Great post! I just wrote a shorter post with similar thoughts, I am now wondering if I misunderstood Dust - I thiught it was 0.02 Hive rather than dollars.

Can you elaborate what you mean here?

Also, here's another tip: for a small account, it's better to share lower curation rewards with a few curators (preferably of similar size, not next to a whale vote) than to be one of the few hundred votes that will share a higher chunk of curation rewards for a popular post