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·3 days ago

What We’re Reading: We asked for your stories and you delivered

From Women’s History Month to pandemic retrospectives, here’s a look at what you’ve shared on Medium lately — We asked and you delivered. You suggested essays for our Women’s History Month list. You told us your pandemic stories. You applied to our Verified Author program. To that end, we’ve been including your work in our “Staff Picks” story list celebrating remarkable women for Women’s History Month. These pieces…

Medium

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What We’re Reading: We asked for your stories and you delivered
What We’re Reading: We asked for your stories and you delivered
Medium

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Ellie Budzinski

Ellie Budzinski

·4 days ago

Better publishing on Medium’s mobile apps

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…

Design

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Better publishing on Medium’s mobile apps
Better publishing on Medium’s mobile apps
Design

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Adrienne Gibbs

Adrienne Gibbs

·Mar 10

What We’re Reading: How do you quantify impact?

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…

What Were Reading

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What We’re Reading: How do you quantify impact?
What We’re Reading: How do you quantify impact?
What Were Reading

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Harris Sockel

Harris Sockel

·Mar 9

How Devon Price Redefined ‘Lazy’ and Turned His Medium Essay Into a Book

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…

Medium

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How Devon Price Redefined ‘Lazy’ and Turned His Medium Essay Into a Book
How Devon Price Redefined ‘Lazy’ and Turned His Medium Essay Into a Book
Medium

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Medium Staff

Medium Staff

·Mar 8

‘Women’s history is women’s right’

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…

Womens History Month

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‘Women’s history is women’s right’
‘Women’s history is women’s right’
Womens History Month

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Alex Benzer

Alex Benzer

·Mar 6

Join Mastodon with Medium

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…

Social Media

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Join Mastodon with Medium
Join Mastodon with Medium
Social Media

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Medium Staff

Medium Staff

·Mar 3

What We’re Reading: To meet or not to meet?

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…

What Were Reading

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What We’re Reading: To meet or not to meet?
What We’re Reading: To meet or not to meet?
What Were Reading

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Jon Gluck

Jon Gluck

·Mar 3

An invitation to share your pandemic stories

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…

Covid 19

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An invitation to share your pandemic stories
An invitation to share your pandemic stories
Covid 19

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Medium Staff

Medium Staff

·Feb 24

What We’re Reading: Are you an upstander or a bystander?

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…

What Were Reading

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What We’re Reading: Are you an upstander or a bystander?
What We’re Reading: Are you an upstander or a bystander?
What Were Reading

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Breana Jones

Breana Jones

·Feb 22

Readers can now save your curated lists

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…

Medium

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Readers can now save your curated lists
Readers can now save your curated lists
Medium

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