> Comes off as a piece written by a paid pseudo-evangelist.
Yeah, I feel like Medium somehow manages to attract that sort of writing. Bizarrely, I've seen this with some authors who write on both Medium and elsewhere -- their Medium content seems weird in the same way. I wonder if it's just that after enough of that content is there, it's the norm, or whether something about the UI makes it feel more "just jot down your thoughts," while a blogpost makes the same authors draft, research, revise, etc., but it's uncanny.
Yeah, I feel like Medium somehow manages to attract that sort of writing. Bizarrely, I've seen this with some authors who write on both Medium and elsewhere -- their Medium content seems weird in the same way. I wonder if it's just that after enough of that content is there, it's the norm, or whether something about the UI makes it feel more "just jot down your thoughts," while a blogpost makes the same authors draft, research, revise, etc., but it's uncanny.