Hello steem users. I’m calling myself blee.
I’m a near-graduation college undergrad studying physics and other natural sciences, and trying to figure out what to do with my future.
I have a lot of thoughts - pretty philosophical usually - and usually I’ve been either writing them out on facebook statuses, talking about them with a friend, or doing nothing with them. Facebook seems like the wrong platform for these essays, and I’ve been trying to move away from facebook as well due to deep distrust of its centralization of power and concealment of how it works. While I think that private sites should be able to promote positive communities by pruning content that they host, things like censorship without transparent process or accountability of the moderators are very concerning and create a lack of agency on the part of users... actually, I’ll rant about that another time.
Suffice it to say that, I believe Steemit would be a good place to write my content for, especially as I am interested in the subjects of decentralization, blockchain, incentive structures, economics, sociology, technology, anarchism, futurism & visionary thought, & other things in the zeitgeist that steemit is a part of. I also like environmental & geographic issues, urban infrastructure, transportation, education, the EA / SSC / rationalist communities, STEM, AI, geology, sustainability, and sometimes, being a little silly.
My goals for using this platform are less about making any money - although that would be cool - and more that I believe the higher standards and motivation to make better writing (with semantic hyperlinks & citations & simple formatting) will help me improve my writing abilities, without subjecting me to the stress and pressure of doing writing assignments for school (which just makes me procrastinate). I hope to receive feedback about my ideas and my writing, and to contribute to the community here.
Thanks for reading.
