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Dillon Picks January 2025
My first Medium round-up of the year
Things have been exceptionally busy in the Dillon Empire so far this year, to the point that my monthly selection of favourite articles read on Medium has rather snuck up on me. That’s what happens when I’m up to my eyeballs in writing the first draft of my next novel, I suppose, but none of you give an airborne fornication about that. What you want to know is, did I read your article, and have you been chosen?
The answer is almost certainly no to both questions. One does not simply get selected for Dillon Picks. You have to pass the Eye of Sauron-like scrutiny of the Imperial gaze, as Dillon Picks is immensely, well, picky. It isn’t a hand-out of participation trophies. Even if you’re good, if you write about something I couldn’t give twin defecations about (golf, for instance) then it doesn’t matter how brilliant the article might be, I’m still not including it. Not fair? Tough.
On the other hand, if you are included, then you have every right to feel monumentally smug. If you are one of the chosen, stop for a moment and feel that smugness. Bask in it. The favour of the Dillon Empire is not granted lightly. It certainly isn’t granted to earnings braggers, “hustle bro” types, purveyors of apocalypse porn, AI apologists, or those with no experience or credentials whatsoever offering…