Medium Launches Better Satire
This isn’t the Trauma Olympics
San Francisco was covered in fog this morning. Medium HQ was barely visible and some very strange shit was about to go down inside the corridors of power.
Coach called for an early meeting to announce the new direction Medium will be taking. His hair was tousled and he looked slightly tipsy, but his staff welcomed the change as he had a glint of sardonic humor in his eye.
When everyone sat down, Coach stood up and made this announcement:
Writers have taken this trauma and self help business too far. We think we’ve achieved Better Humans already, ok? We are already the Guardians of Better Internet. But something is missing…
His staff waited in suspense to find out where Coach was going with all of this. Would he be introducing Better Paragraphs or Better Business Insights? Coach continued:
We’ve all become too serious. We have become such exceptional Better Humans that we don’t even smile or snicker or giggle anymore. Everybody just tries to out heal each other, comparing each…