Company

The Medium Model

How we are building a system for high-quality publishing at scale

In “The rationalization of publishing,” I argued that subscriptions for publishing on a wide scale are inevitable — and that’s a good thing. Now I will describe…

Updating Our Rules

Today, we are updating our rules to help strengthen our community.

As the internet has evolved in the five years since we launched, so has the way people use Medium. To accommodate this, we regularly assess our rules, and adjust them accordingly.

Medium: Diversity and Inclusion

2017 edition

Words still matter

Medium’s mission — five years in

Five years can seem like a long time. Two presidential elections and three iPhone generations ago, things were different. And that’s when we started Medium. At the time, I wrote:

39 Reasons We Won’t Soon Forget 2016

As the year comes to a close, we can (probably) agree on one…

On Names

Renaming our on-call and release team.

I wrote this on Hatch — our internal version of Medium — on 13 March. The post is presented here with minimal edits. See Hatching Inside Medium for more context.

The One-Dayer

An idea for driving focus

I posted this internally to Medium employees February 12, 2015 (the same day I posted it here). See Hatching Inside Medium for more context.

Diversity at Medium

What do our numbers look like?

In case you didn’t know, diversity…

This was originally written on July 17, 2014 and published on Hatch, our internal version of Medium. Read more about this collection at Inside Medium.

homepage experiments

The fundamental difference between Medium and any other blogging site is the network. So we say. But we need to…

10 Tricks to Appear Smart While Working at Medium