This was originally published on Hatch (our internal version of Medium) on November 7, 2014, with a few changes made here for clarity. See Hatching Inside Medium for context on this collection.

1. Use custom Fred commands in Slack

At least once a day fire up Slack, pop into #general, and say “fred trending” or “fred ttr.” This will give you a list of the trending posts on Medium and make it seem like you have your finger on the pulse of things.

2. Recommend everything on Hatch

Don’t bother reading it, there’s too much to actually read, you just have to look like you read it. No one will know the…