Sam, just keep moving and the barnacles will fall away from your hull.

I’m not sure what standard the naysayers are holding you to, but you have a unique voice with an energy and irreverence and stone-skipping-on-the-social-pond giddiness that buoys my spirit. I thought Medium was a vast space for stretching one’s writerly wings, rather than a clubbish enclave committed to coloring inside the lines. Do I look for writers who carefully calculate their audience’s capacity to absorb familiar cultural references? Nope. I love being catapulted down the click-and-search raceway in pursuit of the novel connection. What is the point of the instant access Internets if not to feed the ADD-powered hunger for the new that keeps me hopping down this cyber rabbit hole again and again? Your duty as writer is to stretch my mind and stay true to your voice. Quant suff.