Looks like a great group of people to spend your afternoon with. Reminds me of my steemit meet up with @luczypher. He runs the steemit open mic competition. I was with two other minnows and he's been on here over a year. I was on Steemit just a month at the time and he gave us three minnows some great insight into some of the things you mention in your article. Meeting Steemit members in real life has been one of my favorite things since joining four month's ago. Great post!