Why did I come back? Well, if I'm being honest, I came back here because I wanted to review some of my old posts ... but I'm glad I did because it's great to see that there is still a vibrant community here with both old and new faces. Hive, as the true successor to Steem, is very meaningful to me.
I still look back on my time as a member of the Steem/Steemit community (certainly NOT my time working at Steemit) as the best time of my life. There was nothing like that feeling of connection with so many like-minded people all over the world.
I think I will probably spend the rest of my life trying to replicate that feeling, but I have also accepted that it probably won't happen. Being early to Steemit was like catching lighting in a bottle, and it's hard to imagine that happening twice.
That being said, I am starting something new and different that I hope can replicate that feeling to some degree, not just for me but for others as well. I just wrote about this in my newsletter which you can find here.
Basically, I am picking back up work I started on here (well steemit.com) 9 years ago! Back then I was calling it "Crowdism" and thought of it more as a personal philosophy, but lately I've come to think of it as some kind of "theory of everything."
You can read that post here or watch the batshit video I created along with it here:
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Just bear in mind that there is a lot of information in that video that is probably no longer accurate. I more just shared it as a kind of proof of history.
Over the past year I've been able to get the theory into much better shape, and now my plan is to continuing building it out in public. If this sounds interesting to you, then follow me here, on substack, or X.
For those of you on Hive who don't know who I am, I started as a content creator on Hive, became Steemit's community manager, worked my way up (that's a nice way of saying "every time shit hit the fan I somehow got promoted) to Head of Marketing and Communications, then resigned with the engineering team after the Justin Sun takeover, started a new blockchain company that built the first free-to-use general purpose blockchain, ran that for 4 years, and then left that to focus on my family for a bit.
If you have any questions for me about running a blockchain/crypto company, or anything else, feel free to ask in the comments!
