300K HP puts you in an interesting position on the distribution curve -- high enough that your votes actually shift outcomes, but below the threshold where a single account can unilaterally determine visibility. That middle range, roughly 100K to 1M HP, is probably where the most useful curation happens: engaged enough to have developed taste, not so dominant that you can override community signal.

The HPUD framing is interesting because it treats HP accumulation as a community ritual rather than just a financial decision. Whether that framing actually changes behavior or just correlates with people who were already committed is hard to separate. But the consistency signal matters regardless -- accounts that show up on HPUD for multiple years are implicitly demonstrating a time horizon that's longer than most.

The "what next" question from the title is the one I'd sit with. At 300K, the next meaningful threshold isn't just a number -- it's whether the HP starts generating enough curation influence to attract the kind of engagement that compounds the position further. Worth tracking whether your vote weight is now in the range where top authors start noticing.