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Why I’m pivoting AWAY from Medium in 2025

James Julian
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8 min readDec 31, 2024

I can’t tell you how much it hurts me to write this post, but I feel like it’s been a long time coming.

The past few days have cemented things for me.

Two and a half years ago, I stumbled onto this site as a complete nobody.

I was at a personal rock bottom, having just decided to quit drinking after pissing away some 15 years of my life.

My account of that descent and rebirth was one of the first things I ever wrote here.

I knew I had wasted so much potential.

All my life I’d wanted to be an entrepreneur, and here I was at 40, sick, tired, and brimming with self-loathing.

As I looked ahead at what my life would become if I didn’t make a change, all I could do was cringe.

Twenty more years of commuter hell just to pay off a mortgage and probably die young?

Is this all there is?

I hated my job.

I hated myself.

So I sat down and pondered this question: “What am I good at?”

I’d been a writer my whole career, so I knew I was good at that.

But after two decades of writing for other people about stuff I found boring, I’d come to hate that too.

Still, I figured: “What the heck, I’ll take one more crack at it, and this time I’ll write what I want to write.”

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James Julian
James Julian

Written by James Julian

James is a journalist, author, entrepreneur, and investor. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesJulianWealth

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