Introduction & How I Got Here

autocrat (57)in OCD • 4 years ago (edited)

Source: https://twitter.com/waarpdesign

Hey, My name is Ryan.

I'm from the Bay Area, CA. I'm in my late 20's.
I've lived what I've heard called an Illegible Life, which means it's hard to pin me down in a bio.
I've been a NEET, I've done construction, I've worked in the weed industry, I've done property management for a while, I've worked at an online auction house... and now I'm going to work in the crypto space.

I stumbled across Steem sometime in 2016 thanks to a hacker called Geohot

George Hotz, formerly known as Geohot, was the first person to jailbreak an iphone. He did it when he was 17. Now, he's the creator of Comma.ai, which is a kit that you can add to certain cars to give them autopilot.

I was reading a Bloomberg article on how George built his first self driving car in the garage of a house in SF called the Crypto Castle (years later I'd be spending many late nights drinking there and get to see this garage in person).

Crypto still felt new and mysterious then, and here was a nearby house dedicated to the space. I looked into the castle, and started googling people that were associated with it. That lead me to find the intro of a girl that used to live there on Steem.
I was blown away by the concept of Steem in a way that I couldn't put my finger on.

I wasn't the only one Steem left a big impression on

Months later in early January 2017, while riding BART to work, I came across this post on Medium written by the Founder-CEO Ev Williams (Ev also founded Blogger & Twitter). It's called 'Renewing Medium's Focus' and it was obviously heavily inspired by Steem.

We had started scaling up the teams to sell and support products that were, at best, incremental improvements on the ad-driven publishing model, not the transformative model we were aiming for.

Upon further reflection, it’s clear that the broken system is ad-driven media on the internet. It simply doesn’t serve people. In fact, it’s not designed to.

This led to Medium adding a 'clapping' feature, where people are given money based on how many claps their post receives. A cheap imitation of Steem's DPoS, tokenized-upvote system.

Medium was like the Substack of the time, and I viewed the fact that Medium was taking inspiration from Steem as a big deal, and a sign of how the world is turning.

I made my Steem account in December of 2017

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Though I never ended up using it, the inspiration I got from Steem remains the cornerstone of my thesis for Crypto.

I'll unpack this more in a future post, but the gist of it is this:
• crypto allows us to directly monetize things that the current system doesn't do well
• (D)PoS chains like Steem and Hive monetize the most valuable asset on Earth, Willpower

I'm here now because I'm going to build

I'm happy to have settled on Hive, which is the true successor of Steem.
I've been brainstorming on things to do and have finally settled on something (shoutout to our Witness @gtg for letting me bounce ideas off of him this past few days!).

I look forward to introducing it sometime next month. Stay tuned ⚡️

#whyamihere

Thanks @acidyo for the mana!

#introduction #whyamihere #introduceyourself

4 years ago in OCD by autocrat (57)

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dandays (72) 4 years ago

Welcome! It's nice to be met. You're not gonna fit in at all around here if you can't tell from this welcome. "Welcome!"

I'm from LA, my wife's from Marin. I've worked quite a bit in the Bay between San Jose and Santa Rosa. Nice to meet another native, see you around.

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autocrat (57) 4 years ago

Hey thanks, I spent time in Virginia Beach several months ago. I appreciated the rain since it barely rains in CA these days.
I've also never heard of a bread and butter pickle.

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dandays (72) 4 years ago

I see someone's done their homework. Now I know you're from Ca. 😉 We pay attention.

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acidyo (82)Mew 4 years ago

Welcome! I'll happily lend a hand with visibility/attention if I like what you'll be attempting to build on Hive! Also we have a programming community where coders are free to document/share what they're working on that we curate. :)

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derangedvisions (80) 4 years ago

Welcome to Hive homie

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deepresearch (70) 4 years ago

Welcome to Hive. You might want to add #introduceyourself tag to your post to get more visibility.

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autocrat (57) 4 years ago

Thanks, done

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marriakjozhegp (62) 4 years ago

Congratulations.

It looks like you will be big in the community soon. I was in steemit before hive and both platforms were a bridge, an impulse for me, an opening to drain my emotions and an exploitation of my artistic talents that in the real world I could do little with them. Now hive is for me one of my best opportunities to grow and I hope it is for you too, I try to make it so for my little sister

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autocrat (57) 4 years ago

Yeah, I hope so. Wish you & your sister luck too

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gubbatv (70) 4 years ago

Welcome back Ryan! I'm much in the same boat as you. I joined steemit many years ago but only recently came back and started blogging and using the platform.

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