How I wish I could upvote this post more than once, with more power! I of course, am working on achieving that, but wow! So much here. So much content and raw-introspection.
I particularly enjoyed the Jimmy Cliff lyrics. I'm not really one for introducing new music to my rotation - but I like the structure and the sense of loss.
Loss is a topic I've been thinking about a lot lately. Not just of losing people, but of the loss of opportunity, the loss of agency, the loss of individualism and spontaneity that seems to permeate contemporary life.
Glad it connected in some way. I think I am getting better at it.
A fascinating process, I find as I transcribe, I have multiple other ideas and annotations that I want to add to the original piece - perhaps I will try doing that in a future post and see how it pans out. I'm finding transcibing has its own benefits that hadn't occurred to me before I did it.
I feel loss is an inevitable part of the process - to have new things coming in, some things have to go. It's a long time, maybe ten or twelve years since the last time I was confronted with this sort of change, personal and professional, and that curious space and time we live in when one thing is ending but the other thing hasn't arrived yet. Apparently, it's a time, or at least latent potential, for great creativity as the previous boundaries loosen and we are unrestricted (also why it feels so uncomfortable, maybe)
I've been thinking about Jack Kerouac and his ideas about Spontaneous Prose and how they link, in my mind, to ideas about flow from his contemporary Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - as well as my big passion of the moment, Kit Marlowe, and how he changed writing in his time. One of the theories about Marlowe's death, or at least the reporting of his death, was that he wasn't dead at all, it was cover up for espionage reasons, and for me, this creates the possibility that he escaped and was living elsewhere. I think the Netherlands, where he had connections, but then he may have chosen sunny Spain, or even the New World.
I was thinking about delegating to the community account, but maybe there isn't enough engagement yet to warrant that? The VP could be used another way until the community builds up - perhaps trailing ocd? There is also a mechanism for sharing curation rewards with delegators (not that that would be my main reason for doing it), @friendlymoose knows the secret sign (code).
There's no need for anyone to ever delegate to the handwritten community, or in my view, any of the others I will foster in the future. I see delegation of hive power on the platform as a loss of "Sovereignty" for that HP, and only do it myself sparingly.
I would rather you simply drop into the community and drop a vote of your own - earning the curation rewards directly on any content you find in the community that you feel deserves it.
I want people to be able to use their own influence and not proxy it elsewhere.
I don't believe in vote trails either :P The community will build ever so slowly fromt he 2% beneficiary rewards - but I might see it prudent to increase that at some point, if only to beat Hive's own inflation :P
Cool, that works, too :D
There are probably more, but I'm using the Hivediscomod service to return an adjustable amount of the curation rewards (for @topcomment I use 80%) in liquid Hive to the delegators on a daily basis.
Thanks @friendlymoose. Never has your name seemed more appropriate!
Haha. You're welcome!