Thank you for writing this. I think people come on here with a pretty myopic view of what Steemit is, what it can do (mostly FOR THEM) and the impacts their activity on here will have on the rest of the world. We live in an idea economy and your thoughts and words can make a difference. I've written about plant medicines, energy solutions, advances in sustainable building and promoted the works and words of many others, in some cases, trying to lure great content creators onto this platform to get more credit for their already wonderful work elsewhere. If someone read any of those posts and learned something, saved some time or avoided a bit of suffering, BUT I didn't get any upvotes or resteems, was that a failure? Steemit koan, I guess. Thanks @paulag lots to ponder.... cheers @ecoknowme