I would like to start this reply by wishing you the best for this new year that just started!
Thanks for your trust! Even if I am quiet for some time, I am still monitoring witnesses, proposal, etc. I really enjoyed what you wrote at the end of this reply. I fully agree. On this matter, I still hope to find in a not too far future, time again to pass by regularly, write (both blogs and comments on others' blogs), and interact with other community members!
Cheers!
I hope you are doing well lemouth! I hear all kinds of worring news from Europe and I am sure you hear all kind of alarming news from across the pond as well. But with all that we are all here so that is comforting after all.
I am fine. Thanks for asking! Indeed, the world seems to collapse from everywhere at the same time. 2025 will be, let's say, 'interesting'...
My absence is correlated to the fact that there are only 24 hours a day, and 7 days a week. Local responsibilities at the university increased significantly during the last few years. This was by choice, so this is not a complaint. My new responsibilities are related to a lot of super-interesting duties, allowing me for instance to help hundreds of kids (well, young adults) with the beginning of their professional life, and actively participating in re-shaping how to educate future physicists after high-school. Obviously, this also comes with less interesting time-consuming tasks, but there is no free lunch.
In exchange of all of that, and I had no other option but cutting down on some other things. At the beginning, I was still hoping being capable to maintain my blog and have an active life within the HIVE community, but it turned out that no. The rest takes a lot of space, and I refuse to impact my family life. Therefore, I had to reduce a bit the time used for research, and the only thing I can regularly do with respect to HIVE is to think I would love to pass by and say hi... I will not promise to do it today, but I think about it every other week.
What about you? How are you?
I had @lemouth as my proxy for a long time. I have to figure out how to refresh that. I don't understand the proposals. I'm as likely to vote on the wrong thing as the right thing. I want the best for the blockchain. I trust @lemouth to vote in a way that he believes will benefit Hive in the long run.
The technical aspects of the blockchain are confusing to me. Some would say I don't belong here. But if I don't belong here, then the potential for Hive growth is limited to those with technical expertise. Do we want that?
We want more people like me, I think. The crypto is great, but it doesn't give me a dopamine rush. Getting upvotes (likes) and comments on a story I write...that gives me a dopamine rush. That's the addictive part. That's the part that keeps people through the $.10 dips and the $.65 spikes.
I'm here for the long run. Let there be a long run :)
(Oh no!I just upvoted my own comment!!!)