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36 Boosters Identified. How Can You Be Successful as an International Writer?

And please, my friends, don’t chase the boost only

One piece of advice? Find some international boosters…

I’m a strategist in my work on systems change. Restoring soils, seas, and souls. I write about everything from a Dutch, Asian, and African perspective because those are the genes and cultures my husband and I combine.

My husband and I founded the science think tank Abundance 4 ALL.

And we initiated the 1000+ Solutions Movement. There are already so many good solutions but they don’t get implemented enough. So, that’s my personal task. To inspire and explain and help people to implement the millions of solutions already done somewhere in the world

Help adapt them to local climate zones and local cultures.

What topics are logical for me that tie into world trends?

AI and Web3 — offline, we do Marriage of Soil, Sea & Space projects. With AI, UX design, blockchains, and satellites. We also do unconditional basic incomes with Web3. Macro-economics.
Climate Change, travel, and outdoors. Mike and I are EU and Asia nomads.
Economy, cultures, tech innovation. I work with world and EU leaders.
LGBTQ+ I come from Holland after all. Gay Parade country where ever since my childhood it was normal to have gay neighbors with children
Women Leadership. I am working on one of my offline seaweed projects with Bee Wild in Berlin and I support her motto: Black Mums for President!
History & Futures. I love to write women’s history stories. And as said, I will more and more write thriving, realistic, science fiction futures. I see how the world will manage it in the coming decades. It’s sooooooo funny… although the ride is a rollercoaster…
(Mental) Health — I’m a cancer survivor and an adventurous grandma

I apply strategy to my work on Medium too. And I do it from my heart. With a twist. I’m a Wild Writer. Always unexpected. Combining rational, scientific, and true with twists.

I’m a (science) fiction writer outside Medium. And I’m trying to combine that storytelling mechanism here too in short stories and series. If we jump to the future and see how it has been done, we dare more.

Chaos Theory is how our planet does stuff. Remember the image? One butterfly flaps her wings and at the other end of the planet, a hurricane starts to form. Accumulation. That’s what happens on the planet.

Catalysts. Acupuncture points. Tipping points. Keystone species.

In systems design of economies, societies, democracies, cities, and rural areas, we use these nature-planet principles all the time. To create cities that cool the planet, roads that clean water, etc.

This story is a practical one. About impact writing. And boosting.

You are invited to join me in the top 10 Medium writers who earn more than $100 per month. Yes, you heard me right. Only 10% of Medium writers earn $100 per month.

And maybe 0.1% (American writers) earn much much more… The rest of us are ‘hobbying’.

It’s called the long tail in social media jargon… YouTube and TikTok are very successful with it. All the small fish. They have a few videos to show their grandmas. And they always keep dreaming of impact and riches…

However, Medium is a fantastic way of making friends! You are the ones who held my lifelines tied to the Earth when I was so fatally ill with cancer.

Thank you, dear friends!

Don’t Chase Boosting

The biggest success factor in Medium will be boosting from now on. Some writers will never be boosted because their stories will never qualify. Lack of credibility. Lack of impact topics. Lack of uniqueness.

Boosted stories are meant to be memorable and impactful from a reliable source. This is what Buster Benson at Medium says about it. A focus on high-quality writing, credibility, and memorability.

If you will never qualify for boosting due to a lack of writing skills or a lack of credibility, don’t be sad, my friends. The new algorithm designs give many more entrances to success.

I’ll write more about that soon too.

If you will never qualify for boosting due to a lack of writing skills or a lack of credibility, don’t be sad…

Limited American Worldview

For the writers who DO qualify for boosts and memorable stories, it is helpful to become visible to boosters. I do have to warn you though. Buster Benson can talk a lot about becoming worldly and accepting other countries.

But most non-American writers are hidden in the long tail.

Let’s face it. Medium is a very American platform and their choice of boosters makes it more clear than ever. So don’t get your hopes up, my dear international friends.

Our stories with international worldviews have a huge disadvantage forever.

Americans are shallow. Americans are raised on MacDonalds. And now you have dogmatic vegans. You love dogmas and extremes. But many of you can’t see full-spectrum or go back to the middle. It’s just not in most of your genes. And although I’m generalizing here, I don’t want to be mean. Some of you have broad views too. Those are already in my tribe.

But YOU are exceptional Americans. Please realize that.

I can’t blame all the other Americans. They just don’t know any better…

So, now that modern-day Kepler has been found in Belgium, the new Newton will not come from America most probably…

Innovation-blindness. Centralized echo-chambers. And commercial lockins.

Only recently, I had some boosted stories. In June. And in July. I have all the right ingredients for becoming boosted. Being a Wild Writer and the reputable founder of the science think-tank Abundance 4 ALL.

So, it should not be too hard to get boosted.

And with that realization came the desire to be boosted. So, I made a little strategy. Not too much effort. I have more to do offline…

My biggest disadvantage is that I’m not American.

I’m invisible to many here. I’m European, Asian, and African. This platform has a super-American worldview. But they are starting to get a bit outside of their limited USA box and become more worldly super-slowly.

Worldviews are hard to change. I don’t judge your slowness.

I just don’t know how serious Medium is about becoming a world platform. I still see mainly American boosters. Until now, Medium was not my favorite writing outlet. Much too limited. But it might change now.

Let’s observe and conclude later.

It’s no secret that I’m not a big fan of the American worldview. I’m European, Asian & African after all. So, I have to write carefully not to step on arrogant, limited-vision American toes.

Being a Wild Writer might seem okay. But how do I get people with just one language and country and Disney lovey-doveyness to understand the huge differences in cultures, languages, ethical principles, and worldviews?

I’m still puzzling about how to seem American for American understanding without becoming shallow and stupidly American myself…

Finding the boosting editors wasn’t such a big quest. Let me start with the ones I like. The rest is ordered randomly.

You can see the boosters as talent scouts. And often, they have their own publication. Please talk to me in the comments about your experiences with these writers, editors, or their publications.

My biggest disadvantage is that I’m not American

Booster Writers & Editors

ADEOLA SHEEHY-ADEKALE — I adore her! Absolutely adore her since long! And I’m super proud that she accepted me in her publication Modern Women.

Sadie Seroxcat — I love her work on chronic (mental) illness. I’m a cancer survivor after all. Sadie is like me. A literature writer is full of full-spectrum, and metaphors. My quest would be complete if she would have boosted one of my stories or poems.

Kelly Baldwin Heid — I like her work a lot. Global Urban Health. She got some of my stories boosted in her publication Symbiotica. Unexpected City Solutions. And Green is not Green. All about full-spectrum interconnected solutions — that’s my topic after all.

Johnny Silvercloud — power, protest, and politics. I like him. Outspoken. And my young black friend Bee Wild got accepted into Afrosapiophile. I might try some protest stories. Humor and counter-rhythm-drumming are the best protest peace instruments after all. Keeping the crowd under control without violence. With ancient cultural wisdom.

Remy Dean — creativity. I do like this. And I might try to get on the radar with my science fiction meet reality stories. Or the dragons blowing some sense into humans. That’s what Generative AI is doing now after all. And then this Google guy going stop, stop, stop... Hahaha. No stopping is possible. The train is running.

The dragons are going to save us all…

In Indiana Jones the Dial of Destiny, the bad guy even looked like Elon Musk… and Oppenheimer…

Debra G. Harman, MEd. — I might wanna get on her radar. I don’t know why (yet). But I have this feeling she might be important for my quest.

June Kirri and Linda Caroll — both about writing. I might try them instead of arrogant Justin Cox.

David Todd McCarty — Hope & Humor. Like it.

Thomas Smith — Generative AI — this is one of my topics. Web3.0 and Web3.

Human is the core word

Other Boosters

Medium people are also boosters of course. People like Buster Benson Ariel Meadow Stallings Tony Stubblebine Ev Williams and others. Make your own list of those. Not hard to find.

I thank Kristina God and Robin Wilding 💎for writing openly about this kind of Medium stuff. I don’t like that most of the goodies are kept in expensive courses about Medium…

That’s also the reason that I use my valuable time sometimes to write about my journey too. We’ve all been helped. I don’t have to get rich selling knowledge that came from others…

We ALL have a right to be successful and become successful writers!

Here are the somewhat more independent boosters.

Eric Pierce — pop culture

Robert Roy Britt — publication Wise & Well. I tried to apply but was rejected. Reason? Non-American? I don’t know. He said he couldn’t judge what I wrote.

Well, maybe that’s the big problem the whole time. How can Americans judge the unexpected scientific findings of non-Americans? You have a super-limited vision. Not your fault of course, but still…

Fabricio Teixeira — My young friend Bee Wild (black coder and also European like I am) is trying this. I’ll keep you informed on what she finds.

Jeff Barton writing & sports

Nancy Peckenham history & women & travel

Kristen Mulrooney Women & writing

Justin Cox writing — although I’m a writer for The Writing Cooperative, I never managed it more than once. Arrogant publication in my opinion. Very narrow worldview

Maia Niguel Hoskin, PhD race & women, USA focused

Adeline Dimond crime, USA focused

Ben Huberman — data science. I don’t know how much he knows about the Spatial Web Gabriel Rene and Superformula (dynamic math 2003) Johan Gielis. That’s where the best ethical, effective, and energy-efficient changes in algorithm tech come from.

But do they believe me? I worked for an American company once. Sooooo arrogant. They never believe anything outside the USA.

Not even from a person like me, living next door to and working with the biggest tech monopolist in the world. ASML. Chip-making with light and resonance technology. But then, I have the extra disadvantage of being a woman… that’s never an advantage in tech and leadership…

But I might try someday… or maybe they see the light and ask me…

Kimberly Fosu — black soul

Debbie Walker — women, Food & Diversity

KiKi Walter — women, social & writing

Dan Owen — film. I wonder if they will ever feature a bit of European cult or Bollywood. African film? Ireland is doing great nowadays. I’m visiting my sister who lives there in Sept. But most probably it’s all Hollywood tunnel vision.

Jason Provencio — social justice, LGBTQ — very USA-focused. Has no idea what social or gay means in EU, Asian or African economies, cultures, and countries.

Patrick Stewart — TAO. These people I find the funniest of all times. How can you ever understand TAO without Asian and women perspectives? How can you know about timing if you have just one word for time? Do not Chronos and Kairos like the Greeks? Or two words for WE like the Indonesians.

What nonsense men can talk about TAO… But how do I explain this to Americans if they don’t understand deeper I-Ching? Or Superformula (dynamic math 2003)?

That’s my personal puzzle…

In Indiana Jones the Dial of Destiny, the bad guy even looked like Elon Musk… and Oppenheimer… and now I’m not laughing anymore…

I’m finding ethical ways of implementation now with my Belgian/Dutch science partners. Not German, American, or Japanese, please…

Cultures, cultures, cultures…

Graham Zemel — tech developer

Nassos Michas — scrums. But well, he isn’t boosting scrum strategies for Climate Change, is he? We had this big conference Agilists4 Planet. But the personal stories I wrote about it disappeared in the hugely hungry Medium vortex black hole…

Xinran Waibel — data engineering. Netflix. Again such an American concept. Like Disney… hahaha

Kevin Alexander — music. Well, I don’t have to tell you how cultural that is

Christine Schoenwald — varia social stuff

Rodrigo S-C — don’t know about what. Not interesting for my work I think.

Christopher Robin — memoirs

Here are some more stories if you want to read a bit more about Boosting magazines. Or about Boosting requirements.

Conclusion

My personal conclusion is that I still don’t go licking asses and trying to fit into American ways. There are many more platforms, publications, and publishers than Medium.

And maybe I don’t belong in the American press.

You all like more of the same. The cultural, and international twists are not understood. You like symmetrical, mechanical listicles. And you are superficial.

Dive Deeper, my friends, that’s all I can say…

That’s why I find this platform so boring sometimes… you go on and on and on about the same instead of focusing on the acupuncture points of current evolution.

What I find striking as well is that I can’t find any real rational tech and business writers among the boosters. No start-up scene. No marketing. No economy. No publications like Predict. Or Age of Awareness. No Illumination Curated Inclusivity. Although my friend Rebecca Romanelli got boosted in this publication.

Perhaps there are still things I don’t see yet. There’s always more to know in a full spectrum…

And I’m humble enough to know that we don’t know what we don’t know…

Hmmm… So, it seems Medium is making a shift towards social, women, LGBTQ+, race, inclusivity, and only AI and software tech.

No real Web3 specialists, no race and tribal and peace issues from EU, Asia, or Africa. We will see what this is gonna mean… internationally…

Happy and Healthy People IN a Healthy Planet

Human is the core word. Nature, climate zones, and cultures are only secondary in Medium’s view. How strange! Happy and Healthy People IN a Healthy Planet, I’d say…

Interconnected & Nested. Like the planet does it. Superformula (dynamic math 2003). There is apparently no notion at all that we, humans are nature. A species with a brain.

In safe cities so we are only triggered by other humans. Hahaha… Sooooo funny… Or not, when it means people are dying from leaders’ stupidity…

We are biology. And biomimicry is the #1 innovation method in all science fields now. We are redesigning economies, societies, neurosciences, psychology, leadership, and change communication right now all around the world.

There’s apparently no notion at all that it can now be proven in science HOW to create the best solutions overall.

Superformula (dynamic math 2003).

Let’s see how far I get in getting this message across in my personal stories. Let’s observe full-stop. Without observation, no wisdom.

And I wish Medium and the boosters all the success in the world with going international. One piece of advice? Find some international boosters.

It might make a small dent in the hugely arrogant American bubble…

It might help to see, hear, taste, touch, and smell a bit more of the full spectrum… We have 5 senses and skin and our intuition for our own meaningful lives after all…

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