Today, when things go "sideways" on Medium you're really talking about the norm. Sideways is what you can expect nowadays. No one expects to win all the time but they do expect a playing field that remains constant. That's not what's happening. And yet some writers do seem to win all the times - and if anyone is at all familiar with Vegas or horse racing odds - that never happens unless … Yeah it's easy to think like that, because something odd is happening. again. Good article.