How Much Should We Care About Creating Honest Content?

A lot — according to these creators

Esther Cooke
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A month into writing regularly on Medium, and my most popular story by far is on being a broke freelancer.

That wasn’t a strategic move, trust me, I would much rather be writing about how I made £10,000 last month — and you can too!

We have the option to curate ourselves and our content in a way we want to be seen. So why open ourselves up to the pain of sharing the messy stuff?

Well, when I think about the mountain of content I‘m exposed to everyday, there are only a few creators I loyally follow and who I’d enthusiastically throw money at.

I want to share with you 3 of these creators and how they proved to me that honesty matters.

Blogger — Tim Denning

“My life fell into a million tiny pieces. There were cries for help that nobody answered. It was a dark time.”

“The Britney Spears of Medium” needs no introduction to bloggers. He is omnipresent. But I didn’t sign up to his email list because he was some big swinging dick.

In fact the first article I ever saved of Tim’s was about how normal people can…

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