It’s probably nothing. I’ll know in about two seconds. — They say as we get older we get wiser and things become easier to deal with but if I sleep on my arm the wrong way this always happens. And I never seem to learn. I know there’s always been a happy ending to this story. Yet, for these two…

They are by far the most important element of your story — With recent changes in the algorithm and so on, it has become very apparent to me that my title is what brings me readers. Readers go to “topics” and find a list of all the latest stories in that tag. For instance, humor. Take a look. …

Well, my article about “What Most Medium Writers Don’t Understand About Medium” got quite a lot of attention. What Most Writers Here Don’t Understand About Medium It’s a social network, stupid.medium.com In fact, I noticed that my article got more claps and more responses than Barack Obama’s article about book banning week. I’m also acutely aware that Medium writers are kind of resentful…

Struggle to explain what a polygon is. Get it confused with quadrilateral. — Look, the greatest minds at NASA are pretty smart dudes, I’m not disputing that. But the recent discovery of perfectly symmetrical polygons on planet Jupiter has thrown the agency into chaos. Still reeling after its humiliating recent failure to launch its Artemis rocket — in an era when private citizens…

It’s a social network, stupid. — It took me a while to get this. But duh, the founder very clearly stated that Medium was supposed to be Twitter with longer stories. But I didn’t pay attention to that. According to me, three years ago when I started writing on Medium, I was a staff writer and…

Stop killing people for that dictator. Before it’s too late. — Today is a scary day, Putin again threatening nuclear war, announcing conscription and the calling up of hundreds of thousands more soldiers for this tragic misadventure in Ukraine. I can’t really say it better than this great genius. Please, Russian soldiers. Listen to this man: To those who can hear…

…hid it beneath Jimmie Page’s Stairway but it all happened in Syd Barrett’s mind and… — Why are all white American males of a certain age obsessed with these English guys? And Bob Dylan. He’s the American who is as legendary as these top division British invaders. Here’s The Answer My friend started dating an older guy. Why? I don’t know, he is loaded, so there’s that. He’s got…

An inquiry into masculinity — The Great Heartwarming There are a lot of heartwarming videos coming out of Ukraine lately, as the villages are liberated, the people come out and hug the soldiers. It’s the best of times, worst of times, right? I Can’t Click On The Horror Videos So I guess there’s horrific stuff coming out of Izyum that shows the Russians are really…

We’ve been way too soft on these horrible Ukrainians! — This from the Russian propaganda channel today: “We’ve been demonstrating humanism for quite some time,” pontificates the monstrous female mouthpiece of the Russian propaganda machine. “The time for humanism is over.” “We don’t need to think about who to protect,” says another pundit. “We need to protect our people…