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Dillon Picks: February 2023
My monthly selection of favourite Medium articles is back, with some changes.
Those of you who have followed me for a long time know I once ran a monthly selection of favourite Medium articles entitled Dillon Picks. What started as a well-meaning endeavour to highlight talented writers on this platform subsequently grew arms, legs, and tentacles. Occasionally presented in rhyming verse, it then degenerated into its own meta-serial involving characters such as Reginald the Rigorous and Millicent the Malevolent, both of whom presented the monthly selection on behalf of the Emperor at Fortress Dillon.
Frankly, it all got rather silly and exhausting, and by the end, I was highlighting far too many articles (for reference, here’s the deranged final Dillon Picks from last October, which also features a hedge fund manager being given electric shocks for silly comments in between articles). I decided to quit whilst people still found it amusing and attempt different strategies for highlighting articles and writers. For the past three months, I’ve run Dillon Detours (focusing on specific topics) and Dillon Recommends (focusing on specific writers) instead, with varying degrees of success.
Alas, I fear I have slightly run out of steam with those spin-offs, so I’ve decided to resurrect the original…