Ah...and here’s the post you told me you were planning to write. The funny thing to me is that I know all of this. I’d tell it to anyone coming to me for advice. Yet I don’t apply it to me. And I need to examine that.

I also respect the sincere passion and commitment that Jerry exudes. But personally, I’m never going to fit in such a broad and pandering niche. It’s not who I am or what I believe in. In my opinion, it’s essentially going back to corporate life...which is exactly what I ran like hell to get away from. I spent most of my adulthood writing useless drivel for other people...in the pursuit of empty goals. Theirs. And if I’m honest, what I thought were my own. But I’m done with that.

I may lack clarity. And probably I’m too precious. I feel like I am providing something substantial. Something that lies between get-rich-quick-cult-of-personality rhetoric and selfies-from-my-car. Oh hell, I feel like I offer something higher. And I’m sure that Maslow would have a smirk or two about that.

Being the expert or the prophet shouldn’t be the only way to master Steemit. There are several other valuable personnas that successful bloggers and creators fit into. But here, you may be right. It seems that the prophet rules the Steemit universe. But I did that gig IRL. And it was empty. And it left a big hole in my life. There’s got to be a way to carve out a path on Steemit without feeding the masses false rhetoric. If not...it’s not the platform it claims to be but is rather quite a flawed microcosm of the very system it claims to transcend.