You can indeed write all the quality posts that you want but if nobody follows you, they will get unnoticed! So you are correct that you first have to buid your network.
First thing of the day is browsing through my feed. Why? Cause I do know that the people write interesting and quality posts.
After that I do browse through my preferred tags, trying to find interesting people and posts.
But it takes time!
Thanks for the excellent comment @fullcoverbetting, you're right! Keep up the great work.