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+title:	"The magic of Medium"
+date:	2018-01-06
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+  ![](/img/1*JKq41rznoJECiICjBSQNMA.jpeg)Photo by [Bhushan Sadani](https://unsplash.com/photos/M-xaOaCzy_M?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)I joined Medium less than two short years ago. Initially I just began to migrate old content, then I jumped in fully.
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+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.
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+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.
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+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.
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+No bullshit.
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+As writers, we are given a blank page. We are prompted ‘Tell your story…’
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+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.
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+Medium is a tool, and rather a good one at that.
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+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.
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+Without Medium, I’d have read less. And I’d have written a *lot* less.
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+So I’m glad to have a medium called Medium. There’s magic in a blank page. The magic of potential.
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