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. We strive to be a place where everyone…

2017 edition — At Medium, we strive to be the best place online to find interesting ideas and perspectives you won’t find anywhere else. As a company, we believe that diverse perspectives deepen our understanding of complex issues, and great ideas can change the world when you create a welcoming space for them…

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: It’s clear we’ve only scratched the surface of how we can use the tools available to us to connect hearts…

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. On Names Names are important; they are more than just words, they shape and color the things they name. …

I posted this internally to Medium employees February 12, 2015 (the same day I posted it here). See Hatching Inside Medium for more context. The One-Dayer I am a big believer in constraint as a force for driving creativity, focus, and insights. Also, as a key to getting shit done. We’ve all…

What do our numbers look like? — In case you didn’t know, diversity in the workplace is a good idea. It builds better, stronger teams by expanding the collective knowledge of the company, improves profitability, and can boost morale. Diversity is especially important to us at Medium. Our audience is everyone in the world. If we have…

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 work to make it a…