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Call Me Cranky, But Will You Kindly Stop Waving Your Penis Around?
An unapologetic rant, so please be warned
After five weeks in Mongolia, I was pretty happy to get home and start writing on my own computer again after being rather strictly limited by my Chromebook. Getting back on the Medium platform was one of my priorities so that I could start sharing the plethora of stories and fun shit that happened.
Um…wait. Before I share the penis-waving story, let me back up here a sec.
Before joining Medium in April 18, I used to write articles on Linked In. Five hundred of them, to be exact, which taught me how to stick to a slightly shorter form and produce very regularly. I used to love LinkedIn and the various contacts that I made there. Until that platform got steadily infected with the False Humility virus, which became widespread, as well as the same ugly vitriol that infects Facebook and Twitter. Those factors made scrolling on LinkedIn decidedly less pleasant.
Besides, LinkedIn doesn’t pay.
Worse, it also got populated with basement dwellers with zero business experience who now pepper the inboxes of seriously experienced people with real business chops with ridiculous promises of how they’re going to make us rich. I get tons of these weekly; they’re insipid and…