Most people quit in month two.
Not because the plan was wrong. Because nothing was telling them it was working.
Content has a long feedback delay. You publish for weeks, sometimes months, and get almost nothing back. No audience, no replies, no work coming in. Everything you are doing is correct and none of it looks like it. That gap is where people stop, and it has nothing to do with whether they had good ideas.
So the job is not motivation. The job is making the progress visible while the results are still invisible.
The ladder is a year long.
On purpose. You cannot speed-run a reputation, and a ladder you finish in a month is a ladder that stops meaning anything in the second month.
It ends on Authority, which is the thing you were after when you decided to start publishing. That is not decoration, it is the point.
Streaks
Showing up is the whole thing, so showing up is what gets counted.
XP for real work
Points come from publishing and from the steps that lead to it, not from opening the app.
Stages you can see
Day one to Authority, so the distance is a thing you can look at rather than a feeling.
Working now, today, before Maria even arrives.
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