I read this from an article written by a crypto writer, and it has stayed with me for a while. Specifically, he wrote that there is a market in extracting key insights from a crypto report and publishing them because who has the time to read and digest chunks of convoluted text anymore?

I would like to follow his suggestion because this means that I can just ride on the shoulders of giants and harness their work. But years of being a teacher made me resistant to actually doing it. Just extracting the key insights seemed to me like copying and pasting someone else’s work, even if I attributed it to the author. I taught students how to use “Turnitin”; it’s weird if I do something that contradicts my day job.

Of course, I could supplement these insights with my opinions to make my work somewhat original. But I think that’s not the point, because not many people will be interested in my views. Not even my wife will read what I have to contribute to the world, what’s more strangers. I could also use these insights to design slick infographics on Canva, but I’m a time-starved parent who resorts to using a stock photo for all my Publish0x articles. I don’t fancy sitting down in front of the laptop to design stuff based on other people’s ideas.

Nonetheless, I have my way around things. So the other way, I extracted all the insights pertaining to Bitcoin from Messari’s Crypto Theses 2023 and posted them on r/cryptocurrency.

And on Stacker News.

Okay, I did receive some response from the users on both platforms. This illustrated the validity of the crypto writer’s suggestion. People are keen to read bite-sized nuggets of information distilled by struggling aspiring writers who want to do what they can to get more crypto. I’m glad I discarded my educator persona and went ahead with his suggestion. For doesn’t being a writer mean being open to the various possibilities and permutations of the form my work can take? 

But don’t worry, I won’t post such “lazy” articles on Publish0x, heh.