A Daily Ritual: Embracing the Pressure of Consistent Content Creation
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Chapter 1: The Demands of Medium
Medium can be a ruthless platform. Take just a couple of days off, and your earnings can plummet dramatically—like a snake competing in a limbo contest, or a politician caught in a moment of honesty, or even a football player failing to score an easy goal.
The algorithm appears to prioritize novelty above all else. If your content isn't fresh and exciting, much like a brand-new car, it risks being overlooked. Yesterday’s article is reduced to little more than discarded paper, unfit even for wrapping up soggy fish and chips, destined for the trash outside a kebab shop.
To navigate this landscape, it seems the solution is to publish every single day. It hardly matters what you write; the key is to keep producing content. Take this very piece, for instance—it's essentially a collection of thoughts that probably leave you questioning why you even started reading. Yet it offers something fresh to satisfy the algorithm's relentless appetite for new material, as if we were making sacrifices to appease Medium's profitability. Whether it's first-born children or live chickens, as long as it's new, the platform is satisfied. Speaking of which, one of the kids was quite the handful yesterday...
One of the most popular topics is writing about writing, where authors share how to make a fortune mimicking their style, or even delve into the meta concept of writing about writing itself. A whole new niche! In my case, I might as well offer courses on earning a pittance. Even more popular than that is discussing Medium itself—so-called "meta" articles. The platform feels a bit self-absorbed, reminiscent of a former president without the legal woes or the parade of vehicles (seriously, why does one person need so many cars?).
To optimize this approach, it appears one should write daily about Medium and its virtues. In closing this article that rambles on about the necessity of daily writing, let me express how incredible Medium is, particularly its readers, who prevent us from speaking into an empty void—something I suspect might apply to many of my writings. Until tomorrow!
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