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Last night the message had come from the daycare that there were a couple bugs going around and my mother-in-law said to my wife, "this is the 4th round and she has missed them all so far" 

*Jinxed.*

I came in late last night and got to bed around 230, then woke up at 530 with my daughter screaming with an upset stomach.

This is the cruel gift I got her from a Vienna Christmas Market with the "fox" prompt. 

![IMG_20191213_163236.jpg](https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmUu8Y1SQsSThG8Au88Yku12FkzMc5EEJ2ZsxtbAgDNXEt)

While she loves to make cookies, she can't eat any of them yet. However, she enjoys the process so much that I think she'll be okay with the making. I figure we can make some fox gingerbread for family. Once she is better of course. 

I had to head to work today as I had a meeting with my supervisor to go over the plans for 2020. It looks pretty interesting so far, but a few challenges will need to be overcome and I will take a little more responsibility on an internal project or two. 

I am hoping that while my IRL work ramps up, there will  simultaneously be improvement with the In Digital Life. I am looking forward to see more development on Steem with end user experience taking the fore with adoption and retention in mind.  

If the framework is in place just before the bulk run on crypto, there should not only be significant amounts of users arriving, they will find a place that they may even adopt as their new home. 

I see user adoption in a slightly different way than many it seems as most see it as an attraction of new users, but in actual fact it is new users *choosing* the platform. Sure, they have to be attracted, but it is their willingness to buy-in to the ideas that are important. There is more to this than simply offering reward to be here, for as we have seen in the past, once the rewards fall, many will not stay. 

Use case has to be more than a way to make some kind of money, although that is a core component of the platform. To retain users long term, there has to be things for them to do and like without reward, with whatever value they get being a bonus. For me I am lucky, as I already enjoy myself her doing and using the platform "as is". 

Gaming is an obvious group of people to target, but I do think that content publishing is going to take more focus when it comes to online earning. Right now tmit is already a growing area, it is just that the amount of people who can earn from it is narrow and, a centralized entity of some kind decide who and what get support. 

I feel that we as users of Steem have to get a lot more clever and hands-on with how we approach development. In a decentralised environment it is up to the owners to create the hype, and that is pretty much all of us who are here now. 

Perhaps we need to be a bit more foxy and a little less bunny. 

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]

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