A Medium Corporation 2025-09-17T21:58:02Z

Rain lashed against my apartment windows that Tuesday night, the kind of downpour that turns city lights into watery smears. I'd just closed my tenth browser tab of celebrity gossip masquerading as news, fingertips tingling with the cheap dopamine rush of infinite scrolling. My head throbbed with digital cotton candy – all sweetness, no substance. That's when I remembered the blue-and-white icon tucked in my productivity folder, untouched since download. What harm in trying?

Rain lashed against the hospital window as I numbly scrolled through my phone's notification hell. Celebrity divorces, political outrage, 10-second dance trends - each flashing headline felt like sandpaper on raw nerves. My thumb hovered over the flight mode toggle when a tiny purple icon caught my eye. That accidental tap on Medium became the rope that pulled me from drowning in digital sewage.

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