Tim Colby
2 min readFeb 21, 2021

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Yesterday's skills continue to have value. Further, the pan-web might open up opportunities in skill markets like writing that can be exploited, maybe that individual's buckshot method of written communications which you may have been referring to. Heck maybe individuals probably young and hungry for advancement may in the near future invest in some kind of story-generating AI pgm, and start mass marketing that stuff along with an AI editor pgm? Kind of a high-tech modern buckshot method. Yeah, not celebrating this possibility, but change is fast enough that we don't see change happening in its entirety. No doubt pondering this kind of change is an anathema for the learned creative writing crowd. It's like that feeling you get when in a phone queue and after getting a connection with some conversation it suddenly dawns on us, ' hey, am I conversing with a robot?'.

If banal works there can also exist a banal audience. (I mean didn't we just go through about 4 years of banal messaging from a guy that still hasn't gone away or been put away?) Maybe for creatives cross posting methods can be one of those solutions to observe. Medium has seemingly switched over to what seems to be a lot of inhouse pubs and honestly, I haven't a clue how they work or if they have positive ROI.

Well, I could keep rambling on with stories like how easy it was to find work (suburban white guy) in decades past and not like now where everyone and their grannie have to hang out an online side hustle shingle just to survive. So I won't do that. Keep your ink well-filled Sherry, write on. (not to be confused with right on)

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Tim Colby
Tim Colby

Written by Tim Colby

Grad: Whats-a-mata-U, Mayor: Foggybog, Wi., Awards: Medium response run-on-sentence-king, Medium response all-over-the-place trophy

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