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Walter, your success is remarkable. Congratulations. I haven't found the winning formula for myself yet, but at least I get occasional boosts. I love the idea of gathering our gems and forming them into outlines.

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I've just scheduled a post where I give a full summary of the last four years. Maybe that will help bring all the variables into the light a little better.

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Thanks for letting me know, Walter.

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I do the same thing when I'm too tired to write a full blown article: I just go through the notes I have (I keep mine in Notion) and try and write an outline or write a few more thoughts or just in general try to build on them a bit more. At least I've done something.

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Hello Walter, I really appreciate you shared all these information, it's highly valuable for me, since I'm new on Medium (and on Substack too), but I try to get familiar with both. I also applied for the Medium Day talk and curious if they would pick me as a newbie. Well, let's see...

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I hope you get in! It's always worth applying!

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Thanks for the encouragement :-)

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Hi Walter, thanks for sharing these insights! I’m amazed that your article with 1,8K views has such high earnings, congratulations! Is that something you see very often? I have a lot of articles with over 1,8K views and a similar read ratio as yours, but the earnings are around $200. Do you have any idea why there’s such a huge difference in earnings?

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That's a great comment Lea, and I've seen the same thing with my articles. The short answer is that we don't have complete access to how the compensation is calculated. I think that's a result of practical limitations. There's a line as to how much data Medium can realistically give us access to. I also speculate that they regularly update their system. They have to in order to remain sustainable as a business. My guess on this article is that it got some sort of a multiplier because it has a very high member read ratio (over 80%). It was also Boosted, but those are just my guesses. I've had other articles with Boosts with a high read ratio that didn't earn that well.

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I’m not working on a schedule and I’m not even asking for payment, but even I find the notebook of ideas and kernels of future postings idea a great help looking forward at what to write about next while capturing the random stray thoughts that eventually come together.

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Every one of those thoughts is a building block.

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Walter, Thanks so much for sending people my way on substack. It is greatly appreciated. I post daily on Substack, mostly on spiritual capitalism, practical philosophy, applied game theory, solutions to specific problems, and wealth-building hacks - Lewis

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