His wake was today. We stayed a long time after with his girlfriend. Luke's energy, and i'm not an "energy" guy, was tremendous. Sometimes you have to force nice words a bit, but everyone just showered his father with nice shit to say, then everyone went over to his girlfriends house and hung out for many hours. There's still a lot of pain especially for those who were closest, but it was also one of the funniest gatherings i've been at in a LONG time. In some other comment i mentioned wanting to talk with you myself. Whenever that's possible. It could be 10 minutes and i can guarantee you that you'll be pretty sure whether you want to continue the conversation moving forward. By the time my work is DONE, steem will almost certainly either be on the way to popular adoption, or bent considerably backwards in what i call "survival of the BITtest". I'd like to work for/with you all for NOTHING [maybe a deal like tesla has, where only extreme performance is rewarded], instead of being distracted by the dopamine of votes streaming my own work, and getting paid by rich delegations. Money that makes no difference at all. When this COULD BE a platform where i'd "drop" everything first. You can't ask luke because he's gone on that level, but you could ask his girlfriend what he used to do when he watched my real videos. Pull out his hair wondering how i exist. I have my own shit to do, but it's honestly my opinion that you all have a HUGE task in front of you, and could literally use every single visionary individual you can get on the team. I said 5 or 10 minutes. And you'd be pretty damned sure. Luke wrote some code and i don't, but at the same time, i don't think steem is going to win or lose based on the exact specifics or eloquence of the new code, rather by the decisions made at the top in terms of what is encouraged the most. What X prizes for GREAT ideas [probably largely for communities and smts] ACHIEVE.
Put up the "Right" contest, and it's my claim, that you can pull the geniuses out of the woodwork here. Not coders, though there are plenty. Writers. Story Tellers. Inventors. Visionaries.
I'd say that steem is awesome, but that it will sink and swim as much because of it's community as anything.
Neither @adept or @birdinc every actually let me talk directly to you all, claiming you're THAT busy, like always crazy busy, but if you ever chat with David @birdinc, perhaps you could ask him, in whatever words you choose, what he thinks is my "high end" potential.
I kinda see steem as almost like a trireme.
We need every available talented hand ON DECK. Rowing HARD.
The VICE and BOBS post, made it seem to me, that there is a serious need of creating A deep and ingenious SMT/SMT's.
We need to FIND, and KEEP our talent.
If our best and brightest jump ship,
first mover advantages can vanish.
99.999% of us here are NEVER writing a best seller, certainly not alone.
But what if some of us were going to anyways,
and just thought:
"What if steem/steemit/zappl/dlive/dtube, got the delegation/curation game JUST RIGHT, and the community actually managed to sacrifice some individual posting and rewards chasing, in the name of co operated great creations?"
Sorry to babble. Long great day and it's hard to sleep.
10 minutes if you have it would be awesome. Truly.
I don't have luke to bother anymore,
so i have to go closer to the source.
Or try.
Thanks, Alx
ALX#3690
