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RE: 1 MINUTE TO EXPLAIN STEEM - How can we improve education for new users?
I wrote this explainer piece 8 months ago, which was well received.
Like anything, there are a few things I'd put slightly differently now, but I think it stands up reasonably well.
I had an excellent response yesterday actually; using desert nomads as an analogy.
Living on sand has limited what we can build, we've always just had tents; but some guys have dug down and found bedrock, so now we have a foundation to build huge, permanent structures online.
So far, they're only small, from a distance they don't look much different to the tents; but the potential is there to build amazing new structures we've never imagined before.
That's my blockchain go-to. If they follow that okay, I branch off into Steem specifically.
I love your piece @mattclarke, it's so helpful, I joined Steemit moths ago and I still don't have a clue, I only wrote the #introduceyourself blog and upvote every now and then when I like something, but I do everything just because, I've read a lot of information but like @jarvie says I guess I've looked in the wrong places. It's all very confusing for me for several reasons, like I'm not an englishnative speaker so many times I get lost on translation, I know nothing about criptocurrencies even when I somehow have managed to get bitcoins and have some steem but I don't know what to do with that. I have so many doubts that I would never end if I start asking but I'll follow you both @jarvie and @mattclarke and I'll read every word you write for now on and maybe, MAYBE a hundred years from now I'll undestand something :-D thank you very much
Stay curious and you'll do fine.
You don't need to understand the nuts n bolts (I certainly don't), just be kind and supportive and insightful and it'll all work out.
And don't lose your password.
Haha how funny I take it the person you were explaining it to was very creative / imaginative?
Quite clever but she's convinced herself she's not 'tech-savvy', which is a pity.
You can understand the concepts without knowing how to code.
It can be daunting to learn new stuff, but if you're always last to learn stuff you're never going to benefit from information asymmetry.