The magic of Medium
I joined Medium less than two short years ago. Initially I just began to migrate old content, then I jumped in fully.
I haven’t been around that long, relatively speaking, but I do at least remember the days of green hearts. Things have changed since I joined. Not just hearts replaced with claps, but the introduction of the paywall system. No doubt a bunch of other stuff got tweaked and refined that I hardly even noticed. And that’s the crux of it.
Medium is a very clever name. Because that’s exactly what this platform is. It is a platform — a medium — that enables writers to do what they do best…write.
Medium has changed since I arrived here, but it has been a streamlining kind of change, rather than transformative. Because transformative change isn’t needed. Medium is smooth experience for both reader and writer.
No bullshit.
As writers, we are given a blank page. We are prompted ‘Tell your story…’
Medium makes it easy for us to do so. And easy for readers to find it when its done. It gets that readers are writers, and vica versa. Responses being treated like Stories is the foremost example of this.
Medium is a tool, and rather a good one at that.
Without Medium I’m not sure I would have aimed to write every day for a year straight. Without Medium, I probably wouldn’t be almost a month into that challenge.
Without Medium, I’d have read less. And I’d have written a lot less.
So I’m glad to have a medium called Medium. There’s magic in a blank page. The magic of potential.
