I normally don't share information with others. We live in a kill or be killed world, so it's only natural that we hide information from each other to better advantage ourselves as we play the capitalistic game of exploit others better than they can exploit you. I've had to murder so many people in my life and it was such a shame because they were nice people, but they were coming right at me and trying to grab more resources than me. I'm a sharing kind of guy, but if people come at me they bring the devil out of me.

Of course I'm exaggerating (I haven't killed anyone), and I was never director of a fortune 500 company. I like to use colourful language for my own pleasure. (I'm only writing this so you don't end me by calling the police...)

Tip 1: Being a Stakeholder

Let's start with a dictionary definiton:

a person with an interest or concern in something, especially a business.

This means you have an interest in its success.

In my opinion being a Stakeholder is all about mentality. I'll explain this through what I learnt when I became a director of a non-fortune 500 company at the age of 26.

When I became a director it was all blunts and booze, but I knew I would have to change my mindset (that didn't mean stopping the blunts and booze). But doing minimal effort to get by wouldn't swing in this world. That is what I was used to, floating through life without taking responsibility or accountability at any work place or institution. I did take responsibility and accountability outside of work and institutions, but that is because

This is my world

I needed to adopt that same mentality for this company. This is my company; I am responsible and accountable for it.

I had to become the lazy pareto principle incarnate to survive this new directoresque world. I had worked in theatre all my life, and as an actor I had no problem getting into character. I simply had to adopt the character of a director to understand and get into the mindset.
"This is my company. I need to be assertive and lay the tracks for where I want to take it" I would say to myself.
Within a few weeks I was walking around like I owned the city. I would blaze in front of the police, and they wouldn't touch me due to my fancy three piece suit and unfathomable confidence. I had become a director. A monster of a man who did not care about the law which was designed to keep the lesser beings in place. (I did not care about the law before, but now I felt I didn't have to be as careful as a criminal.)

I'm no longer a director, and I feel more human unfortunately. It was nice walking on stilts above everyone else, but it wasn't for me; I despised the industry I worked in. I ended in it by accident, and had to get out before it became my boring responsible adult life. In no time I was a director again, but this time a director of a theatre company producing plays with lots of drug references. That's not me though... just one aspect.

There's a film of this, but most of the footage was lost as the cast were off their faces and I accidentally brought the real brownies on stage... because of all the blunts and booze...

Anyway in short, if you have Steem. You are a stakeholder in Steem. Do you see yourself as a person with an interest in its success? Or do you feel like a passerby watching from the sidelines?
Can you say out loud with confidence "This is my Steem Blockchain!"?

Being a Stakeholder: Ownership, responsibility, and accountability.

Being a Steem Stakeholder: YOU TELL ME!

Tip 2: Being a Stakeholder of the Steem Blockchain

What is the Steem Blockchain? What is Steemit? Many people believe it is something set in stone, that it has a predetermined form. Perhaps in five years we will know what we have when we can look back at it, or maybe we will see a shadow of something constantly in flux.

Don't define it. Look at it as something that has never come before. Something that we cannot fully comprehend or grasp yet. It's not this, and it's not that, and it's not somewhere between this and that.

The Steem Blockchain is Nietzsche's Ubermensch (Superman):

"Since there is nothing in the world which is permanent whatever exists must eventually be overcome by something else which comes along. Seeing itself and its values in the same light it knows that these aspects must also be overcome by something stronger if not from it then by something else.
So in order to keep up with the times it continuously reinvents itself itself over and over always building something stronger, more powerful, on top of what went before.
In this way it rises above the values of the masses (the weaker, the unwise) until it arrives at the top and being superior to any other it serves as a guideline for the rest of society"

Tip 3: Holding and Selling Steem

What do you do with your Steem?

If you need to sell it, go ahead, but keep this in mind. Every Steem you sell for ~$0.10 will be worth 100/1000 times more in a few years. So for every dollar of steem you sell, you've just lost $99-$999 of future monies.
I haven't touched my Steem, and infact I have bought some. I plan to buy more when my want and effort levels align.

Big money in cryptocurrencies is made from buying or mining (interacting in Steem's case) when the Cryptocurrency costs cents.

Tip 4: The Fabric is coming...

Are you excited?

@RiskDebonair
Amateur Detective & Flanuer