Medium Rare

Our Favorite Stories About Walking Away From the Big Job

Your weekly digest of the weird and wonderful from the Medium universe

Here at GEN, it’s my job to scour Medium each day for fresh voices with compelling stories and unmatched expertise. Still, it’s a constant struggle to not get distracted, and sometimes you just have to go down that rabbit hole. Each week on Medium Rare, I’ll be sharing stories you might have missed that are definitely worth a second look. Got a suggestion for a piece we should feature? Pop it in the responses below!

• Now that Pete Buttigieg’s high hopes for the Oval Office are officially crushed, Brian Abbey distills what made 2020’s Xennial dweeb (my description, not his) so polarizing: Mayor Pete is the cilantro of candidates. “Some people loved him and other people thought his campaign tasted like soap.”
• A new Hillary Clinton docuseries premieres on Hulu this Friday. And while she continues to relitigate the 2.54 million things that went wrong in 2016, it seems appropriate for us to revisit what should have been Clinton’s 🖕zero fucks🖕 concession speech. “Well, full steam ahead, America! Godspeed and go fuck yourselves.” (Hillary Clinton [parody])
• This writer worked as an actor at Halloween-themed escape room…