Medium Thoughts, after Medium Day
Medium's core pitch is heavily mission-driven, creating a big tent for a wide range of writers and writing goals — but it's tied to a BHAG that reminds you of their origination and very troubled history.
Commentary on various aspects of publishing and marketing, primarily focused on books, magazines, and social media.
Marketing books is hard — but don’t blame authors.
I get really annoyed whenever I see marketing done wrong, and few industries get it wrong as consistently as book publishing.
Four Steps to Becoming an Informed AI Skeptic
Nothing beats a well-researched and well-written book on a topic you want to learn more about.
A modest defense of Marco Buscaglia | AI vs. Journalism
Resist like your career depends on it — and inform that resistance with critical thinking every step of the way.
Move Fast and Fix Things: BISG 2025
I took a ton of old-fashioned notes, most of which were reasonably legible a few days later, and here’s some of my favorite takeaways.
Remember the Blogaround Challenge?
Cynics might consider this engagement bait nowadays, but this was pre-social media (as we currently know it), when blogs were peaking.
Why keep blogging in 2025?
Blogs have been declared dead multiple times, mostly "replaced" by Twitter and then newsletters that are really just blogs with email and paywall functionally baked in. And yet, here I still am, blogging again consistently (but not too hard) for the past few years. And I'm not alone. But why? If you've known me for a while, you know a Cluetrain quote is coming!