I love the effect Steemit is having, people are sharing their ideas!. I'm a teacher and I can't emphasize how important I think this is. People are shy, they're nervous about putting themselves out there and discussing an idea they've had. But give that same person a reward, even if only a few cents, and they open up. I wish I could pay my students to express themselves more.

But it gets so much better than that, as a lot of us have found out, if you post an idea off the top of your head, twitter style, you're probably not going to get much of a reward. Steemit's reward system encourages us not only to share our ideas, but to put a lot of work into fleshing them out before we post them. A well thought out idea will be much better received, than just the kernel of one . This 'fleshing out' of ideas also leads us to self regulate ourselves, I have had a number of ideas for posts, that after thinking them through, I had managed to disprove the point I thought I was making.

Now whenever I think of something interesting or thought provoking, instead of writing a short tweet, I jot it down on a piece of paper. And when I have time, I reexamine it, and share it on here. In fairness most of the time I find out that what I found interesting or thought provoking is often actually banal and boring. But at least I get a few cents out of a thoughtful yet boring post on steemit rather than the nothing I get on reddit.

Stay thinking, stay posting