I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #711 - Hive Growth Strategies - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Monday, July 8, 2024

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I live naked and barefooted, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i, and I have for more than 5 years now. Although there are many challenges, I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

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Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

I feel like I'm a collector of Hive growth strategies, as I've come across and learned quite a lot of very useful tips in my almost 3 years on the Blockchain. Individually they may not offer dramatic gains, but when used together in a synergistic fashion, I definitely notice the boost, especially over time, as innumerable mini-boosts add up. There are countless small and simple things that we can do every day to boost our growth on the Blockchain in one manner or another.

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Since I'm always exploring, researching, experimenting, tinkering, and refining what I do on Hive every day, I tend to find a lot of very useful information on various ways to make use of our assets more efficiently and to fuel growth. I often share such growth-strategy tips in these posts, and in my Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Updates. Since I want people on Hive to thrive, I'm always happy to share what I've learned.

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Given how beneficial and useful many of these growth-strategy tips are, I'm thinking that perhaps creating a more-thorough catalog or list of them might be a good idea, as a way to add in what I've learned to a greater pool of experience from people all over the Hive community. @zakludick, weren't you working on something like that? I know that @borniet has been keeping track of many that he's learned a well. Perhaps we could make such a growth-strategies tip guide for the Busy Bees?

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As new growth insights are learned, I change what I do to implement or take advantage of them. My most-recent modification was to start using the swap feature connected to diesel/liquidity pools when I want to buy certain tokens like DRIP. For multiple days now, just before I buy a bit more DRIP from its daily SWAP.HIVE payout, I check how much DRIP I'd be able to get if I bought it on the Hive-Engine market, compared to acquiring it instead using its diesel/liquidity pool swap feature. So far using the liquidity-pool swap has given me more DRIP every time, even with a 0.25% fee. Interestingly, I did the same comparison for selling tokens as well, and in that case, selling on the maket offered better prices. If I had used the swap feature to buy my giant chunk of DRIP two weeks ago, I likely would have received quite a bit more tokens than I did by buying them on the market. Oh hindsight!

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Yesterday, Monday, I left the Flow House, after finishing my Hive tasks, just after 1PM. My first task was to make Iolanthe some food, as she had texted me earlier asking me if I could. Once Io's food was made, I hung out with her for a short while playing a drawing game. After I left Tutu's, I headed to the Landing to strain out and blend kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao). I also did my best to take more photos for these posts, in those moments when the sun came out to play. My main land work of the day was helping Ano unload his truck after the Sunday market, and to help do a last spot cleaning of the Manta Ray, a newly restored parking and storage area. After helping Ano, I took a shower, caught a few more photos in the early-evening light, then I collected my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the Landing fridge, and headed back to the Flow House, for my evening round of Hive tasks, and catching up on my notifications. I had to pause part way through to go down to Tutu's to make good for Iolanthe, and hang out with her for another short bit drawing. After dropping Io off at Braja's place (Braja is her grandmother), I made my way back to the Flow House to continue with Hive. I got everything done on Hive by just after 11PM, and after a scan of my X feed, I went to bed around 12AM. I woke up just after 8AM, after having slept fairly well, doing a round of token management, beginning on this post, and then getting out of bed to go make my superfood fire coffee.

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It's now just before 12:45PM, so a marvelous time to end this post, so that I can get to a few important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House later in the afternoon, to first do a short round of body work on Ano's shoulder (at his request), then to strain out and blend kefir, maybe take more photos for these posts, and then land work. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until the next iteration of this post tomorrow! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁 🙏💚✨🤙

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2024 Life Goals

1.) Heal my broken heart, reignite my heart sun, and embody a solid, healthy masculine, allowing my electric fire to shine bright, no matter what others, especially women, say or do. 

2.) Bring myself and my life back into balance, integration, and wholeness. 

3.) Do regular (naked) integral practices again, alone or with others. 

4.) Dance regularly again.

5.) Work with natural entheogens (mushrooms, ganja, ayahuasca), with punctuated regularity, as a part of my healing process again. 

 6.) Get, and keep, regular deep, integral energy-body-tantric work healing sessions for women flowing again.

7.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again. 

8.) Make my plant nursery beautiful again.

9.) Live as an integral part of a juicy heart-resonant soul tribe community, with deep, coherent mutual and shared passion, purpose, mission, love, warmth care, sweetness, reverence, respect, aliveness, admiration, excitement, enjoyment, playfulness, work, fun, laughter, attraction, and all-level connections and relationships. 

10.) Make love with the woman, or the women, that I love, every day, as a sacred devotional practice. 

11.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon. 

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All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 Android Phone.

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Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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If you'd like to find me on other alternative platforms where I have accounts (I spend most of my time here on Hive), click on this signature image below to go to my LinkTree page.

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If you'd like to send me a BTC Lighting Tip (made possible by the fantastic work of brianoflondon on @v4vapp), just scan the QR image below. 👇

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Signature image created by @doze, and the dividers made by @thepeakstudio, with all tweaked to their present form by me.

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It doesn't matter if my wife tells me I'm not mature
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Glorious galloping gobs of thanks to you, @hivecurious! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Indeed. I have made many Guides for newbies. Sometimes I put them into a "Guide of Guides".

It seems, however, that once I have written them for the current class of newbies, that leaving links to ones written a year ago help people less than something I just wrote.

Maybe because the newer me is a better teacher, maybe people don't like reading.

Writing something now and explaining it to them and saying, "this post I just wrote will give you more information" seems to help.

But I like Hive Libraries... so I am keen on leaving great bits of advice in places where they can link back to it. The idea is to revise those guides as Hive evolves.

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That's great, and I figured that you had. I've made a few guides/tutorials as well, as I'm fairly good at explaining to people how to do various things.

Many people do seem to prefer 'fresher' information. It could be part of an ongoing series of posts, focused specifically on useful tips and growth strategies.

Continually refreshing and updating the information is important, that's why doing it in the form of a wiki, like Propolis Wiki, would perhaps be useful. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Cool. I shall check that out! Thank you.

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Yeah, Propolis has some good potential! You're most welcome, of course! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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How does one post or add to it?

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At the moment, while it's still in development, you need to request edit access via their Discord server. I have edit access, but I haven't used it yet. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Sweet. I shall... investigate and contact!

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Excellent! The link to their Discord server is on the site. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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I haven't had a chance yet... keep reminding me!

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Hahaha...you sound like me! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Reminder! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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I have opened it in a tab I am keeping open.

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Perfect, that's a great first step! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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LOLOL...😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙
Season 3 Birthday GIF by Parks and Recreation

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Hey now... what the cat doing?

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Haha...that's a good question! I believe the appropriate expression is 'sinking into the abyss'! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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I feel that this is an allegory for something again. lol

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Yes, you're right about that! It's the analogy of being buried in Hive notifications! I'm still a day behind, and I have to go to sleep very soon! Ahhhhh! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Wow. I would not be able to handle that. I need to be able to have time to make posts!

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Oh I'm still rock-solid consistent with my daily, weekly, and regular posts. I dont fall too far behind usually, but I went to a birthday gathering, so I stated super late, and I was already still behind from the day before, so last night was ridiculous! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Hahaha, I am glad that you had fun though!

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Thanks a lot! I did, and I caught up the next day, so all good! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Indeed. For now... and then there will be more to catch up with! lol

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Haha...yes, my moment of being 'caught up' is short lived indeed! I dread falling too far behind! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Well... I guess I am here to help you fall behind but also helps your engagement.

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Haha...yep, on both counts, and I'm grateful and buzzy! I'm 21 hours behind at the moment, and hopefully after a few hours, I'll be caught up again! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Yeah I took a little break yesterdday and had over 1000 notifications... perhaps I should start muting votes... but I LIKE seeing them come in!

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Haha...that's why I don't take breaks. The farthest behind I ever got was 2 days, and man did that take a lot of work to catch up! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Indeed! But I mean... I have other things to do except Hive... I would love to do Hive full time... but I think I might be a little while before I get there! In the meantime..... I shall graft!

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Yes, I definitely understand having other often more-important things to do. Since I just have me and this small community, I have a lot of time that I can devote to it. I'm always trying to find balance there...lol! You do the best that you can with what you have at any particular time! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Sounds like a good plan indeed, consolidating our combined wisdom! I currently keep track of things just by saving the snippets, I haven’t really written anything on it yet, but it sure is a good idea to start doing that! Especially on a centralized place, and we can all keep it up-to-date and link to it. Great idea!!!
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Indeed, you got it exactly! Hehe...I knew that you had some method! I'm glad that you like the idea! Yep that's be ideal. The Propolis Wiki is a new decentralized wiki that might come in handy. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Yes indeed, something like that is exactly what we need!!!
Greatamundo!!! ;-)
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Yeppers, I think it's a good option! Fantabulous! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Damn we’re good!!!
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And we're just getting warmed up! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Indeed!! Not even Lukewarm, let alone warm! And there’s still warmerther and warmerderst before we start in the hot-range of things! :-D
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And just wait until it gets hot!

You're working on the BBH bot code? That's pretty nifty! I hope it goes well! We've got to fix these bots! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Giving it my best shot! But in the latest update of the Hive core, they’ve made some fundamental changes, breaking some of the libraries that are mostly used…
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I was wondering what exactly it was that caused the tiptastrophe. Why are they making such fundamenral changes that break so much prior functioning? 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Ah, the dark caves of software development ;-)
Sometimes you have to make the jump to a newer version that breaks the backward compatibility with the old version. It doesn't have to be a problem, if all other downstream projects are aware, and updated. But that's what went wrong :-D
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That would suggest that more communication with the community on the part of the devs, especially regarding changes that will break things, should perhaps be a higher priority. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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That wouldn’t hurt for sure!
Also people abandoning their projects without handover, while other people are using/relying on their projects is a big issue. It might be good to have some kind of overview of that kind of projects…

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Yeah, I'm very aware of how many projects get abandoned, with no effort put toward someone else taking over. That's why I've become so picky about layer-2 projects. I'm curious about people using/relying on their projects. An overview, and I'd also say a best-practices recommendations and principles for beginning projects on Hive. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Yes indeed, that would help a lot, some more guidance and best-practices for new developers. Maybe also some kind of register that keeps track of the different projects, where the dev needs to "ping" the register to show that it is still online/uptodate/maintained would be nice.
There is still room for improvements ;-)
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I like the register idea as a way of 'pinging' for project life. I love Hive very much, but oh yes, there is indeed room for improvement! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Same thing indeed, I love it, but things can get much better still! Maybe we should start working towards those improvements... ;-)
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In any way I can help work toward those kinds of improvements to Hive, I'm in! Sounds great! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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As a starter, by helping to think of solutions and brainstorming on it :-)
We can start by having some kind of a list using some kind of a wiki perhaps? Later on see how we can automate as much as possible.

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OK, I can do that! I have thoughts on all sorts of things on Hive, and on various frontends, and how they could be better. Well, the new Propolis Wiki could serve that purpose, though it's still under development. At the moment, editing permissions need to be requested in their Discord server. We could also a set up group editing on some version of a syncing note-taking app. Automation is a very good thing indeed! I'm a fan! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Propolis looks like a good place to start indeed! Maybe combined with something like Notion as the workspace for editing.

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Yeah, it sure seems to be ideal. I haven't heard of Notion yet, but I'm game to try! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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Notion.com I believe, a syncable note taking app

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OK, cool. I'll take a look at it when I get a free moment! I've used Simplenote for years. 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

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