Engage or be invisible… — You have a second or two. It’s not that your audience has a lower attention span. Your reader has unlimited choices for her time and attention. It’s easy to blame doom-scrolling, binge-watching, and on-demand everything, but in the end, it’s our job as creators to earn and keep our readers…

This example will show you why I question everything now — This story is an accident. I used to be obsessed with my Medium stats, back in the day when you could easily make 2 grand a month writing daily content. I’d fresh and re-fresh my stats maybe 100 times a day. It was a real problem. I’ve since broken this…

…and why you should never apologize for asking to be paid for your work — Writers and creators live in a tough world many other vocations don’t have to contend with. You’d never get upset with your plumber when she hands you an invoice, after unflooding your flooded bathroom. You wouldn’t shake your head and call your brain surgeon a greedy pig once she billed…

One little link is all you need — Medium is a tough landscape. When a new writer joins the platform is can be demotivating for a long time before you finally see a little traction in readership. With the new changes in the partner program, the spoils of your writing can take even longer. But it’s not all…

Ignore the partner program altogether — Being a Medium writer is not for the faint of heart. You must has discipline. You must have a plan in place. And you must be ready to be underwhelmed for awhile, before you gain traction. Most new Medium writers give-up too early. On Medium, no one is coming to…