I'm Almost Famous! Introducing a Knowmad!

My name is Pia. I live right here right now. This is my first introduction, I’ve been posting since March and I would encourage you to look at my blog & decide if it’s a follow for for you rather than asking. Also, I love you.

Holy steem.it! What?! I AM SO EXCITED TO BE A PART OF THIS COMMUNITY! All I’ve wanted was to do anything to be compensated in cryptocurrency. As Yogi Bhajan says, “I don’t believe in miracles, I expect them!” steem.it is simply a dream come true!

I’m an untechnical cryptography enthusiast with no background in computer science. Two years ago, when I became obsessed with blockchain’s potential, particularly smart contracts, self sovereign identities, and the ramifications for a truly peer to peer platform economy, I was honestly losing sleep lying awake and smiling. Seriously, I would wake tired and with my smile muscles fatigued, having contemplated the growing nearness to truly revolutionary applications. I’ve read about STEEM a few times this year in my insatiable study and research.

A serial entrepreneur, essentially I am an artist and creative problem solver. I’ve been eager to join the cryptography space but at a loss as to how I can join the mission without a highly technical background. Just navigating STEEM has been a case in point of my juvenility; trying to understand whales and steem power, reputation scores and how it all really works. This year I planned to devote myself to MOOCs and gaining a working knowledge of as much coding language and computer science technical skills as possible. Instead I went on a remote eclipse viewing journey, mountaineering in Northern Japan, and mushroom foraging in California’s Central Coast.

Always prodded to become a travel blogger and journal about my exceptional adventures I’ve never felt keen to abandon presence and apply effort to narrate my experiences until I found STEEM. So already STEEM is inspiring me to do something I’ve talked about doing for years!

I’m an international girl of mystery. (It’s OK, I don’t know what that means either.) Basically my version of adulting has never changed or matured into accepted normalcy. I frequently use Susan Sontag’s quote, “I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list” and “Docomo Itzimo!,” “everywhere all the time” is my favorite Japanese phrase. My smile has taken me to amazing places, where I’ve been embraced by a family my biology didn’t provide! I am definitively a happy and grateful person which is easy because I’M THE LUCKIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD! Just a hyper-present lover of life, loving and living in gratitude wherever I find myself.

Proof of my good fortunes and smiles for miles is manifest in my most current adventure on a sailboat. An Ethereum idealist and true HODLer believer, I hesitantly cashed in my last coins to get here and genuinely expect this medium to allow me to continue living my best life! Exemplary of taking a spontaneous chance and seizing opportunity, I find myself on a luxury “cruise” through the Caribbean. I’m on a boat with a beach bum Vagabond Captain, who generously invited me to explore the turquoise seas having never been on a boat before. Generally in excellent health and spirits, I don’t know if I’ve ever been so happy and SO TAN simultaneously.

I’ve a handful of important projects I was ready to devote myself to and was simply seeking a room with a view and wifi to focus on the work, but my current situation is more charmed than I could have dreamed up. After day 4 of island and boat life, I literally lost all worldly ambition and forgot what I was so eager about. My posts will be a mixture of blogging the stories that got me here, posting brief photo essays and learning to vlog the memories I’m making each day. I appreciate your follow and up votes and ask for your patience that my lifestyle is intentionally without constant WiFi; which is how I’m able to explore the places I’d like to share. Unless otherwise noted and credited, all photos are mine and original, and taken on an iPhone 6.

An artist and curator, criticism is on of my favorite sports. That said, in honesty I’ve had difficulty really diving into this platform because frankly it’s just not good looking and the search and categories are a mess. The UX and UI need work which I know is why we true believers are here and eager to organically grow together! There is a lot of just plain bad, ugly, and unoriginal posts trending or new and it’s hard to sift through to find content creators to support, especially in parallel to the “instagame” in hash-tagged eye candy and Medium in days lost of truly worthy reading. I hope I can make some genuine friends and helpful contacts here, not just shallow follow for followers with trite and obligatory comments; I truly want to help grow and improve this platform, the best I can contribute for now is content!

I have serious wanderlust but I’m also on an “Escape from America!” mission. Strange times in the States and I think decline and collapse is real, imminent. I like the term “home free” to describe a rootlessness more glamorous than “home less” because ultimately I am “home full” in that I am an intimate outsider comfortably invited into an abundance of homes. It’s humorously fitting that I am temporarily happily at home on a boat named Vagabond.

Intoxicated with thoughts on the future of the human project, I will soon post on that theme as well. I used to begrudge being born in to a generation where all the first climbs and other adventure and exploration had already been done, with environmental degradation left in its wake, but now I’ve come to realize we live in the most exciting of times because we literally are faced with wether humanity will continue. I’m not a technological fatalist, I’m a systems thinker and pragmatic realist, and although always an optimist and shiny happy person, I am working myself through a grieving/celebration process which includes the end of the world.

So I have a lot to talk about and share with you beautiful Steemians! I intend this platform to inspire me to make vlogs, but in radical honesty (say YES! to Radical Honesty!) I need to overcome loathing my image on film and video first. Again, my greatest inhibition to fully participating in this platform and it’s congruent platforms of dtube and discord is that I am not, by design in lifestyle, constantly in WiFi, but when I return to a good connection I promise I will share what I have gained in my absence! So I ask you for patience and acceptance in my inability to hyper regularly post but I will strive to deliver content worth waiting for!

I really cannot express how grateful I already am just to have an appropriate and fortunate avenue for creating content. I sincerely love and appreciate all of you Steemers and thank you for being here! I genuinely am ELATED to try to capture my charmed but real life and take you all with me on my travels!

Also, on the instagame @knowmad.life and the twittervers @iconoclassism