Why I Started To Write For Stemgeeks
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Over the last week, I made the decision to concentrate some of my efforts on the tribe "STEMGeeks".
Since the group was introduced a couple months back, I received a few tokens here and there. Like many tribes on Steem-Engine, I just filed it away in the corner, not giving it much attention.
My initial reaction was such since I am not a geek. I wish I was, then I could be one of the people starting to run the world. Alas, I will have to be content being one step removed from those with the intelligence and know how to accomplish what is needed.
However, as I thought about it, I realized that there is an important aspect to all this which must be filled.
I believe that if we do not understand the technological component of what is taking place, we are completely lost. This is why I have even less faith in politicians than I did before. I do not care what party one is from, the likelihood of them being a technological moron (at least in the United States) is great. We churn out lawyers and finance people, neither of which provides the skill set required to grasp the rapid changes that are happening.
Technology, and all that goes along with it, is become the most crucial component to society. This is what is turning industries upside down. Someone with a laptop, an idea, and some coding experience can literally develop something that wipes out an entire industry.
We never saw something like this in history.
Basically, people fall into three categories when it comes to technology:
Geeks: these people are at Ground Zero. They are the ones with the expertise to code the world. It is their knowledge that is enabling the acceleration of all we are seeing created. The best ideas these days involve someone coding something. The paradigm shift society is facing is coming about because of these people who are on the front line. Over the next 5 years, the applications and algorithms churned out will alter the world.
Technological Outcasts: these are the ones who pay no mind or do not understand technology at all. Demographics has a lot to do with it. The 40 and older crowd is where most of these people are found. They are not quick to embrace technology nor do they care to. They would be perfectly content if we turned back the clock and got rid of a lot of this stuff. The aforementioned politicians fit into that category as exemplified by the Zuckerberg hearings.
5,000 Foot View: this is where one is not at Ground Zero but understands just enough to be able to monitor what is going on. What might be lacking in the technical skills is made up with the ability to judge where things are going and at what pace. Many technologies fail not because they are bad ideas but, because the timing is all wrong. Being able to see where convergence is coming from is also vital since few technologies are operating in a vacuum.
While STEMGeeks might not offer the largest potential market in terms of community size, I think it could be a very valuable resource for Steem. As these different communities expand, we are going to see the idea of them becoming information centers emerge (I feel the same about SteemLeo). There is a lot of knowledge on this blockchain and some of the communities are starting to tap into that. With STEM, we are going to see people from all walks of life showing up who are looking for answers.
Providing this information in a manner that makes sense is vital. Much of this stems from the idea that people need to understand the "why" behind things. Why should anyone bother to learn what is taking place technologically? This is something few ask right now but, I believe, will in the future.
Having the answer is crucial. Being able to help on navigate a treacherous landscape is what a community like STEMGeeks can do. Overwhelm is something many are going to feel and providing understanding alleviates this.
Bits and Bytes are core to all that is taking place. However, most of us do not understand that nor will we ever. That is where providing people with a picture from a "bit further back" can be helpful.
I can see STEMGeeks offering the best of both worlds. There will be conversations and information exchanged for those who are doing the baseline programming. Nevertheless, for the rest of us, there is the opportunity to understand what is taking place and tie it all together. As they say, it is easy to lose the forest through the trees.
This is our opportunity to protect against that.
STEMGeeks is one of those tribes which offers the ability to put our knowledge out there while positioning ourselves as an information source.
Hopefully I can do my part to add to the conversation.
STEMGeeks has a token (STEM). This article is not financial advice as much as it is meant to be informative. It is not meant to condone the buying of this token (or any other for that matter). Any purchase made should be done so only after proper due diligence.
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I'm not officially (yet) part of StemGeeks but I'd like to shed some light of the possible diversity of the Tribe.
To simply, STEM is science, technology, engineering, and math.
I think that to really understand etat STEMGeeks is about, some people need to ignore the "Geek" portion (if that's what's throwing them off). I don't believe that to develop posts suitable for STEM topics one is expected to geek out on the topics in that typical stereo-typical way.
You could write a blog on relationships and that very early falls into the STEM dynamics; psychology is science. You could write a blog post of a child putting together a large model airplane; engineering. Your writing could be on advertising- a few years back, Goldie Blocks was making advertising waves with theironline commercials for pink toys that were typicslly marketed in any other color than pink and to boys. The toys were for building and designing; engineering. Still using Goldie Blocks as an example, the company had some massive copywrite conflict with the Beastie Boys for having used their musik, they also won an honorable free commercial during Super Bowl, and challenged gender norms; a post of this topid could have shared tags with STEMGeeks, sonic groove, sports, life/lifestyle, while the core of the blog simply being about gender norms and toys for the holidays.
We're left with Math- considering that anything and everything in the entire universe has a mathematical relation, I'm not going to get into this too excessively. To switch up the topics of interests, let's think about astrology, carpentry or sewing; all of these topics are math related. I'm not so sure that I'd utilize the STEMGeeks tag for sewing but it certainly could be well worked into astrology or carpentry.
The STEMGeeks Tribe seems to be the most underestimated, and overlooked Tribes that have been developed. No other Tribe has their food in every Tribe like these guys do.
Addicted to shopping?? It's likely that the majority of online shopping is on technology. Love gardening? Science.
In addition, the majority of topics that are looked up online have to do with STEM topics- psychology, self help, education, tech, etc.
I'm shocked that I don't see more STEM related posts here on our community. I applauded the STEGeeks and you @taskmaster4450, for pushing one of the best Tribes that I've seen and hope to see more of.
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#STEM tribe does have a general guideline about what is expected.
And yes, we have had posts on psychology that did very well.
While many things can fit into the topic, we prefer people offer information, educated opinions, and facts.
For example, if you were displaying lines of code, we expect you to tell us what are you trying to accomplish and why, and not simply code dump. That’s a #utopian-io thing.
If you are talking about smart contracts, tell us your experience writing one, not the price of Ethereum. This is not Steem Leo.
If you are changing a part to your car, it’s engineering when you jury rig or construct your own parts, but I would exclude replacing parts as a mechanic even though it’s an impressive skill.
And finally, technical analysis is not math.
@anaclark: I agree with you on this. While @taskmaster4450 is correct in saying bits & bytes are becoming core to this new modern age, they run on hardware powered by electricity coming more and more from renewables. Engineers of all types will still have a place in this new economy. Taking it a bit further, all those engineers still have to eat! So to your point, ultimately we are all involved, just the percentages have shifted around here and there. I just happen to fall on the geeky side of the spectrum :)
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