Adept was a friend of mine, a guy i loved right away, someone who got me onto steem, someone who contributed to "my ideas", and someone who i really hoped would ensure i got to speak with some of the characters heading up parts of the venture, such as yourself. I didn't even realize until i met luke and a few of the steemians from buffalo, that i'd literally been working alone for way too long and actually hadn't maintained enough good friendships. Luke's loss just makes me want to make more friends, especially bright and ambitious individuals. If all the steem blockchain ever did was result in me meeting "adept", then that would have been a great achievement by it in my eyes. In reality, he helped increase the size and ideas of the community, in a way that absolutely will live on, and i'd like to see this community eventually go critical. Like a critical mass nuclear reaction. Like people particles bouncing against one another together here, akin to the way people started getting a lot smarter when they began to live in cities, and to constantly encountering different ideas and perspectives than their own. The "right" [sufficiently effective] steps of/for/by the community, and i can see that actually happening. I would love to help on the community side. At least to engage in a conversation about adept, steem, the community, the present, the future, and some of the ideas that y'all have obviously seen, and some others that perhaps you've been too busy working to notice. I think luke would definitely be amused if and when we have an open form conversation. Good man. He wanted me to publish here. At times i've thought of leaving. Now i'd like to see this thing my friend got me to become part of, to eventually get way past the moon. Because of the community. People like him. Like us. Alx
Adept was a friend of mine, a guy i loved right away, someone who got me onto steem, someone who contributed to "my ideas", and someone who i really hoped would ensure i got to speak with some of the characters heading up parts of the venture, such as yourself. I didn't even realize until i met luke and a few of the steemians from buffalo, that i'd literally been working alone for way too long and actually hadn't maintained enough good friendships. Luke's loss just makes me want to make more friends, especially bright and ambitious individuals. If all the steem blockchain ever did was result in me meeting "adept", then that would have been a great achievement by it in my eyes. In reality, he helped increase the size and ideas of the community, in a way that absolutely will live on, and i'd like to see this community eventually go critical. Like a critical mass nuclear reaction. Like people particles bouncing against one another together here, akin to the way people started getting a lot smarter when they began to live in cities, and to constantly encountering different ideas and perspectives than their own. The "right" [sufficiently effective] steps of/for/by the community, and i can see that actually happening. I would love to help on the community side. At least to engage in a conversation about adept, steem, the community, the present, the future, and some of the ideas that y'all have obviously seen, and some others that perhaps you've been too busy working to notice. I think luke would definitely be amused if and when we have an open form conversation. Good man. He wanted me to publish here. At times i've thought of leaving. Now i'd like to see this thing my friend got me to become part of, to eventually get way past the moon. Because of the community. People like him. Like us. Alx