I see you're into tech, you might like privacy workshop.
My outcome is to write about tech for people who don't have a background in it, to help them secure their devices, and understand the threats. Also to document known threats, #1 is a comprehensive listing of why the biggest names in tech have demonstrated themselves to be evil.
I also investigated steemit itself, I am hoping a witness chimes in with some answers to a few questions.
Regarding your friend who resisted using ghost, it seems the tactic of thinking that he wasn't using was recognizing repetative chores in the stage where he is doing them. If you ever get comfortable repeating the same task over and over, then you can get stuck in a really inefficient mode. The third time you do the same task, an alarm should go off in your head, 'POTENTIALFOR INNOVATION HERE BEEP BEEP.'
If that alarm doesn't go off, well you could be in the salt mines for years before you realize how much of your life you wasted.