Welcome to Medium

Bring Your Stories and Ideas

The Spark File

Looking back at all the tools and techniques that I've developed over the years as a writer, it occurs to me that most of them are, in one way or another, grappling with two critical mental forces: the power (and weakness) of human memory, and the sometimes overwhelming drive to procrastinate.

The only metric that matters

I've been lucky to be part of the early growth of several really interesting and now important networks including LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter. One of the things that I felt working on each of these is that we never looked at numbers or metrics in the abstract -- total page…

What I Learned Building A Startup like Dogster, Inc.

Formula for Entrepreneurial Success

Five simple truths

What I Learned Building Medium (So Far)

As of November 2012

We’re now eight months into building Medium, having started in earnest in February of this year. In August, we launched what I call the “preview” version—which included viewing content publicly and creation for a…

Twitter Bootstrap

I didn’t think I’d learn anything building Bootstrap.

Is design a part of mainstream startup culture now? Absolutely.

10 years of Teehan+Lax

10 years ago today (Oct 2, 2002), Geoff and I started this company. The two of us and one employee, a designer who…