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If Earnings on Medium Were a Puzzle, How Would You Solve It?

Nour Boustani
5 min readOct 22, 2022

I can’t figure out Medium; it’s so hard, I’m so frustrated, I want to quit, wa, wa, wa. Mama, give me your big boobie to cry on and suck some like a big sucker. Slaaaaaap. Shut up, little kid; sugar mama’s tits aren’t for losers.

I have been on Medium for almost four months and have seen many complaints about earnings, views, algorithms, etc. Many have already given up on the idea of writing altogether. Why, Why, Why?

Why is it so easy for you guys to get frustrated and give up way too early or get hung up on metrics that don’t make any difference? Why do you care how Medium adjusts the algorithm or what AI writing tools can do?

Forget about all that nonsense and focus on unlocking your Medium, not Medium. I have done plenty of split tests on Medium, and I have to tell you that you can take all the things you are worried about and throw them in the garbage.

The stats dashboard is a joke and a toy to keep you busy during the month; the earnings per reading time are also a joke. Medium pays as it wishes; no one knows how it works and why it works the way it does.

Medium is a complete puzzle you have to unlock; somehow, I feel that It is a giant that stands between you and success as a writer, and somehow you have to keep fighting that giant…

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Nour Boustani
Nour Boustani

Written by Nour Boustani

Hit the sweet spot or leave it be.

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