RE: Four Years in the Hive, and Counting... Are We Having Fun, Yet?
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Happy Anniversary!
Do you ever return to some of your work back 23 years ago and marvel at how far you have come, or are dismayed at how little you've changed? :)
It is funny how far the world has degraded in the last 4 years and how the need for Hive is gathering momentum. I really hope that whole communities start making the shift over and there will be a turnkey solution for them once they arrive.
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Yeah, sometimes I look at the early stuff and scratch my head and wonder "who WAS that guy?" In a piece of weird irony, I can now see what a particulr high school English teacher was driving as when she characterized my writing as "wooden and pedantic." I suppose what I have learned is that there's a big difference between knowing how to write and knowing how to EXPRESS yourself.
Yes, the world needs Hive. In the earliest days, I couldn't shake the slight feeling that
Steemwas a bit like a solution looking for a problem. Whether by chance or by sheer predictive genius, it seems that over the past four years that "problem" has really shown itself... and we have the solution. And that's really pretty damn cool!This stuff takes time, and patience — both commodities that seem in short supply in the world of crypto/blockchain where everyone wants to see Lambo riches by next week. As @taskmaster4450 so often points out, it took the category killers of today (Amazon, Facebook, etc) more than a decade to build serious momentum. We're still in very early days and I remain hopeful that we'll just steadily grow.
It'll be very interesting to see what our tenth anniversary posts look like.
Write on!
I wonder how much of this has to do with your background? I find that Finns tend to have this issue, even though their language skills can be very, very high. I also think Scandinavians are less expressive in general.
I reckon it is by design, it is just that Ned didn't understand the design, otherwise he would have done more. The signs have been there for years and thankfully, we have even been talking about them on Hive since the start - so it isn't like people here didn't have a chance to take part.
I'd say that my background has gotten to be pretty much "global mutt" over the years; I was born and (mostly) raised in Denmark, lived in France for part of my childhood; live in Spain as a teenager, went to boarding school in the UK for three years; lived in Spain again ages 18-20... then college in the US.
Culturally, though, I'd agree that how Scandinavians express themselves is different in the sense that understatement and humility were valued extremely highly when I was a kid. Bragging and "thinking you were anything special" was strongly frowned upon.
Ned pretty much just understood how to have good hair, and how to skate below the radar. I think we are in a really good position... and thanks to communities like LeoFinance and 3Speak and Splinterlands people are now starting to NOTICE.