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Thank You, Medium
Once again, we’re turning a page — and it won’t be the last one
2020 was my best and worst year on Medium. Like all years, it had its ups and downs, but if both the ups and downs grow ever larger, so will the gap between them — and thus the emotional rollercoaster that is writing on this platform.
In my case, the downs were most extreme in November and December, which, sadly, made it hard to end the year on a high note. But just because the highs happened in June and July does not make them any less important.
I have a philosophy: Complain in private, praise in public. I’ve been an ambassador for Medium for nearly seven years. It’s a job they never gave me, but I’m trying to live up to it, which includes solving whatever problems can be solved behind the scenes rather than venting about them in public. I’m not sure I’ll always maintain this philosophy, but so far, it has served me well.
Today, I’d like to take off the bitching hat I’ve been wearing the last two months, if mostly in conversations with myself, and put on my thanking hat.
2020 has been a great year for Medium, and it’s been a good one for my presence on the platform as well.
The first person I’d like to thank for that is myself because, like every year of the past seven, without…
