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hat reviews an album, an artist, introduces me to new music. I am equally interested in topics around vinyl records, collecting them, and new releases. Musical instruments that are out of the ordinary, perhaps some that you built yourself and wrote about. The same goes for articles that explain how to create electronic music, or how to manipulate sound via software or even program MIDI.</li><li>Software development. But not just any software development. Frankly, I am a little tired of everyone writing about the latest features of ES-fill-in-the-year, Swift, C, and all the common stuff I would just Google. I want to be exposed to crazy new stuff. I remember when I first stumbled upon <a href="https://chuck.stanford.edu/">ChucK — the programming language</a>. Very unusual, but very cool! If you’re into writing about unusual programming, languages, compilers, libraries or frameworks, I want to know about you.</li><li>Technology. But only objective and unique views, please. No, not another review of whatever Apple, Samsung or whoever released. I get my reviews from personal experience and other channels. I want the out-there views. For instance, I like Apple products, but if you’re a person who likes to challenge Apple fandom, I want to follow you because it provides a diametrically opposite view to mine, and I might just learn something.</li><li>Personality-types and understanding human behaviour. No, I prefer not to follow everyone who writes about psychology. I wouldn’t have the time to read it all nor the brain-capacity to absorb it all. I want people who write about behavioural patterns. For example, <a href="undefined">Robin Nemesszeghy</a> writes some really great articles on personality types. That’s the kind of stuff I am looking for, but more of it.</li><li>Futurism. This is a fairly broad one, and it’s intentionally so. The seed was planted many years ago by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacque_Fresco">Jacque Fresco</a>’s Venus Project. Since then, I am very interested in virtually anything that is futuristic, from city planning, to architecture, transportation, and life in general. But again, I am not looking to read regurgitations of Elon’s latest crazy ideas, unless you express a unique view around it and further expand on the matter.</li><li>Personal struggles. While Medium for most of us isn’t really a blog any more, it can still be used as one. Of course, I can’t read everyone’s online journals and whatnot, b

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ut if you have the tendency to be brutally open and vulnerable online about what you’re going through, I might like to follow you. It might seem strange that I would, but I have two reasons. Perhaps I can say a good word in a comment and through that make you feel like you’re not entirely alone, and also because it teaches me empathy, it opens my eyes to the diversity of being human and trying “to adult”.</li><li>Accessibility. This last one is extremely close to my heart, so if you’re someone who writes about accessibility, particularly about digital accessibility or how technology is used by disabled individuals, I absolutely want to follow you.</li></ul>If you find that your stories fit into these categories, say hi in the comments and will check your stories out, and if I do decide to follow you, know that you’re not just gaining an extra follower, but also a reader. I might even subscribe, though don’t be offended if I don’t. I do like to keep my inbox clean, so if you do see me subscribing too, it means your writing is in that top 1% I keep a very close eye on.But here’s the thing. You don’t have to follow me back, subscribe or anything, unless you genuinely want to for whatever reason. Frankly, I don’t want followers. I write because I need to write, it’s how I express myself and stay sane, but I do so in the hope that some people will actually read my verbal diarrhoea, so only follow if you intend to at least occasionally read what I have to say.In an increasingly digital world, I want to have a community of people around me who enjoy in one way or another what I have to say, so I’d much rather have 3K readers, than 300K followers if I am to ever hit those numbers. No author is curious how many people looked at their book and never bought it. What matters is the people who took it home and hopefully read it too.On that note, thank you for reading and happy writing!Did you know that whenever you <a href="https://attilavago.medium.com/membership">subscribe to become a Medium Member</a>, us writers, get a cut? You get a ton of great articles, we get a coffee. Sounds like a fair deal to me…Attila Vago — Software Engineer improving the world one line of code at a time. Cool nerd since forever, writer of codes and blogs. Web accessibility advocate, Lego fan, vinyl record collector. Loves craft beer!</article></body>

And I think I know how to solve it…

As I was going through my list of people I follow on this platform, I realised I need more amazing writers to appear in my list of suggested new stories. I want more diverse views, I want to be exposed to perspectives and vantage-points unavailable to me otherwise. And frankly I want fewer stories plaguing my home-page bragging or whining about their income, hopelessly selling hope to others, one-click strategies to financial reinvention and crypto-nuts trying to convince NFTs are humanity’s solution to everything between racism, war, and poverty. Essentially, I want my home-page to look more like the shopfront of a high-quality, good-value retailer than a yard-sale littered with stolen goods, bootleg and worthless crap from a hoarder’s attic.

I am about to reach (February 2022) eight years on Medium. I have seen writers come and go, I have seen brilliant minds share, teach and challenge. But I have also seen, and lately even more so, a gigantic influx of less than desirable content for my expectations. I will not be the snob who claims that all these writers need to go, that new writers need to learn how to write before they publish something and those selling whatever they’re selling, need to take a hike. On the contrary. If YouTube has taught us anything, it’s that it’s neither feasible to do that, nor is it desirable.

Some of today’s amateurs will become tomorrow’s writers worth their weight in gold. And that gold is what I am looking for.

It does not matter whether you have a single follower or 10K. That in itself does not reflect the quality of your writing, the cleverness of your thoughts, or the intrigue you bring to the table. What will convince me to follow you and keep reading your stories is the story itself. I don’t read too many a day, but I do go through between 5 and 10 stories every day. I would like those to matter. So without further ado, here’s what interest me.

Music. Any article that reviews an album, an artist, introduces me to new music. I am equally interested in topics around vinyl records, collecting them, and new releases. Musical instruments that are out of the ordinary, perhaps some that you built yourself and wrote about. The same goes for articles that explain how to create electronic music, or how to manipulate sound via software or even program MIDI.

Software development. But not just any software development. Frankly, I am a little tired of everyone writing about the latest features of ES-fill-in-the-year, Swift, C, and all the common stuff I would just Google. I want to be exposed to crazy new stuff. I remember when I first stumbled upon ChucK — the programming language. Very unusual, but very cool! If you’re into writing about unusual programming, languages, compilers, libraries or frameworks, I want to know about you.

Technology. But only objective and unique views, please. No, not another review of whatever Apple, Samsung or whoever released. I get my reviews from personal experience and other channels. I want the out-there views. For instance, I like Apple products, but if you’re a person who likes to challenge Apple fandom, I want to follow you because it provides a diametrically opposite view to mine, and I might just learn something.

Personality-types and understanding human behaviour. No, I prefer not to follow everyone who writes about psychology. I wouldn’t have the time to read it all nor the brain-capacity to absorb it all. I want people who write about behavioural patterns. For example, Robin Nemesszeghy writes some really great articles on personality types. That’s the kind of stuff I am looking for, but more of it.

Futurism. This is a fairly broad one, and it’s intentionally so. The seed was planted many years ago by Jacque Fresco’s Venus Project. Since then, I am very interested in virtually anything that is futuristic, from city planning, to architecture, transportation, and life in general. But again, I am not looking to read regurgitations of Elon’s latest crazy ideas, unless you express a unique view around it and further expand on the matter.

Personal struggles. While Medium for most of us isn’t really a blog any more, it can still be used as one. Of course, I can’t read everyone’s online journals and whatnot, but if you have the tendency to be brutally open and vulnerable online about what you’re going through, I might like to follow you. It might seem strange that I would, but I have two reasons. Perhaps I can say a good word in a comment and through that make you feel like you’re not entirely alone, and also because it teaches me empathy, it opens my eyes to the diversity of being human and trying “to adult”.

Accessibility. This last one is extremely close to my heart, so if you’re someone who writes about accessibility, particularly about digital accessibility or how technology is used by disabled individuals, I absolutely want to follow you.

If you find that your stories fit into these categories, say hi in the comments and will check your stories out, and if I do decide to follow you, know that you’re not just gaining an extra follower, but also a reader. I might even subscribe, though don’t be offended if I don’t. I do like to keep my inbox clean, so if you do see me subscribing too, it means your writing is in that top 1% I keep a very close eye on.

But here’s the thing. You don’t have to follow me back, subscribe or anything, unless you genuinely want to for whatever reason. Frankly, I don’t want followers. I write because I need to write, it’s how I express myself and stay sane, but I do so in the hope that some people will actually read my verbal diarrhoea, so only follow if you intend to at least occasionally read what I have to say.

In an increasingly digital world, I want to have a community of people around me who enjoy in one way or another what I have to say, so I’d much rather have 3K readers, than 300K followers if I am to ever hit those numbers. No author is curious how many people looked at their book and never bought it. What matters is the people who took it home and hopefully read it too.

On that note, thank you for reading and happy writing!

Did you know that whenever you subscribe to become a Medium Member, us writers, get a cut? You get a ton of great articles, we get a coffee. Sounds like a fair deal to me…

Attila Vago — Software Engineer improving the world one line of code at a time. Cool nerd since forever, writer of codes and blogs. Web accessibility advocate, Lego fan, vinyl record collector. Loves craft beer!