Here’s a list of some stuff I’ve written over the years that I don’t hate. Okay things I've written Articles I've written over the years that I don't hatebuster.medium.com

Balancing incentives in the Partner Program, preventing fraud, responding to AI-generated content, and an update on expanding to more countries — The last few months have been full of activity for the Medium Partner Program. We launched new earnings logic, instant enrollment, support for nine new countries, and a new stats page. Since then, over 10k people have joined the Partner Program and active writers in the Partner Program are growing…

Changes are coming in August to the way we pay writers for great stories and which countries we support. Here’s what’s happening, why, and what it means for you. — Medium is committed to remaining an open platform where anyone and everyone can read and write stories in a beautiful, ad-free interface. Since 2017, we’ve had a revenue share in place — the Medium Partner Program — that allows writers to earn money for their stories. Now, we’re making changes…

I’ve written an annual review every year for the last 17 years, and they’re getting weirder. This one is no exception! Here we go. — I was about to start this review by talking about a thing I realized in therapy recently, until I read my review from last year and could see that I was talking about it back then too. Here it is anyway. Recently (aka over the last year or two), I’ve…

Have you published a book? Would you like to feature it on your Medium profile? Here’s how! — Hello, writers of Medium! Today we’re launching a new program that invites published authors to verify their identity by claiming their books. …

The conspiracy of Time and how to let go — One of the defining characteristics of entries on my list of ideas I’m mulling is that they keep popping up in my thoughts over time, whenever my brain has some idle time before bed or while folding laundry. …

An attempt at sketching out a bird’s eye view of the wide variety of different kinds of stories people are writing on Medium — The idea of building a big linky map of Medium is to help people explore the breadth and depth of stories on Medium. There’s a lot! And a lot of it is really good! To view this map in a slightly different format, click here. The taxonomy for the map…

The standard model of behavior change is silly. Come read about my much weirder systems model! — Around the new year, people start thinking about goals and resolutions. I’ve written tips on how to create better resolutions — ones that are less likely to immediately fail — but after thinking about it for a while (I wrote that almost 9 years ago), I think it’s jumping the…

These are the 7th and 8th ideas added to the list of Ideas I’m Mulling. The other ones are: codex vitae (book of beliefs), prisoner’s dilemma, the capabilities approach, wicked problems, cognitive biases, and productive disagreements. I added these two together because they are pretty closely related in terms of…