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Aging makes you more yourself

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☀️ We’re back with the Medium NewsletterIssue #230: silly days, weird color combos, and the “fundamental...
☀️ We’re back with the Medium NewsletterIssue #230: silly days, weird color combos, and the “fundamental attribution error”Ever since turning 38, my favorite line to deliver with confidence is: “Actually, I’m almost 40.” I smirk, ready to feed off people trying to shhh this fact away as if they were swatting a fly o...
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How to publish your academic writing on Medium

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Image created by Jason CombsMedium is a great home for academic writers. It’s easy to write...
Image created by Jason CombsMedium is a great home for academic writers. It’s easy to write and publish your work quickly; there’s an engaged audience of thoughtful, curious readers; and our features are geared towards helping you find your community.While there’s nothing stopping you from copy-paste-publishing your...

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How to take stock of the year that was

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📅 As we mentioned way back in February, the future’s coming sooner than you think.Issue #229:...
📅 As we mentioned way back in February, the future’s coming sooner than you think.Issue #229: the “new rules” of media + a cooking tipIn T-15 days it will be 2025. Years are artificial, human-created markers of time, but they serve a purpose — they give life shape.I try to take some time during “dead week” (the week...
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Media manipulation, lookalike contests, and fabricated outrage

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☁️ My goal for this weekend is to last one whole day without looking at a...
☁️ My goal for this weekend is to last one whole day without looking at a screenIssue #228: how to reflect on your year + avoid stressLast Saturday, before we knew the name of the lead suspect in Brian Thompson’s murder, a writer on Medium named Burt came across a flyer for a lookalike contest in downtown New York C...

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Introducing Featured Stories for Publications

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Bluesky is considering ads; here’s why that might not be a bad thing

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🔢 Please join me in savoring the happy numerical roundness of today’s date: 12 + 12...
🔢 Please join me in savoring the happy numerical roundness of today’s date: 12 + 12 = 24Issue #227: business models, academic writing, and planning for good sleepLet’s talk about business models on the internet for a second, shall we?You might be thinking “dear god, please not that” because the phrase “business mode...
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ChatGPT’s favorite words & punctuation

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👋 20 more days until 2025Issue #226: Nikki Giovanni. Sora. Luigi.Following up on last week’s issue...
👋 20 more days until 2025Issue #226: Nikki Giovanni. Sora. Luigi.Following up on last week’s issue re: two years of ChatGPT, I’ve been thinking about something. How do you know, on a word or sentence level, when someone’s used it? What are the tells? What separates “this is kinda formulaic writing” from “this is def...
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The second Gilded Age: Why the 2020s feel like the 1890s

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👋 Welcome back to the Medium NewsletterIssue #225: an ode to details + the Three-Round Rule...
👋 Welcome back to the Medium NewsletterIssue #225: an ode to details + the Three-Round Rule of EditingLet’s rewind to 1876. On Valentine’s Day that year, a quirky inventor in Boston submitted a patent for what would become the phone. He wasn’t the only one—Elisha Gray submitted a similar patent the same day, and con...
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Best gifts for writers, according to the Medium community

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I’m going to assume some of you are reading this at the very last minute as...
I’m going to assume some of you are reading this at the very last minute as you realize that you’ve neglected to get a gift for the writer in your life in time for the family gathering/Secret Santa event that’s coming up.We’ve got you—here are the best gift ideas from our survey:Best notebook: the Moleskine Classic ...
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Don’t fear failure. Fear ignorance.

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👋 Welcome back to the Medium NewsletterIssue #224: your thoughts on the Great Barrington Declaration, and...
👋 Welcome back to the Medium NewsletterIssue #224: your thoughts on the Great Barrington Declaration, and a useful quoteHere are three pieces of practical wisdom to take with you this week:Your biggest fear should not be failure; it should be ignorance. In the words of Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, the downfall of most ...
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The Great Barrington Declaration and how polarized we are

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🥂 Happy Friday, y’allIssue #223: legislating social media + “the ceiling of your inputs”Last week, Trump...
🥂 Happy Friday, y’allIssue #223: legislating social media + “the ceiling of your inputs”Last week, Trump picked Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to run the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. federal agency responsible for public health research.Dr. Bhattacharya is best known for coauthoring the Great Barrington Declaration...

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Untangling the “male loneliness epidemic”

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☀️ Morning. Three more Thursdays until 2025.Issue #222: subway mosquitoes + good opinionsIs there an epidemic...
☀️ Morning. Three more Thursdays until 2025.Issue #222: subway mosquitoes + good opinionsIs there an epidemic of male loneliness?I’ve been seeing posts alluding to it everywhere lately. Google it and you’ll find lots of supporting surveys, though they don’t tell a clear story.A 2021 survey revealed that men have, on...
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An introduction to academic writing on Medium

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The basics: Medium is a home for human stories and ideas. We’re an open publishing platform...
The basics: Medium is a home for human stories and ideas. We’re an open publishing platform where anyone can share their stories easily, for free. Our mission is to help people deepen their understanding of the world through writing.The vibe: We’re ad-free and humans-first. We’re trying to build a better internet. W...

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The two-year anniversary of ChatGPT

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✌️ Welcome backIssue #221: your thoughts on AI-generated writing + a tour of Parisian bookstoresChatGPT is...
✌️ Welcome backIssue #221: your thoughts on AI-generated writing + a tour of Parisian bookstoresChatGPT is as old as some of my friends’ kids now. It turned two last Saturday, and I remember exactly where I was when it was announced to the world. We were sitting in a friend’s living room in San Francisco talking abo...
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Why a banana sold for $6.2 million

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🍌 This banana emoji is not for saleIssue #220: friends v. fans + the value of...
🍌 This banana emoji is not for saleIssue #220: friends v. fans + the value of bad ideasMaybe you’ve heard about the banana duct-taped to a wall that just sold for $6.2 million last month. Its name is “The Comedian” and its creator, Maurizio Cattelan, has built a career around art pranks. One of his previous hits, fr...
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“A world divided into writes and write-nots is more dangerous than it sounds”

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⏳ We’ve got… 9% of 2024 left to live. Let’s make it count.Issue #219: why books...
⏳ We’ve got… 9% of 2024 left to live. Let’s make it count.Issue #219: why books flop, surrounding yourself with freedom, and the mechanics of inefficiency“One of the strangest things you learn if you’re a writer is how many people have trouble writing,” begins Y Combinator founder Paul Graham in his latest essay. I’...
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Making better decisions, part II

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🤑 The phrase “Black Friday” has its roots in Philadelphia: During the 1960s, police there used...
🤑 The phrase “Black Friday” has its roots in Philadelphia: During the 1960s, police there used it to refer to the throngs of shoppers — and resulting bleak traffic — that descended upon the city after Thanksgiving.Issue #218: Prospect theory, goal maps, and bad ideasLast week, we wrote about making imperfect decisio...
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Most things don’t matter that much

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The two-word trick to small talk: I’m curious

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✈️🚆 Happy pre-Thanksgiving travel day to all who celebrateIssue #216: podcasting is video now, design ethics,...
✈️🚆 Happy pre-Thanksgiving travel day to all who celebrateIssue #216: podcasting is video now, design ethics, and standing outTomorrow, for the first time in over a decade, I’m doing Thanksgiving with a new crew: some close friends and their extended families. Like many of you in the U.S., I’ll be sitting down to in...
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How Jaguar’s logo lost its roar

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🤏 [this is where we hold space]Issue #215: Dorothy’s silver slippers and your win binJaguar just...
🤏 [this is where we hold space]Issue #215: Dorothy’s silver slippers and your win binJaguar just got rid of the jaguar. I saw the rebrand and was reminded of Facebook’s 2019 logo (before it became Meta) — both feel cold and robotic, as if these companies are trying to become Eye of Sauron-style Tech Giants instead o...
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How to make imperfect decisions

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👋 It’s Monday! And we’re back.Issue #214: aging in bursts + avoiding needinessThe hardest decisions have...
👋 It’s Monday! And we’re back.Issue #214: aging in bursts + avoiding needinessThe hardest decisions have no “right” choice. Listing pros and cons doesn’t always help because (as I found out recently when I had to make a tough decision about a move!) they obscure nuance.Daniel Rizea, a former engineering director at ...
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Why is everyone talking about Bluesky right now?

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😎 Weekend plans? LMK in the responses. I am taking Slack off my phone.Issue #213: there’s...
😎 Weekend plans? LMK in the responses. I am taking Slack off my phone.Issue #213: there’s no such thing as a “vaccine skeptic” + how whimsy got expensiveA coworker told me their mom texted them on Tuesday to ask “What’s Bluesky??” That’s how you know an app is breaking through.It’s been Bluesky Week in my life (I al...

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The battle between Gen Z and Gen X

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🙌 Thursday! This week is whooshing by.Issue #212: lowercase diary entries, Angular’s latest update, and the...
🙌 Thursday! This week is whooshing by.Issue #212: lowercase diary entries, Angular’s latest update, and the 4,000 weeks of your lifeIt was Netflix’s first-ever livestreamed sports event: 27-year-old Jake Paul (masculinity’s answer to the Kardashians?) v. 58-year-old Mike Tyson (once the youngest heavyweight champion...
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Deepening understanding about transmisogyny

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👋 Welcome back to the Medium NewsletterIssue #211: your thoughts on raw milk + how to...
👋 Welcome back to the Medium NewsletterIssue #211: your thoughts on raw milk + how to persevereToday is Transgender Day of Remembrance, a time to mourn and pay tribute to those murdered for just living as who they are. 350 trans people have been murdered globally in 2024, 29 more than in 2023. Here are just a few of...
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