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Ignoring the value of “quiet work” starts in the classroom
Some people talk their way through a task — checking in, workshopping, circling back. Others dive...
The email Digest is how millions of Medium readers find stories. Now we’ve brought it to the app
Images created by , featuring “A Rare Win for Vitamin D Supplementation: Multiple Sclerosis” by The...
Exploring our relationship to bugs as fellow beings
Insects can be scary (like wasps), gross (like cockroaches), and annoying (like the ants that somehow...
Ambition is the decision to take yourself seriously
I’ve always been ambitious. But I’ve also always been suspicious of that ambition, wondering if it’s...
Why we’ve lost the art of lingering
In last week’s newsletter, highlighted a recent study about the decline of lingering in American cities....
How a design change is leading to 7x more email subscribers across Medium
We know readers want to have control over who they follow and how they get your...
How to enroll in the Medium Partner Program
Image by The Medium Partner Program is how we pay writers for their stories. When you...
What AI selfies tell us about ourselves
Humans have always been preoccupied with creating images of ourselves. Designer analyzes the history of portraiture...
Memorial Day and forgotten stories
Some histories of Memorial Day in the U.S. are rooted in an 1868 proclamation, but the...
How better sidewalks make better communities
We’ve dedicated a few past issues to the decline of “third places,” which are venues for...
Why we’re yearning for nostalgia
Everything old is new again. That’s a core tenet of postmodernism, the mid-20th-century philosophy that upended...
Joy is the radical belief that the world is worthy of love
I grew up in Washington, D.C., surrounded by people who live and breathe politics. But I...
How to find a publication on Medium
Image created by Jason CombsPublications on Medium play a big role in helping find readers for...
It happened on Medium: April 2025
Photo taken by Pratibha Singh, modified by Jason CombsLast month, 350 people joined Draft Day 2025...
Are you trapped by “vocational awe”?
In writing about the on-going enshittification of tech jobs last month, Cory Doctorow mentioned a phrase...
How to publish your design ideas on Medium
Image created by Jason CombsSo, you’re a designer. You make things clear. Make things beautiful. You...
The quest for healthier instant noodles
Last week, Just Norah wrote in Rooted about the quest for healthier instant noodles. The pantry...
Can AI see beauty?
Meta recently released a research paper proposing an AI model called Audiobox-Aesthetics. It’s designed to predict...
No, dire wolves are not back from extinction
In April, biotech startup Colossal Biosciences unveiled two genetically engineered wolf pups, claiming they had brought...
What’s the ideal song length?
What happened to the five-minute song? Most hits today clock in at around three minutes, streamlined...
Maybe healing isn’t about correcting your thoughts, but learning to live with them
Cognitive behavioral therapy calls them distortions: thoughts that lie, spiral, catastrophize. The ones that whisper you’re...
Put the smallest things on your calendar
“I need a deadline,” a friend of mine used to say when they were struggling to...
Curiosity is self-perpetuating
When I first joined Medium, our CEO would occasionally Slack me about decisions I’d made. “I’m...
Not everything fits into red vs. blue
When someone is labeled “liberal” or “conservative,” what does that actually tell you? In American media,...
Why the color pink doesn’t actually exist
When I was a kid, I used to wonder if my blue might be someone else’s...
How to start a super consistent, no-stress art habit
A few years ago, one of my good friends, a UX designer, reached a point in...
“Pain and values are two sides of the same coin”
Hello from, somehow, the first full week of May, which happens to be Mental Health Awareness...
Treat AI like your highly productive assistant who must be aggressively micromanaged
On Wednesday, we sent out a newsletter about “two-pizza teams,” a nickname for the supposedly “best”...
Maybe self-control isn’t about willpower, but about who (and what) we trust
In the late 1960s, researchers at Stanford conducted what became known as the Marshmallow Test. A...
The magic of a “two pizza” team
The first team I was part of at Medium was our “story matching and reader habits”...
The power of a “silent walk”
For the last three months, I’ve spent most of my days on a college campus in...
What Pope Francis was really like, as told by someone who worked for him
Last month, in issue #293, we mentioned the concept of the “Medium version” — a personal...
Draft Day 2025: Live blog
Image created by Jason CombsIt’s draftin’ time, people! Draft Day comes but once a year, and...
Can you pass this misinformation quiz?
The word “misinformation” entered the discourse somewhere at the end of the 2010s (here’s the Google...
Science isn’t about certainty. It’s about openness.
We like to think science means progress. And most of the time, it does. But as...
The “dark patterns” in your favorite apps that keep you hooked
To be a smartphone gamer is to be constantly on the watch for scam apps (or...
How to “rewild” your life
Today is Earth Day, a holiday first observed on April 22, 1970 in the wake of...
How will tariffs affect your dinner?
This month, President Trump imposed 10% tariffs on all foreign-made goods, and has been escalating a...
The myth of “neutral reporting”
We’re taught that journalism is meant to be objective. But anyone who’s worked in the field...
The tool is not the skill
I came across a story on Medium recently that does something all good essays do (I...
Your story matters: Join us on April 25th for Draft Day 2025
Image created by Jason CombsEvery person on the planet has wisdom to share. Stories are a...
Space tourism is “the ultimate boutique spiritual experience”
On Monday, Katy Perry, Gayle King, and four others flew into space for 11 minutes and...
“A good story fixes reality in one place”
A few weeks ago, in issue #303, we mentioned Jim the AI Whisperer’s perspective on AI-generated...
Yes to a diverse community
Over the past several months, I’ve gotten questions from the Medium community asking if we’re planning...
Most workplaces are optimized for efficiency, not emotional truth
One piece of advice for you this week, from the Executive Director of Case Research at...
It happened on Medium: March 2025 round-up
Sometimes, I worry that my brain is pickled.In the 18 years since the iPhone launched, I’ve...
Why now might be the perfect time to try writing under a nom de plume
Two of my good friends write under pen names. They do this for many reasons. Some...
Why your digital self isn’t really you
Brain emulation, or mind uploading, is the idea that your brain could be scanned, simulated, and...
Leadership is a fundamentally creative act
“I remember standing in my father’s tofu factory as a child,” writes Microsoft engineering VP John...
