Kristina, it is fortune-telling from tea leaves. At least, this is how my high school literature teacher would say it, with disapproval. FYI, she grew up in Germany (today it is Poland there), and got her teacher’s degree in German, in 1918. She was Polish by heart, but she had thought as Germans do.

I understand that you want to give Ev credit for creating Medium. And for noble ideas, he had. He deserves that. But that ship sailed.

During his ten years at the top, the implementation of his ideas boiled down to obtrusive promotion of the narrow set of ideas that Ev personally found as worth spreading. It could work for a religious organization but it is not a way to run a vivid and profitable media organization. And for this reason, Ev is not the CEO anymore.

Now, with respect to the original concept, which brought us together, we have to find a better way. As you know, I wrote on that subject.