At Medium, we value discussion, discourse, and conversation. We encourage users with similar and divergent viewpoints to engage over the ideas and stories that matter to them. But we live in the real world and recognize that sometimes you may not want to get in a discussion. Sometimes, you just…

Earlier this week, a conversation that began last summer about tech and work came back to life on Medium. Monday morning, Amazon’s Jay Carney posted a statement revisiting the New York Times’ August story about work culture at Amazon. A few hours later, Dean Baquet of the Times responded. …

It’s not obvious, but it’s quite an elegant system. ☺ — @ev, circa May 21 obvious responses Responses are a big part of the Medium platform and play an important role in tying our growing network together. The response system is a means of purposeful expression, which can scale from a shorter…

and using publications to help do it — We’ve been pretty excited about how Medium is evolving beyond a place for long-form, polished magazine-type stories (although we still love those for sure). Publishing a story on Medium can be the beginning of a rich conversation, as we see from the following examples: Ev responding to Chris Dixon about…