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RE: Not Everything is HOT or TRENDING: How Our Obsession with Popularity Shrinks our Choices
I totally agree. I have found that I have done the best by being myself, whether it's on Steemit or elsewhere in the cryptosphere, or even in my regular job. On Steemit I've never aimed for the trending page, and I haven't invested in marketing my work either, but I am doing well through the network of relationships I am establishing here.
Relationships-- yes. I remember some of your earliest posts here... and I see something I'm starting to think of as "the Steemit Effect;" people arrive here with lots of plans and ideas on how to make the most of the site... and after a few months the focus becomes more on "community and connecting."
I observe the same in myself... I came here to "write articles" which is something I've been doing for 20 years; but I've gradually become far more personal and "conversational" with my posts.
I've definitely made a lot of good connections with people here on this site, and those connections have been monetarily profitable, and of course, the connections themselves have value. My point was simply that none of that came about by trying to hit the trending page :)