I’m coming back.
Hey fans, adorers, and other imaginary frens on Medium.
I’m coming back to start writing for the love of writing again.
I’ll stay on the free tier for now but I’ve decided to put digital pen to digital pad again for a few reasons:
I liked writing. I still like writing.
Furthermore, there is writing work out there to be had.
And that work is, IMO, more well-suited for me now than work based on my other abilities in marketing, sales or coding — despite my having marketable skills in all of those arenas.
People are figuring out that while LLMs “Can Write”, they are still far away from having actual human, creative spark in the way they see the world.
It’s like if you could talk to a popsicle and it talked back. That’d be interesting but it shouldn’t and wouldn’t replace talking with other humans.
Coding, AI, LLMs, Marketing… It’s been pretty exhausting.
Everything informs everything and I don’t plan to quit pursuing any of the areas I’ve already studied, but I will go where the “gettin’ is good” so to speak.
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One of the few things that I do or have done in my life that comes really naturally is quickly typing out my thoughts onto a blank screen with a really unremarkable, not cool-sounding-at-all keyboard with my dog panting nearby, still not able to figure out why I click on that dang thing all day.
She literally has no idea what in God’s name is wrong with her human.
It’s the same to her if I’m coding, writing a blog post or sending out pitch emails. But for me it’s not.
This is more like a conversation than any of the others. I like the Medium platform because it has built-in discoverability (among other reasons). I also like that it can be used as a writing portfolio for the purposes of securing paid writing gigs.
In that vein, if anyone would like to hire me for such a thing, please reach out.
Otherwise, stay tuned. After this “Hi, how are you doing?” post, the next post I’m working on is a review of a song I recently discovered that I quite enjoy.
Pop back in a day or two and that should be up.
Thanks to everyone who’s ever read, commented or shared one of my posts. You keep me going.
