#224 — Dead or alive

I Am Jealous of Coach Tony

It’s not the hair

Not me, being jealous of Coach Tony — Pexels

We share many things with Coach Tony. Neither of us has hair, we have a Medium account with a username starting with “coach,” and we are editors of one of the Better Medium publications.

• Coach Tony is an editor for BetterProgramming, BetterMarketing, and BetterHumans.
• I (with the help of Coach Smillew) edit BetterMoolah.

“Same same, but different.”

We both

• have followers on Medium. (Coach Tony has 42k+. I have less than 3.5k.)
• make money from Medium. (Coach Tony makes 42k+ (monthly¹). I make less than 3.5k (lifetime²)).
• wrote viral articles. (Coach Tony wrote the ultimate guide to setting up your iPhone for a productive life and got 42k+ claps on a 75-minute read. I asked ChatGPT to give me a blowjob and got 3.5k claps.)
• wrote about Mastodon. (Coach Tony said it was the future. I said it was dead on arrival — ten thousand years ago.)

And we were both invited to Medium Day.

So many things in common, and yet, I’m jealous