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Tips and Tricks for Medium Writers

Make the best out of Medium as a writer with these hints

Why we’ve suspended some Partner Program accounts this week

Addressing response spam and abuse to make…

If you want to change someone’s mind, don’t argue. Invite.

Ghosts + the power of completely losing your sh*t (Issue #366)

How do you change someone’s mind? If there were a simple answer, we’d all be using it. Two essays…

ChatGPT can help with therapy, but it can’t replace it

Harvard Undergraduate Microbiology Society + counterexamples (Issue #356)

I’ve been in therapy most of my life — not for fun (does anyone go to therapy for…

How we’re approaching AI-generated writing on Medium

Transparency, disclosure, and publication-level…

Not all “bad design” is accidental

United States v. Skrmetti + drawing with pen (Issue #359)

As we’ve discussed in past issues, “deceptive patterns” in UX can manipulate user behavior by using strategies like “compulsion loops” or “default”…

The past (and future) of Juneteenth

Death as a cookout + “radical honesty” in relationships (Issue #357)

Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the U.S. on June 19, marking the day in 1865 the last enslaved African-Americans in Texas…

Is ChatGPT causing delusion, or merely holding up a mirror?

Ancient gender roles + going “goal-less” (Issue #369)

A recent New York Times story claims that AI chatbots are making people go crazy. It cited users who believed…

It happened on Medium: April 2025

Draft Day stats, Medium stories from new writers, and nuance beyond…