow. :)
Thank you for sharing here so that I get things I do not know about the witness now I know to be, thank you banya for you I hope you can always make a useful post for us, congratulations to you for the achievement that you can on this post
Wow @agrroed your getting strong everyday, and I like how you describe steemit from a simple thought to a very meaningful words, i just doing such thing like this kind of platform about 2 months and during that durations i've learned alot of things about how life begin to just a piece of work and become an incredible artwork. Hope that i could reach the same as you do or as you have right now sir. Thank you for this inspiration message to us sir.