My short take on “Buy me a coffee”.

Alexei Sorokin
2 min readMay 21, 2024

I just read this story: I Will Not Ask My Readers to Buy Me a Coffee Like a Homeless Person.

I disagree strongly. I respect the opinion but I consider it arrogant.

I thoroughly enjoyed the months when I made meaningful money on Medium, but I don’t write for the money. Well, it’s not my short-term goal. Even if it were, it’s impossible to make quick money writing. I am focusing on consistency and building my audience. Good things will come, I’m sure, and making money will be one of them. In fact, I have already had several business…

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Alexei Sorokin

A Russian immigrant in America, father of 4, Cambridge and Harvard Business School alum. I run and write every day. https://runningwritingliving.substack.com/