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The Strange Thought That Became My Best Performing Article
How a passing reaction turned into a Medium article that earned over $1,500
My most successful Medium article began with a thought I wasn’t sure I should admit, much less publish. When the idea first occurred to me, I thought I might be a little crazy. Yet, it has since made well over $1,500.
I’d been reading headlines all day about people becoming poorer and worse off. My reaction was that poor people certainly don’t have much, but it’s stupid to say that they would be ‘better off’ if they just had an office job or more money.
That might sound like a pretty insensitive response. I wasn’t comfortable with it either when it first popped into my head.
Yet some of the difficulties being described reminded me of graduate school and I had very little money. It was hard, but I also remembered enjoying that period of my life. Things had been simpler then and, in some ways, better.
Maybe I was sugarcoating the past. My own experience certainly wasn’t enough to tell me what poverty was like for everyone else. Still, I felt there was something in that reaction worth considering, even if I couldn’t yet explain it.
