RE: Innovate or Get left behind | a Steemit or a Life Philosophy?
Nice new cartoon... I didn't know you were into motorbikes! Personally I've got something of a soft spot for Enfields and MZs.
Although I'm going to put in a counter-comment about what you say....
I think rather than innovating, the the way to succeed on steemit or anywhere else in life is to find a tiny tiny niche and specialize in it, make it your thang, rather than worrying about innovating in terms of breadth or form.
@crokkon is one of the best examples of someone who does this on steemit.. very few posts, all quite similar but very niche... typically on issues of data science and equality.
Even though he does get rewarded (justly) even if he didn't he's got clarity of purpose and integrity.
I say deeper, fewer and more specialised rather than broader and constantly innovating!
I also think people like a certain 'stability of style' - that way they know where they stand.
Having said that it is good to play around with new ideas and forms of expression. Taking part in your video challenge was very much worthwhile and I realised it really has value.
However, now I'm going to take a while to figure out the best way to use that medium moving forwards rather than carrying on innovating.
I meant to encourage people to keep writing about what they do, but to innovate on the way they do it. Also, to diversify but not to completely change.
I´m going to use as resource some fallacies because this subject is just my opinion and definitely not the absolute truth, but more a judgement made out of experience and by watching other Steemians stop getting rewards.
Example: A girl doing Yoga everyday and Livestreaming it, no matter how great she is, she will stop getting rewards at some point, whereas if she writes about Yoga in her daily life on mondays, talks about the diet that is perfect for yoga practicing on wednesdays, she livestreams her yoga classes on fridays, and perhaps if she makes a video of she doing yoga in a different set every sunday, she will never stop getting rewards...
If @crokkon starts using graphics, gifs, maybe some videos once in a while. Perhaps some day analyze other people´s data science or attack the same subject someone else did, but from a different POV... I think this practices will only bring variety and more votes in the long term, helping his audience to not feel tired of the same stuff over and over. All of this while concentratign on data science and equality, keeping the subject on top.
Not about innovating subjects, but about innovating ways of presenting them.
Of course I mention variety of subjects without forgeting about the main topic, but that is just what I did, was just an example of what worked for me. Perhaps I should´ve been clearer :D
I have a motorbike, not a good one but one I like. I think the person who did this ( I need to remember the steemit username, I´m such a bad person) saw the video I uploaded of me riding it for a contest I made and found it appealing to make a pic of it and gift it to me :D (See? Variety :P )
To bridge my comment and your reply... as long as there's some underlying 'substance' to the innovation, fair enough.....
Oddly your post made me think of Madonna... who is an innovator, often thought of as someone whose reinvented herself many times over the years... but at the same time she's got some kind of 'thread' running all the way back through those 40 years, rooted mainly in dance (she is an amazing dancer) I think, rather than music or even just general performance.... so she innovates form but there's some 'root art' running all the way through her performance history.
So while I generally don't like pop culture, I've actually got time for Madonna because there is some underlying integrity there.
Maybe I'm just lucky to have 'found my thing' before social media was invented! I have this horrific image of younger people floating around the internet experimenting with all sorts of things trying to get attention and never getting noticed... whereas they may be better off spending 10 years offline learning the piano (or whatever) and then they've got much more chance of getting recognition, and even if the don't get that, at least they can play a half decent lament! Or perhaps it's the pseudo-academic in me?
What kind of bike d'you have.. (M.Z.s aren't generally regarded as 'good' bikes btw!)
EDIT: It just occurred me that this video is the kind of 'depth with innovation I appreciate'.... Paul Wheaton with a 12 minute video on why energy saving lightbulbs are BS...!
Karl.