Dillon Picks September 2021
Bad fishing metaphors, and my favourites of your articles over the past month.
Every month I trawl the seas of Medium, picking out the prawns amid the plastic pollution. I think that might be my worst metaphor yet in my futile attempts at witty introductions to these selections. At any rate, herewith my favourite articles on Medium that I’ve read over the past month.
Per previous Dillon Picks, these were mostly published during the last month, though I reserve the right to select specimens from earlier. You are powerless to stop me, so fist-wave in impotent rage as much as you like. I also should add my usual promise that this list contains no sanctimonious finger-wagging, passive aggression, competitive victimisation, and insufferable smugness about earnings.
Instead the pieces I have chosen — via rigorous, trial-by-fire criteria — reflect what I have found the most creative, entertaining, informative, shocking, thought-provoking, funny, and moving over the past few weeks. I commend them all to you for reading, or at the very least adding to reading list purgatory for savouring at a later date.
To start with, here’s the eclectic and excellent Paul Combs. Paul is pretty well a permanent fixture here, and quite honestly having to choose just one article by him often…