Introduction: Open Up to the World!!!
Hello all,
My name is Daniel Stover, and I am chronically ignorant of that sweet spot between culture and technology.
The First Step
I still remember when I realized I had a problem. I was in my early thirties. I had no mobile phone. That was approximately 5 years beyond the point where every living soul I knew did have one, even mom and dad. I reveled in this. It felt like I had a special knowledge. I felt like the only member of THE religion that had REALLY figured it all out.
Then, I moved to France. My hosts insisted that a mobile phone was absolutely, completely necessary in about every way. On a list of priorities, it would be at most just slightly behind having a kitchen sink, and they were right. They were right.
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Clermont-Ferrand, France: You may know it as the birthplace of Michelin. I know it as where lies the lair of Saruman-of-Many-Colors.
In that moment, my special status in my one-man religion fell in on itself. In that moment, I had become that kid on a hot, summer day who has just dropped 2-scoops of fresh, dreamy ice cream on the sizzling pavement. Pouting wistfully as that dazzling creation became nothing more than a swimming pool for ants...
I am still the guy that will download a new app precisely when somebody important to me unequivocally demands that I do so in order to have communication rights. So you will forgive me that I only recently figured out how much of a thing Youtube channels are…
Converted in the Light of Youtube
And I loved it… These Youtubers were people that could have been my colleagues or someone I would meet at a café! Then, I found out about Patreon, and I loved it, too. We could directly fund the creators! My curiosity about how we can support our much admired, independent content creators eventually brought me to Steemit.
I am here to to support others. I am looking for creators that are putting out good content on crypto-currencies, on contrarian but rational analyses of politics and culture, on tech trends, or that just make me laugh. I hope to help build my favorite creator’s mini-communities by contributing to a vibrant comment section. Finally, I have a project I want to share here.
And that is how I hope to develop myself...
I want to improve my writing skills, and my inner nerd is feeling neglected. The project is to document a personal experiment: “100 Days to Cybersecurity Literacy.” I am hoping it will be useful to someone wanting to go from close to zero knowledge to having a sense of cybersecurity macro issues and some specific technical knowledge. Here is Day Zero, where I explain helpful pre-requisites and the directions of the experiment. Please come with me on this journey!
A Journey of 10-Meters Starts with Getting Out of the Chair
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"Hey! My webcam does stuff other than make Skype work!"
I have been a disaffected punk rock kid, a hippy spiritual seeker, a mathematics student, a bartender, an educator, an expatriate… I reserve the right to return to any of these roles as desire and circumstance suggest. I am currently in the middle of a career change. I may write about some aspects of these parts of my life whenever I think there might be something of interest to others.
I wish you all the best!!! Thanks!
😁Hello welcome to Steemit!!
Welcome on steemit, @stover.daniel!
I was also somewhat resistive of smartphones. And I still don't really see the need to get a new one every other year - at least for those insane high prices! Sometimes it's good to put the phone away for a while anyways :D.
Cheers!
I know, right?
I feel like I am catching up though. A couple of months ago I had my first Whatsapp conversation. Thanks for the reply!
Oh man - it goes fast. Once you have that thing, you don't wanna give it away. I also noticed this with my parents. They are so active on whatsapp now - and it's not even the "kids" playing with their phones at the dinner table ;)
Welcome to the community! Glad to meet you!
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Welcome to steemit, @stover.daniel
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Welcome to Steemit!
I have to confess that I am somewhat of a Luddite, in many ways. I was the last person on the block to have a DVD player, the last person to have a cell phone and I only just went from an old-fashioned Nokia flip phone to a smartphone last month.
Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy the community-- it really is a remarkable "social experiment" in its own right-- truly global and very supportive. It does take a little time and effort to get established and build a following... but have patience, it's worth the effort!
Thanks!
I expect to be commenting on your posts in the future. They have the tone that provokes thought for me. For example, your "willful ignorance" post definitely struck a chord.
Many have commented that there has ALWAYS been a strong anti-intellectuel tendency in the States. But is this growing throughout the world? A scary thought if so.
Daniel, omg. I seriously crack up at your intro. I may end up curating it for content. You may be a good guinea pig for me to use on first impression video for work I do. I can only imagine your response. I still can't figure out why my votes count as .00 and how to fix it! I'm going to make sure my Steembud @the-ego-is-you reads your intro. I think he'll get a kick out of it.
Thanks! I will go check out his page, too.
Bienvenu sur Steemit!!
Welcome on Steemit I am new also approaching one week on here and loving the sense of community
Welcome to Steemit!
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