Making it look easy

I have always tried to live the easy life, and I don't mean through the reduction of work. In fact, the easy life takes a great deal of work to accomplish of one is aiming to make it look easy.

When I go into a training session, regardless of my mood, my feelings, my knowledge or lack thereof, it is my aim to make it look easy. If I struggle, so do my clients.

It is not easy.

The last two days for example have been very tough as not only was the training complicated and there is a need to be up to speed on a tight schedule, it was in Finnish. My Finnish is really not great and it is not near the level it needs to be for what I needed to do and while I do not need the language for my job tasks, very few of the trainings like this that I need are available in English, or aren't available in the timeframe I require.

What this means is that after using 2 full days in training, I likely have to spend about the same amount in my own time to get a grip of what was taught and I still have all the other things that have to happen concurrently before my customer delivery next week.

The work has to be done regardless and, or has to be done well of I am to make it look easy for the customer. While the system isn't difficult, there are some complexities and changes in process logic required to understand to best utilize it and in my experience, when people have experienced something most of their life, it is hard to elect to change.

Resistance is high in corporations when it comes to breaking away from the traditional systems, just as it is for users to pick up something like crypto or Steem into their daily routines.

What are your daily routines, do you forget to brush your teeth? Do you make brushing your teeth look easy? Weird thought right there but my daughter definitely doesn't make it look easy and, it isn't always easy to help her brush her teeth. At some point though, that will be routine and the hope is that the lessons learned will ensure that her teeth remain in good condition throughout her entire life. Routine hygiene.

Are your routines hygienic? It could be and look easy but it also has to be effective in order to achieve the goals. It is easy to go to the gym for example bit, going isn't enough because one also has to workout there, and that doesn't necessarily look easy. However, the lessons and preparations made can be transported to another arena where what was trained can look easy. Jordan had something like a 32 inch vertical leap, and he made it look easy.

Habits are something that we don't think about that much as they are habitual, they feel natural, they feel easy to us but, this has nothing to do with whether they satisfy their goals and doesn't mean they aren't harmful to our person or where we want to be.

In some ways, it is similar in Steem as the people who make it look easy are generally the ones that are putting the most work in behind the scenes. I don't just mean by payout here of course, rather all the skills involved.

How much work is required to jump like Jordan, how much to paint a picture, take a great photo, write a decent article? How much background work goes into developing an application?

It takes time to acquire skills and while some people may have a natural predisposition for faster uptake, to make something look easy rarely comes without investment in. One of the things that this world of consumables, immediate provision and instant gratification is forgetting is, skills of high value have a competitive advantage factor meaning, the pool of people who can do it is narrower than the demand to have it done.

When it comes to the value of skills, there is still a supply and demand marketplace that gets applied and depending on circumstances, one skill may not be enough, no matter how highly sought after it is. This is much like in a sporting team, one brilliant player is not enough for consistent results but a group of very, very good players can deliver.

Skills need to be able to work together and compound and this is something else that many people forget as they often narrowly focused on the bits they like which are generally, the pieces they are good at already. While it is great to do what one loves, if other supporting skills aren't at least to the minimum level required, getting the opportunity to do what one loves is very difficult.

Because I don't speak Finnish for example, my work life is much harder and doing what I love (training customers) is much harder to do. Yes, I can do it but it would be much easier and I would have more opportunities to train of I was able to learn faster.

It was bad skill hygiene on my part and, I have known it for the almost 16 years I have lived in Finland. Why didn't I just learn?

Easy question to ask someone but then, how many of us have skill gaps in areas we should know better yet, haven't filled? How many want to benefit from Steem, want it to go to the moon bit don't even know how the basic technology operates and lor importantly, how it influences and affects them? These are skill gaps too.

In the future, there are going to be a lot of jobs arising from the bourgeoning crypto industry and those with skills are going to be far fewer than the demand for skills but, the job market is going to be flooded quickly, just as it has happened before when highly paid jobs are in demand. Are you ready to take advantage of your industry skills?

The developers are, I'd say. And while they might be struggling for reward currently, soon there is going to be a tidal wave of work for people who can build on and for Blockchains. Even the mediocre developers are going to be in high demand.

There will of course be a saturation point in Blockchain industry in the future but, what is that point?

Think about it here, at what point is Steem saturated with users?

Well as we know, we are definitely nowhere near that point currently and even with all the spam of the last few days, the chain utilisation has hardly moved the needle. This is the thing with scaling the Blockchain, it has to make it look easy too, even if it takes a mass amount of development in the background to do so.

In many ways, Steem is similar to a skillset and it is one that has a lot of variation in its toolbox to use. Remember that it is just a content delivery infrastructure and it doesn't care what that content is. It is not specialized, it is not narrow and, it is able to support a great many varied instances simultaneously.

It is adaptable and like the most valuable skills, what is required is demand. People want the moon and beyond for Steem but don't understand the technology and circumstances required to draw it closer. Yes, demand is required but when that demand calls for Steel, the chain has to make it look easy.

That is the work that has to be done in preparation before it arrives, just like the learning of a language needs to be done before being able to learn in that language.

Do you speak Steem? Do you make it look easy?

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]
_{(posted from phone on a train toward home)}