I was mostly raised by "older" people; my parents were near 40 when I was born and many of their friends would more naturally have been the age of grandparents. But that also meant I grew up around a lot of wisdom.

There was a retired friend of my fathers who taught me the game of golf as a teenager, but he also talked a lot about life... and your post reminded me of something he often used to say:

"He who hasn't made a mistake, usually hasn't made ANYthing."

As a kid, it sounded sort of odd to me, but with the hindsight of years, it has come to be quite meaningful.

Of course, then there's the popular business myth (which I have never been able to verify) that the popular cleaner "Formula 409" is thus named because the previous 408 didn't do as well as the developers were hoping for. Yeah, that one is more of a flip joke... but still illustrates the point.

What do you think of short-form content like this?

I value them, oddly enough. For the past 60 days or so, I have tossed in a @zappl post every 8-10 posts or so-- and the level of engagement has been impressive; sometimes garnering upwards of 100 comments. I think they can be excellent conversation/discussion starters if formed as a question, and we take a little time to specifically shape them for engagement. Which, of course, is my particular passion with Steemit.

Short form also invites a new audience that might otherwise give our long form content the TL;DR rejection.

Meaningful connections and relationship building IS the backbone of social content platforms... we're both "career" bloggers; I know for me it's the long comments with "meat on their bones" that make the effort worthwhile, not the "nice post, please vote me's"

Steemit is sort of unique in that every one of the 400-some people I follow have something interesting to offer... and yet it's almost impossible for me to keep up with them. By comparison, following 400 people on Facebook barely makes a blip in my morning. Which tells me this place has a certain magic and potential to truly change the world that we just haven't seen before.

Sorry, there I went again, blogging on your blog...