Great post, Jed! With SMTs coming, I wouldn't be surprised if some of these "coins" actually become real tokens in the future.
Relationships are key. For them to matter and be genuine, they have to be mutually beneficial but in a gift economy sort of way, not a cold, calculated financial transaction sort of way. That relates to expectations or following strict formulas (which, if done wrong, can seem like manipulation).
I'm glad you've found something that works for you. I also hope more of us take an attitude of everything is a gift and nothing should be expected.
Something else I've been thinking about lately relates to how people of similar class/wealth tend to group together. I need to do a whole post on this, but I think it may be an overlooked facet of why some people get high SP votes and others don't. If that is in play here, it may be an age-old human struggle with no easy answer.
Happy holidays to you, Jed. May JED coin have a major breakout in 2018!
I'm looking forward to investing in a lot of them for sure! Relationships are key, right alongside compassion and mutual respect. And, you're right about it being mutually beneficial. I hope that this post doesn't come across as something along that nature. I've never done a crypto post before, and I just wanted to play off of it by using people as coins and investment strategies as a hard and fast rule. The relationships I've made here are born out of honest to goodness organic interaction with not even a tinge of calculation.
Whenever I can, I do preach your teachings in whatever way I can, so I hope that I do my part in getting that realization out. It's a tough sell for sure, as even I had a tough time grasping it at the beginning. But, once people embrace it, I feel like they'll have a much more enjoyable time here. I mean, I surely have! And it's thanks in large part to you :)
Man, if you could quantify that, I feel like it has the potential to break the wheel! Or, at least it could get people who just vote with the masses to rethink their approach. In any case, I feel like that idea really does have merits.
I do hope the JED coin breaks through all the resistance levels in 2018! Thanks for that vote of confidence, man!
Also, congrats in breaking it to the Top 10! I hope that my constant endorsement put at least a couple of votes that went to that :)