What I Want From Medium

Thirsty Soul Blogger Is Still Thirsty

It’s amazing how Medium can continue to evolve, change their business plan six or seven times, add publications, dump publications, add back publications, curate, uncurate, curate again and constantly feed the sacred fire of our polis, the “Algorithm”, yet despite all the changes I’M STILL ANNOYED THAT THINGS ARE NOT THE WAY I WANT THEM TO BE.

You know, that was a funnier line when the platform was free. I love to complain about free things. Now I pay $5 a month, and while I know that my writing here is being heavily subsidized by venture capital (ha, ha, suck it, you unicorn hunters of Silicon Valley), it’s not as fun to complain when I am a paying customer.

I’m sure that many of the things I’m about to ask for are technically or financially impossible. OK. You have to understand that I don’t know how anything works anymore. Almost ten years ago I went to buy a new lawn mower. There was no choke or primer button on it. I asked the guy who was selling it to me, “What do I do if it doesn’t start?” He said, “You bring it in to the shop.” I was against it on principle, but you know what? The thing has always started.

I don’t understand how hotel rooms get priced, who paid for the Boss’s ECT treatments, how to get rid of toxic shit like used mineral spirits and naptha, or how many sick days I really have. All you have to do to bring down the cloud of unknowing is put the information on a website “portal”. Maybe I’m just getting old and…