Hello Steemians,
I wanted to introduce myself. My name is Adam Crawford and I am a writer and photographer, that has failed at most things in life.
However, I know that kind of sounds like a bummer to start off with, so here is my favorite photograph I captured in Glacier National Park in 2015 while living and writing on the road (which I still do). I hope you will stay with me until the end of the article, which I promise, isn’t as depressing :).
I am not just here to share my story, but I would like to share my content here on Steemit because of my newfound excitement of cryptocurrency, and uncovering this community where content creators have a new and exciting way of sharing and potentially earning for the value they add and contribute to the Steemit community.
In Search of a Life less Ordinary
I am 36. I own no house, have no ex wife and no children, and have very little much more than a few bucks, a camera, my car and the hope that life can get better. My moniker is AtlasFound, because my first vehicle I lived in was named Atlas. Sadly, old Atlas died and was replaced with a new car, of which I have not yet christened with a namesake. Perhaps AtlasFound…?
So I haven’t always been a car bum. I was a writer and blogger once that got paid for it, and I guess you could say I know or knew, one or two things about photography. My most recent failed endeavor is a photography blog that now lies defunct in cyberspace with neglect. (http://www.precise-moment.com)
I graduated college with a degree in journalism in 2004 and worked as a magazine editor at various photography magazines until having the unlucky honor of being laid off twice from two different magazine groups during the financial crash of 2009, and once again in 2011, respectively.
Since then, my life has been challenging, and I have even gotten to the point of wanting to end my own life. My life changed after changing some things in my life. Mediation made me present, cannabis took away my pain, and words absorbed from Henry David Thoreau and the life of Jack Kerouac and Christopher McCandless (Into The Wild) made me simplify my life entirely, while ultimately making me seek a life less ordinary.
I.D.G.A.F
I Don’t Give A Fuck is my philosophy, but to me, it doesn’t mean not just giving a fuck about everything, rather, it means only giving a fuck about things that matter. To me, these things are: living free, living on my own terms, being a good steward of the earth and leaving it a better place than those before me, my family, being able to use cannabis freely as my medicine, not being an indentured slave with a robotic existence with all kinds of “good debt”, and the proliferation of a decentralized world economy where equity is given by the amount of users it cultivates and grows.
I prefer not dwelling on the lows or highs of my life quite yet, but rather I would like to celebrate the discovery of cryptocurrency in my life, and how it has become, in a just over a month, a life-changing opportunity for me on two fronts — philosophically and monetarily.
Cryptocurrency, I believe, is the answer to capitalism run amok. I hope to see it as a future economic model that doesn’t allow the 1% to hoard all of the cash and have governments be held hostage to their demands as a result. Of course who doesn’t want to believe we as a people can have a collective power in the decisions of humankind. Might sound kind of fluffy and improbable, but I’d rather strive for a utopian, egalitarian society, than to live in the current one we find ourselves in today.
What I’d love to see is a more balanced economic model that gives everyone the opportunity to earn equity for their endeavors and businesses without startup capital being a reason not to start, or the reason in which they don’t thrive. Or perhaps value won’t be determined from work, perhaps it will be measured in a different way? Who the hell knows?
I wold love to see a zero marginal cost society where value is derived from the network support of that system, i.e., us the users. People giving value to a social currency. People as the “Gold Standard,” not a rare metal or whatever economic structure my country has that I can’t begin to even pretend to understand the inner workings of, nor want to learn.
So, I love the idea that we as members of the Steemit community give value to each other with our content, our comments, our shares, a way of us creating digital value of currency in the form of likes and sharing.
Steemit, in my opinion, is an amazing and groundbreaking idea, and I hope we can all cultivate this into the future. And I plan on investing, contributing, and writing about how this irreversible evolution well become a new economic paradigm sooner rather than later.
What I Would Like to Share With the Steemit Community
I want to share my words, my photographs, my thoughts, my comments, my articles from precise-moment.com, my poetry, fiction, any successes I have, any of my failures, and life as it is, not how I hope it will become.
My life, as I see it, my pictures, my life on the road, my attempt at making cryptocurrency a model from which I can invest and live within.
Please follow me and comment, I would love to get to know other Steemians.