When I find a writer I like on Medium, I read several of their articles and if I like their work, I hit the subscribe to get their stories in my email button.

I love that little subscribe button, because it has allowed me to curate my very own, personal publication.

I've found almost all the new Medium writers I read through the writers in MY publication (as a recommendation from writers that I subscribe to, or their comment section).

Since I can only read so much, I also un-subscribe - - and once I do that, I rarely read anything else they write.

I've published a few articles myself, but I have such a tiny audience, I invest myself in the comments section. I am a bit verbose, but no one seems to mind. Several times, one of "my" writers have suggested I publish one of my comments as an article. I rarely do that, for as I recently explained to Walter Rhein, more people read my work in his comment section than anything I publish on my own.

I value my time more than anything else, so I don't spend a minute of it frivolously - and I hate to waste it - and if someone else wastes my time, they rarely get a second chance. My daughter and I are building two homes in our Kentucky woods, so I have very little reading time these days.

Every month, a cute little deposit arrives in my bank account from Medium - and I grin.