A Shout-Out and A Hand-Up

Photo by Callum Hill on Unsplash

The inspiration for this post came from JL Matthews’ Aug. 16th post “Who Needs 100 Followers?” from his Laughing Stock blog. It offered a pretty basic premise: for anyone who left a comment or link to one of their posts, Matthews would follow that person and, hopefully, all this clapping and following would increase the followers of those who needed them to stay in Medium’s Parner Program (that being the seemingly low, yet surprisingly…