Sound advice, generally speaking. Just a couple quibbles.

First, "like Bill Gates evades an Epstein scandal." Why the gratuitous dig at Gates? Some of your readers think well of him for the way he spends billions--unlike the pocket change most uber-rich folks invest to buy good will--on unglamorous causes like fighting malaria. And to say he evades (not avoids) a sex scandal means he's done something despicable and is using legal maneuvers to get away with it. Not cool. When I read that, I almost clicked away.

Second, your point about long sentences and paragraphs is an overgeneralization. It really depends. No, one shouldn't write like Faulkner in an article on Medium, but neither must you aim for Hemingway. I love the punch of one-word paragraphs, but long sentences also have their place. (For a good discussion of that point, see Clark's book, Writing Tools: 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer.)