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Fr. Adesh
Thinker, Writer. I am Adesh Acharya. Medium: Medium Adesh Link Website: fradesh.com
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There’s a tsunami of science spam on YouTube. Why does it all look the same? How much harm does it do? Do not watch these low-effort, AI-generated, cash grabs.
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What to Learn from the Social Media Wars?
Our careers are becoming more fragile by the day.
We would have hardly been excited for five minutes at a new career prospect when we see the news of that thing dying or being replaced by x and y already.
It has happened to me with writing, blogging, screenwriting, proofreading, editing, composing music, etc.
Writing is dead! Blogging is dead! Blogs are dead! Journalists are dead! AI proofreads better than you! Screenwriters are not needed anymore! This bot makes music better than you! Copywriters are dead! Videos are obsolete(okay, I haven’t heard that yet, but who knows!) Hollywood writers are starving! Actors are being replaced! This AI influencer is making headlines in Japan, x CEO replaced their worker, 50 jobs that won’t exist by 2024, etc. etc.
I am scared of dreaming now.
Are dreams dead?
Death is a part of life, I understand. But focusing on your professional life is what makes your real life possible. And with all but talks of death about a thing, I don’t know how to focus on that thing.
It’s not just about the type of thing we make.
Now, even the platforms where we share our stuff are vulnerable.
We all know how it is with Medium. The way they have handled my views and reach in the last two months, I won’t be surprised if the platform shuts down this evening.
Here’s one with Tumblr.
We all know the Twitter saga.
So what do we do? Where do we go?
I think I have a solution. For that, we need to go to an old Buddha teaching.
Talking about gurus, ideas, and enlightenment, he said thus:
Treat every guru and idea like a boat that takes you across the river. Ditch that boat when you reach the other end and move forward. Don’t attach yourself to the boat. Just because it has helped you doesn’t mean you need to carry its burden.
THE LESSON:
In the context of creative workers, content and media platforms have to be approached as boats, not goals. Our goals can be knowledge, communication, entertainment, money, whatever. We approach a content-type or platform on a day-to-day basis. As a boat.
We use a content-type or a social media platform to get from A to B today. When we reach B, we ditch them and go to a different content-type and media. We won’t depend on or attach ourselves to the form. We don’t need to carry their burden! We exploit them!
This is how it should work for writers:
Today I write on Medium, share on LinkedIn. I back up my writings. Tomorrow if writing itself is dead or Medium/LinkedIn collapse, I turn my writing into video or audio or whatever is there.
And so on…
My goal as a writer is knowledge and communication. It is not ‘to write’. Writing is a form of communication. It is not the goal. It is a means, not an end.
And if tomorrow they come to take my knowledge and communication too, I will escape to a higher goal:
Wisdom and Dreams, maybe. And find ways to live through them.
This way, I (a human) evolve faster than the platforms (tech).
Just as it should be…
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Find your own way
One of the joys of being a writer is getting inspired by other writers. When we discover a writer from the past or important work, the world makes sense all of a sudden. We feel empowered. Energetic. Wise.
But we need to be careful with which part of them we are inspired by.
I mean to say, it is great to be inspired by Shakespeare or Hemingway to be more passionate about writing, writing well, and being persistent. But it is a stupidity to look up to them for a roadmap to 21st-century writing success.
They lived and worked before the internet and chatbots. If some of the writers from the past struggled financially, it doesn't apply to us anymore. We have different tools from them. More readers and more opportunities.
This is where we have to be original.
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Trying to chase shadows... #haiku #haikupoetry #instapoetry #poetrycommunity #poem #amentalpoet https://www.instagram.com/p/Co2YUNoBwsj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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In need of some BODY at night... #poem #poemsociety #instapoetry #poemofinstagram #poetrycommunity #writer #amentalpoet https://www.instagram.com/p/Co5Ba3rBQp1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Since nothing that involves you is of any use to me
I’ve built my own little shelter just for me to be
I’ve hung a warning board outside for you see:
Do not provoke, if you want to maintain your valuable dignity!
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Tigers live in the forest not because they are scared of humans.
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At times you get fed-up with certain things to a level where you can’t find words to express the things you’re feeling. There are only images and sounds. Of Gunshots!
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We can look at ourselves as a collection of mind and thoughts. This is our history as mind. This is the story of our past and future as thoughts.
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