Hey All,

I'm @dougsandlin.

I just joined Steemit - and I'm really excited about the potential for a few reasons.

1. Social is already proven to be "yuge".

2. Blockchain promises to be even "yuger". (My favorite current quote along those lines is: "Blockchain is to transactions as email is to snail mail."
3. I can foresee an era of interactive value arising - where we actually compensate each other for offering things - including content, comments and other online activities - in the form of actual currency - whether digital (like bitcoin) or transferable to traditional funds (i.e. dollars, euros, etc.).

4. Likely a bunch more I haven't thought of yet.

I spent most of my life in Silicon Valley, a few years in Austin, TX - and have spend the last eight years in Pennsylvania's awesome Lehigh Valley (aka Allentown and environs). Most people know Allentown from the Billy Joel song - but it's changed a bit since then.

Quite a bit, actually.

We're the fastest growing city in the state; we just invested a billion dollars in revitalizing our downtown and waterfront, we have multiple startups and startup accelerators - and we're one of the U.S.'s primary ecommerce logistics hubs (Amazon and FedEx are both building huge new distribution facilities here.)

I was involved with tech companies for most of my career, and then started my own endeavor - Living Unbound, which is focused on getting the most out of meditation, mindfulness and optimizing consciousness-experience, overall. Here's a link to the Living Unbound website, and our online community, for anyone who may be interested in additional detail (and, of course, you're welcome to participate, too).

This led to the development of the Living Unbound framework, and the Open Humanity framework - which I recently introduced on Medium (where I'm also @dougsandlin ).

Ditto on:

Twitter

Quora

And even YouTube, where I have a few videos, including a couple of original songs I've written and recorded - along with a 3 Minute Guide to Starting a 50 Billion Dollar Company (courtesy of Social+Capital founder Chamath Palihapitiya - who actually started / funded the company he envisions in that video).

Personally, I like to read (voraciously - hence my 561 titles on Goodreads; I need to add a few more - and yes, I've read them all), discuss current events online (ditto), promote a more aware way of living (hence the meditation, mindfulness, living unbound, etc. focus), enjoy awesome Indian food (my partner is originally from Mumbai, and she's an excellent cook - and so, I get to do that, often), and hang out with family - which includes our dog, Toby (a ten pound mystery-mix we rescued from a shelter, who is fairly sure he's a wolf, much of the time -- just ask the always-bigger dogs in our neighborhood).

Finally, if that's not enough "@dougsandlin" for you -- I've got a consulting / services website as well - at dougsandlin.com .

(Steemit emphasized confirming that "you're you" - and, well -- I'm me. :) )

I think that's it for now - I look forward to STEEMing along with you all as we grow this new and very unique community together!

~Doug