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[valued-customer]

I suppose I am not your audience, even though I am. I don't write for upvotes, and neither do I write for purposes such as attracting an audience, building a network, or any other reasonable purpose. I just write when I can't hold it in anymore, and have to spit the flow or drink enough to kill it. As a result my blog is all over the place, and only folks that share my interests tend to stick around. It's a piss poor way to run a business, but I'm not running a business. I'm just speaking my mind when I feel like it.

Since I am addicted to reasonable views of the world, and am now aware of @remlaps-lite, Imma hafta give it a looksee.

Thanks!

[partitura]

You almost made me feel hesitant to upvote this post. My upvoting is often to encourage the writer and not specifically geared towards encouraging content that makes Steem more attractive. Your rss-feed is often too much to read all (for me), but it certainly can be interesting to anyone and not specifically the Steem-minded ones. So I guess I can vote safely by your standards... :-)

[remlaps]

My upvoting is often to encourage the writer and not specifically geared towards encouraging content that makes Steem more attractive.

I do a lot of this, too, especially with my bot voting. I view it as a form of patronage, or sponsorship, so I do think that type of voting can also help to grow Steem.

Your rss-feed is often too much to read all (for me)

That's why I put the little "head lines" in. I figure that readers can look at the opening description, and decide what they read. If there's nothing there, they're in and out in 10 seconds. If they want to learn more about one of the topics, they can scroll down, and read the headlines and micro-summaries that interest them, and if they still want more, they can click through. It's all designed to give the reader fast access to new information from the Internet, with an easy path to learn more.

[onthewayout]

Maybe it's just my perception but most of the content that I see here is subpar at best. Unfortunately sometimes I find msyelf voting on pieces that aren't as good but since there is not much to choose from I just go with it to at least get some curation rewards (usually the "good stuff" is already upvoted way above my pay grade so that's another thing to consider).

[remlaps]

Agreed. In my own mind, I often compare it to the flywheel concept in a book I read a few years ago about Amazon's business principles. They talk about how starting a business program is like pushing a flywheel. It takes immense energy to overcome inertia for very small returns at the beginning, but the more you push, the easier it gets and the faster it goes, until eventually momentum takes over and it's almost spinning freely. At that point, it takes relatively little effort to keep it going.

I think that building an audience for a blogger is also like pushing a flywheel, but maybe there's something demotivational about the rewards dynamic here that tends to discourage people from exerting the effort it takes to get the thing spinning freely. Somehow, seeing those numbers at the bottom of the post seems to shift the mind to thinking about rewards instead of readers. Which is ironic, because in the long run, it's having readers that bring the rewards.

[onthewayout]

Is that book called From Good to Great?

[remlaps]

No. That was a good book, too, but I remember the flywheel concept from The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World's Most Disruptive Company. I posted a book review of it on Steem in 3 parts back in 2016:

• part 1
• part 2
• part 3