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Introducing “From the Archives”: Periodic Reprints of My Past Articles
Some of my past articles, while partly dated, still retain some relevance today. I’ll begin sharing those here.
During the years I wrote for Forbes, I published a number of articles which contain some outdated information but whose overall topic and points remain relevant today. When I stopped writing at Forbes, due primarily to changes in the pay model that I felt were unfair to writers, I forfeited earnings from site visits to my articles since their payment structure is based on readership.
However, that’s also one of the reasons I stopped writing there: after years of contributors receiving payments for visits to any of our past articles, Forbes management changed the terms of our pay structure so that we received no compensation at all for articles more than 90 days old. Many of us who had written there for years saw this as a bait-and-switch. We had invested time explicitly in writing “evergreen” articles, stories that we knew people would want to return to over and over again even years after they were first published. It continues to frustrate me today that articles I specifically wrote with staying power in mind are now providing revenue, however meager, to Forbes each time they’re linked when the initial terms of my…
