Oct 6, 2025
It anchors me because to solely focus on a Medium readership feels like a losing game. It doesn’t mean that you, dear Medium reader, are a losing game. It’s just that Medium serves a niche population that actually doesn’t represent the rest of the world, and if I were to solely carve my living wage out of this pie, I would not survive. The Medium algorithm alone would leave me in the dust. It’s the mixture of different audiences, different income sources, and different platforms that make who I am as a writer.
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