What Is Coach Tony’s Vision For Medium?

Better humans or useful idiots?

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John Pearce’s now famous piece that raised the question of who or what might have killed Medium appears to be a gift that keeps on giving.

Yesterday, I shared my thoughts on Coach Tony’s initial comments to the piece, which you can read here.

But Coach has since provided even more insights the deeper into the comments you go. The most interesting exchange I found was between Michelle Teheux and Coach.

It is Michelle’s question that is the inspiration for this piece —

What is Coach Tony’s vision for Medium?

Is it about profit and cutting costs?

Efficiency? Perhaps ‘better humans’ simply means a better means to profit. A purely mercantile spirit…