1 month on Medium — what to expect

I’m not new to this game of content. I’ve been writing online since 2017. Recently, I even realized my content accumulated more than 1M views.

But I never did give Medium a chance. I had heard of the platform. But the concept never really made sense for me until I grew tired with video content.

A month ago, I started writing on Medium.

Here’s what happened :

I started writing more.

Full disclosure: I was also testing something different in the way I handle knowledge.

The excitement of a new platform, and the relaxed environment, turned out to be a very fertile ground for my writing.

It’s as if I had been missing the space to write.

• Twitter was too messy.
• Making videos took me too much time.
• My email newsletter was too specific.

But on Medium?

I can write about note-taking and learning and creativity and business. I can write short or long, specific and wide. And it’s all organized.

I had a small breakthrough.

3 articles in, and one of my stories started performing.

It was not totally unexpected, as I knew this was a popular topic, I had a slightly different take, and a lot to say about it.

This story alone is responsible for half the metrics I’m going to show you. But it reminded me that social media really is a game of planting seeds and see what happens.

I started reading more authors.

Unsurprisingly, I started reading more.

Surprisingly, I expanded my circles of authors.

That’s something I didn’t know I had been missing, even though I was already convinced of the benefits of reading wide.

But unlike YouTubers, no algorithm was really helping me discover writers. This can only be good for me.

I realized Medium is not so different from TikTok in a lot of aspects.

And I’ve written a piece about it.

My feed got invaded with ‘how-to write’ content.

Fair enough, this is a place for readers and writers after all, right?

But I find it hard to break away from this bubble. Training the Medium algorithm seems to be more difficult than I had anticipated.

So….. Will I keep writing on Medium?

At the end of the month, I have published 9 articles, and here are my metrics:

• Pareto is right again here: 30% of the articles are leading 90% of the views.
• 80 or so people decided to follow my stories

Will I continue to write on Medium? Yes. Because it’s fun, and I see great potential in sharing all kinds of ideas here.

Next month, I should reach the minimum requirements for the Partner Program, so that’s an exciting new thing I’m looking forward to.

UPDATE :