Homepage
Sign in / Sign up
Get started
Get started
Home
Popular on Medium
Audio
Members only
Handpicked by Medium staff
Technology
Creativity
Entrepreneurship
Culture
Self
Politics
Bookmarks
Home to unique ideas from the world’s smart minds.
Hear directly from the people who know it best. From tech to politics to creativity and more — whatever your interest, we’ve got you covered.
Get started
Learn more
Popular on Medium
more
The UX of Getting Started in UX
By Dan Maccarone & Sarah Doody
Dan Maccarone
Jul 11
Donald Trump Jr.’s Emails Are Just The Tip Of The Collusion Iceberg
Like his father, Trump Jr. weaves a tangled web of murky Russian alliances and business dealings
Remy Anne
Jul 13
“Modest is Hottest” is not in the Bible
Since at least the 1950s, conservative evangelicalism’s overarching sexual ethic has put a substantive emphasis on “modesty” — that is, how…
Joel Michael Herbert
Jul 4
The Straightest Road to Success
You know, to be great, I think you have to fight. I very much think that my success is a product of some level of skill, but I do think I…
Gary Vaynerchuk
Jul 13
Audio
more
Audio available
Fragments from My Father
He lives in a remote farmhouse and I Piece Him Together from Afar
Diego Courchay
May 1
Audio available
The Sound of The Underground
The constant clangor of Market Street’s four lanes of trolley-car tracks was once an unavoidable fact of life for San Franciscans. Called…
Davy Carren
in
As the Bus Turns
Jul 7
Audio available
Journalism’s Traditional News Products Lost A Generation
For the country’s three major broadcast networks, 2005 could have been a landmark year. In the span of only six months, CBS’s Dan Rather…
Ed Madison & Ben DeJarnette
in
How Journalism Became a Dirty Word
Jul 12
Audio available
Death and Rebirth: Physical Retail
Stagnant Industries Ripe for Disruption
Matthew Biggins
in
Industries Innovation Forgot
Jul 12
Members only
more
Audio available
The Chicago Brother
Chicago, Illinois
Leslie Pietrzyk
in
Reversing the River
Jul 14
Audio available
Prologue: The Newest Trustee
More citizens are falling ill from unsafe drinking water, and the negligence of Chicago’s industry is to blame. When the city’s Sanitary…
Leslie Pietrzyk
in
Reversing the River
Jul 14
Medium members only
Why Batteries Die
A battery never works better than the very first time you charge it up. It’s in their nature: They store energy for us, but they do so less…
Alasdair Wilkins
Jul 14
Audio available
Classic
The conductor, Maestro Don Ricardo Rigatonni-Rodriguez-Madera-Von-Trilke De La Vazquez-Velazquez-Solsona-Rosales-Chinaski-Ben-Salad-Al…
KOOL A.D.
in
Aztec Yoga
Jul 14
Handpicked by Medium Staff
more
After contemplating suicide
I just want rest. I just want one day where my voice feels smooth again. Where words still feel like rocks but now at least are slick with…
Ben French
Jul 9
This is the good part
I’m showing you a video on Youtube that I watched the other day because I laughed when I saw it and now I want to share that good feeling…
Jacob Giddens
Jun 26
School Should Be Impractical
The Practical Benefits of Being Impractical
John Spencer
May 21
Don’t Judge My Estrangement From Family — It Saved My Life
When it comes to understanding the pain of familial estrangement, the stigma is as severe as public knowledge is shallow.
Jennifer Neal
Jun 17
Andy Cohen and the Gay Male Gaze
His favorite question to ask on WWHL is a bit of a head-scratcher.
anna dorn
Jul 11
Technology
more
Google Blocks Aims For Simplicity
Tilt Brush is my all-time favourite Vive experience. It’s simple, engaging, and most of all, beautiful. It lets a first-time user…
Hammer & Tusk
Jul 13
Will Partisan Bickering Slow Self-Driving Car Development?
Republicans and Democrats agree that autonomous technology is crucial, but party politics can’t become a roadblock.
PCMag
Jul 13
Virtual Reality Can Conquer Real Pain
It’s a promising medical weapon to deploy in the opioid crisis.
Peter Orszag
Jul 12
Mapping Silicon Valley’s Many European Headaches
Regulators want to revamp the way Silicon Valley deals with business competition, terrorist content, and fake news
Victor Luckerson
Jul 13
Apple’s Next Move? It’s Obvious. But We’re Missing It.
It was 1998 and, as described in ‘Good Strategy, Bad Strategy’, Richard Rumelt asked Steve Jobs how he was going to grow Apple from a niche…
Seyi Fabode
Jul 13
Creativity
more
Chop wood and carry water.
It’s a large part of your creativity
Angelique
Jul 3
Charles Bukowski: How to Stand out in a Noisy World
“We are here to laugh..”
Zat Rana
Jul 4
Aiming for perfection in writing
and falling well short
Eric Turner
Jul 3
How I Wrote 200 Unique Blog Posts In 200 Days — A Formula For Infinite Creativity
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t…
Barry Davret
Jun 30
How constraints transform the process of creative thinking
tim fletcher
Jul 12
Entrepreneurship
more
4 Unusual Ways Successful Companies Keep More of Their Best Customers
Customer retention is invaluable when your business lives or dies on subscriptions.
Larry Kim
Jul 12
Zebras: Let’s Get In Formation
By Jennifer Brandel, Mara Zepeda, Astrid Scholz, and Aniyia Williams
Jennifer, Mara, Astrid & Aniyia
Jul 11
Predatory Venture Investing: How LPs Can Help Make it Stop
Imagine a single mom has finally saved enough for a down payment on a house. She bravely gathers herself and enters a largely foreign world…
Kara Nortman
Jul 2
From skill set to mindset: why founder/market fit is a must-have entrepreneurial attribute
Today’s founders bear little resemblance to their predecessors — and that’s a good thing.
Karan Mehandru
Jul 12
5 Implications for founders from analyzing 110 promising European SaaS companies
Hi there, we’re Point Nine Capital a VC firm focused on SaaS and marketplaces. If you want to be kept informed of our new posts you can…
Robin Dechant
Jul 3
Culture
more
Introducing the 3 Book List
… where we ask the experts for reading recommendations.
NEO.LIFE
Jul 6
These Women Redefine What Eating Disorder Recovery Really Means
Netflix’s new movie ‘To The Bone’ starts an honest conversation about anorexia.
Alyssa Girdwain
Jul 13
Forgiveness Is Overrated: The Second Coming of Kesha
A Response to Praying in Reflection of My Own Journey through Rape Culture
Carrie Cutforth
Jul 11
HBO and ‘SNL’ lead 2017 Emmy nominees
Without ‘Game of Thrones’ in the running, anything could happen
Jessica Goldstein
Jul 13
Literature Needs Angry Female Heroes
Looking beyond Plath and Woolf (and their characters) for models of managing depression
Elizabeth Skoski
Jul 13
Self
more
I Am Mediocre and I Will Never Die
I’m afraid that If I become ‘successful’ and ‘happy,’ the universe will remember that I exist and smite me at once for being so fucking…
Andrea Nunez
Jul 6
Want to change the world? Go to prison.
Daddy, why are you going to prison?! Aren’t the bad guys in prison?
Levi Belnap
Jul 12
Read like you’re on a diet
Hey you, stop reading so much.
Cody Musser
Jul 10
How to Increase Your Self-Confidence & Trust in Yourself
There was a time when I didn’t know what self-confidence was. But I didn’t know that I didn’t know what self-confidence was. I thought…
Emmaly Beck
Jul 11
Forget Happiness. Focus on Unhappiness.
Chasing happiness doesn’t work.
Zat Rana
Jul 13
Politics
more
Trump and Putin: Trust, and Never Verify
Our president trusts Putin more than he does our intelligence community
Thor Benson
Jul 13
What We Learned Yesterday When Yellen Came to the House
The Fed Chair answers some questions, and leaves others unanswered
Tho Bishop
Jul 13
Trumpcare’s Reboot Isn’t the Solution — Let’s Improve the ACA Together
Late last month, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office assessed the Senate’s Trumpcare bill. The CBO findings showed that this bill…
Rep. Diana DeGette
Jul 13
Some Basic Information About Executive Privilege
News media reports and experts have been discussing executive privilege lately in connection with the investigation of Russian election…
andrew friedman
Jul 14
Net Neutrality is not a free-market principle. For now, it is our best option.
The renewed debate around Net Neutrality is, like so many others, binary in the minds of its participants. You are either cool, have a…
Tommy King
Jul 12
