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“I Don’t Like This, and You Shouldn’t Either.”
Write what you want, but maybe let others do it, too?
Dear Perfect Writers: I apologize for forcing you to read self-help posts.
I realize you’re already completely past all of this. You’ve fixed all of your biases and conquered Dunning-Krueger syndrome. You’re secure financially, you sleep well, your schedule of work and play flows like fresh oil through an engine, carrying you easily through this calm apocalyptic end-of-times we find ourselves in.
Given your current state of bliss, I can understand why articles about how to sleep better, worry less, or use small habits to life incrementally better might be annoying. Especially since you come to sites like this for informed news commentary, deep philosophical explorations, and hard-hitting business updates.
That’s what Medium is all about, right? People writing things that are useful to you, in particular, and anything else is not only a waste of your hard-earned five dollars a month but also a personal affront to your pixels. You’re only allotted a finite number of words to read in your life, after all, and every listicle and how-to that isn’t directly and obviously interesting to you is that many letters closer to that final syllable before the darkness takes you.
