1000 days of disappointment on Medium

I posted my first article on Medium a thousand days ago (give or take depending on when you’re reading this). It was pretty good. People thought it was insightful and helpful. I got a dozen or so claps. I got a dozen or so followers. Good enough.

This will be article thirty-two. It is not a lot in the grand scheme of things, but this isn’t my day job. Hell, it’s not even my side job. And for that casual author, I can’t help but feel… underwhelmed by my experience on Medium even though it is comfortably above average based on the information I can find. That is part…