Why Multinewmedia came to Medium

Chase Raz
Chase Raz
Aug 25, 2017 · 2 min read

I was on the web before most other people in my age group. As a 30-somthing, I have well over 20 years of experience with this series of tubes colloquially known as the interwebs. In fact, I have over 20 years of experience with building sites, tools, and content for this beast. None of them were very good, and most now exist unfinished and in the virtual recycle bin.

Experience isn’t always a good thing. It can create unnecessary bias and a lack of market awareness.

The experiences that I’ve accumulated told me — no, screamed — that it’s a bad idea to use a tool just because it’s available. “It’s probably not good enough” is like a mantra I tell myself when someone suggests a new digital tool. We know from experience that tooling can be complete garbage, right? But what happens as we isolate ourselves over time and set out to build our own tooling? We either jump head-first into being a developer and begin to focus on one amazing challenge… or we don’t. Needless to say, I fall into the latter category.

It was never written in the stars for me to be a software developer. I admire and respect those who are, but even the title sounds a bit disappointing to me. I’d rather be “Senior Executive Strategy Researcher of Robots, Legos, and Homemade Ice Cream.” In all honesty, who wouldn’t? But, I went off happily into the wild building my own tools and coding my own resources. Most recently I completed a major project to build Multinewmedia.com from scratch before slowly adopting external libraries, frameworks, and even entire tools, like Medium.

The hatred of a bad tool can easily turn into technological bias. This happened to me; and to every Apple, Google, or Microsoft fanboy or fangirl.

You may hate Linux, Windows, or macOS… but they all work perfectly well. Okay, not perfectly well, but well none-the-less. Hate WordPress because it’s too common and mediocre? Hate PHP because (you incorrectly think) it’s not a “true language”? Well, I’ve heard the same disdain spewed towards almost every technology because humans are tribal creatures. We form camps and throw rocks at everyone considered an outsider. Sometimes, I’m even the first to pick up the rock and throw it.

For this reason, I’ll be inviting the show co-hosts, Chris Ayers and Christopher Woodward, to the Multinewmedia publication on Medium. Our goal will be to contribute great content to this growing platform and continue our mission of building a business community of technology-friendly leaders, visionaries, and entrepreneurs.

Although, Chris may have another agenda… to tell me that he was right all along and that I should evolve out of the old mindset of building my own tools. You can either duplicate millennia of work and reproduce every single tool from scratch or evolve into a successful mindset of either: building one tool to be the best it can be; or to add value by integrating and utilizing the tools that others are working hard to perfect.

Multinewmedia

Connecting business and technology for the new era of business leader.

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Chase Raz

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Chase Raz

Owner of RCR Business Ventures and its properites: A.B. Gamma, Multinewmedia, and more. Also a Full Sail University Instructor and PSC Corporate Trainer.

Multinewmedia

Connecting business and technology for the new era of business leader.

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