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| post | The magic of Medium | 2018-01-06 |
Photo by Bhushan Sadani on UnsplashI 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.