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Is an "In between drafts" tote bag performative?

Maybe. You should still get one.

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How do you decide what’s true? In “How to Use the Socratic Method in Your Own Life,” @johnpolonis.bsky.social reaches way, way back in time for the “best method for discovering truth and stimulating critical thinking.” Get ready to ask some questions.

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Medium @medium.com · 22d

thank you jason

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Medium @medium.com · 22d

TK.

A new writing app from Medium.

Join the waitlist at medium.com/tk

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Medium @medium.com · 22d

Our design team is LIVE with a behind-the-screens peek at how Medium stays beautiful and intuitive.

Medium Day is a free, all-day event and you can join now.

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Medium @medium.com · 22d

Medium Day is underway! I'm in Joan Westenberg's "The Art of Critical Thinking" session. How about you?

[It's not too late to join our all-day intellectual festival. Just visit mediumday.com]

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Medium @medium.com · 23d

Tomorrow, Keynote

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Medium @medium.com · Sep 2

Sophie Lucido Johnson was seized by the desire to draw every bird in North America.

It took over 200 hours.

Don't miss her story about it.

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Medium @medium.com · Aug 21

Have strong AI opinions?

Use AI tools to help you edit?

Have suggestions for how Medium navigates this era?

We want to hear from you.

Join the conversation about how we can use AI to help writers tell human stories and where we should place boundaries.

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Medium @medium.com · Aug 9

A+ choices

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Medium @medium.com · Aug 9

Oooh gonna have to check it out

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Medium @medium.com · Aug 9

Classic!

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Medium @medium.com · Aug 9

Happy National Book Lovers Day #booksky! What’s one book you could read over and over again and never get tired of?

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Medium @medium.com · Aug 7

"If this is what Web publishing has become, if your only response to a well-read story is to write 10 more exactly like it, perhaps it is, in fact, time for it to die." — @williamfleitch.bsky.social
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It’s the (Theoretical) End of Web Publishing (and I Feel Fine)

Let’s remember why we started publishing on the Web in the first place.

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Medium @medium.com · Aug 6

As Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. takes a hammer to mRNA vaccine development, canceling $500 million in contracts, a public health scientist writes about the importance of preventing one of the most common illnesses, and the myth of “mild measles."
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The Immunity Thief: Why Measles Is Much Worse Than a Rash

How one infection can wipe out years of hard-earned immune protection

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Medium @medium.com · Aug 6

During the heartbreak and trauma from reproductive struggles, we often rightfully empathize with the toll it's taking on the woman going through it. But Mike Hoffman reminds men not to overlook their equally valid feelings in the process.
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Why Men Need to Start Talking About IVF

What IVF Taught Me About Masculinity, Fatherhood, and Letting Go

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Medium @medium.com · Aug 5

Tuesday writing tip from @jodipicoult.bsky.social:

"You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page."

Start on that piece!

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Medium @medium.com · Aug 5

Frances A. Chiu, Ph.D., has good thoughts. medium.com/fourth-wave/...

Unpretty: Sydney Sweeney and the Genes of Western Imperialism

The new American Eagle jean ads have inherited the racist and eugenicist genes of the US and Europe

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Medium @medium.com · Aug 4

“While I waited for my results, a twenty-foot-yellow Ryder truck was rented in Kansas to a man who paid in cash for a one-way rental to Omaha. Instead, he drove south."

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Medium @medium.com · Aug 4

If you read one Medium story today, let it be Krista Schumacher’s beautiful piece on tragedy, love, acceptance, and so much more:
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Goodnight Children

On cancer, grief, and the day my hometown wept

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Medium @medium.com · Aug 4

Always meant to read "On Writing" by Stephen King, but never got around to it? Fellow writer Caroline Mitchell breaks down the book’s — and its prominent author’s — biggest lessons and tries them on for you, too:
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I Tried Stephen King’s Writing Routine — Here’s What Happened

You’ve heard the legend. Stephen King.

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Medium @medium.com · Aug 4

It all started when one user called our features “Cold Broccoli.”
So, we got together for a “Hot Broccoli” Week and turned that feedback into 30+ fixes, like smarter search, cleaner UI, better mobile, faster support tools, and so much more: medium.com/blog/florets...

Florets and fixes: Updates from Medium’s internal “Hot Broccoli” Week

Improving the quality of the Medium platform in small but meaningful ways

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Medium @medium.com · Aug 1

Louder for the writers in the back!

Gabino Iglesias @gabino.bsky.social · Aug 1

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

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Medium @medium.com · Aug 1

"$1,200 for rent. (for a cheap apartment, if you’re lucky)
$300 for utilities, phone, and cable.
$600+ for food, fuel, and just trying to function.
That’s not thriving. That’s not freedom.
That’s indentured exhaustion with a 30-day billing cycle." — Derek Wood, via Medium

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Medium @medium.com · Aug 1

A difficult, sobering take on life in the United States for far too many:
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When Prison Sounds Like Peace

A reflection on burnout, despair, and the desperate cost of trying to survive

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