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My keynote talk for Medium Pub Crawl
On Tuesday, March 19, we hosted our very first Pub Crawl, a 24-hour virtual meetup that...
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Why many physicists believe in the multiverse
🪐 Good morning to you and all the parallel universe versions of you.Today: The dark side...
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Would you bet $100K that Covid-19 started in a lab?
📅 It’s been approximately 1,561 days since the first known case of Covid-19Today: The largest book...
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How game theory explains why the four-day workweek is stalled in the U.S.
☀️ Welcome back to another five-day workweek, an 86-year-old tradition many attribute to Henry Ford —...
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Three tips for avoiding virtual scams
👋 Hi, and welcome to the Daily Edition. It’s the 12th Friday of 2024.Today: A lawyer...
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We’re ramping up efforts to protect the Medium community from spam and fraud
We know you’ve seen it: spammy comments that say nothing of value. Generic posts with head-scratching...
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Can you tell the difference between an AI-generated poem and a human-written one?
✍️ What’s your favorite poem of all time? Let us know in the responses. (I like...
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The best leaders are tireless investigators of the humans around them
🔎 Who’s the best boss you’ve ever had? What made them special? Respond to this email...
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Our curation team’s approach to keeping AI-generated content out of your recommendations
Vetting content for quality — the job of Medium’s curation team — is especially challenging right...
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A very gentle introduction to large language models (without the hype)
🌻 Today is the vernal equinox, aka the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere....
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Your next job will come from someone you barely know
⌛ It’s Monday, March 18, and we’re 21% of the way through 2024Today: The law of...
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It happened on Medium: February roundup
In February 2024…You published 2.4 million new stories.1,633 stories were Boosted this month, based on 2,374...
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What it’s really like working at TikTok
☘️ Sunday is St. Patrick’s Day — ironically, the eponymous patron saint of Ireland was likely...
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Pi, pie, and the making of a mathematical star
🥧 or π? Which decimal place does your birthday show up in Pi? Find out with...
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What the Kate Middleton photo scandal means for the future of photography
Thanks to smartphones, we’re all photographers now. We’re also all photo editors; AI-powered tools like Pixel...
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The case for caring about awards, even if the system is rigged
Whether you were one of the 19.5 million people who watched the Oscars last Sunday night...
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How typography reflects the past and future
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but...
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What We’re Reading: Celebrating International Women’s Day
Photo by Vonecia Carswell on UnsplashHi everybody,Long before Beyoncé became a country star, she wrote a...
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The anti-establishment origins of International Women’s Day
♀️ Happy International Women’s Day! Only 130 more years to go before we close the gender...
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Realistic solutions to the U.S. border crisis
A Gallup poll surveying American voters last month found that immigration is the single most important...
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How billionaires decide where to invest
When I lived in San Francisco a few years ago, I started hearing people toss around...