Thanks for the interesting read .
Personally, my goal on Medium is to educate (while hopefully also entertaining) in the arena of personal and small-business finance.
As a result, I follow writers whose writing can teach and inspire me in any of the following:
- Personal finance
- Small business finance
- Freelancing (since many micro-businesses are freelancers)
- Branding (since it affects the finances of small businesses)
- Effective writing and publishing(since that’s the linchpin of writing anywhere, but especially on Medium)
When I run across and read something that fits the bill, I look at what else that writer has published, and assess to what extent their writing focus fits within my area of specific interest.
If there’s a large overlap, and their writing is interesting and entertaining, I follow them.
If there’s only a minimal overlap, I’ll likely leave a comment that’s intended to forward the conversation of their article that first caught my attention (like yours here).
However, given the limited time I have available for reading even well-written articles that fall outside my main area of interest, I won’t follow these writers. That’s no reflection on them — it’s just that I’m not a member of the audience they write for.
