[mgas]

This, and only this. He literally states "Fast forward two years and several pivots, and my slightly-less-early-stage business is doing $900 per month in revenue... from ads."

I used to hate ads, until I started making money from ads. Now I am writing this fluff piece where I try to use rhetoric to re-frame the paradigm where I was once a disgruntled user, but now I am a profitable pusher.

Particularly distasteful is the notion that "attention is a form of micropayment with low friction". If in the Library of Babel, all combinations of words are possible, I do not believe a more loathsome or self-serving bit of drivel could be found.