CEO of Medium // @ev
I love a professionally reported 17-minute article about an important and surprising topic. Or a 10-minute technical mystery by a professional designer. And who doesn’t enjoy a 91-minute interview between a media entrepreneur and a journalist?
High-production value, lengthy stories are what Medium is best known for. And I’m glad we’ve…
Agreed. The construction of the feed (that is, what goes into it in what order) has gone through a few iterations. The version we have now is the simplest, after trying to be fancier before — it’s just reverse-chron of things published or recommended by people/publicaitons you follow. And it’s definitely not the end-all.
We started out with lots of theories that newness was not the most important…
I posted this internally to Medium employees November 18, 2013. See Hatching Inside Medium for more context.
One of the next big things I want to figure out is how we design for “casual” content on Medium. By casual I mean things that are less weighty, less long, perhaps more visual. “Snacks” and…
Some obvious stuff we need to do
Questionable design decisions, being questioned
Appreciating how far things have come
Some stuff people are saying about the new Medium stream/inline editor
Medium = “the box you type into on the internet.”
To which, Sippey said: “There is no box.”
Oh man. Medium’s new quick-post format is awesome; it’s the perfect place for those quick hot takes on…
But can it really be both a platform for this stream-of-consciousness conversation and for the long-form stuff that people take days and weeks to create and that doesn’t fit into that flow?
Well, yes. ☺ We are optimistic that Medium can be both short- and long-form. Our evidence for this comes from several things:
I love a professionally reported 17-minute article about an important and surprising topic. Or a 10-minute technical mystery by a professional designer. And who doesn’t enjoy a 91-minute interview between a media entrepreneur and a journalist?
High-production value, lengthy stories are what Medium is best known for. And I’m glad we’ve…
When I read Buster’s post, I thought: Sounds cool, but no way it’s better than meditation. So I didn’t really consider it.
And then I realized: Wait, he’s not saying you have to do it instead.
And then I read Tim Ferriss’s post on morning pages.
And then today I tried it. What I…
I posted this internally to Medium employees February 12, 2015 (the same day I posted it here). See Hatching Inside Medium for more context.
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 had experiences where as individuals — or more likely as a team …
I posted this internally to Medium employees on March 5, 2014. See Hatching Inside Medium for more context. We’ve since done a lot of work in this area (with more to come).
In the beginning, every Medium story had to be published into a collection. That collection had to be selected before you started your story (“New Post”) only existed on…
I was recently quoted as saying, “I don’t give a shit” if Instagram has more users than Twitter. If you read the article you’ll note there’s a big “if” before my not giving of said shit. As quoted:
If you think about the impact Twitter has on the world versus Instagram, it’s pretty significant. It’s at least apples to oranges…
