Speaking of engagement, I agree 100% with you and I do need to be more "hard with myself" regarding that... The thing that pushes me is @Ourpick as I HAVE TO check out at least 2-3 posts per day and engage with authors... That covers my "minimum" engagement with other (sometimes new) users... On the other hand, replying to comments on my own posts sometimes takes a lot of time and I have less for others...
In the end, I don't want to become one of those Hivians who never check others' content and communicate only on their own posts... But, I'm aware that I am going in that direction and that makes me nervous... lol...
About your HP goal, I guess we can say you're still in luck that the price of HIVE is still low. That is if you use any stablecoins or tokens with a better recent evolution than HIVE to buy, besides curation and author rewards.
Regarding the HP goal, I'm not going into it through fiat but rather through other crypto, which makes it a bit easier... As I'm not pushing as hard as I was last year, I suppose that price movements will not be a huge problem... It will, but not big... 🙂
EDIT. Also, my big problem with engagement is these long comments... lol... 😂
Yes, OurPick definitely gives you the incentive to go out there and discover content and comment on it. But this is self-imposed too, because other curation projects are more relaxed about commenting on the posts they curate. You're doing it the proper, but time-consuming way.
I know what you mean... Hopefully, we can motivate ourselves to keep engaging outside of our own backyard.
Haha, totally get you! The worst feels when I start writing "War and Peace" to a few-word comment. But responding exhaustively in some cases for others who might read.