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My 5 Years Writing on Medium: Highlights and Reviews

How writing online changed my life

Yang Zhou
7 min readApr 2, 2025
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A Japanese anime style of Yang Zhou (Made by GPT-4o)

I’ve been writing on Medium for 5 years.

The good news is that some of my articles hit the nail on the head.

For example, this 5-minute read article, “9 Fabulous Python Tricks That Make Your Code More Elegant”, earns over $3400 so far and still generates more day by day:

A screenshot of one of Yang Zhou’s most popular articles

However, not every article was as good as this one, and my first month earning here was merely $0.01 in April 2020.

Even worse, I was pessimistic about writing when ChatGPT came and almost gave up.

So, it’s time to look back at what worked, what didn’t, and how writing consistently shaped both my thinking and my life.

This article shares the highlights and honest reflections from my 5-year writing journey, including all the wins and losses, highs and lows, milestones and mistakes.

Hopefully, it can offer you some insights and encouragement for your own creative path as well.

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Yang Zhou
Yang Zhou

Written by Yang Zhou

Full-Stack Engineer | Tech Entrepreneur

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