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It’s Time We Had an Honest Conversation About Writing on Medium

Why I’m taking a backseat on Medium.

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SYNERGY

15 min readMar 24

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Hi, all. This is just a post with me thinking out loud, explaining how I feel about Medium and writing online at the moment.

I feel most of us are in the same boat right now, but no one wants to be a negative nancy…

Gareth Willey

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