Medium Baffles Me

I am still baffled. I tried initially to join other publications and got nowhere. I thought you HAD to have a publication to do anything so I created one. Since then the idea that I might get an audience has become laughable. So I figured Medium is mainly useful for drafting things I will eventually publish on Kindle. As time has passed, the notifications I get are either larded with profane headlines (not many but they are there) and semi-autobiographical pieces of interest to anyone in tech and the gadget zeitgeist, not my cup. Such treasures I find are by chance not any discernible design. As far as I am concerned, Medium works for those who it works for and is otherwise whatever one makes of it.

I will add a PS.

More I think about it, the more I think publications should NOT be a basis for publishing things. Curation would instead focus on creation of a notification system that is actually keyed to a particular reader’s interests. I have little interest in anything that I now scan in Medium emails. I read the few that are of some interest or where I sense that a response may be in order. There are probably other things that would help good material rise to the top. But having a sort of upper tier of power publications to which most have no access as writers or which have been given up on and resulted in the creation of largely unknown efforts is an invitation to the general stratification that seems to be the endemic. I persist in thinking of a few gems I have read purely by chance!