How the Most Powerful Collective Writing Platform Reshaped a Sense of Community

Medium is not what you think it is.

It seems that every writer on Medium is in their own world, their own bubble, working like crazy for their own group of followers.

However, in reality, as we read each other’s pieces, our minds connect with one another, leaving a trail of thoughts that propagate in a constant sharing through the world of words.

In fact, when I write, I’m leaving bits and pieces of other writers’ thoughts along the way.

Welcome to the new world of communities and tokens.

It’s not the corporations that will hold the power in the future, but communities and tokens.

The matrix of our economy is changing. In a digitized world, groups of people join together to build new ecosystems and infrastructures in order to help each other, support each other, and develop unique environments.

Recently, I wrote an article where I describe the concept of collective growth:

Collective growth is the process by which a group of people grows through the power of a community. A community, or token, is a group of people who identify with shared principle, culture, and values that manage to build something new by rebuilding each individual as they take part. Through interaction, sharing, and individual appreciation, the group grows as a whole, in turn causing the community to grow.

In December of 2020, I joined a community of writers in full-time writer mode and since then I have been inside of a writer’s token that offers support, advocates for better rights, learns with each other, shares opinions and critiques, but most of all, evolves into a powerful network.

In this community, I’ve learned how to write better, think better, share better.

From 100 followers to 1,000 readers, my personal growth has been made possible through the collective. I wouldn’t have been able to do it on my own.

Fortunately, I found [arlie] PEYTON and Sinem Günel who taught me how to navigate and thrive on this platform and maximize my own stories, as well as how to learn from other writers and take advantage of new ideas.

Fortunately, I found writers like Tim Denning, Jessica WildFire, Niklas Göke, Jessica Lynn, and Nicolas Cole, who inspire me every time I read their work.

Fortunately, most of my followers criticize and critique my pieces. My readers are demanding, knowledgeable, and argue based on solid foundations, which forces me to see their points of view, reflect, and often change my opinion on certain issues.

The reality is that we inspire each other. Many times we may even have the feeling that someone stole our idea, as we have already written about the same subject.

These are the lines of thought that make us a collective growth community.

Ten years ago, I don’t think we were prepared to engage in such kinds of communities. Facebook started its sense of community by dematerializing our social network. And now, with blockchain technology growing exponentially we’re going to witness an explosion of communities through the tokenization of the entire economy.

In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.

We’re entering into a behavioral economy, meaning it identifies a range of biases as a result of the way people think and feel.

Show me the incentive, and I’ll show you the outcome.- Charlie Munger

That’s why this platform is always changing its incentive strategies.

The new economy has been built under the premises of incentives. The Internet of Things is creating three pillars: communication, energy (climate change), and transports.

We’re in the communication sector. People come to us because they want a different perspective, that’s why we’re called indie writers. No corporations, no institutions, and no governments are preventing us from writing whatever we want to write.

In today’s world, being independent means belonging to an outside world, the same one that is being digitized, decentralized, and freed from government.

The tokenized economy wants to be free from central entities as most of the time we don’t know who these entities really are. With globalization came manipulation, from top to bottom. We, the indie writers, form one tiny community that doesn’t belong to anyone. We can write whatever we want (under the umbrella of some common sense).

But we’re not alone.

New tokens are being built under the premise of the same independence in hundreds of different blockchains, in a metaverse world, that will disrupt every single industry.

We, the indie writers, must be aware of these changes because we’re in the eye of the hurricane. We don’t write for a newspaper- we’re fully involved in digital gigs.

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage.

Robots will take most of our jobs.

That means human attributes will be gold in the near future. Characteristics like courage, humility, kindness, competence, communicative power, and artistic ingenuity will be very well paid in the future.

Most of our daily tasks will be done by robots. Autonomous cars will pick us up at home, sensors will record the purchases we make at the supermarket, and most social events will be held at home, in a virtual reality environment.

In this new world that awaits us, people will yearn for that human touch, attributes that remind us of the warmth of a hug or the kindness of a smile.

Indie writers like us will be the intellectual escorts that will guide the thinking of the masses in an independent, cohesive, and friendly community.

Final Thoughts

In a tokenized economy, us indie writers, are the ones that seek information, filter out the noise, and give a refreshing perspective full of hope and innovation.

The importance of this growing community is greater than we think. People who belong to the centralized and institutional world read our work.

We are the voices that scream from the other side and shake the system, constantly questioning it, without fear and without rancor.

This collective growth community is now my family. I’m with them every day of the week.

We share ideas, dreams, and hopes.

We design new paths for the future.

The power of collective growth is enormous.

Don’t think we’re not important, because we are.

Don’t think we’re not heard, because we are.

Don’t think we don’t influence, because we do.

The power of our community is that invisible flame that we don’t see, but that is inside all of us and makes us get up every morning, have a coffee, and sit at the computer to write.

We are more than we think.

We are better than we think.

Like the tokenization of the economy, we are unavoidable.

Sign up for my email list and join the happiest readers on Medium. (This is where you get exclusive access to my daily activities, experiences, and daily thoughts)