I'm sure I don't fit the typical Hive user profile in the sense that I came here having already invested 18 years in blogging on various venues (since 1998-ish) and "Hive 1.0" basically represented

Greed has caused a lot of damage in this world... often in the name of "free enterprise."

Definitely a worthy lesson because you truly can't expect anything to turn out as expected or promised!

Thank you!

Thank you! In the end it wasn't great, but Sunday somewhat helped rescue the event for us!

People definitely do change... but what is the cause of that change? Do they change because change is simply inevitable as we acquire more information or experience... or is change forced on them by such

Perhaps it's best summed up in the thought that it's not so much that people expect to do less to get what they want, but the infamous "they" have moved the goal posts to where it becomes much

True, anger definitely can be very destructive.

And yet that term is so widely accepted and used incorrectly to put pressure on people.

There's no doubt that ADHD is a "real" diagnosis... but I also think a lot of people reach for "diagnosis labels" in place of engaging in any kind of serious self-inquiry to get to

Thank you.

I'd say that's a pretty accurate assessment of the situation... I think the whole COVID situation gave a lot of people time enough to "sit with themselves" in ways they'd never had to before...

Very cool, and thanks for sharing this very thorough illustrated guide! We don't have a lot of oaks around here, but I do remember a couple of our First Nations friends gathering huge volumes of acorns

Wow Jacob, thanks for the shoutout! That's really awesome of you to do this — appreciate it!

There was a somewhat famous study done at one of the Ivy League universities, concerning money and happiness. They followed a group of people for more than a decade... and it was determined that beyond

Indeed. You don't hear a lot of people on their death bed wishing they had made more money... they invariably talk about the people in their lives, and the experiences they had.

My Twitter account dates to about the same time as yours, but I never really got much traction there, and the whole short content format never really held my attention, so Twitter clones are also of little

Whether Gensler is out yet I don't know, but I'm pretty sure his days are numbered, given the new Administration.

It'll certainly be interesting to see what happens... whether we actually get a new direction, or it just becomes "more of the above" wearing different clothes...

It is both strange and alarming what people will believe. I remember talking to this game designer/tech genius I know and he was pointing out how something like Q-Anon basically had the feel of "A