1. The lack of content is indeed a problem. For instance, today, I saw nostr:npub1wv79gfl4tn46qxs0vcr6kr73rqethvna0kchk4cw06mmdzsgrkdqmkxye0 asking for other pro athletes to follow, and there don't seem to be many. I could only find a couple of Stoic thinkers here, and that's limited.
2. I think all of us have a bit of poetry, madness, philosophy, and politics in us.
From my side i keep on being patient and gradually building my network here naturally. It's likely that this protocol needs more engineers to discover and develop profitable and interesting ideas.