Three Rules that helped me become a top writer on Medium

After publishing articles on Medium for about a year and a half, I received the following email from Medium:

My top writer email. (Image copied from email received by the author from Medium)

When I first received this email, I didn’t even know what a Top Writer was. I’ve since learned that it means that I’m somewhere in the top 50 writers on my topic based on overall article reads. (At least I think that’s what it means).