I don't mean to be rude to the author, but I found this style of writing difficult to read. Too verbose, too full of asides, to focused on himself and not the actual information. Makes getting useful information out of the text needlessly difficult.
I agree, but it was mercifully not full of animated meme GIFs, so I still found it to be relatively pleasant reading. Not everyone's a writing master, and not every writing style is to everyone's taste. On balance I found it worth the read.
It wouldn't be a Medium article if you didn't have to wade through five pages of utter dreck to get the significant information.
Completely agree. It was painful and it was weird the things he explained and the things he didn't. The listserv looks like a listerv. When that isn't going to make any sense to anyone who doesn't knkow what a listerv is.
Then there was the reference to the Hashemite Republic of Jordan. I was like, "is that some breakaway part of Jordan? But no, it just seems like the Hashemites are the royal family? ugh.
It strongly reminded me of The long read articles from The Guardian