March 1st, 2025.

I took a break from Medium for about two months…

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I realized I needed the time away from writing and the pressure I was putting on myself to make something happen in this space.

In that time, I’ve gained some clarity, and I realized that all I simply wanted was to make some sort of significant amount of money from this platform (whatever ‘significant’ means — perhaps enough to pay at least one of my larger bills).

Making money online, or on my own terms, or however you want to describe it, is something I feel I’ve been pursuing for a long time.

The long pursued dream of entrepreneurship… perhaps we’ll get there one day.

But that’s not something I can control.

I can’t control whether someone clicks on my story and reads it from beginning to end.

I cannot control how Medium’s algorithm works with Publications (or not).

I can only control one thing, and that is what I write.

There’s tons of advice out there telling you to write what people want to read, and although that seems straightforward (to an extent), I don’t think most people even realize what they want to read.

I think many times we scroll through platforms like Medium out of pure boredom, hoping to…