Part I - What is a Weird Internet Career?

What’s the difference between what I do and content creation, or advertising myself, instead of advertising for other people? I think these lines that we draw have become so blurry that it creates a very interesting tension between what counts as serious work and not.

This is the false promise of the internet. That you can be happy with a tiny slice of the long tail. That anyone can sing or write or dance or do comedy or coach or freelance, and so anyone will, and so you’ll be fine. Except you won’t be fine, because you can’t live on that. The internet can live on that, Upwork and Fiverr and Netflix and Amazon c

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