Thanks so much for the shoutout, Victoria. I appreciate your ongoing support of my work. BTW the 30-second rule is only a piece of the puzzle. That is the minimum amount of time that needs to be spent on an article for us to be paid.

But we are also being paid for the time it takes to read an article, so if people zip through a 7-minute article in 30 seconds, it actually messes with stats.

Check out this post by Burk:

https://medium.com/writers-blokke/earnings-per-1000-views-on-the-new-medium-2023-adb53b635a51