Thanks!

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 Steem was 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!