We are not generation X, Y, or Z we are a Template Generation

Rodrigo Demetrio
2 min readSep 13, 2020

I get an email from a client asking if we have some email template sequence or a kind of ready and proof funnel template for his electronic e-commerce. After getting this email I open my Instagram to check my friends' updates and all of a sudden I run into ads selling social media templates where you don't have to think, just copy and paste and get the results.

Templates are everywhere. Templates to get more Tinder responses, yeah ready to go, maybe a template to get rich? No problem here it is, Templates for web site creation, proven sales email templates, wedding party organization templates, toddler care templates, you probably can find any kind of template which is just copying and pasting and boom, the results will come.

I use a lot and dammit how I like and how that saves me time. I never start from scratch, hell no, in milliseconds I google the template necessary and I almost never got disappointed it and you know why? Because the templates work. It seems like we connect our brain directly to an infinite source power of knowledge.

Can you imagine how templates will evolve in the next 100 years? Would I pick a kid template like I pick my next wife on Tinder? Just match and wait 9 months? Maybe change my face for a better template? Uh, maybe that is already possible. A good one would change my, oh my god how I say that, that man thing. Oh wait, let me search a list of words how to say that without saying that and bingo. From fun and bizarre things to high consultancies firms, all of them are selling templates to shortcut and help us to solve our problems. Where all of that template apology will end? I don’t know, wait, let me search templates for the end of the world.

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Rodrigo Demetrio
Rodrigo Demetrio

Written by Rodrigo Demetrio

Helping companies achieve their results using IT for Marketing/Sales Product | Marketing | Project Manager - rodrigodemetrio.com

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