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How big things start small, or: the story of Black History Month
š Welcome backIssue #259: asking yourself why, Brian Enoās life advice, and courageBy Harris SockelIn 1926,...
What do dying people regret the most? Living an inauthentic life.
In one of the most popular Medium stories ever (featured in issue #105), Methodist pastor Lydia...
A former New York Times Covid reporter on the pandemicās origins
ā Hello againIssue #257: postmodern AI, twee-isms, and sparksBy Harris SockelA quick correction: In an earlier...
You will find your people
š Happy Lunar New Year!Issue #256: the United States of Breakfast, midlife crises, and having funBy...
How to turn your Threads, Bluesky, or X thread into a Medium story
Add italics and bolding to highlight specific ideas. You can also separate sections using H1 and...
The writer who reviewed every record on Rolling Stoneās ā500 Greatest Albums of All Timeā list
š HolaIssue #255: laughtivism, DeepSeek, and compartmentalizationBy Harris SockelLast weekend, I spent several hours digging into...
Inspiring ideas are rarely incremental
š Weāre back!Issue #254: Severance, subtweets, and sauceBy Harris SockelA few years ago, I was on...
Donāt take sides during meetings. Try on these 6 hats instead.
āļø See you next weekIssue #253: scrobbling, sign language, and self-perceptionBy Harris SockelāThe problem with normal...
Use this flowchart to make tough decisions easier
ā³ Not to freak you out or anything, but weāre already 6.12% of our way through...
Why it took 37 years for the U.S. to ban Red ā3
š Welcome backIssue #251: letting go of assumptions + self-imposed urgencyBy Harris SockelCandy corn. Pez. Maraschino...
Maybe what youāre feeling is āautomation anxietyā
š¤ I swear to God a human wrote thisIssue #250: foraging, pickling, and dead husbands who...
The ānine-word problemā of civil rights discourse
šŗšø Itās MLK Jr. Day and Inauguration Day today here in the U.S. ā so weāre...
What the end of Metaās moderation means
š Today is Friday, January 17th. Thereās only one other Friday the 17th in 2025, happening...
Why TikTokers are flocking to Xiaohongshu
š± One of my lightly held 2025 resolutions is to stop picking up my phone when...
The inevitable future of self-driving cars
š Hello and welcome backIssue #251: wildfires, knives, and lesser-known reading recsLate last year, I was...
You can teach others how to respect your time
š Somehow, weāre (almost) halfway through JanuaryIssue #246: making a mobile game, empathy v. accountability, and...
Join us for an Academics Hour
On Wednesday, January 29th from 12ā1pm ET (9ā10am PT), weāre holding a free webinar for anyone...
A dispatch from Los Angeles
āļø Weāre back with the Medium NewsletterIssue #244: Louise Bourgeois, imperfect information, and the best outdoor...
Listening to someone is not the same as agreeing with them
āļø Be safe this weekendIssue #243: literary rejections, good storytelling, and unconscious envyIām guessing some of...
Why weāve suspended Partner Program accounts this week
Image created by Jason CombsAs weāve written here before, part of being a platform is dealing...
Donāt wait until you lose everything to appreciate what you have
š Hello againIssue #242: wildfire policy, vibe curators, and optimizing for understandingIām writing this one day...
You canāt change one behavior without changing another
š Itās Wednesday, and weāre 2% of our way through 2025Issue #241: salt, Jimmy Carter, and...
Creativity is the art of making mistakes
š Welcome back to the Medium Newsletter (itās so good to be back!)Issue #240: who the...
4 expert tips for writing more in 2025
š Weāre back and better-rested than everIssue #239: jungle gym careers, Billie Holiday, and questioning your...
The top Medium stories of 2024 by reads and shares
š Itās our last issue of 2024. If youāve been reading since January, thank you!Issue #238:...
A few notable writers who made their Medium debut in 2024
š¤« Itās my favorite time of year: Dead Week, the no manās land between Xmas and...
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...
