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Dillon Picks May 2023
The Dillon Empire’s monthly mouthful of Medium magnificence.
Herewith the Dillon Empire’s monthly mouthful of the very best articles I’ve read on Medium over the past few weeks. Before diving into these exalted works of linguistic loveliness, here’s a brief reminder of Imperial selection criteria.
Dillon Picks features ten articles per month. No writer included is then eligible for inclusion for another three months, to ensure a varied selection. Exceptions are made for Knights of the Dillon Empire, of which there are three on Medium: Sir Paul Combs, Sir Sarah Paris, and Sir Eric Pierce. As befits valiant, noble, and loyal warriors of the Dillon Empire, they are granted the privilege of inclusion within these hallowed columns as often as I see fit.
Although I read widely across Medium, certain types of writing prove gnats in my single malt whisky. To that end, the following pieces are excluded from Dillon Picks with extreme prejudice: Earnings bragging, hustle porn, vacuous trend-chasing, anything pro-AI or written by AI (in whole or in part), we’re-all-doomed apocalypse porn, professionally offended blithering, sweeping statement clickbait, blanket tirades against entire people groups, and ill-informed advice from those with no experience or credentials whatsoever. Nor will I tolerate anything pro-golf. The Dillon…