No, I'm saying there is no punishment for laziness.
It's the same dynamic, as with the software quality. If you get paid, whether it works or not, making sure it works is just a personal habit or preference, and not something demanded by the market.
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We've removed follows from our landing page and are focusing on the actual content, to counteract this effect.
You will have to actually publish something worth reading, to get to the top of the list. Simply being popular, or being known from elsewhere, will not be enough. And being unknown, but talented or industrious, will be enough.
I guess I'm prone to take things a little personally at the moment as I'm not moving forward with plans. So much of what I want to do involves setting up things in the real world but there's a lot of moving parts. January is a bit of a struggle, like wadding through mud. I should be providing some interesting content later in the year... Spent the last 3 days glued to a computer dealing with stuff I don't understand.
Anyway, onward and upwards...
If you took it personally, then it meant I'm not wrong. 😁
It's veeery easy to get comfortable and formulaic, on here -- even if you arrived hungry and ambitious -- because it's currently structured like real estate in Manhattan:
Show up, grab some prime property, retire, occasionally go for a walk around the block and nod to the neighbors, collect rents.
We need to invent a target 2% inflation rate of the attention market. Make everyone slaves on the treadmill. If you are not producing, then you go backwards. We can harvest the 2% to maintain the system we designed. We'll call it fiat attention.
Maybe harvest body parts from those that fall behind?