Hello *,
I started on Steem/Hive in February 2018. I also created an "Introduceyourself" post, but it was on Dtube and the video is gone now. So, a little bit late, but here is my "introduceyourself" post:
Three words and an infinite number of answers. The "am" refers to now, but the now is constantly changing and from situation to situation I am another.
The "I" refers to my body, my experiences, my attitudes.
Whoever wants to know who I am, what makes me me, must personally spend a lot of time with me. I can only speak of myself in terms of qualities:
I have been working at Deutsche Telekom since 1998. I started as a Lotus Notes administrator, then worked as an admin for our "Corporate Identity And Account Management System" (CIAM). Later, I led the team as operations coordinator. We rebuilt, as much as possible, into an agile team and I became its product owner.
In 2021 I attended a Developer Academy for 6 months and now I am a Software Engineer.
My Trainings:
(Taken from my LinkeIn Profile)
I have a few hobbies that fit very well with my professional interests:
I read data from an API interface on the Hive blockchain via bash scripts that I run daily using crontab. These are stored in my Elasticsearch database, which runs inside a Docker container on my Raspberry Pi. Kibana turns them into graphics, which I store locally as images using Selenide JavaScript. Another JavaScript pumps these images via API to backblaze.com and I get back the URLs of each. I paste these, as well as tables from Elasticsearch, into report templates and upload them to the Hive blockchain, where I receive a small reward for doing so. You can see the results here: https://peakd.com/@achimmertens?filter=stats
Posts that are about helping people, I (or other curators) mark with a "!CHARY" in the replies. An SQL query running in my JavaScript searches the blockchain for these tagged posts. This gives me a table that sorts the authors and their articles according to certain criteria. Rank 1-3 receive a small contribution of donations from a pot. The results are summarized in a report: @anobel
I spend a lot of time with my family and friends. We play board games, go hiking or just chat.
My wife and I have bought a vacation home in Einruhr/Eifel and spend a few days off there.
Of course, a lot of time goes into keeping our actual house and garden in order. Our house is CO2 neutral and besides solar thermal and photovoltaic, we heat our water-bearing stove with wood in winter. This must be prepared for it. By good luck, I could acquire a small forest in our area a few years ago. There I cut 1-2 trees per year and process them into firewood.
I currently live in a world that gives me a lot of freedom. I have no essential worries. I am aware of how fragile that is. The basis for this is that, in addition to health, peace and prosperity, we also have an intact nature. This is visibly and increasingly threatened. I know about my resource consumption and try to keep it low. Through my work at Deutsche Telekom, I can contribute my share to prosperity. In my view, the relationship between taking and giving must be such, that in the end society benefits from my presence and not vice versa.
Sugar is delicious. It directly triggers feelings of happiness (dopamine) . The trick is, since these kicks are available everywhere, not to access them permanently. This is also true for other "happiness boosters" such as TicToc videos or "cheap wisdom" (fake news).
Brown bread and vegetables have many ballast substances (fiber). These provide utilization of the intestinal flora, better digestion and serotonin output, a hormone that makes satisfaction.
The wise man invests not only in his digestion but also in his spiritual and other consumption. Scientific information may be a little harder to digest, but it brings more happiness in the long run.
The difference between faith and knowledge can be deadly. A group of refugees in a war zone has a higher chance of survival if they not only believe, but know where the enemy is.
In our daily lives, we are heavily influenced by the media, all of which claim to tell "the truth. But even if "the truth" is true, it always refers to only one aspect.
We live in a very complex world. There are many truths, some of them seemingly contradictory.
Knowledge means it is verifiable. Again and again. Our civilization is built on scientific and engineering knowledge.
I have a problem with people who sweep that away and point to social media news that offers a simple but false explanation.
Our minds are full of fallacies. We should be more careful about bragging about our "knowledge" and admit more often that we are only believing something here.
There is a lot wrong in this world. It hurts me to watch and do nothing about it.
But I also had to learn painfully that sometimes it's just the way it is and that in my small position I can't change it. Then getting angry doesn't help either.
I divide my sphere of influence into 3 categories and corresponding allowed emotions:
Anyone who has read this far might think that I am left-green (filthy). But I don't want to commit myself to any party. The Greens do a lot wrong, which I do not support. But other parties are often no better.
Capitalism has many disadvantages (externalization, colonization, abuse of power,...) but also many advantages (rewarding the industrious, prosperity,...).
I am a friend of democracy and I want the conditions for it to be preserved. For this, I also go to demonstrate (without violence).
Our human-made Climate change is our greatest threat.
I have a lot of interests and am always "busy". This makes me an "allrounder" with more "horizontal" in the "T-Shape".
I get along well with most people as long as they are authentic and not too self-centered.
More details about me: Greensniper
Regards, Achim
