I Realized that I’ve Made the Biggest Mistake Growing on Medium in 2024

Now I want to fix it ASAP

Har Narayan
2 min readSep 2, 2024
Photo by Francisco De Legarreta C. on Unsplash

I have a confession to make.

I guess I could’ve grown much faster (Of course, I grew pretty fast though!) if I had avoided the one biggest mistake that I made writing on Medium. I’m about to tell you what that mistake is in today’s story so that you can avoid making that dangerous mistake (Yeah, it’s dangerous).

That mistake not only restricted my account growth, but also I could’ve gotten more views, more claps, more comments, and of course, made more money if I just had avoided that ridiculous mistake.

So what’s that one biggest mistake?

Not engaging with other writers on Medium.

It’s been almost a year since I’ve stopped engaging with my peers and the other writers that I personally know. And I think this is the biggest mistake I’ve ever made on Medium in 2024.

However, not engaging with them didn’t make a huge difference in my views, engagement, or earnings since I’ve built my audience the right way. But not engaging with them made me feel sick. I felt like I was just alone in my writing journey. I felt as if there was no one to really deeply interact or immerse myself with (of course my audience could help, but to a certain…

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