Welcome to steemit @johnduke. That passion of learning is really important to cultivate here. There are a lot of great content here from great people. Basta, you can find a lot of topics and genre here. You may use steem-buddy.com to help you get started. You can be open to your thoughts on other people's posts. This will also help you gain more visibility, as what a great mentor @fernwehninja told me.

If you want to learn more technical aspects of the platform, you can learn a lot from @jassennessaj. He is one of the active memebers @steemph.cebu. it's a great community of Cebuanos.

You can also learn a lot from @surpassinggoogle and @curie. So far these are the witnesses that inspired me to make good content. You can find more witnesses along the way.

Don't get discouraged by the low upvotes. Until now kay gamay rman gane amoa haha. Just have fun lang and try to let Steemit be a place for your thoughts. You never know what will happen. A lot of people will help you here. Have a mindset of helping the community grow so people here will grow together

Just have fun and keep on steeming! Enjoy