Maybe I was not clear enough in my comment. And never talked about Medium as a side hustle.

On the contrary, I understand that it is one of the means to build a profitable and diversified network of passive incomes.

Yes, you have to write aggressively and persistently to keep your income stream.

But also, by building a personal online library, you are increasing your chances of having a passive income for something you already did: your previous posts keep producing money.

As can be an online course, a rental, stock photos, royalties, dividend-paying stocks.

So then, once you decide to retire, these passive income sources will keep producing.

Hope it's clear enough now.

Never meant to depreciate your work.

Quite the opposite.