I have noticed your comments on several posts, including some of mine. Thanks for that!
We're both very similar in our "power" here. One thing I've learned from you by this post is that the number of posts isn't a major factor in a user's power. You have 7X the posts I do but have less (monetary) value overall. I too follow the general approach of only posting when I have something worthwhile to say. However, steemit offers us both incentives to think of other interests we can write about, and also like you I get a lot of enjoyment / value from reading and curating.
Unlike you I have more time available to create content basically being retired. For me it's more about being inspired and meeting the challenge of writing quality content. The feedback I've gotten about my writing is actually pretty good, but I am not a fast typist (plus I am a bit of a perfectionist) so it takes quite awhile to create new material. I tend to re-edit my posts quite frequently to get them "perfect".
There's a great deal about how things work here on steemit I do not yet understand, but I do like the ideas steemit is based on and love the people it has attracted. Most of my Internet "Idols" are now posting on stemit, and I think that's truly awesome! I have noticed some of them posting less frequently now, and I'm not sure if there's any reason other than balancing priorities and lack of time that play into that. I hope not. Actually I just began to think I could rely on steemit as my first media stop to get news and other interesting content rather than using youtube, which is becoming filled more and more with plagiarized echos from my authors of interest. Use the keywords "anarchast ep", "corbett report" or "stephan molyneux" in the youtube search box and see how many hits show up of people reposting other's material or trying to tap into the audience those authors have. I'm not saying that's wrong if they add something of value to it (and recognizing everybody is clamoring for attention), but it does make it more difficult, weeding thru all the secondary posts to get to the original source material.
Anyway, glad you're here. We'll climb the ranks towards dolphinhood as the market and our dedication to our own growth permit, at a proportional rate to those factors.
Thanks again intelliguy!