I don't do tracker update posts very often these days, but I figure that this is a relatively big milestone - I now have 4000 top level posts on the Hive Blockchain. I average around 800-1000 words a post, so that means that I have written about 40x 300-page novels worth of text + I put about another 1/3rd of that into comments, which will make it around 50 novels.
1000 words is about 2x A4 pages of text, 4x if you double-space. I have slowed down a lot since I started 1,288 days ago (mostly because my rewards have gone up, not out of disinterest) and now aim for generally two posts a day. However, I am still averaging 3.1 per day since my blockchain birth on January 29th, 2017.
It seems so long ago, but I remember this journey very well as it was not only my birth into blockchain, it was the rebirth of my creative self - something I had thought lost in life. Not only that, I am more creative now than I have ever been earlier.
I think that incentive has something to do with it, with me joining originally in the hope to get some income, as the complications after my daughter's birth and subsequent care took a heavy toll on us, financially and emotionally. I don't know about your life, but at that time, I felt absolutely useless, while simultaneously working very hard both at work and in the home to keep us above water. I don't think I have ever been so tired in all ways possible as I was during the 8 months after her birth - but I am glad I was tested and content with the way I managed.
But that initial incentive changed and my writing has become a very big part of my mental management process and will likely be something that I will do for the rest of my life - something I think everyone should do for the rest of their life too. Culture, society and consumerism have taken out a lot of the points of self-reflection we had earlier as we are no longer "alone" - we always have some noise on to distract our thoughts from actually thinking.
Writing gives me the space to slow down and see what is knocking about upstairs and the payoff is massive. I pay more attention to my surroundings, I think quicker on my feet, I can work better under pressure and stress, I am more creative, my work ethic is better, I am learning more daily, I have been able to really invest for the first time in my life and I have a pathway toward a future that I believe is valuable - one that is valuable for many people.
While everyone wants to earn and profit so they can buy a better real life, many forget that developing skills, mindset and a path forward has value in the real world to design and create a better real life. Hive is a compounding value for me both personally from the skill and information perspective, as well as financially, as what I learn and do here, also has value to me off-Hive in my workplaces. The world of information and employment is changing and understanding and predicting what those changes might mean for my clients has value to them.
There are so many streams of potential value to tap into on Hive, but if one is limiting the experience to only the tokens, a large part of the opportunity will have been missed, the value left on the table. New careers are going to be born from Hive and crypto and while they will start off fringe, they will become the norm very fast.
Most likely, your largest earning potential on Hive is going to be the value of being on Hive and learning all you can so that you have a competitive advantage in the blockchained future. Millions of jobs are going to be created directly and indirectly from social blockchains and around cryptocurrencies, in the same way they were through social media and advertising models. The difference is, we will own it, not some conglomerate of digital cronies.
As said, my incentives changed and it happened quite quickly after I started, for once I started to see the potential of the blockchain community, I was sold. I started getting more serious about earning all I could for a place in the future community and as soon as I had some spare cash, I started buying in too. The writing ramped up, not only because I wanted to earn (who doesn't), but because I am so excited about the future here I had to write - my mind just wanted to keep creating with every new piece giving me a dozen more leads to follow for the next.
It is an incredible feeling to create something toward where one wants to be - it is more amazing to be able to do something one enjoys to get there. It is a privileged position, but not necessarily an easy one, nor one that is totally received on luck - it generally takes a lot of work to be able to do what one loves a lot - and because one loves it, it is going to become a resource sink of time, money, energy and opportunity. I have had to cut out a lot of my entertainment time to do what I love, to write it.
I am glad I am not being buried under entertainment anymore. The times I spent playing games and watching a lot of movies and TV was my least creative time in my life by far and I was inspired by nothing. Now, my attention can fall on the most insignificant of things and find a whole universe with it.
A whole universe.
When I think of Hive, that is what it is becoming.
See you at 5000.
Taraz
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