(medium.com is a new social media site for writers.) Dear Medium, I take it that you are in your formative stages, prior to conquering the world, beating the shit out of Facebook, out-linking Linkedin etc. This means that you haven't made important decisions about what you want to be in this world. You can't decide what kind of writing you should encourage and you are waiting for your members (writers) to tell you. Clever old you. Well here's my two cents worth. Here's what I DON'T want to see on Medium: I don't want to see numbered lists because: 1. It's a lazy, contrived sure-fire way to get more readers to click on your piece. 2. It offers a quick recipe for wisdom. 3. It offers a quick recipe for more hits. 4. It looks really neat on the page. 5. It's so formulaic that a new movement against numbered lists on social media has begun. 6. Started by me. 7. Now. I don't want to read another story about how you made such a great success of your startup, how you fucked-up your startup or how you positioned your startup for a pivot (a pivot? Really?). I'm not a coder, I don't want to read stuff about how to learn to code in three easy steps. Coding is gobbledygook. It's for aliens. I don't want to see comics, I want to read. I don't want to see GIFs or Infographics. They are overdone and give me brain-freeze. I never want to life-hack anything. Life-hack? How to life-hack losing your lover and keep your loyalty card for Starbucks. Ugh! I never again want to read that I should surround myself with people more clever than myself, better writers than myself, better at online marketing than myself and better at coding than myself. If they were better than me, they would BE me. That would never work. I don't want to read about how to get more people to: 1. Come to my website. 2. Click on my links. 3. Subscribe to my newsletter. 4. Friend me up. 5. Read my numbered lists (see above, see also below). 6. Answer my (boring and only-relevant-to-me) three-minute survey. Here's what I DO want to see on Medium: Writers taking risks. Pushing out the envelope, showing emotion, producing a great opening paragraph, making me laugh, making me tingle, bringing a tear to my eye, bringing me back to Medium with a sense of expectancy every time I click to the big M. Or to put it another way: • Writers taking risks. • Pushing out the envelope. • Showing emotion. • Producing a great opening paragraph. • Making me laugh. • Making me tingle. • Bringing a tear to my eye. • Bringing me back to Medium with a sense of expectancy every time I click to the big M. Most of all I don't want to see the same points repeated. And that's why I'm here Medium. • That's • Why • I'm • Here Put that in your algorithm and compute it.
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