Why I Abandoned A Medium Publication I Struggled to Join

The only time someone blocked me on Medium

Waving Goodbye Photo by Alexandre Croussette on Unsplash

If you wanted to be someone on Medium, you needed to write for his publications. That’s the idea I got when I started here on Medium.

I began publishing on Medium in July 2018, not too long after Shannon Ashley. Everywhere I looked, I saw the advice to brand yourself, to…