Hi my name is Dan. Nice to meet you all :)

Present

To be honest, I am not sure how I got here. I was at work, staring at the computer screen, must have been around 2pm, this Wednesday afternoon. I think it was promoted on Twitter maybe? or maybe on google. I saw that it had rose 1000% according to Guardian which led me to the wonderful rabbit-hole, that has become a mysterious labyrinth, which I am now excited to explore (and create!).

I currently live in the beautiful pacific northwest or #PNW, where you may find great hikes within an hour's drive. Here are some photos from my hike on July 4th:

I like #trees

and especially love when my eyesight gets clear, which usually means I am present in the moment, and start to notice the small details of my surroundings. "The pudding is in the #details" might be a suggestion for my tombstone, or "his focus was #unreal", something silly yet serious like that.

even something thorny as the weed below has a bright side to it if you look closely enough:

This is Boise, ID, where I was stranded for about a year and fell in #love:

Past

Since 2013, I have been a #bitcoin advocate. We've come along ways since. I am hopeful in my lifetime the amount of collaboration of #artists that may be possible as a result.

I also enjoy consuming other's arts and life #stories. My go-to for news and reading thus far has been:

Always enjoyed blogs, but the incentive just wasn't there on medium. Though, I also felt like I didn't have much to say as a recently graduated student with little to no experience in much of the professional world.

FUTURE

This, this feels right. This feels like building up a #community from the bottom up. I've never been part of something so early. My two early guesses are that this is only the beginning and that someone will create a better version of vote and payment, or that it will take the concerted effort of great management, recruiting, and philosophy on the part of the team at #Steem, and an undivided, passionate group of folks (that's us!) to create, collaborate, and spread our love and #passion, whatever that may be.

And I am hoping that this exercise will also help me be more concise and less grandiose. To get to the important stuff.
Remains to be seen, what I will dedicate my #steem to. Keeping doors #open!

SO let's get serious.