nice explanation and great points : 0

Yes!!! I miss your whiteboard content from the old days !! :)

I am hoping that Hivemind fosters lots and lots of innovation. Yeah, there might be some “Balkanization” and “gated communities”, but I’m guessing that the good will outweigh the bad.

I look forward to SMT’s but am in no rush. Much better to have them rolled out rock solid than rushed and flawed. Done right, they could be a game changer with *massive* potential.

I believe that blockchain will have a fundamental impact on the individual and on how a collection of individuals can rapidly become part of a community with a whole different take on the way the world operates. You can see it happening now in the way people join ICOs, sharing the experience and hooking into that community with a real commercial stake.

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I agree with this wholeheartedly. I've been preaching for lack of a better term that the reason why Steem cannot be put aside, is due to the community that it has.

Granted, there are hundreds of issues, conflicts, disagreements, you name it. But in all, there are thousands of us who have grown attached to the possibilities of this blockchain and have learn to recognize the value in each other, if even for a second.

The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect">network effect</a> we keep on talking about, is built upon the organic growth of communities, it's built by people, not just algorithms and code. However, code can be a crucial aid to the process facilitating and reinforcing the communitary social tendencies.

The cold hard truth, at least the moment is that yes <b>content is important</b> but....  

<h4>People + Communities > Content </h4>

We could have the best content creators, we could have the funniest videos, the best philosophical, political rants and it would not mean a damn thing without an audience to share it with.

I for one can't wait for Hiveminds to come out. I think the inevitable petri dishes that will sprout are going to be crucial to the social structures to arise in the future.

All this to say...  I'm pumped!

>what people will think if I write something stupid, boring, or containing mistakes. How would it look if Steemit's Content Director ... made crappy content?

Don't worry about that man, your content is solid and if you make a mistake so what...we are all human. I like to read the content of the people involved in the blockchain that changed my life. Even if it's just a photo with some lines of text. 

Can't wait to see how disruptive Hivemind will be. 

Thanks for all the work you and the team are doing.

Steem/Steemit is a great combination of technology and community. When I went to the London Crypto Show where lots of companies were showing off their technology, but only Steemit could bring 50 real users together there to support them. It is important to users to understand the basics of this platform so that they do not risk the security of their accounts and so they make the most of it, but it has massive potential to change lives and build communities around content. I think we are just at the start of this and I hope to see it become massive in a year or two.

Honestly, I'm really excited for hivemind. Communities will be gamechanging.

And regarding SteemMonsters:

I think what makes the combination of aggroed and yabapmatt special, is that aggroed is so incredibly good at creating and leading communities, while yabapmatt is a really good dev.

This was all very interesting! I’m a new community member, and I think Steemit stands poised to grow by leaps and bounds.

"Steemit's Content Director", huh? Does it mean you're responsible for the abhorrently low quality of the aforementioned content? No? What kind of director are you then?
And regarding hivemind, communities and SMTs... where are they!? So much talking about it and NO real results whatsoever. This place looks shittier by the day and I already consider my investment here to be one of the worst mistakes I ever made. It never stops to disappoint, really. The site is pathetic and the dev team is, too.

Well, like you, I see communities - and not only the technological advance - as a key to success for steem(it). So when will steemit.inc start to delegate SP to community building projects like it is delegating to dapps?

I could not agree more about communities.  I have gone so far as to consider SMTs, Oracles, and Communities one integral thing, which I now refer to as SOC.  Concatenation of multiple affects can produce entirely novel effects, and both Steem and SOC do this.

Thanks!

>Lately I've been contemplating whether this focus on the technical aspects of the technology is, in some ways, self defeating. In marketing there is a concept called the "job to be done." The idea is not to explain how your product works to your potential customer, but instead focus on why it will enable them to "get their job done."

As well - given we're blazing ahead in completely new territory - just as equally-critical may be not just explaining why it'll work to get jobs done that are already defined, but painting picture for what possibilities could be created that might not even be on people's radars yet...

I very worried about this hivemind idea. We are already very unwelcoming to noobs. Once everyone scurries off into their hives, who will be looking at posts we get from from fresh minnows? No one. This is one on the things that killed tsu. One day we had people out in the lobby, then communities came and  the place died in a week. The majority of my friends went to photo groups and my weight loss work stopped getting views. 

tsu had millions of active members we have less than 10K. If we get 50 communities going, they will average 200 members. Do this is not enough upvotes to sustain them either. I would love to know your thoughts on this aspect of the idea.

for Steemit.com communities are the missing link and I for one can not wait for hivemind.  Well done on all the work by the steemit team.  So what if it is slow, rather slow and right than fast and wrong.

Yes! Check out the community I'm building through haikus. 

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