An open letter to my fellow helpienauts

I've been somewhat quiet about our @helpie project, meaning that I'm fully aware that I've not applied the best of my ability to put the name out there as I probably should. Reasons, I have thousands, but maybe it's time to set aside some fo them and attempt to move the waters a little bit.

In truth the project has constantly been evolving since the first day it started with a 400 SP delegation of my own and just a bunch of unworked ideas. For the longest time I've believed (and still do) that some of the shifts that need to happen on the platform are more cultural than anything code can fix. The short term mentality of most the participants of this blockchain is the biggest of the hurdles Steem must overcome in order to succeed. However, repeating the words "Think long term" are in no way effective anymore, at least not on their own.

We've all heard the saying with all it's variations - "It take a village.... " - Maybe this is one of those situations. The powerful time tested idea that if enough people start to think the right way, then they in turn will be contagious and I actually mean that literally. It's been more than once in my life when I've met a group of people who's energy, who's aura, who's ethos is not only inspiring, it's contagious.

Plenty of times when I'm trying to put my finger on what @helpie is set to accomplish, I keep on falling back into those sociological concepts. The sense of community, the distribution of knowledge, and as a consequence the distribution of wealth would be a result of a change of mind, and the order of events would follow the somewhat unintuitive path.

I realize that the concepts are abstract, I realize that the mission is somewhat against a current. But, none the less it's the mission I think @helpie and its members were meant to partake of. You could even say the actions are selfish, after all improving the morale of the platform, educating its members, changing the paradigm would result in better valuations of the tokens we all hold. But, the benefits will be shared by all, and it's in this sense the selflessness if not completely out of the picture.

I'm grateful for the opportunity to be part of this. I'm also grateful for every single person who has decided to be not only part of the community of @helpie, but also embrace the ideas behind it on their own. I know that the rewards are already there, but I'm also fully aware the best is still to come. I'm really proud of all of you.