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The Internet Almost Always Reverts Back To Its Sad And Mindless Mean
I’ve been doing this for 15 years and it has never been worse
Every morning when I wake up, I thank goodness that this platform exists. I still get excited each time I see a publication, particularly Ben Le Fort’s Making of a Millionaire, publish one of my articles.
I’m on a journey through life — with lots of stuff I want to do — and I do my best to chronicle this journey, hoping parts of it will resonate with you. Along the way, I offer personal financial nuggets — based almost solely on my past and present experience and anticipated future — that I hope will get the wheels turning as you navigate your journey.
Thankfully, there are many other people of all stripes doing likewise on this and other platforms. And, thankfully, we all still have the ability to separate the wheat from the chaff.
That said, there’s still some stuff that happens routinely with internet content that — taken together — make this massive thing we call the internet revert back to the same old, same old. I think I took revert to the mean and properly applied it in this context. Either way, you probably see where I’m coming from.
It’s as if platforms and individuals who start with the best intentions — or not —…