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I Fell Out Of Love With Medium
But I’m willing to try and work through our differences
Disclaimer — No Medium writers were harmed during the making of this article.
So…it’s been a while.
For the past six months, Medium has been my most visited site. Whether that be for reading, writing or obsessive stats-page checking, not a day went by that I didn’t use Medium. From the moment I pressed ‘Publish’ on my first post back in May, I fell in love with writing, and with Medium, for the freedom that this platform provides to broadcast our thoughts out into the world.
For the first three months, I focused entirely on writing. I would publish one or two times per week, but completely failed to engage with the rest of the community. It was only when I read a post by Dr Matt, MBBS BSc, that I realised the error of my ways, and I started reading more articles than I was writing. I started by using his recommended 3:1 read to write ratio, but in the same way that it’s so easy to find that the one Youtube video somehow turns into ten, I quickly found myself reading maybe six or seven articles for every one draft that I was writing.
Lo and behold, my views started to reach previously unforeseen heights. I gained more followers in the month of August than I’d amassed in the three months previous…
