Sometimes I really just sit here and wonder what the fuck I’m doing. I was all encouraged to write a few minutes ago and as I started looking at my 1400 files of shit, I realized that I have no idea what I want. I did what I always do and started to research. I read a few articles on Medium and do what I, again, always do. I became rediculously opinionated about the most random shit. So here is some stuff I was thinking…
The other day I read an article that was something like, “30 things I learned blah blah fucking writing on Medium”. It’s 1 of about 1234892374598234 articlkes about what it’s like writing on Medium.
Listen, I never made a porn talking about what it’s like talking about making porn. I have made porn tho. HMU for the links, I could use the money.
Anyways, so besides the fact that writing on Medium is some of the worst shit I’ve ever read, it’s worse because we’re often reading about what it’s like writing the same articles we turn around and write. I mean really, Medium is a giant circle-jerk of people using the same platitudes of the same shit we’ve all read.
I get it, win friends and influence people. Gary Vaynerchuk. Start-ups. Self-help-how-to-money-idea-sex altucher startups.. sweet. Breakdown habits and 1000 true fans. Cool. We’re all on the same damn page now?
I think I’m just getting fed up of the fact that humans cannot retain 100% of everything they consume and we’re constantly seeking success and attention, so we think we’re special and feel connected when we read the same shit we read last week.
It makes me feel good. Didn’t you feel good when you read the 400 name drops, two paragraphs up? I bet you know who Seth Godin is and you watch TED TALKS on YOUTUBE..
So really what the fuck is anyone learning? I mean, the smart ones know how to get the attention of the intelectual losers because they started telling us to “say no”, “it’s about action”, “Ideas are worth nothing without effort” etc etc.
Fact is, we’re still all here talking about talking.
Listen, the problem is that we’re all, humans, human. You get an idea and start working on it. You don’t use smart goals. You use smart goals. You’re not being creative anymore. So you get artistic. But then you’re just creating things and you lose the process of iterations. So you start focusing on failure. Then you lose money and can’t continue. And this weird (Not a circle, trust me) just keeps going round and round.
This process loop is broken and the only people who’re profiting are the first to the table. Seth Godin has been writing for 30 years. It took Logic almost a decade before he blew up. Gary had to make over 1000 episodes of him bitching about wine. Insta-girls, they need tits, eating disorders or losers like Jake Paul.
Hey listen, I gotta go pick up my girl so I’ll finish this thought later.
The moral of the story, 1000 true fans. I don’t need a fucking publication or direction. Plenty of us make it, many ways, and this is mine. Maybe I could use the exposure, but which publication on Medium wants to have that asshole writer who bashes everyone on the platform LOL.
…. CHARLES BUKOWSKI FTW :D
