I was pretty challenged by the idea myself, which is why it's stuck with me for a week while I crunched on ideas, but I came to some conclusions.

Not necessarily useful conclusions, but I at least put together a kind of shadow potential experiment of what such a thing might and should look like.

I don't know. It's cued to be posted at noon on Saturday in whatever time zone Steempeak is, so we shall see.

Ultimately, you want people to take your courses because they want to learn, but you also have to give them a reason to want to learn that. In particular, when it comes to the steem blockchain/Steemit Inc./STEEM, that is a really huge learning curve to take on for a lot of very airy, potentially valuable results, and that potential is very hard to acquire, hard to achieve, and just hard to do. I've always felt that the best way to get people interested in doing that sort of thing is to tell them what the costs are. Let them know what the real problems are, let them know that you don't have all the solutions but you have at least the tools to share with them that they can come up with answers themselves and share back with everyone else. Having set the expectation that there will be effort and not necessarily success but incremental movement, anything better than that as a result makes people into really strong advocates for your work because their expectation has been exceeded. If, for the multitude of reasons we already know exist, they don't have crazy, outrageous success – at least their expectations have been set appropriately and they're not disappointed, they're either dissuaded which is not your fault or interested in continuing the work, for which you have already primed them to think of you in positive terms, advice may be interested in more training.

One day I'll figure out a way to make myself at least look like a crypto-cultist, but for now I'll settle for being the voice of reason and respect for the consumer. Somebody's got to do it, it might as well be me.