"I think I've officially drank the coolaid"

Made my day :)

I understand the questioning you have about what it is that you could be talking about everyday. I think the point isn't only about what you have to say, but the way you say it. You've definitely got some charisma, and I think that counts for as much as the quality of your analysis in the score you got on your Tesla vs Steemit video. You also know how to pitch something. If I didn't know Steemit and you made me a pitch like that, I'd sign up right away. I think people saw that and they are sending you the message that they hope you can continue making good pitches like that, not only to us Steemians, but to the general Youtube people out there who don't know yet Steemit.

Back to what you said about Tesla now. I still can't get out of my head that argument that Tesla is a battery company. I was waiting on the sidelines for the proverbial "blood on the street" that would come with a big Tesla recall to get in. That's because the current market cap of Tesla is higher than that of Audi and getting close do GM or Volkswagen. Feels pretty overbought for a new car maker, even a next-gen car maker. But this view is true only if I see Tesla as a car maker. Seeing Tesla as an IP company targeting the energy sector changes the game completely. Energy waits for its next blackswan. We have been searching desperately for a way to make renewable energy competitive. What if Tesla was part of that equation? If Tesla's bet on solar energy pays out, the upside could be enormous.

One hint on what could be a good topic for a future talk. I noticed in your blog feed that you are following N. Thaleb. I'm personally a huge fan of Thaleb. And I owe him a bunch for sharing his blackswan investment strategy. That made me more money than any over piece of knowledge I have acquired. Maybe you could make some good videos explaining some of the concepts developed by Thaleb around cognitive biases, the general incompetence of the financial clique and unscientific-ness of economics, and the notion of blackswans. We are literally seating on an enormous blackswan here. Steemit is "crypto meets mainstream". And not like over a ten years curve. Steemit is the "insane mode" button of crypto. People here need to understand that it's nice to make these sweet sweet dollar rewards. But what's really important is that "Steem Power" figure that is just seating there and not doing much to help them right now other than getting them pennies on content curation. That's steemians ticket to the blackswan megashow.

Sometime posting a blog post only yields a couple of bucks, and half of it is being paid out as vesting steem power. That may feel disappointing, but what people don't realize is that this small steem power payout has the potential of making them orders of magnitude more money than whatever dollar amount they earn on their post. This automatic accrual of steem power can be compared to buying Bitcoins a few dollars at a time back then when 1 BTC was worth a couple bucks. Seemed inconsequential back then, but these few bucks turned into grands, and the very same thing could happen with Steem, possibly at a scale proportional to the size of Steem's market. Knowing that, people should relax a bit and stop being obsessed by the dollar figure that appears under their post. Even people who aren't that popular can get a following, and that should get them enough skin in the game to stand to benefit significantly from Steem's success. For the first time in the history of crypto, you don't need to take any financial risk to get some skin in the game. Just keep going with your stuff, post what you like, share with your friends, be yourself and enjoy it. Don't mind the bottom line. You won't regret it. And if everybody understands that, Steem will turn into a self fulfilling prophecy and steam roll ahead and eventually chomps Reddit, Twitter, Qora and Facebook.

I'm not telling you all that to convince you of something you are already convinced of. I'm telling you that because that's the kind of message I would like to convey if I had any talent whatsoever to make youtube videos (which I don't, I'm a terrible speaker) because I hope people understand the chance they hold between their hands, stop whining about payouts, and keep going with confidence.