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The Lesson from a Bottom Writer
Am I a loser?
6 min readApr 9, 2023
I’m a bottom writer.
After four years of being on Medium.
After 351 articles.
After 8,666 responses.
Maybe one in 10 articles breaks 100 reads.
About two in 10 articles do not break 10 reads.
My fourth-year traction is about 50% of my first-year traction.
Should I mention that I have probably read about 20,000 articles?
I’m a bottom writer!
Why am I a bottom writer?
Destiny of the Bottom Writer
Here are a couple of interesting articles from David B. Clear and Doug Shapiro:
