Open Letter to 
: Another Game
Hello again
Games, games, games
I know you like games. And so do I. We both obviously like playing The Game, where AFCs and aspiring PUAs aren't our real oppononents: The Game is not like Monopoly, it's not about "winning" through making another hetero-sexual male lose all his "female real estate". There are no real opponents in The Game. Though you can win big.
To me, Steem is also like a game. Like The Game, it has a multitude of layers, a vast amount of goals you could try to achieve, its culture and "soft rules" that change over time, and even a financial component. But unlike Monopoly money, the Steem financial "credits" are real. That financial component of Steem fascinates me: it both attracts crypto-enthusiastic social media bloggers to the platform, but I think at the same time it drives others away from it. Maybe Steem could grow much quicker if less attention was given to monetary rewards, but that's maybe food for thoughts expressed in a future article.
Steem itself is playing a game of its own as well, both within the ecosystem of all "Social Media Platforms", where maybe some day when Steem "grows up" technically, socially and financially it could "beat" Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Medium, and within the ecosystem of all "Crypto Assets". Maybe Steem once merely started as a social experiment, at least I heard that, but I've became a firm believer and supporter of Steem over the past two months and I want it to succeed both in terms of a successful social media platform empowering high-quality content and social interactions as well as financially, since the Steem blockchain (Graphene 2.0) kicks butt and therefore enables the SBD to become the near-future's global currency. (Recently both Ethereum and Steem surpassed 1M transactions in one day where Ethereum needed to use over 60% of its enormous network capacity where the Steem blockchain remained - in computer process terms - almost "idle" at ~1%).
Help Steem Win Its Game
So to help Steem "win" the games it's in, I do what I can: I can help improve its software and technical ecosystem (ref. my UA HF proposals), I try to empower the 
Will you do the same for Steem 
Let's give 
My personal Quid Pro Quo for your Steem Media / Account Onboarding Efforts
I'm not an English native-speaker, writing proper copy costs me a boatload of time. Oftentimes I need to look up (difficult) English words in order to properly express my thoughts. And it's not just vocabulary: especially using sayings at the right place and time is extremely hard for me, yet I try, here and there, to throw some mud to the wall and see what sticks, for those sayings separate the wheat from the chaff and distinguish an article from An Article. I like to self-improve, sometimes I try to enter an "original short form content" contest by 
However, currently, on Steem the "assessment / curation / appreciation" of the public reading / curating content is expressed, partially at least, in a monetary context. Your first two articles on Steemit combined got rewarded almost $25,000.-, although at the time of publishing those, the author_reward_curve wasn't linear like it is now, but square_root'ed. But I'd like to see you outperform your Elon Musk article here, and I'm curious if you could top your two first article pay-outs! Go ahead, and try! I hope you can do it!
To get back to this paragraph heading, my personal Quid Pro Quo as a personal "Thank You", if you help Steem to win its game: until now and February, 1, 2018, I will do my utmost to writing Steem articles so good, that my goal (and personal learning objective) is that one of them outperforms yours (articles period December 2017 - January). I most probably don't stand a chance: you're a professional writer, your English is second to none, you have an audience the size of the entire world, you can interview people like Musk... What am I getting myself into, with this challenge? Another tutorial about Wordpress or using the Terminal Command Line Interface surely won't suffice! ;-) (Although I will also continue publishing those.) I need to step-up my Game, for this challenge, and come up with interesting subjects to write about. For sure I can't blog about multiple Elon Musk interviews, or anything like that, but like Mystery, I also have some tricks up my sleeve!
Like in The Game, there are no losers here, you are not my opponent. The least I will win anyway, is improving my own writer skills, and hopefully I can "win" as well by reading more quality content written by you and you onboarding some Celebrity New Steemians! We all win here.
Challenge accepted Neil?
