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Medium’s New Policies Are Killing My Message, and It Shows They Don’t Understand Online Writing.

I don’t like writing these posts.

I’m not a complainer, I’m a worker. My wife and I say that “we’re a do-whatever-it-takes” family, meaning we work our ass off to achieve the life we want, no matter the circumstances.

First, I’ll say I’m grateful for Medium. They pay me thousands of dollars each month for my work (of course, I help them out too by writing awesome content for their readers and bringing people to their site all the time). They’ve helped me build a writing business, and given me a platform to reach a lot of people, people like you.

But Medium is not without its faults. And they’ve made some especially annoying mistakes recently, ones that show they don’t really understand online writing.

So I’ll just be posting this one article, then moving back to my usual stuff, helping you achieve your goals and live a better life. But here we go.

I’m probably in the top 1% of the world in terms of writing success — income, reach, influence, etc.

It’s taken me years dealing with countless rejection letters, condescending editors, mean trolls in the comment sections, and staring at stat pages reading “zero views today again, you…