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RE: How Do You Expect To Win By Acting Like A Loser?
I can appreciate the guy's energy, but the pushups thing was always kind of annoying to me. He's a retweet machine on Twitter, so I muted him.
He fits the wannabe influencer archetype. He wants so bad to be relevant and have a rabid following who do his bidding. If STEEM had a blue checkmark he'd already have applied for it. It would not shock me if he has applied for one on Twitter.
Just maybe this platform is too libertarian for that. Threatening to fall on a sword if you don't get your way? That's just pathetic. I bid you adieu sir.
I followed him for a time as well, but far too many resteems indeed. Not a bad guy. But I really do think that could have been handled differently. I mean, I can try to give him some help, by promoting it and being honest, but look at the video I have send people to. That's his big promotion. I don't mind helping. Hopefully he can bounce back from this. But if the plan is to leave, just go.
All else being equal, I'm thinking if STEEM were $1, the video would have never been made. Buying or earning something that drops in value can weigh on you, and cause you to make desperation moves like this out of a sense of urgency over price. The problem is, thought leaders who you actually want to appeal to promulgate the message are going to be put off, while the 'please don't go' crowd are already firmly in your camp to coddle you. You are not winning new converts, quite the opposite. This is a huge tactical blunder.
Money drives people nuts. This platform tests people. I've watched a lot of people crack. I'm no different. Some days I want to pick this world up and drop it on your head. I've had my moments but when I feel it getting worse than that, I go take some me time and calm down. As short as my fuse is, some days I'm surprised I can stay so calm. I learn from these strong minds I like to surround myself with. Some day everyone who was meant to crack will crack and we'll be left with one hell of a solid foundation.
I take solace in the fact that regardless of price, I look around and see really smart people building really cool stuff for this ecosystem. If that continues to be the case, the token price will eventually catch up. Personalities will come and go for various reasons, and that's fine. I suspect that when price recovers, many that have gone will miraculously come running back.
This has been a fun outlet for me and is a unique form of mining cryptocurrency, but it's still a speculative endeavor. If it ceases to exist, my story will continue on, as I have not gone all-in on STEEM.
Going all-in on anything but your own human capital is bad. I recall reading about a Chinese man who committed suicide after taking 100X leverage short on Bitcoin while it shot up in price. I suspect the ones who crack the most either have too much identity or too much money tied to this speculative endeavor.
Let's be realistic, there's still plenty of room for this experiment to fail. For now I'm accumulating some cheap STEEM because the risk/reward looks good to me. I'm powering it up which means I'm prepared to lose the majority of that investment should it not work out. My philosophy in most things is to always have one foot firmly planted outside the door.
This gave me an opportunity to have a reason to produce hundreds of digital images. I have the much higher quality files stored away, for printing purposes. Out of all that work, there's at least one for everyone's taste. I can still sell that, multiple times.
I wrote enough creative writing to fill a couple of books. I can still sell that, multiple times.
Average digital artist hourly wage where I live is about $30 per hour. I could get more. There's a lot here to prove myself.
My world never ends.
I feel the same way. I have about 80k photos in Lightroom from my travels and experiences, and this has given me the opportunity to actually curate them and learn about my subjects. I always figured I'd be doing this after I retire.