Mike Sall

Leaving Medium to start something new

After almost four years, I’ve decided to leave Medium to start a company.

For the past year, I’ve been painting emoji.

I’m not sure how to describe it other than: I’m fascinated by emoji, so I paint them. There’s something about these things that captures life today. I was thinking about this a year ago, how they’re core to all the ways I interact with other people and…

Twitter Sundays, Facebook Wednesdays, and Reddit Fridays: When People Read on the Internet

The times of day when people read tend to follow consistent patterns each week. Here’s the typical ebb and flow of time spent reading on Medium.

This immediately made me think of the process our Product Science team at Medium recently built for managing/scheduling data pipelines.

Sequencing is a tricky issue for us because there are often long chains of branching-off dependencies. For example, to calculate our internal “active users” metric, we need to make sure we…