It's been a while Steemit! I wish I could say I had good reason for taking a break. I was busy with life, got accepted to grad school so I've been prepping for that. Had some shake-ups at work. Lots of

Here are my three entries for the quest: Task 1 - How We Can Change Voting Behavior to get Better Content on Steem? Task 2 - Being Your Own Brand on the Blockchain Task 3 - Why I'm Interested in Joining

When I saw @anomadsoul post a psychology, philosophy, or sociology challenge all I could think was sweet, my favorite things to write about! Blogging has always been something I've thought about doing

The latest paradigm in the current economy is you are now your own entity and brand. For better or worse, at will employment, the gig economy, and social media means what ever you think your job is forget

It seems like everyone on Steem is talking about voting behavior these days. Whale circle jerks, bidbots, the trending page, everyone is trying to figure out how to actually distributing the rewards pool

Well I sort of disappeared from Steem for a minute. No real reason, just was busy the last week and a half or so and haven't been in the post writing mood. I actually thought about the idea for this blog

About a month and a half ago a friend gave me an Antminer S3 that someone else had given him. I'm not sure if this was a gift so much as a dump. The miner did not have a power supply and after running

5 years from now when we log in to Steemit, what will we see? Will it be a flourishing social media site with vibrant communities sharing knowledge? Will it be flooded with corporate money as a new engament

So fun fact about me, back in college I spent about a year and half with poker as my only source of income. It helped that I was living with my parents still so I didn't have to make that much for it to

So today was a reminder that yes, you do need to take care of yourself or good luck performing at your best. I guess that's part of my reminder that I'm 30 now. Today's gym time was... not good. I should

So I'm going to be writing a lot on how handle living in the disinformation age, but there is a key concept that I have been developing that is going to form the basis for a lot of my future arguments

This is Sneakers: Sneakers has feline diabetes. Feline diabetes is very similar to the disease in Humans. There is Type 1 Diabetes where the body fails to produce enough insulin, and there is Type 2 Diabetes

This weeks Meme Challenge has a lot of potential!

So, a quick follow up to yesterday's post in defense of government, Mueller has indicted 13 Russian nationals for attempting to influence the 2016 presidential election. Now really only the most willfully

Government seems to be a dirty word here in Cryptoland. Damn Government, if only if would let me do whatever I wanted and not tax me to death I would be a titan of industry! I'm going to tell you something

Hey there, I'm Joe. I found Steem when I was doing some research into uses for blockchain tech and said, "You know what would be awesome? A social media site that actually rewarded people for the

So I guess it's time to check in on my goals from the start of the year. So far it's looking pretty good, I've kept up with my progression on Squats and Bench. I've healed up enough to start doing Pendlay

Well, this is my last Valentine's day as a bachelor. By this time next year I'll be married to my favorite person in the whole world. The word soulmate gets tossed around a lot around marriages. Not to

Well, first time to Denver and first time crashing one of my fiance’s work trips in the books. Can’t believe it took me this long to do it. It was great to be able to explore a new city, help use up her

Working on a much longer write-up of my recent trip to Chicago, but I haven't even posted about my trip before that yet. It's been a busy but fantastic two weeks for me. This post will be more of a highlights