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This article seemed... weak. Of the five people profiled, two went on to become content creators selling advice or whatever the term for that is now, one went i

This article seemed... weak. Of the five people profiled, two went on to become content creators selling advice or whatever the term for that is now, one went into real estate, and one went to work for a startup. I get it, it's hard to get off the treadmill, especially when you have the opportunity to make money in a not miserable way. But these changes don't seem all that radical. Those four are all playing different games now, but they're still grinding.

Apocryphon 3y ago
Sounds like grinding with more ownership
zeroCalories 3y ago
Grind isn't always bad, infact if you're the type that gets into fancy companies you probably did a lot of grinding beforehand. It's the psychological environment of these prestigious companies that make them torture for some people.
Dalewyn 3y ago
>two went on to become content creators selling advice or whatever the term for that is now Influencers, aka Snake Oil Salesmen. There definitely are worthwhile content creators out there, to be clear, but the signal-to-noise ratio is so astronomically terrible that it's probably better to throw out the entire bathtub including the stillborn baby.
- ecshafer 3y ago
  I hate the terms "content creators" and "influencers" both. Scorsese isn't a content creator, he is a film maker. The idea of a content creator is just so... dystopian. What they make doesn't matter, its not art, its just content.
  - Dalewyn 3y ago
    Most movies aren't shot on reels of film ("What's a 'film'?") anymore, nor do most people know what the "tube" in Youtube means. I wager terms like "content creator" came about as an attempt by younger generations to detach concepts they know from concepts they don't or can't understand. Note how a similar thing has happened to Saving something (it's "in the cloud" now, nobody knows what a floppy disk is), Private Messages are now Direct Messages (there is no privacy), and files and folders have straight up ceased to exist because paperless is the modern trend. "Influencer" is probably mostly just snake oil peddlers trying to figure out a more palatable name for themselves, though; not that it's any more palatable.
rvz 3y ago
> Of the five people profiled, two went on to become content creators selling advice or whatever the term for that is now. So using their influence because 'FAANG' in order to grift for selling courses into how to get into FAANG. Repeating the same tech-lead scam that has been done to death.

Apocryphon 3y ago

Sounds like grinding with more ownership

zeroCalories 3y ago

Grind isn't always bad, infact if you're the type that gets into fancy companies you probably did a lot of grinding beforehand. It's the psychological environment of these prestigious companies that make them torture for some people.

Dalewyn 3y ago

>two went on to become content creators selling advice or whatever the term for that is now Influencers, aka Snake Oil Salesmen. There definitely are worthwhile content creators out there, to be clear, but the signal-to-noise ratio is so astronomically terrible that it's probably better to throw out the entire bathtub including the stillborn baby.

ecshafer 3y ago
I hate the terms "content creators" and "influencers" both. Scorsese isn't a content creator, he is a film maker. The idea of a content creator is just so... dystopian. What they make doesn't matter, its not art, its just content.
- Dalewyn 3y ago
  Most movies aren't shot on reels of film ("What's a 'film'?") anymore, nor do most people know what the "tube" in Youtube means. I wager terms like "content creator" came about as an attempt by younger generations to detach concepts they know from concepts they don't or can't understand. Note how a similar thing has happened to Saving something (it's "in the cloud" now, nobody knows what a floppy disk is), Private Messages are now Direct Messages (there is no privacy), and files and folders have straight up ceased to exist because paperless is the modern trend. "Influencer" is probably mostly just snake oil peddlers trying to figure out a more palatable name for themselves, though; not that it's any more palatable.

rvz 3y ago

> Of the five people profiled, two went on to become content creators selling advice or whatever the term for that is now. So using their influence because 'FAANG' in order to grift for selling courses into how to get into FAANG. Repeating the same tech-lead scam that has been done to death.