Love to write stories on your phone? This one’s for you. — If you’ve ever published a Medium story on your mobile device, you might have been a little underwhelmed. There’s a reason why: The code that powers this experience is some of the oldest that still exists in our apps! Today we’re shaking off the dust with an update that brings…

When Sivan Hermon, Google’s former director of engineering, was new to her job, a manager suggested she abide by the impact rule: “Focus on driving impact (mapped to team/company goals), do a good job measuring it and then communicating it — and good things will come.” She did that for…

An interview with the author of “Laziness Does Not Exist,” the essay that started a conversation about the psychology of procrastination — Dr. Devon Price is a psychology professor whose 2018 Medium essay, “Laziness Does Not Exist,” was shared by over 3.6 million people around the world. In it, Price unpacks the “laziness lie” — the belief that productivity is inherently more valuable than relaxation. He advocates for a more nuanced, curious…

A tribute to overlooked innovators, good troublemakers, and remarkable women of the past, present, and future — “Women’s history is women’s right,” wrote Gerda Lerner, who organized the first Women’s History Day in the U.S., the precursor to Women’s History Month. “It is an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long range vision.” Lerner is just one of countless historians, labor…

We’re opening me.dm to all Medium members — A few weeks ago, we announced that Medium is embracing short-form writing by launching our very own Mastodon server at me.dm. Starting today, we’re opening up me.dm access for our member community. If you’re a Medium member, you can create an account on me.dm. What’s Mastodon? Mastodon is a social media platform…

A few stories you may have missed this week — In the past, we’ve devoted some space and links in “What We’re Reading” to perspectives on meetings — mostly stories of the “there are too many of them” variety. Some of this is because the management of meetings is an issue we’re often tangling with at Medium. As a primarily…

On the third anniversary of the COVID-19 outbreak, we’d like to hear from you — Saturday, March 11, marks three years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. It’s hard to think of anything that hasn’t changed since then. As of this writing, there have been 758,390,564 confirmed COVID cases worldwide, including 6,859,093 deaths, according to the W.H.O. Political battles have been fought…

A few Medium stories you may have missed this week — When good — or bad — things happen at work, do you participate or do you lurk? As workplace expert and bestselling author Kim Scott writes, the upstanders among us have the power to command better outcomes. But only if we speak up. “Upstanders are essential to a culture of…

New search, save, and discovery features let readers keep up with stories and list curators they love — We’re excited to announce that we’ve added new features to lists to give you more ways to find and explore collections of stories. In 2021, we launched lists, expanding on the power of the bookmark and letting you organize and curate your saved stories in a new way. Since then…