If you don’t want to put your name on it, don’t do it
As the Internet continues to evolve–from blogs to click-bait articles, to message boards to social media–one thing I find odd is how anonymous trolling seems more powerful than ever. The Internet gave us a chance to put our name on our work and release it. It also gave us an opportunity to fail.
So many people spend their time commenting on the message boards of news articles, which must be the biggest waste of time ever created by the Internet. And few every put their name on their opinions.
This is what I love about Ari Herstand who writes about music industry topics. Read his Adele piece, and skim the commenters, a large percentage attacking the person rather than the point.
I don’t agree with his tone in the Adele piece, but understand his point; and Ari Herstand puts his name on his work! He faces the criticism, publicly!
(What’s one of the most scary responsibilities a person can tackle? Having a baby! And guess what, the baby usually gets our last name!)
It’s more courageous to release a blog and get zero readers, a new song that gets zero sales, than to post some anonymous comment on a message board, getting the other anonymous comments all riled up.
Put your name on your work. If you don’t want to put your name on it, don’t waste your time doing it.
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