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Tearing our writing reality further apart.
3 min readJan 12, 2025
Am I writing for pennies?
Do I keep publishing when the future looks dim?
Thus, I became much like The Thinker statue.
I’ve thought about those questions.
I’ve also noticed a shift in this writing space. Quiet quitting, leaving announcements, slowdowns, topic shifts, and stack pub building.
Some don’t talk about ‘it’.
‘It’ is earnings, distribution, and engagement-to-payment ratios.
It’s not professional — nor good laundry handling.
Others don’t want such metrics they can’t control to undo their love for writing. If you write the lows, these numbers seem more real. Hello, yeah, a heavier weight on the mind.
Then I saw this shared tweet.
It got me thinking.
Will this platform pull a Meta move?
The Meta Chess Move
Don’t label me a senior, now?
