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Looking back at a year of Medium
On 2021’s last day, I’d like to look back at my work on this platform. I would much rather do that than think about 2020. I’d like to write a punch piece about 2022, but I’ve already written 10s of thousands of words on it.
(Related: I just posted along the same lines about my blog.)
Over the past year I’ve used Medium in two ways. As a writer, I’ve posted here frequently, around once or twice per week. That’s usually content I’ve written to my blog, translated and lightly edited/formatted for Medium. (I used to try Medium’s import function, but it kept breaking, so now I just manually copy and paste, then edit. Not the best procedure.)
As a reader, I’ve taken to scanning recommended articles every morning, either from email or the mobile app. Most of the pieces are not professionally useful in a direct way, yet they do serve a general environmental scan purpose, given Medium’s stature and breadth of content.
Back to writing, here are the most popular articles I’ve written in 2021, according to Medium stats:
