I Started a Fin-Tech Outlet for the Legitimate Tech Hater
Media means constant compromise between your idea, your reader, and everything else. Here is why I built The Bright Minded anyway, and what I think Fin-Tech reveals.
Being in media, especially nowadays, means that you're constantly finding a compromise between your idea, search engines, your ideal reader, your commercial goals, and all the technological advances. It's easy that even those with great ideas give up: the process of getting what you're creating in front of people is not easy. If you think it's worth it, you will do it anyways.
No one was waiting for a new FinTech media outlet. But I've been writing, strategizing, and managing for long enough to give my idea a chance regardless.
The idea behind The Bright Minded
The idea is very simple. In today's world, even people who have never had any reason to know about pure technology now must understand it.
For what concerns finances, I've always been extremely convinced that anyone should know at least the basics to live a peaceful life, so I wouldn't say I consider it as something that belongs to these days.
When you combine these two worlds, what comes out is FinTech, that is, financial technology.
When I started The Bright Minded, I decided to call it Fin-Tech, because I hoped, with that little hyphen, to make it clear that nowadays the concept is far broader.
Until a few years ago, you could draw a very neat line between finance, technology, healthcare, and whatever industry comes to mind. Nowadays, everything tends to blend into each other's fields: healthcare and blockchain, blockchain and artificial intelligence, artificial intelligence and crypto, and so on and so forth. Now we can't use as an excuse that we've never cared about that specific thing, because it would be like saying that you're living in another world. Moreover, not being totally aware of what's going on is increasingly affecting your professional life.
But what if you were a legitimate tech hater and the revolution just came out and you had no time to prepare? The Bright Minded is for you.
The good side of Fin-Tech - but not in the naive way
The Bright Minded wants to show you that when everything seems bad and confused, there are still people thinking and building, hopefully for good.
It wants to show you that there's still an irreducible thread that links any phenomenon: human nature.
Fin-Tech is the natural spot where humans give their best in terms of intelligence. It has a naturally anti-depressive allure, because when you discover that there are people building amazing things, or simply sitting down to try to make sense of the mess and share it with everyone, you suddenly realize that there's still hope.
Starting The Bright Minded was the same act: a person who thinks something is worth building, sitting down to build it, and deciding the mess is worth sharing. The outlet is the argument and the proof at once.