Instead Of Complain About Medium, Why Don’t You Help Out?

Tom Kuegler
4 min readNov 19, 2022
Photo by Thomas Lefebvre on Unsplash

Look, let’s be honest here.. Medium has seen better days. We all know that. I’ve written about it a lot before and I don’t need to go over all the mistakes this platform’s made since 2018.

And you don’t need to read yet another article bashing Medium’s leadership.

The truth is, Ev was a genius. He created something incredible that gave thousands of writers a chance to make a little extra money.

Some of us even got to do this full-time.

That’s a major win in my book.

If it lives only for a while, Tiberias, it still has lived.”
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Kingdom of Heaven

That’s the perfect quote to sum Medium up. It lived for a while — hell — it even thrived. And I’ll never forget it.

So, that’s it? Let’s just pack up our bags and jump ship to Substack while we still can.

Adios!

If you take that line of thinking, I’m tempted to call you a bunch of ridiculous words that even Gordon Ramsay would cringe to hear.

Quite frankly that’s the coward’s way out.

“But Tom, you told us you were quitting Medium this Summer!”

Yeah, I did. And that’s because I didn’t see leadership that was interested in…

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Tom Kuegler

Travel blogger. 30 years old. Currently in Mexico. Subscribe to my Substack: https://mindofawriter.substack.com/