Thanks for sharing this data! Surprised that #spirituality is not that popular.

Spirituality is what I write about most here on Medium. My top tags are #Spirituality, #Religion #Psychology #Philosophy #Selfawareness, and most recently #Dreams. I use #Myth and #Mythology a lot, too.

Quincy Larson analyzed the 252 most popular Medium stories of 2016, and found that the “money tags” here are:

#Startup, #Tech, #LifeLessons, #Entrepreneurship, #Design, #Selfimprovement, #Productivity, #Politics, #Programming, #UX, #JavaScript, and #WebDevelopment.

Ludi Rehak crunched the numbers on 1,000 of Medium’s most popular stories from 2017 and concluded that the five most popular topics were:

Design, Personal Development, Programming, Politics and Cryptocurrency.

It confirms why I felt the need to write spirituality stuff using the same account where I write design stuff. My overarching life theme is to make the passionate and the popular go together, or any opposite characteristics to go together. It’s good that you focus on one thing so your readers can expect something of similar theme. I deliberately mix them, so readers can choose to leave it or take it LOL (I did make a separate publication, though).

Some of the awesome designers and UX-ers I’ve met did English literature as their major in college. They said it helps them understand humans and empathize with people whom they’re designing for/with.

Stiff 19th Century verse read aloud by kids who’d rather be smoking weed in the parking lot — or who’d just stumbled, red-eyed, into class.

That is very interesting! I did my high school English speech assignment with an analysis of a poetry eh song lyrics “Zombie”. No wonder I got weird stares LOL. We didn’t get to analyze poetry until grade 12.

And I belong to this generation:

Recently I read this old book where religion is defined as:

“what the individual does with his own solitariness. It runs through three stages, if it evolves to its final satisfaction. It is the transition from God the void to God the enemy, and from God the enemy to God the companion.”

According to the author, religious rituals is the stimulus to emotion. I suppose, there’s a connection between your passion for poetry and spirituality, because both needs the right emotion in order to be enjoyed.

It’s always refreshing to read your articles here on Medium. Keep them coming! Thank you.