Whoops! Hardware failures threw me for a loop and I've neglected STEEM for a bit while juggling work and some technical reading (I'm completely out of the loop on repairs\current PC tech overall). Heh,

I'm a day late to mark Osamu Tezuka's work, but then I've only found out about the anniversary only thanks to nanosesame's art post in the first place. So, like the terribly original person, that I am

The challenge was to draw your favourite crypto by connecting the dots. STEEM's the only crypto I have any emotional attachment to so here we go: @eccles, (CC-BY 4.0, that basically means "please

Just found out that zero value votes are apparently completely useless even at 100%, see here. Sorry folks, I get upvote happy sometimes, gotta wait for my mana to recover properly. Edit: See @crokkon's

Organize, motivate, direct. That's how STEEM wins. @eccles, (CC0 - Public Domain) It's been a while, but in the past I've yammered on about the five step model to get people to do what you need. And I'm

Please vote for STEEM right now. The VERGE is a tough opponent, they rushed ahead of us earlier today. We must secure a lead in the final 10 hours until they have a chance to vote again! @eccles, (CC0

A quick bit of fun, why not. @eccles, (CC BY-SA 4.0) “Please support the @oracle-d initiative to help STEEM win a free listing on a Canadian crypto exchange. The >competition will be a great boost for

I've been keeping mostly to the comments because that's where I seem to be most comfortable and productive, but it's nice sketch up a report card for yourself once in a while. by @eccles, with model modified

Putting some thoughts to pixels. Field Tested Some folks said HF20 should have been tested for a longer period. Witnesses are be better equipped to judge that statement, nevertheless here's my two cents:

When Hype turns into FOMO, FOMO may lead to Panic. @eccles, (CC BY-SA 3.0) Be careful onboarding people with only the promise of monetary rewards, without integrating them into your community -- those

When a social platform has an extrinsic reward system built into it, does that exacerbate the traditional FOMO effect? @eccles, (CC BY-SA 3.0) In my own experience, as an anxious person -- yeah, kind of.

An old rival, Reddcoin, is gearing up for 1.0 release this month. Crypto news sites have already started trumpeting its advent and price boost. Warning: Speculating on heavily promoted currencies can leave

To rephrase recent missives from ETH and DOGE creators (linked here via CCN): Peak crypto adoption by enthusiasts has passed, it's time to build services that are attractive even to crypto-skeptics. Simply

Missing a post is what happens when you have to adjust for the flu season and a full-time job. It feels a bit disheartening when you have to revise your daily routine, but quick physical recovery is paramount

Last time on "Goals" I've constructed a list of what are esentially daily tasks that leverage the motivating power of personal responsibility in public. But it strikes me that these are not so

Part of the new Digestible Post initiative! Keeping abreast of things on and off STEEM, means consuming loads and loads of information, most often in text form. We're being reassured that speed reading

Considering how important they are to motivation, my goals should have been outlined in the very first post. But then I'm just a freshman in the school of motivation, I have the licence to catch up. by

Time is a continuous stream, but our perception of it is discrete and rather unreliable to boot. Dear reader, right now is as good a point in time to start a new endeavour as any. And start incrementing!

Forcing myself to write something coherent on a specified topic (even a simple self-introduction) is something I've often struggled with. Writer's block is not a unique problem, if we take Active Authors