EV WILLIAMS
Read writing from Ev Williams on Medium. CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, curious consumer of ideas. Every day, Ev Williams and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium. THINGS I’VE NOTICED UPON RETURNING TO THE OFFICE things I’ve noticed upon returning to the office. Today is my fourth day (over the last three weeks) returning to the office sincethe before times. Some observations:. MEDIUM EDITORIAL TEAM UPDATE. WE ANNOUNCED A BUYOUT ANDAUTHOR: EV WILLIAMS
Medium Editorial Team Update. Ev Williams. Mar 23 · 6 min read. We announced a buyout and leadership change to the Medium editorial team today. Below is the email I sent to the company. Team, We are making some changes to our editorial strategy and leadership and giving a voluntary exit option to employees who would like to take a different path.
SOME MEDIUM QUESTIONS, ANSWERED. ON BETA DEFICIENCIES Your statement is true. However, the number of subscribers is not static—it is growing as fast (or faster) than the number of writers. In other words, the pie is growing, as every writer who shows up contributes some ingredients. So, in one sense, Medium writers are competitive (those who opt into the Partner Program). OLD PICTURES. A PERSONAL PHOTO ESSAY/WALK DOWN MEMORY A personal photo essay/walk down memory lane. Ev Williams. Apr 26 · 3 min read. I was raised on a farm in Nebraska. Obviously from the picture above, we were a John Deere family, not an International family. (Farm folks will understand.) Several years ago, my wife and I found a shoebox full of old prints and negatives in the house I grew up in.
WELCOME TO MEDIUM. BRING YOUR STORIES AND IDEAS Ev Williams. Aug 14, 2012 · 4 min read. Medium is a new place on the Internet where people share ideas and stories that are longer than 140 characters and not just for friends. It’s designed for little stories that make your day better and manifestos that change the world. It’s used by everyone from professional journalists to amateur cooks.
TOWARD A MORE RELATIONAL MEDIUM. LAST WEEK WE ANNOUNCED Toward a more relational Medium. Last week we announced Medium’s new mobile app and started rolling out the beta more widely. (If you have the current Medium app, look for a prompt to opt in.) This app is the result of months of work from a stellar team and repre s ents some dramatic rethinking of our mobile reading experience — and, in WHAT WE’RE TRYING TO DO WITH MEDIUM A place for ideas and stories—from Everyone—to thrive. Ev Williams. Oct 24, 2012 · 4 min read. It’s been just over two months since we opened the curtain on the preview version of Medium. Since then, we’ve been kind of quiet (but busy). I thought it might be a good time to shed more light on what we’ve been up to—as well as what we
MORE MEDIUM QUESTIONS ANSWERED. ON PAY-TO-PLAY A few weeks ago, I set up a form to ask me questions, and I got a lot of them. Thanks! The vast majority are about Medium, which is an indication to me we need another forum where we can receive and answer more user questions. THERE ARE A FEW WAYS MEDIUM RESPONSES ARE DIFFERENT THAN There are a few ways Medium responses are different than comment systems as we’ve know them on the web for a dozen or so years: Responses are posts. They are the same object in the system. They live EV WILLIAMS
Read writing from Ev Williams on Medium. CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, curious consumer of ideas. Every day, Ev Williams and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium. THINGS I’VE NOTICED UPON RETURNING TO THE OFFICE things I’ve noticed upon returning to the office. Today is my fourth day (over the last three weeks) returning to the office sincethe before times. Some observations:. MEDIUM EDITORIAL TEAM UPDATE. WE ANNOUNCED A BUYOUT ANDAUTHOR: EV WILLIAMS
Medium Editorial Team Update. Ev Williams. Mar 23 · 6 min read. We announced a buyout and leadership change to the Medium editorial team today. Below is the email I sent to the company. Team, We are making some changes to our editorial strategy and leadership and giving a voluntary exit option to employees who would like to take a different path.
SOME MEDIUM QUESTIONS, ANSWERED. ON BETA DEFICIENCIES Your statement is true. However, the number of subscribers is not static—it is growing as fast (or faster) than the number of writers. In other words, the pie is growing, as every writer who shows up contributes some ingredients. So, in one sense, Medium writers are competitive (those who opt into the Partner Program). OLD PICTURES. A PERSONAL PHOTO ESSAY/WALK DOWN MEMORY A personal photo essay/walk down memory lane. Ev Williams. Apr 26 · 3 min read. I was raised on a farm in Nebraska. Obviously from the picture above, we were a John Deere family, not an International family. (Farm folks will understand.) Several years ago, my wife and I found a shoebox full of old prints and negatives in the house I grew up in.
WELCOME TO MEDIUM. BRING YOUR STORIES AND IDEAS Ev Williams. Aug 14, 2012 · 4 min read. Medium is a new place on the Internet where people share ideas and stories that are longer than 140 characters and not just for friends. It’s designed for little stories that make your day better and manifestos that change the world. It’s used by everyone from professional journalists to amateur cooks.
TOWARD A MORE RELATIONAL MEDIUM. LAST WEEK WE ANNOUNCED Toward a more relational Medium. Last week we announced Medium’s new mobile app and started rolling out the beta more widely. (If you have the current Medium app, look for a prompt to opt in.) This app is the result of months of work from a stellar team and repre s ents some dramatic rethinking of our mobile reading experience — and, in WHAT WE’RE TRYING TO DO WITH MEDIUM A place for ideas and stories—from Everyone—to thrive. Ev Williams. Oct 24, 2012 · 4 min read. It’s been just over two months since we opened the curtain on the preview version of Medium. Since then, we’ve been kind of quiet (but busy). I thought it might be a good time to shed more light on what we’ve been up to—as well as what we
MORE MEDIUM QUESTIONS ANSWERED. ON PAY-TO-PLAY A few weeks ago, I set up a form to ask me questions, and I got a lot of them. Thanks! The vast majority are about Medium, which is an indication to me we need another forum where we can receive and answer more user questions. THERE ARE A FEW WAYS MEDIUM RESPONSES ARE DIFFERENT THAN There are a few ways Medium responses are different than comment systems as we’ve know them on the web for a dozen or so years: Responses are posts. They are the same object in the system. They live WHAT I LEARNED BUILDING MEDIUM (SO FAR) Boiling down over a dozen years of ideas and observations (and those are just mine, let alone the rest of the team). Analyzing the current landscape and predicting where its all going. Wanting to be extremely ambitious, but knowing the value of simplicity (and the pitfalls of trying to be too many things to too many people). WELCOME TO MEDIUM. BRING YOUR STORIES AND IDEAS Ev Williams. Aug 14, 2012 · 4 min read. Medium is a new place on the Internet where people share ideas and stories that are longer than 140 characters and not just for friends. It’s designed for little stories that make your day better and manifestos that change the world. It’s used by everyone from professional journalists to amateur cooks.
RETHINKING FUNDING. THERE ARE MANY INTERESTING IDEAS AND Rethinking funding. Ev Williams. Oct 16, 2020 · 2 min read. There are many interesting ideas and developments emerging about how to fund companies in more sustainable ways. Four recent posts from thinkers I follow (which highlight that there’s not a one-size-fits-all solution): Reid Hoffman: But an IPO isn’t the end of a company’s story.
I DIDN'T REALIZE THIS WAS FROM 2 YEARS AGO WHEN I I didn't realize this was from 2 years ago when I commented. I should have picked that up from the graphs. What's happened since? WHAT WE’RE TRYING TO DO WITH MEDIUM A place for ideas and stories—from Everyone—to thrive. Ev Williams. Oct 24, 2012 · 4 min read. It’s been just over two months since we opened the curtain on the preview version of Medium. Since then, we’ve been kind of quiet (but busy). I thought it might be a good time to shed more light on what we’ve been up to—as well as what we
TRY MORE THINGS. SOMETIMES FOCUS IS THE WRONG ANSWER Sometimes focus is the wrong answer. Ev Williams. Jan 13, 2020 · 4 min read. I’ve been thinking lately about how you decide whether to optimize or innovate. Not that you can’t do both at the same time — it’s really a matter of degree. But it’s an important matter of degree. In Steven Johnson’s, Where Good Ideas Come From, he LET’S RETHINK THE BOOK EXPERIENCE 📚 Let’s rethink the book experience 📚. Ev Williams. Jan 14 · 1 min read. Medium announced today that we’re acquiring a company called Glose, which is based in Paris, France. Glose is an ebook reader and store, similar to Kindle (but without the hardware). Like Kindle, you can buy almost any ebook (on the web), download it and read it ARE CITIES DEAD?. THIS IS AN INTERESTING ARGUMENT FROM Ev Williams. Aug 17, 2020 · 2 min read. This is an interesting argument from James Altucher that is going around: NYC IS DEAD FOREVER. HERE’S WHY. I love NYC. When I first moved to NYC it was a dream come true. Every corner was like a theater production happening. medium.com.
HOW TO END EVERY MEETING. GIVING EVERYONE A LAST WORD End every meeting with a “closing round.”. In a closing round, you go around the room and gi v e everyone a chance to comment on the meeting. There is no discussion or back-and-forth allowed. People tend to talk for less than 30 seconds (often a lot less), so you could close a large, 10-person meeting in less than five minutes. I FOUND IT INTERESTING THAT WHEN I WENT TO READ ZUCKERBERG I found it interesting that when I went to read Zuckerberg’s post about misinformation, there were two ads on the side that are super fake. Despite appearances, the EV WILLIAMS
Read writing from Ev Williams on Medium. CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, curious consumer of ideas. Every day, Ev Williams and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium. THINGS I’VE NOTICED UPON RETURNING TO THE OFFICE things I’ve noticed upon returning to the office. Today is my fourth day (over the last three weeks) returning to the office sincethe before times. Some observations:. SOME MEDIUM QUESTIONS, ANSWERED. ON BETA DEFICIENCIES Your statement is true. However, the number of subscribers is not static—it is growing as fast (or faster) than the number of writers. In other words, the pie is growing, as every writer who shows up contributes some ingredients. So, in one sense, Medium writers are competitive (those who opt into the Partner Program). MEDIUM EDITORIAL TEAM UPDATE. WE ANNOUNCED A BUYOUT ANDAUTHOR: EV WILLIAMS
Medium Editorial Team Update. Ev Williams. Mar 23 · 6 min read. We announced a buyout and leadership change to the Medium editorial team today. Below is the email I sent to the company. Team, We are making some changes to our editorial strategy and leadership and giving a voluntary exit option to employees who would like to take a different path.
WELCOME TO MEDIUM. BRING YOUR STORIES AND IDEAS Ev Williams. Aug 14, 2012 · 4 min read. Medium is a new place on the Internet where people share ideas and stories that are longer than 140 characters and not just for friends. It’s designed for little stories that make your day better and manifestos that change the world. It’s used by everyone from professional journalists to amateur cooks.
OLD PICTURES. A PERSONAL PHOTO ESSAY/WALK DOWN MEMORY A personal photo essay/walk down memory lane. Ev Williams. Apr 26 · 3 min read. I was raised on a farm in Nebraska. Obviously from the picture above, we were a John Deere family, not an International family. (Farm folks will understand.) Several years ago, my wife and I found a shoebox full of old prints and negatives in the house I grew up in.
WHAT WE’RE TRYING TO DO WITH MEDIUM A place for ideas and stories—from Everyone—to thrive. Ev Williams. Oct 24, 2012 · 4 min read. It’s been just over two months since we opened the curtain on the preview version of Medium. Since then, we’ve been kind of quiet (but busy). I thought it might be a good time to shed more light on what we’ve been up to—as well as what we
MORE MEDIUM QUESTIONS ANSWERED. ON PAY-TO-PLAY A few weeks ago, I set up a form to ask me questions, and I got a lot of them. Thanks! The vast majority are about Medium, which is an indication to me we need another forum where we can receive and answer more user questions. TOWARD A MORE RELATIONAL MEDIUM. LAST WEEK WE ANNOUNCED Toward a more relational Medium. Last week we announced Medium’s new mobile app and started rolling out the beta more widely. (If you have the current Medium app, look for a prompt to opt in.) This app is the result of months of work from a stellar team and repre s ents some dramatic rethinking of our mobile reading experience — and, in I FOUND IT INTERESTING THAT WHEN I WENT TO READ ZUCKERBERG I found it interesting that when I went to read Zuckerberg’s post about misinformation, there were two ads on the side that are super fake. Despite appearances, the EV WILLIAMS
Read writing from Ev Williams on Medium. CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, curious consumer of ideas. Every day, Ev Williams and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium. THINGS I’VE NOTICED UPON RETURNING TO THE OFFICE things I’ve noticed upon returning to the office. Today is my fourth day (over the last three weeks) returning to the office sincethe before times. Some observations:. SOME MEDIUM QUESTIONS, ANSWERED. ON BETA DEFICIENCIES Your statement is true. However, the number of subscribers is not static—it is growing as fast (or faster) than the number of writers. In other words, the pie is growing, as every writer who shows up contributes some ingredients. So, in one sense, Medium writers are competitive (those who opt into the Partner Program). MEDIUM EDITORIAL TEAM UPDATE. WE ANNOUNCED A BUYOUT ANDAUTHOR: EV WILLIAMS
Medium Editorial Team Update. Ev Williams. Mar 23 · 6 min read. We announced a buyout and leadership change to the Medium editorial team today. Below is the email I sent to the company. Team, We are making some changes to our editorial strategy and leadership and giving a voluntary exit option to employees who would like to take a different path.
WELCOME TO MEDIUM. BRING YOUR STORIES AND IDEAS Ev Williams. Aug 14, 2012 · 4 min read. Medium is a new place on the Internet where people share ideas and stories that are longer than 140 characters and not just for friends. It’s designed for little stories that make your day better and manifestos that change the world. It’s used by everyone from professional journalists to amateur cooks.
OLD PICTURES. A PERSONAL PHOTO ESSAY/WALK DOWN MEMORY A personal photo essay/walk down memory lane. Ev Williams. Apr 26 · 3 min read. I was raised on a farm in Nebraska. Obviously from the picture above, we were a John Deere family, not an International family. (Farm folks will understand.) Several years ago, my wife and I found a shoebox full of old prints and negatives in the house I grew up in.
WHAT WE’RE TRYING TO DO WITH MEDIUM A place for ideas and stories—from Everyone—to thrive. Ev Williams. Oct 24, 2012 · 4 min read. It’s been just over two months since we opened the curtain on the preview version of Medium. Since then, we’ve been kind of quiet (but busy). I thought it might be a good time to shed more light on what we’ve been up to—as well as what we
MORE MEDIUM QUESTIONS ANSWERED. ON PAY-TO-PLAY A few weeks ago, I set up a form to ask me questions, and I got a lot of them. Thanks! The vast majority are about Medium, which is an indication to me we need another forum where we can receive and answer more user questions. TOWARD A MORE RELATIONAL MEDIUM. LAST WEEK WE ANNOUNCED Toward a more relational Medium. Last week we announced Medium’s new mobile app and started rolling out the beta more widely. (If you have the current Medium app, look for a prompt to opt in.) This app is the result of months of work from a stellar team and repre s ents some dramatic rethinking of our mobile reading experience — and, in I FOUND IT INTERESTING THAT WHEN I WENT TO READ ZUCKERBERG I found it interesting that when I went to read Zuckerberg’s post about misinformation, there were two ads on the side that are super fake. Despite appearances, the I DIDN'T REALIZE THIS WAS FROM 2 YEARS AGO WHEN I I didn't realize this was from 2 years ago when I commented. I should have picked that up from the graphs. What's happened since? TOWARD A MORE RELATIONAL MEDIUM. LAST WEEK WE ANNOUNCED Last week we announced Medium’s new mobile app and started rolling out the beta more widely. (If you have the current Medium app, look for a prompt to opt in.) This app is the result of months of work from a stellar team and repre s ents some dramatic rethinking of our mobile reading experience — and, in fact, Medium in general. It’s also unlike any other mobile reading experience I know of. TRY MORE THINGS. SOMETIMES FOCUS IS THE WRONG ANSWER Sometimes focus is the wrong answer. Ev Williams. Jan 13, 2020 · 4 min read. I’ve been thinking lately about how you decide whether to optimize or innovate. Not that you can’t do both at the same time — it’s really a matter of degree. But it’s an important matter of degree. In Steven Johnson’s, Where Good Ideas Come From, he THE JOB OF LEADERSHIP The job of leadership is to foster alignment and enthusiasm toward the right goal. Alignment: A collection of good people does not make a good team if they’re not pushing in the same direction. Constant communication and adjustment is needed. Enthusiasm: You’re doing something hard and against the odds. The only way to do this type of thing
THIS PIECE ON BITCOIN IS REALLY GOOD (AND MORE IMPRESSIVE This piece on Bitcoin is really good (and more impressive, since it was written three years ago — wish I’d have read it then 🤑): ARE CITIES DEAD?. THIS IS AN INTERESTING ARGUMENT FROM Ev Williams. Aug 17, 2020 · 2 min read. This is an interesting argument from James Altucher that is going around: NYC IS DEAD FOREVER. HERE’S WHY. I love NYC. When I first moved to NYC it was a dream come true. Every corner was like a theater production happening. medium.com.
LET’S RETHINK THE BOOK EXPERIENCE 📚 Let’s rethink the book experience 📚. Ev Williams. Jan 14 · 1 min read. Medium announced today that we’re acquiring a company called Glose, which is based in Paris, France. Glose is an ebook reader and store, similar to Kindle (but without the hardware). Like Kindle, you can buy almost any ebook (on the web), download it and read it “WRITING IS NOT WHAT FOLLOWS RESEARCH, LEARNING OR “Writing is not what follows research, learning or studying, it is the medium of all this work.” — Sönke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes
HOW TO END EVERY MEETING. GIVING EVERYONE A LAST WORD End every meeting with a “closing round.”. In a closing round, you go around the room and gi v e everyone a chance to comment on the meeting. There is no discussion or back-and-forth allowed. People tend to talk for less than 30 seconds (often a lot less), so you could close a large, 10-person meeting in less than five minutes. I FOUND IT INTERESTING THAT WHEN I WENT TO READ ZUCKERBERG I found it interesting that when I went to read Zuckerberg’s post about misinformation, there were two ads on the side that are super fake. Despite appearances, the EV WILLIAMS
Read writing from Ev Williams on Medium. CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, curious consumer of ideas. Every day, Ev Williams and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium. THINGS I’VE NOTICED UPON RETURNING TO THE OFFICE things I’ve noticed upon returning to the office. Today is my fourth day (over the last three weeks) returning to the office sincethe before times. Some observations:. MEDIUM EDITORIAL TEAM UPDATE. WE ANNOUNCED A BUYOUT ANDAUTHOR: EV WILLIAMS
Medium Editorial Team Update. Ev Williams. Mar 23 · 6 min read. We announced a buyout and leadership change to the Medium editorial team today. Below is the email I sent to the company. Team, We are making some changes to our editorial strategy and leadership and giving a voluntary exit option to employees who would like to take a different path.
SOME MEDIUM QUESTIONS, ANSWERED. ON BETA DEFICIENCIES Your statement is true. However, the number of subscribers is not static—it is growing as fast (or faster) than the number of writers. In other words, the pie is growing, as every writer who shows up contributes some ingredients. So, in one sense, Medium writers are competitive (those who opt into the Partner Program). I DIDN'T REALIZE THIS WAS FROM 2 YEARS AGO WHEN I I didn't realize this was from 2 years ago when I commented. I should have picked that up from the graphs. What's happened since? OLD PICTURES. A PERSONAL PHOTO ESSAY/WALK DOWN MEMORY A personal photo essay/walk down memory lane. Ev Williams. Apr 26 · 3 min read. I was raised on a farm in Nebraska. Obviously from the picture above, we were a John Deere family, not an International family. (Farm folks will understand.) Several years ago, my wife and I found a shoebox full of old prints and negatives in the house I grew up in.
LET’S RETHINK THE BOOK EXPERIENCE 📚 Let’s rethink the book experience 📚. Ev Williams. Jan 14 · 1 min read. Medium announced today that we’re acquiring a company called Glose, which is based in Paris, France. Glose is an ebook reader and store, similar to Kindle (but without the hardware). Like Kindle, you can buy almost any ebook (on the web), download it and read it WELCOME TO MEDIUM. BRING YOUR STORIES AND IDEAS Ev Williams. Aug 14, 2012 · 4 min read. Medium is a new place on the Internet where people share ideas and stories that are longer than 140 characters and not just for friends. It’s designed for little stories that make your day better and manifestos that change the world. It’s used by everyone from professional journalists to amateur cooks.
TOWARD A MORE RELATIONAL MEDIUM. LAST WEEK WE ANNOUNCED Toward a more relational Medium. Last week we announced Medium’s new mobile app and started rolling out the beta more widely. (If you have the current Medium app, look for a prompt to opt in.) This app is the result of months of work from a stellar team and repre s ents some dramatic rethinking of our mobile reading experience — and, in MORE MEDIUM QUESTIONS ANSWERED. ON PAY-TO-PLAY A few weeks ago, I set up a form to ask me questions, and I got a lot of them. Thanks! The vast majority are about Medium, which is an indication to me we need another forum where we can receive and answer more user questions. EV WILLIAMS
Read writing from Ev Williams on Medium. CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, curious consumer of ideas. Every day, Ev Williams and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium. THINGS I’VE NOTICED UPON RETURNING TO THE OFFICE things I’ve noticed upon returning to the office. Today is my fourth day (over the last three weeks) returning to the office sincethe before times. Some observations:. MEDIUM EDITORIAL TEAM UPDATE. WE ANNOUNCED A BUYOUT ANDAUTHOR: EV WILLIAMS
Medium Editorial Team Update. Ev Williams. Mar 23 · 6 min read. We announced a buyout and leadership change to the Medium editorial team today. Below is the email I sent to the company. Team, We are making some changes to our editorial strategy and leadership and giving a voluntary exit option to employees who would like to take a different path.
SOME MEDIUM QUESTIONS, ANSWERED. ON BETA DEFICIENCIES Your statement is true. However, the number of subscribers is not static—it is growing as fast (or faster) than the number of writers. In other words, the pie is growing, as every writer who shows up contributes some ingredients. So, in one sense, Medium writers are competitive (those who opt into the Partner Program). I DIDN'T REALIZE THIS WAS FROM 2 YEARS AGO WHEN I I didn't realize this was from 2 years ago when I commented. I should have picked that up from the graphs. What's happened since? OLD PICTURES. A PERSONAL PHOTO ESSAY/WALK DOWN MEMORY A personal photo essay/walk down memory lane. Ev Williams. Apr 26 · 3 min read. I was raised on a farm in Nebraska. Obviously from the picture above, we were a John Deere family, not an International family. (Farm folks will understand.) Several years ago, my wife and I found a shoebox full of old prints and negatives in the house I grew up in.
LET’S RETHINK THE BOOK EXPERIENCE 📚 Let’s rethink the book experience 📚. Ev Williams. Jan 14 · 1 min read. Medium announced today that we’re acquiring a company called Glose, which is based in Paris, France. Glose is an ebook reader and store, similar to Kindle (but without the hardware). Like Kindle, you can buy almost any ebook (on the web), download it and read it WELCOME TO MEDIUM. BRING YOUR STORIES AND IDEAS Ev Williams. Aug 14, 2012 · 4 min read. Medium is a new place on the Internet where people share ideas and stories that are longer than 140 characters and not just for friends. It’s designed for little stories that make your day better and manifestos that change the world. It’s used by everyone from professional journalists to amateur cooks.
TOWARD A MORE RELATIONAL MEDIUM. LAST WEEK WE ANNOUNCED Toward a more relational Medium. Last week we announced Medium’s new mobile app and started rolling out the beta more widely. (If you have the current Medium app, look for a prompt to opt in.) This app is the result of months of work from a stellar team and repre s ents some dramatic rethinking of our mobile reading experience — and, in MORE MEDIUM QUESTIONS ANSWERED. ON PAY-TO-PLAY A few weeks ago, I set up a form to ask me questions, and I got a lot of them. Thanks! The vast majority are about Medium, which is an indication to me we need another forum where we can receive and answer more user questions. WHAT I LEARNED BUILDING MEDIUM (SO FAR) Boiling down over a dozen years of ideas and observations (and those are just mine, let alone the rest of the team). Analyzing the current landscape and predicting where its all going. Wanting to be extremely ambitious, but knowing the value of simplicity (and the pitfalls of trying to be too many things to too many people). I DIDN'T REALIZE THIS WAS FROM 2 YEARS AGO WHEN I I didn't realize this was from 2 years ago when I commented. I should have picked that up from the graphs. What's happened since? RETHINKING FUNDING. THERE ARE MANY INTERESTING IDEAS AND Rethinking funding. Ev Williams. Oct 16, 2020 · 2 min read. There are many interesting ideas and developments emerging about how to fund companies in more sustainable ways. Four recent posts from thinkers I follow (which highlight that there’s not a one-size-fits-all solution): Reid Hoffman: But an IPO isn’t the end of a company’s story.
LET’S RETHINK THE BOOK EXPERIENCE 📚 Let’s rethink the book experience 📚. Ev Williams. Jan 14 · 1 min read. Medium announced today that we’re acquiring a company called Glose, which is based in Paris, France. Glose is an ebook reader and store, similar to Kindle (but without the hardware). Like Kindle, you can buy almost any ebook (on the web), download it and read it TRY MORE THINGS. SOMETIMES FOCUS IS THE WRONG ANSWER Sometimes focus is the wrong answer. Ev Williams. Jan 13, 2020 · 4 min read. I’ve been thinking lately about how you decide whether to optimize or innovate. Not that you can’t do both at the same time — it’s really a matter of degree. But it’s an important matter of degree. In Steven Johnson’s, Where Good Ideas Come From, he WHAT WE’RE TRYING TO DO WITH MEDIUM A place for ideas and stories—from Everyone—to thrive. Ev Williams. Oct 24, 2012 · 4 min read. It’s been just over two months since we opened the curtain on the preview version of Medium. Since then, we’ve been kind of quiet (but busy). I thought it might be a good time to shed more light on what we’ve been up to—as well as what we
THE RATIONALIZATION OF PUBLISHING Ev Williams. Apr 4, 2018 · 6 min read. It was not a dumb idea. It may have even been the right idea at the time. That is: With no printing costs and the ability to reach a much larger audience, publishing — the kind that had been traditionally supported by a combination of direct consumer dollars and advertising — could be supported by THERE ARE A FEW WAYS MEDIUM RESPONSES ARE DIFFERENT THAN There are a few ways Medium responses are different than comment systems as we’ve know them on the web for a dozen or so years: Responses are posts. They are the same object in the system. They live I FOUND IT INTERESTING THAT WHEN I WENT TO READ ZUCKERBERG I found it interesting that when I went to read Zuckerberg’s post about misinformation, there were two ads on the side that are super fake. Despite appearances, the OUT OF CONTEXT // 20–10–2. FROM SOME STUFF I READ: Your loudest users — the users who complain when you ship something they don’t like, and post in your Facebook Group their feature requests, are a blessing and a curse. Without them, you wouldn’t have a company. But to reach your next 100m users, you need to be willing to ignore them. He could be vile, but I would never be unseemly.
EV WILLIAMS
Read writing from Ev Williams on Medium. CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, curious consumer of ideas. Every day, Ev Williams and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium. I DIDN'T REALIZE THIS WAS FROM 2 YEARS AGO WHEN I I didn't realize this was from 2 years ago when I commented. I should have picked that up from the graphs. What's happened since? SOME MEDIUM QUESTIONS, ANSWERED. ON BETA DEFICIENCIES Your statement is true. However, the number of subscribers is not static—it is growing as fast (or faster) than the number of writers. In other words, the pie is growing, as every writer who shows up contributes some ingredients. So, in one sense, Medium writers are competitive (those who opt into the Partner Program). MEDIUM EDITORIAL TEAM UPDATE. WE ANNOUNCED A BUYOUT ANDAUTHOR: EV WILLIAMS
Medium Editorial Team Update. Ev Williams. Mar 23 · 6 min read. We announced a buyout and leadership change to the Medium editorial team today. Below is the email I sent to the company. Team, We are making some changes to our editorial strategy and leadership and giving a voluntary exit option to employees who would like to take a different path.
OLD PICTURES. A PERSONAL PHOTO ESSAY/WALK DOWN MEMORY A personal photo essay/walk down memory lane. Ev Williams. Apr 26 · 3 min read. I was raised on a farm in Nebraska. Obviously from the picture above, we were a John Deere family, not an International family. (Farm folks will understand.) Several years ago, my wife and I found a shoebox full of old prints and negatives in the house I grew up in.
WELCOME TO MEDIUM. BRING YOUR STORIES AND IDEAS Ev Williams. Aug 14, 2012 · 4 min read. Medium is a new place on the Internet where people share ideas and stories that are longer than 140 characters and not just for friends. It’s designed for little stories that make your day better and manifestos that change the world. It’s used by everyone from professional journalists to amateur cooks.
WHAT WE’RE TRYING TO DO WITH MEDIUM A place for ideas and stories—from Everyone—to thrive. Ev Williams. Oct 24, 2012 · 4 min read. It’s been just over two months since we opened the curtain on the preview version of Medium. Since then, we’ve been kind of quiet (but busy). I thought it might be a good time to shed more light on what we’ve been up to—as well as what we
TOWARD A MORE RELATIONAL MEDIUM. LAST WEEK WE ANNOUNCED Toward a more relational Medium. Last week we announced Medium’s new mobile app and started rolling out the beta more widely. (If you have the current Medium app, look for a prompt to opt in.) This app is the result of months of work from a stellar team and repre s ents some dramatic rethinking of our mobile reading experience — and, in MORE MEDIUM QUESTIONS ANSWERED. ON PAY-TO-PLAY A few weeks ago, I set up a form to ask me questions, and I got a lot of them. Thanks! The vast majority are about Medium, which is an indication to me we need another forum where we can receive and answer more user questions. I FOUND IT INTERESTING THAT WHEN I WENT TO READ ZUCKERBERG I found it interesting that when I went to read Zuckerberg’s post about misinformation, there were two ads on the side that are super fake. Despite appearances, the EV WILLIAMS
Read writing from Ev Williams on Medium. CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, curious consumer of ideas. Every day, Ev Williams and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium. I DIDN'T REALIZE THIS WAS FROM 2 YEARS AGO WHEN I I didn't realize this was from 2 years ago when I commented. I should have picked that up from the graphs. What's happened since? SOME MEDIUM QUESTIONS, ANSWERED. ON BETA DEFICIENCIES Your statement is true. However, the number of subscribers is not static—it is growing as fast (or faster) than the number of writers. In other words, the pie is growing, as every writer who shows up contributes some ingredients. So, in one sense, Medium writers are competitive (those who opt into the Partner Program). MEDIUM EDITORIAL TEAM UPDATE. WE ANNOUNCED A BUYOUT ANDAUTHOR: EV WILLIAMS
Medium Editorial Team Update. Ev Williams. Mar 23 · 6 min read. We announced a buyout and leadership change to the Medium editorial team today. Below is the email I sent to the company. Team, We are making some changes to our editorial strategy and leadership and giving a voluntary exit option to employees who would like to take a different path.
OLD PICTURES. A PERSONAL PHOTO ESSAY/WALK DOWN MEMORY A personal photo essay/walk down memory lane. Ev Williams. Apr 26 · 3 min read. I was raised on a farm in Nebraska. Obviously from the picture above, we were a John Deere family, not an International family. (Farm folks will understand.) Several years ago, my wife and I found a shoebox full of old prints and negatives in the house I grew up in.
WELCOME TO MEDIUM. BRING YOUR STORIES AND IDEAS Ev Williams. Aug 14, 2012 · 4 min read. Medium is a new place on the Internet where people share ideas and stories that are longer than 140 characters and not just for friends. It’s designed for little stories that make your day better and manifestos that change the world. It’s used by everyone from professional journalists to amateur cooks.
WHAT WE’RE TRYING TO DO WITH MEDIUM A place for ideas and stories—from Everyone—to thrive. Ev Williams. Oct 24, 2012 · 4 min read. It’s been just over two months since we opened the curtain on the preview version of Medium. Since then, we’ve been kind of quiet (but busy). I thought it might be a good time to shed more light on what we’ve been up to—as well as what we
TOWARD A MORE RELATIONAL MEDIUM. LAST WEEK WE ANNOUNCED Toward a more relational Medium. Last week we announced Medium’s new mobile app and started rolling out the beta more widely. (If you have the current Medium app, look for a prompt to opt in.) This app is the result of months of work from a stellar team and repre s ents some dramatic rethinking of our mobile reading experience — and, in MORE MEDIUM QUESTIONS ANSWERED. ON PAY-TO-PLAY A few weeks ago, I set up a form to ask me questions, and I got a lot of them. Thanks! The vast majority are about Medium, which is an indication to me we need another forum where we can receive and answer more user questions. I FOUND IT INTERESTING THAT WHEN I WENT TO READ ZUCKERBERG I found it interesting that when I went to read Zuckerberg’s post about misinformation, there were two ads on the side that are super fake. Despite appearances, the EV WILLIAMS
Read writing from Ev Williams on Medium. CEO of Medium, partner at Obvious Ventures, co-founder of Twitter, curious consumer of ideas. Every day, Ev Williams and thousands of other voices read, write, and share important stories on Medium. I DIDN'T REALIZE THIS WAS FROM 2 YEARS AGO WHEN I I didn't realize this was from 2 years ago when I commented. I should have picked that up from the graphs. What's happened since? TOWARD A MORE RELATIONAL MEDIUM. LAST WEEK WE ANNOUNCED Toward a more relational Medium. Last week we announced Medium’s new mobile app and started rolling out the beta more widely. (If you have the current Medium app, look for a prompt to opt in.) This app is the result of months of work from a stellar team and repre s ents some dramatic rethinking of our mobile reading experience — and, in LET’S RETHINK THE BOOK EXPERIENCE 📚 Let’s rethink the book experience 📚. Ev Williams. Jan 14 · 1 min read. Medium announced today that we’re acquiring a company called Glose, which is based in Paris, France. Glose is an ebook reader and store, similar to Kindle (but without the hardware). Like Kindle, you can buy almost any ebook (on the web), download it and read it THIS PIECE ON BITCOIN IS REALLY GOOD (AND MORE IMPRESSIVE This piece on Bitcoin is really good (and more impressive, since it was written three years ago — wish I’d have read it then 🤑): OUT OF CONTEXT // 20–10–2. FROM SOME STUFF I READ: Your loudest users — the users who complain when you ship something they don’t like, and post in your Facebook Group their feature requests, are a blessing and a curse. Without them, you wouldn’t have a company. But to reach your next 100m users, you need to be willing to ignore them. He could be vile, but I would never be unseemly.
“WRITING IS NOT WHAT FOLLOWS RESEARCH, LEARNING OR “Writing is not what follows research, learning or studying, it is the medium of all this work.” — Sönke Ahrens, How to Take Smart Notes
HOW TO END EVERY MEETING. GIVING EVERYONE A LAST WORD End every meeting with a “closing round.”. In a closing round, you go around the room and gi v e everyone a chance to comment on the meeting. There is no discussion or back-and-forth allowed. People tend to talk for less than 30 seconds (often a lot less), so you could close a large, 10-person meeting in less than five minutes. MARGARET J. WHEATLEY AND MYRON KELLNER-ROGERS, A SIMPLER “We collect information from measures that tell us how we are doing — whether we’re up to standard, whether we’re meeting our goals. But these measures lock us into learning only about a predetermined world.
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This piece on Bitcoin is really good (and more impressive, since it was written three years ago — wish I’d have read it then 🤑): THE BULLISH CASE FOR BITCOIN WITH THE PRICE OF A BITCOIN SURGING TO NEW HIGHS IN 2017, THE BULLISH CASE FOR INVESTORS MIGHT SEEM SO OBVIOUS IT DOES… vijayboyapati.medium.com h/t jack
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This is cool on a couple of levels. A) Go Spotify. B) It gives credence to the theory that Google and Apple can't dominate everything—even though they own the devices, control app distribution, take ridiculous rakes on payments, etc. Because there's always the potential for the cross-platform player to be bigger than either of them in a given space. Spotify To Take Apple’s Podcast Crown 132
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Steven has a great way of pointing out the obvious-that-wasn't-obvious. Incremental progress FTW. Looking forward to this project.
… of human life expectancy should be understood as the single most important development of our era. If a newspaper came out only once a century, that extra lifespan would be the banner headline: world wars, moon landings, the Internet would all be below the fold. Introducing The Extra Life Project 124
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LET’S RETHINK THE BOOK EXPERIENCE 📚 Medium announced today that we’re acquiring a company called Glose , which is based in Paris, France. Glose is an ebook reader and store, similar to Kindle (but without the hardware). Like Kindle, you can buy almost any ebook (on the web), download it and read it instantly on the web or in the iOS or Android app. I’ll post more at another time about why this deal and how we got here, why books are still important, how they might be better, and some of the things we plan to do. … Read more · 1 min read 5.8K
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> Twice a week — on Tuesday and Friday mornings — we will meet and > speak with the researchers and engineers who are attempting to take > batteries the added distance and make electric cars cheaper, go > further, and charge up faster. 622
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THIS WEEK IN HIGHLIGHTS OUT OF CONTEXT // 20–11–16 From some stuff I read: * But let me tell you what does get better as time passes: the relationships, the accrued knowledge, your own self-awareness. These compound like high-interest investments, as you shift from early career (time to learn) to later career (time to earn) * It was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do, to tell my father goodby over the phone on a conference call. * I got a Peloton last month. I’m one of those people now. I sit on my stupid little bike almost every day for as long as I can stand it and I pedal…
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MORE MEDIUM QUESTIONS ANSWERED ON PAY-TO-PLAY, VERIFICATION, AND STAYING RELEVANT IN A GEN Z WORLD 📺
A few weeks ago, I set up a form to ask me questions, and I got a lot of them. Thanks! The vast majority are about Medium, which is an indication to me we need another forum where we can receive and answer more user questions. We are looking into that. Meanwhile… ANONYMOUS MEDIUM WRITER asks: _Do you now have to have a paid membership as a participant in the partner program to earn? If not, why not given this means people are taking money away from a limited pot that they are not contributing to?_ The answer is no…
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WE MOSTLY VALUE THE SAME THINGS — JUST IN A DIFFERENT ORDER We often think that people who don’t agree with us on issues have different values. And when someone doesn’t value the same things we do — things we hold sacred — it can seem like they are broken, distorted, corrupt in some fundamental way that’s hard to understand. I think that's rarely the case. For example, I bet there are very few people in the world who don’t value freedom, fairness, and a healthy environment. However, one person, if forced to choose, may say the order for priority is: * Freedom
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> _“What matters for the long-term health of cities in general and > New York City in particular, though, is what happens next. The great > pandemic-induced experiment in working from home seems certain to > result in lasting changes in how (and how often) knowledge workers > use their offices, but they won’t completely go away. White-collar > employers also won’t necessarily abandon cities, to which they had > been returning from suburban office parks in recent decades in large > part because cities were where educated young people wanted to be > — and will likely want to be once again when indoor dining, > nightlife and other attractions return.”_ THE BIG-CITY EXODUS ISN’T VERY BIG (YET) —
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> _“The tendrils of current polarization in the U.S. can be traced > back to the 1990s or even before. In parallel tracks, an > increasingly paranoid and rigid worldview developed across much of > the far-right that was driven by _radio_. On the left, increasing > radicalization was spurred through academic channels, i.e., mostly > through _books_ and _academia_.”_ How The Social Dilemma Got Social Media Mostly Wrong by Christopher J. Ferguson 263
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