To Medium writers over the years it probably seems like compensation policies are like playing scatter dodge hoping not to take a hit in the vital parts year over year.

Medium writers, though they be the core Medium.com machinery for revenue, I’m guessing, still, writers should think like they are running Medium.com the online super blog. Or try to imagine walking in those shoes. I’m sure Medium.com sees who is moving up on them, whether it’s legacy pubs moving into the various online blogospheres or newer blogs on the block such as NB, where lots of Medium.com writers have dipped themselves into over the past year or so.

This has got to be related to why the bonuses and evolution of this year’s eventual reorg du jour happen. Or the annual fall reorg of policies that directly affect writers.

Online biz in this century is also an ongoing attention war, whether its new podcast networks, audio recording, classic blog reading, video, even future experiential VR concoctions. I think from Medium.com’s POV it’s all these desperate entities creeping up on the Medium blog that is the latest causation of compensation changes in 2021, even though they react, or note, writers dipping their toes into other revenue streams such as NB.

These online biz’s of the new millennium have their pattern.

* startup

* growth… + more growth

* then, sell out, cash out, spin off, buyouts and other biz behaviors like panic maneuvering.

* Enter the dream phase… ≈ 🤔’monopoly’ thinking…🤔

* Founders leave or some such maturity. 💀?

Whatever, if you are a writer here, to understand new millennium biz, experiment and pretend you are them.