Now Sherry, let’s put the old brakes on the blood pressure meter.

There’s corporate boilerplate, general boilerplate, and the folk(s) you work for boilerplate. Yes, it usually seems like a one-way conversation coming in your direction. (Not to be confused with Jesus Freaks) Because listening in real-time up/down there in the boiler room might not be practical, the boiler operators might need some ‘me’ time digesting data, it’s just possible, in between mobile gaming, of course. :-) (Not to be confused with gaming the system)

Benefits, though probably not career topping, as thought of in recent decades, if they are in the plus column whether breakout or fakeout today, is maybe part of some plan and not necessarily ‘phony’?

The future of Medium, whatever it is, probably not privy to us peons, I mean, what is the future of contemporary online writer/publisher/blogs? Are they still getting venture capital infusions, is the admin of Medium owed a solid, is the scrum for attentive eyeballs evolved into a corporate shark feeding frenzy? Though only a non-business person opinion, I tend to think N.Break is acting more like a flash in the pan paper tiger out of Asia. I could be dead wrong but dang it, statistics are used in the hands of the beholders many times for purpose or agenda.

The state of our fast-changing economy really can’t be trusted to lots of the same old logic, IMO, and I think if anyone is preaching hard drilling mantras like ‘getting back to normal’, well is that just filler noise or a reachable goal?

Thanks for responding, Sherry, I enjoy nothing more than clustering up your day with my personal brand of mansplaining value-added information. Yes, I am the responder King of run-on sentences* here at Medium. Maybe soon I’ll make myself a plaque for that.

*Because the period (.) is adjacent to the comma (,) on most keyboards, so why not, even though you pro writers probably look at this stuff and turn on some device that keeps you from hurling chunks at my style. 🙄👍✅♥️ (run-on emojis too)