Congratulations! Your introduction post has been selected for my special manual curation today!
It has received an upvote, and a resteem to help give you a boost. I'm following you now, too!

My curation focus is on fairly new Steemit users who don't speak English as a first or primary language, but who are writing and posting in English.

I search new posts in the #introducemyself and #introduceyourself tags daily, and try to dedicate at least 50% of my article curation to new Steemit members who meet the above focus criteria. My goal is to discover and curate an average of 5 new Steemit users per day.

I follow each person I curate because it is very encouraging for a new member to see their following grow.

25% of my daily curation is dedicated to upvoting, resteeming and commenting on new articles posted by the Steemit users I am following.

I also curate comments from all Steemit users. I look to reward comments and replies which stand out as having thoughtful insight, offer benefit to the community at large and reflect the unique personality of the commenter.

You have done a great job explaining the formality of your post, @cedricheuvel! It is not easy to just start writing for a public audience, yet not really know when you hit the Post button whether anyone will actually read it, and how it will be received. I encourage you to look into entering some writing contests such as those hosted weekly by @originalworks. Those would fit a formal style very well. Just go to their blog to see past contests, and watch for the next one. Cheers!