Stop Complaining About What Other People Write on Medium
Recently, I’ve been seeing a lot of articles in my feed complaining about what other people write about on Medium. This baffles me.
In it’s essence, Medium is a writing medium,and — although it’s a privately run entity — it’s open to all. This is a key aspect of Medium’s core business model and mission statement.
Variety is the spice of life, and much like our founding fathers over here in the US of A, I imagine the founders of Medium knew that individuals on their platform should have the freedom to express themselves and bounce new ideas off of one another. After all, there’s nothing greater than the exchange of great ideas.
Right now, there are very few restrictions on what people can write on the platform.
If I so wanted, I could write about all the different flavors of cotton candy available to buy in my city. I could go on to explain why I thought which variations were better than others, and which flavors weren’t that great.
By posting my opinions on Medium, I make them available to other people who want to learn about cotton candy and who are actively searching for that information.
Maybe they pick up fragments of new information from every article they read about cotton candy. It’s their right to seek out that…
