I agree it gets quite technical, however that was kind of my intention :)

I find steem.center has some nice articles for beginners.

I also think Steemit has great potential. It's actually the only blockchain with an immediate use-case already IMO. All other blockchain projects are fun to play around with but I don't consistently come back to them, they're mostly for future speculation.

Of course, steem has its own issues, questionable behavior of some whales that feels like this platform is not really decentralized, big amount of low-quality posts trying to make a profit, but in general, it's working quite well. It'll be interesting to see where this is going :)