Well, it seems like the dust following HF21/22 has somewhat settled -- I say that with the experience that I have now not seen some kind of error message in some aspect of my activities for 24 hours now.
So I'm cautiously poking my head back out of my metaphorical "turtle shell" and deciding that it's "safe" to start posting and interacting again.
You know what that is? It's one of those TINY white daisies in the lawn, in spring...
Hardfork = AFK = Mental Health Days!
I suppose one of the benefits to having been part of this community for a while is the knowledge that it's almost inevitable that these updates will cause major disruptions to the way things work around here.
We can get all worked up and stressed out over that... OR we can simply take a few "Mental Health Days" and step away from the damn keyboard and do something productive and fun with our external lives!
Remember that?
Life that didn't revolve around checking your posts or the price of Steem every half hour?
Sometimes I think we forget that we need to take time away from the technology in order to remain normal, well-adjusted and happy individuals. Sociologists and psychologists are more likely to talk about our addictions to Facebook and other social media, but Steemlandia is no different, really, except for the tendency to tend to rationalize that we're getting paid here.
So what? We're still glued to a screen in hopes of getting less than 20 cents an hour... So get up, and go outside! I did!
Cherry Blossoms
"Lost" Posts, and Things...
I did start writing several posts during the outages and errors, and I guess I'll polish those up and send them through now. Because... why not? I've already done the work.
Besides, I'm curious to see how this whole new "curation emphasis" is going to pan out, and I'm curious to see how all these various "Tribes" will end up settling in.
Maybe I am just a skeptic here, but it strikes me there are just a lot of cash grabs happening, at the moment. Which might "succeed" in putting money in the pockets of a few people in the short term but doesn't seem like it would do a whole lot to help grow a larger community overall... nor guide the community towards any sort of mass adoption.
I find myself increasingly looking to old lessons that have nothing to do with cryptos or social media, but which established the general truism that good and legitimate opportunities will decline towards zero value with time.
That's a line of thinking — and post — that goes far beyond the scope of this one, but I might write about it someday.
Japanese yellow wild roses...
Meanwhile, Looking for Focus...
For as long as I can remember, I have struggled with staying focused on projects I have gotten involved with, regardless of whether they have been "good" or "bad."
In my long writing/blogging "career," the only way I have managed to stay on task has been to create "regular features" that publish on a schedule... which is basically a way of creating "artificial deadlines."
What do I mean?
Well, let's say you make a pretty public statement about doing an "Arts Column" on Tuesdays... now you suddenly have more motivation for maintaining your blog than merely "I gotta write something." And if you're halfway good at what you are doing, you start having to serve a reader base who expect that content on Tuesdays... and you'd damn better produce the goods!
With the new "Tribes" here, we actually now have a bigger invitation to pick a category and create relevant content on a regular schedule. That is, if you're actually a content creator and not just a "token harvester."
'Nuff said...
Anyway... time to get back to something here, and to discover what the "New(Steem) Normal" looks like...
Thanks for reading, and have a great day!
(Another #creativecoin creative non-fiction post)
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