Congratulations on hitting the 11K HivePower mark! You gave some great suggestions for newbies on how to grow their HP and their accounts... Leading by example helps in spreading the word and showing the skin in the game is the right way to do it!
Regarding your question from the beginning about "faster" growth by HP or by HBD savings... It depends on the person, but for newbies, I wouldn't suggest doing both... I would rather suggest YOUR path, growing your own HP, curating other posts, engaging with others, etc...
I see newbies chasing big upvotes, delegating ALL their HP (which has no sense when you have under those 1K that you mentioned many times), sacrificing their "influence" having 0 HP for curating others... Usually, those people stay left behind and never grow...
Next stop 20K HivePower!
I have picked this post on behalf of the @OurPick project which will be highlighted in the next post!