Medium . . . it’s a great place. A cool idea. I’ve made great friends, read great articles, found a lot of joy here. At the same time, working with them is as frustrating as training a cat to Rap.

I had two objectives when I started at Medium

Write

Build a following

I am very happy with the first and my writing. On the second – put it this way, I can just about squeeze all my followers into my Toyota and still be able to drive it. Not great.

Do I know why this is? Haven’t a bloody clue. I have watched new writers using AI zoom past me on number of followers, so many times, I’ve developed a tick as a result.

What does it feel like? Well, like Medium erected a big D-E-T-O-U-R sign right before readers get to me and are redirected elsewhere – to the top writers, those who write on Hot subjects. Can I prove this, nope. Like I can’t prove that Santa is real. But in my heart – I know it to be true.

Medium is a controlled environment – like Amazon or Facebook – things happened there that are planned and executed and before we know it – we are looking at Ads for Hot Air Ballooning when we went there for dental floss.

So – what to do? Create elsewhere. Keeping working at the writing. I hope Medium straightens itself out – I really do. We’ll see. Cheers, George. Another cool article.