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The Incestuous Nature of Medium
The Medium Partnership program motivates writers to write for writers
When I first started to dig into how to become a content creator, it was very much a slog to dig through all the legitimate tips and tricks from the ones that lure you into thinking they can give you a way out of the 9-to-5 living into the passive income, fast cars, big houses, live how you want without working ploys. The former provides insight into how the industry and the algorithms work so that you can plan your work and start the climb. The latter focuses on selling you a dream in a $50 learning packet that funds the sellers passive income. If you think it sounds like a scam, it is. It’s just a scam that people willingly buy into, and the scammers are smart enough to exploit.
This brings me to Medium.
Medium has dedicated to make itself ad free, which, on the surface, seems like the ideal clean state we wish the internet would adopt. Just solid content from motivated people without an ad in sight. But the problem is, Medium actually does have ads. They are just presented as content.
These are articles from my main feed of recommended readings. Five, back-to-back, articles…
