How To Fail At Medium

And How To Come Back From It

Photo by Vasily Koloda on Unsplash

I’m not new here even if my follower count looks like it. I’ve been here before. And for a while, I was really enjoying myself. But metric lust, algorithmic overthinking, self-fluffed ego, and rigid ethical boundaries led to me leaving the site in a fiery hellstorm earlier this year. Don’t get me wrong, there’s not a lot that I regret. But just because I don’t regret it doesn’t…