If you’ve spent swathes of your career in content and disagree with 1 and 7, then you forget that most likely all content you’ve capitalized on was transactional. Even if ads.

Steem currently doesn’t have that “transaction”.

More about that on @forinvestors at some point.

Preaching to the choir. I think I had made it obviously clear with those 7 points that we are on the same wavelength. Unless of course your “transactional factor” is social “guru” capital in which it is important here that you maintain the lead. Which, again, is transactional.

Profile building is transactional. But... only few can capitalize on that social capital.

I do like that you raise ‘not nearly enough’ but that’s not an issue right now. Right now there’s more than enough in the rewards pool. Especially for the content created at this point. But there’s not enough to welcome the whole “blogging industry”. There’s not enough to replace pay all writing gigs advertised on craigslist. And most definitely not to pay the rates some above average freelance writers earn online and want to continue earning in the race to the bottom economy that is the globalized internet.

The next two years will be interesting. Not merely interesting but also an eye opener, reality check, and definitely absolute disappointment to many now on Steem when they realize what’s going to happen and it excludes their own “blogging utopia”.

Sndbox is a circle jerk. It’s guaranteed upvote buying.

Steemhunt may jump a surprise (of the apps currently active). Maybe also Tasteem. I have reservations about both though, not because of anything app or team related but because of... “on Steem”.

Addendum: plans are “irrelevant”. Drive, insight, and ability to #flearn matters. Yes, plans matter but more often than not plans are built on assumptions. I’m lean, I need validation. Plans don’t do that so I need brains, open-minded brains with acceptance that most assumptions will not be validated and the roadmap will more often than not include at least 2, maybe even a third pivot.