WRITING | FRIEND OF MEDIUM

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I became a Friend of Medium, and it feels fantastic

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I’ve been lurking on Medium for years — as a reader. Early on in my professional journey in the world of coding and UI/UX Design, I spent A LOT of time looking things up on Google, and kept running into articles directing me to the Medium platform.

I told myself I would invest in the Medium platform once I felt I was getting a return on my energy.

I have had this writing habit since I first learned what words were

I’ve written before about how the first thing I ever wanted to be was a writer. I kept an ongoing correspondence with friends and family well into my college days, first as physical letters and then as long, winding, philosophical emails. I’m a big fan of daily journaling.

I have spent the whole of my working life accidentally falling into roles that utilize my writing skills in some form or another, but I had never published my own words.

I’m not sure what made me decide to start publishing on Medium, but it happened in January.

Perhaps it was the YouTube spiral I went down one night while I was cooking dinner, or one of the many email newsletters I get…