Dear Steemians,

Thank you for your support and interest in my posts resulting in a fabulous more than 500 followers. I started with Steemit in November 2016. Since then there have been so many newcomers that it's perhaps time for a reintroduction of me.

My name is Antonin Tuynman, 46 years, husband to my beautiful wife Susheela and father of 4 kids between 7 and 15. (On the photo it's me and my youngest daughter Shalini). I work as a patent examiner at the European Patent Office in the Netherlands. My hobbies are writing, art and music (guitar, piano, sitar). I'm interested in science, philosophy and eastern spirituality and especially where these three meet. This made me write 3 books: "Technovedanta", "Transcendental Metaphysics" and "Is Intelligence an Algorithm?" The last one is based on what I wrote here in Steemit.

When I started with Steemit I regularly posted in art, science and philosophy for three months which brought me to reputation 65 in January 2017. These were Golden days; it was fun to post because usually a post would make more than $10. Between February and April I was busy with my last book. It has been accepted for publication by iff-books and will be published in January 2018. I already have some review copies (hardcopy and pdf) available. In April I started posting again, which went fine until about a bit more than a month ago. Was it HF19, did I piss off my whale-supporters or have I fallen in disgrace? Not a single post reaches the 2$ anymore. As far as I am concerned, I still deliver the same quality and the topics are in the same genre. Perhaps it's the dilution effect that my posts simply drown in the huge mass of posts these days. One thing is sure, my organic reach has plummeted.

Anyway, certain bitterness has crept in and I think I need to take a break from Steemit. We all need some encouragement and to continue now is just feeding my anger. My motivation is down. It can be one or a few weeks; perhaps I need to wait for HF20. Perhaps I need to wait for some new inspiration on different topics.

We'll meet again. See you in a few weeks,

Cheers,

Antonin