How I Fell in Love with Medium

Maina James
4 min readMar 9, 2022

Undistracted words flowing into the reality of great ideas finding you

I landed on Medium by luck.

Really?

No.

It’s out of my search for answers, and Medium is one God-sent source.

One mentor recommended that I Google things and only ask questions that lack answers on almighty Google!

I know Quora shoots short straight answers. But if you want finer details — Medium carries the day.

And there’s virtually nothing you won’t find concrete and life-changing advice in Medium.

*Warning — Medium can be addictive; read as much as you can, but equally mind the business that brings bread and butter on your table- more.*

Life-Changing and Career Transforming Lessons

Our lives are best fulfilling when we do what we love — following our passions, to be precise. You’ll find transformative stuff at whatever stage you are building towards the goals, Via Medium.com.

Are you looking for radically honest and life-transforming spits of career reality? Read Tim Denning, a ruthless Aussie Blogger.

I think the first thing Tim hates is the payslip mindset. And you can read this viral view. With a grain of salt, pick what fits your case and leave alone the rest.

And Tim also hates being bossed around. Bad bosses milk your time off schedules- including the precious weekends and Holidays.

He laments countless meetings and time-wasting workplace cultures where actual work starts at 5:00 Pm. Ain’t that time to pack and leave for home — latest at least?

Tim’s school of thought comes amidst the massive shift being the trigger-effects of post-pandemic workplaces.

But honestly, Tim Denning has many other life-transforming writers. One particular model I appreciate is summaries of Books presented in quick and intelligent picks. Here are a few under the publication — Books Are Our Superpower:

● Ruchi Das: If I Had to Read Only 5 Books Till I Die, I’d Read These

● Margaret Pan: Stop Buying Courses — Read These Books Instead

Go on and sift the info from countless writers and publications that’ll radically change how you view workplaces, work cultures, and the whole ideological self-development agenda.

Check out Self Development writers like Ayodeji Awosika, and you’ll thank me later.

Scanning the Web for Silver Bullets for Writing Hacks

Want hacks on writing better? Read Zulie Rane and Jessica Lynn, writers who share virtually all her nitty-gritties while at it. You’ll find many hacks, tools, and advice no one will ever share for free!

But we all want a coin or two from writing. Sean Meyer shares a brutally honest reason here.

I’ve learned a big deal from reading from other successful Medium Writers. And I believe you can grasp something from it. It’s a crafty way for an artist in the making to try and figure everything out-piecing things together.

Medium as a platform allows you to pique a writer you like.

Clap for the writers. Hopefully, I can get a clap from you?

Better still, you can comment in the form of responses for further engagements.

And before it escapes my stream of thoughts, you can keep tabs by subscribing to a reader you like. You get email notifications every time they post something new or even make responses to your comments.

Have a Few Minutes to Gossips?

Does your chatting get spiced up by gossiping around? Meet the world’s Best Gossiper via Medium.com — Tacey Folley.

Shhhh! She also posts her viral gossip via NewsBreak. I almost get tempted to ask Tracey, who shares the finer details with her. But what honestly holds me back is that I know she’s a writer who knits her words just in the right ways to wow her readers.

Read Better and Understand Complex Business Ideas and Models

Want to read about complex topics dissected in more delicate bloggy ways…Search them on Medium. You can start with studying the deep intricacies of Marketing and the buyer’s psychology.

Medium also runs publications with specific core topics:

● Marketing: Better Marketing

● Sex and Life: Sexography

● Writers: Writing Cooperative

● Entrepreneurs: The Startup

● Almost everything: Illumination

If you are a crypto-trading enthusiast, you may want to explore other birds of the same feather- where yours truly also hangs in there.

Know More and Experience Better Sex Life's

And just before it escapes me — want to understand and do better at sex? Please explore Medium. Christopher Kakoski comes up with a whole idea of making sex better by taking on better foreplay-the Outercourse before intercourse.

But I find Christopher’s writings mainly featuring the publication — Better Marketing.

Release yourself and learn how the world overviews sex across cultures. Meet Ash Jurberg, a sex writer with an excellent pick like — 5 Unusual Sexual Practices From Around The World That We Can Learn From. Meet Sex-toy seasoned Sexpert- Emma Austin and a ruthless Meghan Madness.

One of the best planes humans learn is via experience sharing — where writers give explicit details of how they go about everything. As humans, we all fall at different levels of success and failure. Knowing that we are not alone is in itself a vast motivational factor.

Parting Shot

This is just a thin icing on the entire cake -on How I Fell in Love with Medium. You can read and get a lot of experience with Medium aligning your information needs with the broad array of content you can find on the platform.

Did I mention that Medium has no Ads? And the latest feature is the ability to listen to the writers via the Listen feature- explore that also.

I am wishing you a happy exploration via Medium. Hopefully, you’ll fall in love with undistracted reading!

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Maina James

Forex Trading, Cryptocurrency, NFTs and Blockchain Writer