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The Medium Day 2026 schedule is live. On September 18, close to 100 writers, experts, and Medium staffers will lead free sessions across four tracks. Come discover something new. Register free: mediumday.com?eventRegSour...

I'm playing games with studio headphones again and loving every second of it. Read more about it over on @medium.com! medium.com/analog-stick...

Medium Day is back. Join us on September 18 for a day of celebration and discovery. Over 100 sessions, live meetups, writing workshops, product demos, and so much more. Register now at mediumday.com.

This month. Every month. We moderate like we mean it.

Have you noticed our homepage glow-up for June? Behind this rainbow corner, you’ll find a special Staff Picks feed highlighting stories about the LGBTQIA+ experience.

Is there something you're tired of seeing in your Medium feed? Meet the topic mute button. medium.com/blog/muting-...

"We should be able to repost the Medium stories we love." - you, forever "Okay. Now you can." - us, today medium.com/blog/reposti...

What's going to happen to writing on the internet? For an answer, our VP of Content, Scott Lamb looks both backward to the four ages of the internet and ahead to a future where AI and writing coexist. Spoiler: writing remains undefeated. medium.com/blog/why-wri...

AI is changing not just how we work at Medium, but how everyone works. We decided to make our internal AI policy public. If you’re working through these questions at your own company and something here resonates, consider them open-source — copy or adapt as you’d like. medium.com/blog/how-med...

Writers welcome. Procrastinators... also welcome.

It matters who you platform and promote—which is why we still moderate the stories on Medium. It's not an easy job, but it's the right thing to do. medium.com/blog/how-med...

A friendly reminder, in case you're curious about our publishing standards.

Worried about it? Write about it.

On Wednesday and Thursday, join the Medium community for Pub Crawl. Learn all about our thriving publication ecosystem, directly from editors and Medium team members. It's all free, and you can RSVP now. events.zoom.us/ev/AhvviHkSe...

Keep writing.

Reading 🤝 Writing We are excited to announce our exclusive partnership with pen and paper.

*looking at my saved Medium stories* "Let's get this read."

Write to discover what you believe. Read to challenge what you believe. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

This is what we said inside @medium.com in order to give space for people to participate in tomorrow's national strike.

Tired of sale scrolling? Curl up with some good stories instead. This weekend only, save 20% off a new annual membership and gain access to all the thoughtful essays, life lessons, professional wisdom, cultural criticism, and tech writing you can handle. medium.com/membership

Have a place where you write down things you need to do Have a place where you write down things you need to remember Carve out space on your calendar to work through both Repeat

Is an "In between drafts" tote bag performative? Maybe. You should still get one. medium.com/store

How do you decide what’s true? In “How to Use the Socratic Method in Your Own Life,” @johnpolonis.bsky.social reaches way, way back in time for the “best method for discovering truth and stimulating critical thinking.” Get ready to ask some questions. medium.com/thought-thin...

TK. A new writing app from Medium. Join the waitlist at medium.com/tk

Our design team is LIVE with a behind-the-screens peek at how Medium stays beautiful and intuitive. Medium Day is a free, all-day event and you can join now. mediumday.com

Medium Day is underway! I'm in Joan Westenberg's "The Art of Critical Thinking" session. How about you? [It's not too late to join our all-day intellectual festival. Just visit mediumday.com]

Tomorrow, Keynote mediumday.com

Sophie Lucido Johnson was seized by the desire to draw every bird in North America. It took over 200 hours. Don't miss her story about it. sophielucidojohnson.medium.com/heres-what-i...

Have strong AI opinions? Use AI tools to help you edit? Have suggestions for how Medium navigates this era? We want to hear from you. Join the conversation about how we can use AI to help writers tell human stories and where we should place boundaries. medium.com/blog/we-want...

Happy National Book Lovers Day #booksky! What’s one book you could read over and over again and never get tired of?

"If this is what Web publishing has become, if your only response to a well-read story is to write 10 more exactly like it, perhaps it is, in fact, time for it to die." — @williamfleitch.bsky.social williamfleitch.medium.com/its-the-theo...

As Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. takes a hammer to mRNA vaccine development, canceling $500 million in contracts, a public health scientist writes about the importance of preventing one of the most common illnesses, and the myth of “mild measles." medium.com/@jsteier_292...

During the heartbreak and trauma from reproductive struggles, we often rightfully empathize with the toll it's taking on the woman going through it. But Mike Hoffman reminds men not to overlook their equally valid feelings in the process. medium.com/@mfh334/why-...

Tuesday writing tip from @jodipicoult.bsky.social: "You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page." Start on that piece!

Frances A. Chiu, Ph.D., has good thoughts. medium.com/fourth-wave/...

Always meant to read "On Writing" by Stephen King, but never got around to it? Fellow writer Caroline Mitchell breaks down the book’s — and its prominent author’s — biggest lessons and tries them on for you, too: caroline-writes.medium.com/i-tried-step...

It all started when one user called our features “Cold Broccoli.” So, we got together for a “Hot Broccoli” Week and turned that feedback into 30+ fixes, like smarter search, cleaner UI, better mobile, faster support tools, and so much more: medium.com/blog/florets...

Louder for the writers in the back!

What's your favorite sentence you've recently written?

Behavioral scientist Dr. Maria Keckler wanted to share a story without the lengthy holdups of traditional publishing. So, she turned to Medium: medium.com/medium-handb...

Psychiatrist, neuroscientist, and habit change expert Jud Brewer writes about a smarter way to deal with anxiety: medium.com/@jud.brewer/...