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What's this? Twice in one day! What is happening?!!? The cut-back in curation rewards at the start of the year has achieved the desired result. We have reached a sustainable level where (with post promotion) most editions pay out just enough to cover the curation rewards. That means we can reward even more curators and authors, by sometimes printing a second edition.

We are always thrilled to receive submissions from first-time guest curators. If you have previously submitted and were never published, please let us know and we can give you some tips about how to get your submission accepted next time. You can earn up to 5 SBD per accepted submission for guest curating The Daily Sneak. Submission requirements are published at the bottom of each edition of The Daily Sneak.

For this bonus edition, we have a new guest curator, @ghulammujtaba.

My name is Ghulam Mujtaba and I joined Steemit about 7 months ago. Outside Steemit Planet, I work as a Trainer in a Customer Support company. On Steemit, I mostly write about life, programming, and coding stuff. I am working to become a self-made person and free myself from 9-5 job slavery, and have been trying to convince some lovely people around me to do the same and start building their own empire.

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Sombre - Short Story

I have always been a fan of fiction stories, and I clicked this one while going through the fiction tag. While reading the story, I felt like I was watching a thriller movie. Putting a story like this and attracting readers is a great art, and I guess @debbietiyan has done justice with her writing skills!

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Philosophy vs philosophy - on writing (hardcore) philosophy and Steemit

A perfect post by @nobyeni that describes the difference between 'Philosophy for general audience' and 'Hardcore Philosophy' (for philosophers). I don't have any philosophy background but I try hard to go through some posts and understand them... but I was wrong! After reading this post, I realized that not every philosophy related post is for me, and I should look for posts that are written for layman. After reading her post, I immediately followed her and will make sure to get in touch with her writings for general audience.

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Roles are just mental constructs

Some truths that everybody should know! We certainly have created a lot of illusions in our mind, other than mentioned in this post, and should realize that these aren't based on reality! What I like about this post is that @theprism pointed out some very common things that we normally ignore in our daily life, but continue to perceive in a wrong way!

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Conclusion

Thought-provoking, or what! @ghulammujtaba has really risen to the challenge and showed us some great selections and commentary. After you check out these great articles (and finish massaging your brain...) let us know what you think! For submitting these quality selections and commentary, @ghulammujtaba has earned 3 SBD.

That's worth almost $24 USD!!!

Each of these highlighted articles receives full upvotes and resteems from @sneakyninja. As an added bonus, @sneakyninja sponsors featured writers for Steem Basic Income!

Submission Requirements

1. You can choose from 2 to 5 articles for your entry. Submissions with only one selected article will be ignored.
2. All articles chosen for curation need to have been published within the last 5 days before your entry. It may take time for me to publish your curation, and curated articles need to be within the reward window when your submission is published.
3. You cannot submit your own post for curation. Selections from nsfw will not be accepted.
4. Selected posts should have less than $50 in total rewards and have not previously been curated by The Daily Sneak.
5. We try to spread the love around, so while selections from authors that have been highlighted before are welcome, they might not be included if the author's last inclusion was recent. Similarly, if you include two articles from the same author in one submission, we will typically highlight only one of the two.
6. Be sure to include your personal bio for me to introduce you to readers, and make sure that each selection has commentary. This can be just a few sentences about why you think the selection is worth our attention, or what is great about it - something that will make people want to click through the headline and check out the actual article. English is preferred, but other languages will be considered as long as English translation is included.
7. Please use this web form to submit your entry. https://goo.gl/forms/VH2MGIMEgqZmd9ef1
8. Including image links to the source article is not required (and we prefer to leave some mystery if photography is highlighted and the article has only one photo.) However, we like to include images in The Daily Sneak, and not including any image links may decrease the likelihood of your submissions being published.

If you include more than 2 articles in your submission and not all are approved for publication, your submission may still be published into an edition of The Daily Sneak, as long as at least 2 articles are approved. This could happen for several different reasons. If you are unsure why an article was cut, please review the submission guidelines again. If you are still unsure, feel free to ask politely why it was cut.

Submission Reward

A brief biography of each guest curator will be included in the edition that uses their submission. In addition, each guest curator will receive 1 SBD for each article from their submission that is highlighted in The Daily Sneak. That's up to 5 SBD for each accepted submission!

Right now @sneakyninja's upvote is not worth as much as we are paying for guest curation. Why do we pay so much for guest curation? We believe that quality curation is very important to Steem. Paying our curators well encourages them to spend more time reviewing content and picking out the best pieces. We really regret that we have had to cut curation rewards again. We are trying to return to sustainability to reward more curators and authors!

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