The problem is, the platform rewards this. I mean, no disrespect to Marcus Musick, but he's been approaching $1000 a month for publishing excellent stories written in 20-30 minutes. I admire his skill in being able to create something decent so quickly, but the bottom line is, it's fun, sometimes quirky stuff. But it's not the high quality longform content the platform says they want for the boost, etc. And I suspect Marcus would agree with my analysis.

But Marcus finds he is rewarded well for it, and so he does more of this. Meanwhile, I'm wondering if I should ditch trying to focus on quality writing and aiming for the boost in favour of writing two 2-minute articles about Medium every day.

Because that's the kind of thing that gets Marcus earning twice as much as I do. Go figure. Writers will do what is rewarded.