>Five years ago I made a personal choice to leave the Corporate world because I was burnt out on Managing people, schedules, internal politics, various agendas and meetings. 

Oh how I remember those 'wasted' hours attending 'mandatory' meetings, even within the Non-Profit Org. arena as well...with numerous Senior level managers who seemed to exist 'only' for the purpose of attending meetings...

Then, they'd all have 'lunch' together, while we 'mid-level' managers went back to 'real' work, attempting to make up for falling behind in 'real' work, due to 'meetings'...???

Internal politics, hidden agendas, and all that other crap you mention in your article reminds me of how much 'happier' I am/was to have detached myself from that dysfunctional and least productive working environment.

Yep.  Time to build your inclusive groups here...  Kinda surprised Canna and the GanjaCoward pulled so much off of the blockchain here for other places and an ego. 

Could be worse...  I've learned some important lessons...  

But building here?  Hell yeah!  And Partiko points too!

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Blockchain gives humanity a new dimension in the way it chooses to organise itself. There will be many versions on different parts of the spectrum, from decentralisation to a Facebook token or the JPM Coin.

With blockchain and smart contracts it could be possible to create new network organisations that are totally transparent on what margin they take to provide their services and all funds flowing through the network transparently. With stake holders getting their share for being capital providers.

We are only seeing the tip of the iceberg on what blockchain will do for humanity.

I can't believe you are going to bloat the blockchain with idle chatter.

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I'm hoping to see clones of everything useful with Steem Engine SMT's now. Would really love a Twitter clone that's on it's own with it's own token.

>We started as a small company. We prided ourselves on being fast, unburdened, and keeping everything simple.

I think that this was the foundation of your success. If you can combine this with a team of smart driven individuals then any project has a good chance of success. Once you start to add too many rules and regulations every gets worse and slows down. It limits what you can do and how you can adapt to the world. You do need a certain amount of rules to have structure and grow so it's a fine balance to have.

totally agree.. lets communicate on the steem BC directly... 
.. but I encountered already some problems in regards to this principles as many steemians - especially the whales and orcas -  do not bother at all to look into their own blogs' comments section.. not to mention answering and commenting there..  whenever you try to catch those people you always hear: contact me on discord...

The never-ending Steem-Discord conflict... 

Discord really helps in having 'group convo's' which makes for quicker exchange of thoughts. But Steem is where most of our activity should happen. The pace on Steem is slow and even if I find a conversation worth following I tend to check back only once or twice, which also means that anything valuable added to the discussion 2 days later will never be seen :-) (This actually makes me *not comment* on stuff sometimes, it's wasted time if you're not 'there' in the first 12 hours.) 

Anyway, curious to see how your decision will reflect in your posts: more posts because it's about stuff you'd otherwise have shared in Discord? More oneliners? ;-) More invites to just 'come chat below my post'? :D 

Oh, by the way, I did think of a 'One Day without Discord' (and alternatives, like steem.chat) challenge/experiment, to see what would happen. Maybe we should organize it ;-) 

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