Hive turns four years old today, so it feels like a good time to reflect on my time here and outline plans for the future.

I found Hive through Splinterlands in January 2022, as part of my mission to understand crypto and wallets and NFTs once and for all. It’s been about 26 months since then, and I’ve yet to find a better place to learn and explore Web3 than Hive.

🎯 My big Hive goal

Between now and Hive’s big 5 year anniversary, the key for me is going to be balance.

I’ve gotten myself involved in all sorts of projects here, and it’s starting to seem like the market could be getting fun soon (it’s been bearish for almost all my 26 months). Focus and prioritization is important for me to make the most out of life and blockchain pursuits.

Non-Hive Things to balance:

• Family: we recently welcomed a daughter to the world, and I’ve been blogging to her here on Hive. It’s nice that I can enshrine some writing for her to maybe one day look back on and read. And as time goes on, she’ll need more and more of my energy.
• Work: I have a lovely full time job in communications that is critical for supporting the fam. As much as we all hope for blockchain moons, from a risk perspective I still have to pour a lot of time & energy into the main gig. (Plus, I like it! For reals.)
• Health: Actifit is of course my Hive overlap with this part of life. Since the kid was born I’ve been bad at exercising and that needs to change ASAP. Some crypto rewards on top is a sweet sweet cherry.

♦️ So amid that pesky IRL stuff, there’s Hive. It’s been cool to see how much stuff I’ve been able to cram in, much of it during a time where there was no child and I worked as a freelancer. I probably can’t keep full steam on all of it, hence the goal of finding the right balance.

Right now, Hive priorities & goals are:

• Completing Hunting Midnight. I’ve published about 134,000 words in this original story on Hive. There are maybe 35,000 to 50,000 left to write and/or publish. Fiction has always been important to me, and experimenting with it in Web3 is pretty much how I got started here. I am also starting some syndication efforts for this tale outside of Hive, with pointers back to our chain.
• Helping the Hive brand by developing processes & documentation. I enjoy macro-level systems thinking and design, so I’m hoping to lend a hand and be helpful in guiding Hive itself towards more efficient governance. Currently, I’ve structured my approach around the UNHIDE project. Moving through the phases described there will be another big goal though 2024.
• There are also many projects I assist, either in content, game design, marketing, etc. The work involved in each ebbs and flows, so this is kind of like a wildcard. The two big beta games I’m part of today are WOO and Rise of the Pixels. I’ve also helped with Holozing, Rising Star, dCrops, Terracore, Golem Overlord, and there’s at least two stealth gaming projects that could pop up this year that I’m involved with.
• Non gaming projects abound too, like the Scholar & Scribe community, a Hive content automation project, and networking with people in and outside of Hive to try and spread the good word.

⚖️ Key Goal: Balance

So much to do, and so little time.

My strategy is to start digging in on the health & exercise bit, so as to improve energy reserves for all the other stuff. Family takes priority, and the Job supports the fam. Hive and fiction is what ‘fills in the gaps’ and keeps me sane amid diapers and meetings.

I suppose there’s a social life to consider somewhere in this mix, but having a young kid already kinda torpedoes that to a degree ;)
 

🎯 TL;DR goals

1. Find balance between:
2. Completing Hunting Midnight on chain
3. Completing the four phases of UNHIDE
4. Supporting other people’s projects

Can’t wait to see where we are on March 20, 2025!

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