Gosh, I sure wish you luck. My earnings this past month were in the double figures too. That’s $0.19, so I might as well apply. And four pieces per month, that should be easy.

But will it discourage me any less, with all these tempting incentive programs? And the tsunami of stuff, which often feels like scratching a writer’s nose for them when I read many of these pieces on Medium, will it get any better? Or useful, or educational, funny even — all my criteria for producing good work?