Yesterday I showed my iPhone running iOS 26 to my son. I was scrolling through my notifications on the lock screen. The first thing he said was: woah… that is so… much harder to read.

Not cool. Not impressed. Just harder to read. He is 21. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I wrote these articles on Medium under the Numeric Citizen Journey in the last year and I wonder how different my readership would have been if I wrote these articles on Substack. Substack isn’t having a great time these days…

Here’s the latest edition of the Ephemeral Scrapbook newsletter. About this edition: “Amid Apple Intelligence delays, Apple still makes money, a lot of it. Doomsayers will have to wait. This edition isn’t AI-news free. Sorry."

Bye Bye (Again) Medium

My Medium membership is up for renewal on August 17th. I returned to Medium last year to share a special set of articles about my potential career pivot to freelancing. I wrote over a dozen articles on this topic, believing Medium was a suitable platform for personal and career-focused content. Unfortunately, it wasn’t. Despite following all the SEO tricks, I earned only $1.64 in revenue, which I won’t receive since the minimum payout is $10. 😳 I expected my earnings to at least cover the cost of my Medium membership, but that didn’t happen. I also intended to read more content on the platform, but I didn’t. I thought I would gain more followers, but that didn’t occur either. I understand now that I need to move on1, 2.

Goodbye, Medium. It was one of my numerous experiments3. I’ll keep my account active but won’t write or share anything further.

  1. The vibe on Medium feels strange. The presence of generative AI often lingers in my mind while reading content there. ↩︎

  2. I aim to focus my creative energy on the right things; doing less often leads to a more sustainable and enjoyable journey. ↩︎

  3. Write.as, Substack were other experiments, too. ↩︎