Excellent read, Ayodeji! Thanks for taking the time to put this together.
Here’s my favourite part from the piece:
“Your writing isn’t about you — not if you want to make a career out of it and income from it. Writing for an audience means writing at the intersection of what you love and what people want to read.”
I’ve published an entire article on this same idea: How to Write Articles People Actually Want to Read
Keep up the awesome work :)