Medium articles neither rare nor well-done for the week ending 1st April 2022.
6 Things You Are Doing Now That You Will Look Back And Regret Later in Life: A professional shitposter shits out a listicle that seems to actually be a variety of symptoms of neurodivergence or mental health issues. If my brain could just calm its tits, I’d be ever so grateful. But there’s not much I can do about that.
Some Good News About Healthspan: A doctor writes about healthspan, a capitalist concept wherein the conclusion of which is the end of the ability to work in a capitalist society.
10 Books That Changed My life: An unlicensed lightweight therapist lets rip a long, wet fart of a listicle about books. If you don’t like motorcycles, absolutely nothing of interest can be found here. If you do, The Zen and Art of Motorcycle Maintenance might be of interest.
Rare articles which are well-done.
Finally, A Comedian Actually Got Cancelled: A journalist talks about The Incident. You know the one.
Medium articles neither rare nor well-done for the week ending 25th March 2022.
Apologies for how late this post is; ADHD struck. (This post was written on 30 March.)
Elon Musk’s Rich Life Is a Friggin Nightmare: A professional ROI lets rip an incredibly rank long, wet fart about an elongated muskrat. We got ableism, we got sympathy for the son of an apartheid emerald mine owner, we got the pretense that an oligarch can have a ‘career’, and we got racism. Absolutely nothing interesting is said.
4 Things That Will Vanish In 20 Years: A professional shitposter prognosticates about the future. I’m not actually sure spam calls will go away. Also, bold of them to assume YouTube and any cryptocurrencies will stick around.
8 Ridiculously Simple Ways to Simplify Your Life Every Day: A professional shitposter shits out a listicle. One of the entries involves making a short task list, which is a trap. Otherwise, nothing to see here.
6 Killer Productivity Apps for Programmers: A professional webshitposter shits out a listicle. It’s interesting that, despite leading with a FOSS project, they opted to suggest VS Code and not VSCodium.
My 6 Most Ruthless Job Interview Questions To See If Someone Really Knows Their Sh*t: A professional con artist lets rip a long, wet, and incredibly noxious fart of a listicle. The only interesting question is about trust in remote work, and as a remote worker their rationale for asking it is just dumb.
Rare articles which are well-done.
Why You Should Spend Time Walking Barefoot Every Day: A journalist explores current research on feet, particularly as relates to footwear.
What Every Childhood Trauma Survivor Needs To Unlearn: A psychologist speaks some necessary truths.
Women Nonbelievers Still Face Intolerance, Despite Growing Numbers: A journalist discusses a survey of nonreligious people.
Medium articles neither rare nor well-done for the week ending 18th March 2022.
Russia Will Never Win: A professional ROI shits out a no-brainer about the Russo-Ukrainian war. While I can’t disagree on any particular point, it’s still an ongoing shitshow that’s hard to prognosticate with certainty.
I Stole Microsoft’s Productivity Equation and Now I Get So Much More Done: An accounts manglement lets rip a long, wet fart about productivity. Long story short: log your activities to identify good times to do shit and plan your shit for those times. Short story long: this shitpost.
Great Leaders Don’t Try to Motivate People: A manglement lets rip a long, wet fart about motivation. As a droid fox with a bad motivator, I can tell you what good managers do: they talk to their employees and try to figure out what’s going on and how they can help. Bad managers? Well, they write shitposts like this.
35 Tiny Rules I Use In My Happy Quiet Life: A self-help booklet shits out a listicle of rules, none of which are particularly interesting.
No One Has Addressed WHY Russia Invaded Ukraine: A veteran thinks he knows why Putin launched his illegal war. I don’t know enough to say for sure, but I suspect the actual reason is that he’s an imperialist oligarch, not…any of this shit. Some of it may have been motivating factors, but this is a lot of inside-baseball stuff.
Rare articles which are well-done.
It’s No Wonder Teen Girls Hypersexualize Themselves When This Is How Media Portrays Them: A professional nerd examines adolescent coming-of-age media, particularly a grossly hypersexualizing one on HBO.
Medium articles neither rare nor well-done for the week ending 11th March 2022.
Apologies for the sparseness of this week’s digest, but that’s what happens when one cherry-picks the interesting articles sometimes.
Vladimir Putin Has Already Won, but Nobody Wants to Admit It: The ROI from last week shits out an even hotter take on the Russo-Ukrainian War. I am particularly annoyed by her insistence on referring to Putin as a psychopath, because psychopathy is not an ‘evil person’ or ‘asshole’ disorder. (Those don’t actually exist. People who are bad aren’t bad for things they can’t control, generally.)
The A-R-C Technique For Dealing With Toxic People In Your Life: A professional self-help booklet has advice on dealing with toxicity in personal life. Long story short: do you want to accept, reject, or change the bullshit you’re dealing with? Short story long: this shitpost.
Why I Quit a $450k Engineering Job at Netflix: An engineer lets rip a long, wet fart about why he quit working at the land of transphobic manglement. Long story short: don’t waste senior engineers’ time on shit a paid intern could do. Short story long: this shitpost.
Rare articles which are well-done.
What I learned about languages just by looking at a Turkish typewriter: A typographer at Medium has a fascinating article about Turkiye’s approach to keyboard design.
Want To Know Thyself? Get Thee A Dog: A writing teacher pens a touching article about the dog he adopted for his son.
Medium articles neither rare nor well-done for the week ending 4th March 2022.
Putin’s Attack on Ukraine Shows the Danger of Believing Your Own Hype: A veteran and baby lawyer plays at writing about politics, starting with a complete misunderstanding of how Putin got in charge. (Hint: It’s because we sent capitalists in to stripmine the country after the fall of the USSR.) Moreover, the sheer scope of corruption and self-dealing in Russia is somehow missing from this analysis.
World War III Has Already Started, and You’re Fighting It: An ROI shits out a hot take about the Russo-Ukrainian war. She compares Putin to Stalin (nevermind that Stalin would have eaten Putin for breakfast, without salt). The only correct statement in here is that it is capitalism’s fault. But characterizing the contemporary era as ‘dark times’ is fascist talk, and degrowth is not a magic spell you can just chant and make everything better.
Watching the War Won’t Stop It: A professional shitposter lets rip a long, wet fart about his reaction to the Russo-Ukrainian war. Long story short: read positive things, not just negative things. Short story long: this shitpost.
Work on the 5-9 Until the 9-5 Becomes a Side Hustle: A professional shitposter lets rip a long, wet fart about turning a side-gig in to a main gig. Most of this is self-help tripe, and so not valuable or interesting.
Rare articles which are well-done.
No, the War in Ukraine Isn’t Because of Pronouns: A journalist writes about how the transphobes are having an extremely normal one this week. It’d be nice if we could stop giving those people oxygen, but until then, articles like this are a must-read.
Four Things I Learned While Working at an Animal Shelter: An ROI writes about their experiences as an adoption counselor.