Of Medium and Life’s Little Pleasures

I’m expecting TWO Medium milestones today. One is pretty significant to me and the other is actually a little bonus I noticed while doing a mental happy dance about the first.

It wasn’t but a few months ago I’d all but given up on writing. I’d still do it, through a compulsion to write, but nothing anywhere near the daily output I do, mostly out of joy, these days. I was resigned to sticking my writings on a shelf in tiny little dark corner of Medium. It must have been this past April or May that I started finally feeling at home here.

I never really got the hang of Twitter as far as twitterpating a bunch of people into wanting to read my 140 characters. I still use it, but I’m mostly a minion of the fail whale there. Facebook? That place kind of depresses me. Personal blog? I’ve had a couple that I never got into a routine of updating and they got dusty and cobwebbed.

But here... as much as some things about Medium frustrate the hell out of me, this is where I actually feel engaged. I’d be an ignorant ass to give all that credit to Medium, itself, though. I’d say it’s more like 30% Platform and 70% Amazing wonderful beautiful lovely people. Still that 30% platform had something to do with such amazing people settling in here.

So I’ve stuck around going on about 2 years now, and I don’t see myself jumping ship anytime soon. I continue to hope the Medium staff/developers address some glaring issues with the writing interface and some obviously beneficial features that have not been implemented yet. All of that stuff has been listed a thousand times or more so I won’t add my enthusiastic beatings to that dead horse here, but I have hopes it will happen… eventually :)

Anyway, I’ll save a little love for when/if I hit those milestones today. :)

With much love,
more to come.