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Publications that made Medium great in 2024
š š§āš Today gives us a wonderful two-for-one holiday deal: Merry Christmas AND Happy Hanukkah!Issue #236:...
The Medium responses that got you talking (and reading) this year
āļø Welcome backIssue #235: why Spotify wrapped hits different this year + reversible decisionsItās an age-old...
The most-highlighted sentences of 2024
š The highlight of my year? Working on this newsletter. Thank you to the hundreds of...
A Tale of Two Offsites, 2024
Instead of having our offsite work sessions in a basement conference center with no light and...
We sent you 233 emails this year; here are your faves
š„³ Itās the Friday-est Friday of the yearIssue #233: ambiguity, art, and tab lifeWeāre about to...
It happened on Medium in 2024
Image created by Jason Combs, featuring images from the stories in this roundup.āShowing up. Showing up...
Itās not (always) insomnia, itās segmented sleep
ā³ Itās Thursday, and weāve got just 3.46% of the year left to go!Issue #232: a...
Fluoride: a chemical byproduct with a complicated past (and future)
š Welcome back to the Medium NewsletterIssue #231: 2024ās video game of the year, a history...
Aging makes you more yourself
āļø Weāre back with the Medium NewsletterIssue #230: silly days, weird color combos, and the āfundamental...
How to publish your academic writing on Medium
Image created by Jason CombsMedium is a great home for academic writers. Itās easy to write...
How to take stock of the year that was
š As we mentioned way back in February, the futureās coming sooner than you think.Issue #229:...
Media manipulation, lookalike contests, and fabricated outrage
āļø My goal for this weekend is to last one whole day without looking at a...
Bluesky is considering ads; hereās why that might not be a bad thing
š¢ Please join me in savoring the happy numerical roundness of todayās date: 12 + 12...
ChatGPTās favorite words & punctuation
š 20 more days until 2025Issue #226: Nikki Giovanni. Sora. Luigi.Following up on last weekās issue...
The second Gilded Age: Why the 2020s feel like the 1890s
š Welcome back to the Medium NewsletterIssue #225: an ode to details + the Three-Round Rule...
Best gifts for writers, according to the Medium community
Iām going to assume some of you are reading this at the very last minute as...
Donāt fear failure. Fear ignorance.
š Welcome back to the Medium NewsletterIssue #224: your thoughts on the Great Barrington Declaration, and...
The Great Barrington Declaration and how polarized we are
š„ Happy Friday, yāallIssue #223: legislating social media + āthe ceiling of your inputsāLast week, Trump...
Untangling the āmale loneliness epidemicā
āļø Morning. Three more Thursdays until 2025.Issue #222: subway mosquitoes + good opinionsIs there an epidemic...
An introduction to academic writing on Medium
The basics: Medium is a home for human stories and ideas. Weāre an open publishing platform...
The two-year anniversary of ChatGPT
āļø Welcome backIssue #221: your thoughts on AI-generated writing + a tour of Parisian bookstoresChatGPT is...
Why a banana sold for $6.2 million
š This banana emoji is not for saleIssue #220: friends v. fans + the value of...
āA world divided into writes and write-nots is more dangerous than it soundsā
ā³ Weāve gotā¦ 9% of 2024 left to live. Letās make it count.Issue #219: why books...
Making better decisions, part II
š¤ The phrase āBlack Fridayā has its roots in Philadelphia: During the 1960s, police there used...
The two-word trick to small talk: Iām curious
āļøš Happy pre-Thanksgiving travel day to all who celebrateIssue #216: podcasting is video now, design ethics,...
How Jaguarās logo lost its roar
š¤ [this is where we hold space]Issue #215: Dorothyās silver slippers and your win binJaguar just...
How to make imperfect decisions
š Itās Monday! And weāre back.Issue #214: aging in bursts + avoiding needinessThe hardest decisions have...
Why is everyone talking about Bluesky right now?
š Weekend plans? LMK in the responses. I am taking Slack off my phone.Issue #213: thereās...
The battle between Gen Z and Gen X
š Thursday! This week is whooshing by.Issue #212: lowercase diary entries, Angularās latest update, and the...
Deepening understanding about transmisogyny
š Welcome back to the Medium NewsletterIssue #211: your thoughts on raw milk + how to...
Why a wildfire broke out in NYC
š Weāre back!Issue #210: wildfires in unlikely places, insights from an ER triage nurse, and your...
Raw milk is about to have its culture war moment
āļø Happy Monday yāall. Letās do this.Issue #209: Milktalk, the NYC marathon-as-party, a simple explanation of...
āWork with people who respect you and who you respect. No exceptions.ā
š¾ Take a bow. You made it.Issue #208: How āThrillerā was made and Always Be FinishingThereās...
It happened on Medium: October 2024 roundup
Image: The Travelling Companions by Augustus Leopold Egg (from Birmingham Museums Trust)Iāve been thinking a lot...
The changing ākeysā to the White House
š Welcome back to the Medium NewsletterIssue #207: the women who created werewolf stories and the...
Why thereās no such thing as an āuntranslatable wordā
š Weāre back with the Medium NewsletterIssue #206: befriending good communicators and a roadtrip through the...
Dispatches from a post-election classroom
āļø HalloIssue #205: a letter from prison + an email from Taylor Swiftās dadLest youāve had...
Two veterans, two perspectives on Veterans Day
š Hello! Weāve returned with the Medium NewsletterIssue #204: raking leaves and making things you actually...
āOne must imagine Sisyphus happyā
š The year is 85% over ā letās make this last 15% of 2024 count, shall...
The future of media is community
š Welcome back to the Medium NewsletterIssue #202: climate denial as a coping mechanism, expanding accessibility...
A former member of the White House transition team on whatās next
š Hello, weāre tired but weāre backIssue #201: a media reckoning, a straw poll, and taking...
Thereās a lot more on your ballot than just the presidential election
š Welcome to the 200th issue of the Medium Newsletter, which (and we definitely didnāt plan...
The 7 types of U.S. voters
š³ļø T-1 day until whatās shaping up to be one of the closest elections in U.S....
Apple doesnāt innovate from scratch
š³ļø Four days! Stay informed but donāt get sucked in.Issue #198: the French Bread Law, ancient...
The first witches were medieval healers
šÆļø Hello, yes, itās Halloween. Iām going as Paul Mescal holding the Sweetgreen bag.Issue #197: drinking...
A pre-election dispatch from an Atlanta barbershop
š«° Hello from me and my new favorite emoji, the finger heart (it means love, but...
āNature is the ultimate computational machineā
š Hello, itās Tuesday! And, for the first time in weeks, it truly feels like fall...
Halloween is a weird blend of at least two old holidays
š Welcome back to the Medium NewsletterIssue #194: parenting boys v. girls + auditing your boundariesBy...
