Early on in my Medium journey, I got a sassy comment on one of my YouTube videos that the only reason I had any success on the platform was that I was “lucky”. Despite my prolific efforts — few people were writing 1,000-word, high-quality articles as much as I was…

The stock market continues to thrive even as everyday consumers’ finances deteriorate in the face of high inflation and borrowing costs. But one hedge fund boss thinks the party might be ending. Ken Griffin, the billionaire founder of Citadel, says if the market were playing a baseball game, we’d be…

Everyone has an opinion about which NFL team has the best chance of winning the 2024 Super Bowl, but sports takes are a dime a dozen. What if there were a way to identify which 8 teams had the absolute best chance of winning the Super Bowl and actually put…

Back when I was a sports journalist, there were always a few cliches that athletes would fall back on ad nauseam in pre or post-game scrums. You probably know some of them if you’ve spent any time watching sports coverage on TV. “We’re going to give 110%,” that sort of…

Lately, I’ve been finding it a lot more difficult to drum up the energy to write about sobriety and quitting alcohol. I think there are probably a couple of reasons for this. First of all, my ADHD brain grows tired of things relatively quickly. In fact, I’m pretty impressed I’ve…

The Canadian government recently adjusted its alcohol consumption guidelines and boy oh boy, you should have heard the crying. Alcohol sellers and enthusiasts declared the government to be anti-business. The political right pointed to it as another example of the nanny state bossing people around. Here’s the thing though: nobody…

There’s simply no getting around it: the new changes to the Medium Partner Program have been especially tough on long-time, longer-form writers like myself. Many of those who generated the bulk of their earnings from read-time on older stories are reporting 70%+ drops in earnings overnight, and I’m one of…

We all want to believe that quitting alcohol is a simple, binary choice. That once you quit the demon booze once and for all, everything becomes sunshine and rainbows and life becomes easy-breezy. Take it from me: that is a deeply unrealistic expectation. It’s not that life isn’t better —…

It seems people either love or hate the new Medium Partner Program. Me? I’m really on the fence. On the one hand, there are aspects of the new MPP that I think are really positive and will help grow the site over the long term. On the other, some of…