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If you want to be more creative, be less certain

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🐉 Somehow, it’s Friday! And tomorrow begins the Year of the Dragon.Want to receive this as...
🐉 Somehow, it’s Friday! And tomorrow begins the Year of the Dragon.Want to receive this as an email? Sign up here.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans today are half as likely to take weeklong vacations than they were 40 years ago. (This is despite the fact that more than 90% of full-time U.S. workers have...

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The trap of thinking short-term

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⏳The future’s coming sooner than you think!Want to receive this as an email? Sign up here.Why...
⏳The future’s coming sooner than you think!Want to receive this as an email? Sign up here.Why do we, as a species, struggle so much with long-term thinking?I’ve been seeing this everywhere recently, in things as personal as my ongoing battle to get regular exercise or as universal as the news headlines — the dysfunc...

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Your ancestry is a lot more than just DNA

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We all want to know where we come from. If you’ve ever told someone you want...
We all want to know where we come from. If you’ve ever told someone you want to learn more about your ancestry (as I have) they’ll probably point you toward 23andMe, the genetic testing company that went public in 2021 and was briefly valued at $6 billion (or about $1 billion more than what Reddit is eyeing as a val...

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Culture is everyone’s business

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Last year, media companies laid off 20,000 people, more than any year in history (except 2020,...
Last year, media companies laid off 20,000 people, more than any year in history (except 2020, the exception that proves the rule). This year it’s looking even more dire — case in point, The Messenger shut down last week after somehow squandering $50 million in just eight months.Entrepreneur and Wired co-founding ed...

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What those Taylor Swift deepfakes reveal about the future of AI

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What should we call the photorealistic images AI makes? Photos? And if they’re not photos, what...
What should we call the photorealistic images AI makes? Photos? And if they’re not photos, what are they? (“Images” is vague. The English language can’t keep up with whatever AI is doing… if you have suggestions, let us know.)An AI researcher and photographer on Medium, Thomas Smith, argues that, no, these are not p...

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What We’re Reading: The hidden history of the GPS

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An Easy 5-Step Plan for Improving Your Medium Profile

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Photo: mikroman6 / Getty ImagesWe’ve found that a bio (the short description that shows up near...
Photo: mikroman6 / Getty ImagesWe’ve found that a bio (the short description that shows up near your profile picture across Medium) works best when it suggests what kind of content readers can expect from you, and offers information about who you are and some of your most salient credentials. Go ahead and fill yours...

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Take Your Writing From Good to Great

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Photo: Baac3nes / Getty ImagesWouldn’t it be nice if writing a perfect post were as easy...
Photo: Baac3nes / Getty ImagesWouldn’t it be nice if writing a perfect post were as easy as opening up that fresh New Story page, tapping at the keyboard for a few minutes, and then hitting publish? (Cue claps, highlights, and adoring responses.) But we all know that’s not true. The more experienced a writer is, the...

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Lesser-known moments in Black history

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🐿 Good morning on this glorious Groundhog Day! Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow this...
🐿 Good morning on this glorious Groundhog Day! Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow this morning, so an early spring is on its way.A few weeks ago, writer and editor Allison Wiltz got people talking on X when she asked: “What piece of black history do you wish more people knew?” Over 300 responses later, Wiltz r...
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Will Apple Vision matter, where others failed?

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🥽 T-1 day until Apple Vision Pro drops“Apple has a long history of coming in late...
🥽 T-1 day until Apple Vision Pro drops“Apple has a long history of coming in late to the game, doing it (and marketing it) better, and creating an industry,” former New York Times tech columnist David Pogue wrote on Medium last year. Pogue was demoing Apple Vision Pro, the long-awaited VR headset we can all finally ...

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Welcome to Medium’s Daily Edition

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👋 Hi from the team at MediumLast year, the amount of information on the internet hit...
👋 Hi from the team at MediumLast year, the amount of information on the internet hit 120 zetabytes. A zetabyte is about a trillion gigabytes, and a gigabyte is about 678,000 pages of text. Only a tiny fraction of that information is (a) any good, or (b) of the slightest interest to you. It can be hard to separate th...

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How to Write a Compelling Headline That Isn’t Clickbait

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Photo by little plant on UnsplashHeadlines (also known as titles) are entertaining. They’re helpful. They’re surprising....
Photo by little plant on UnsplashHeadlines (also known as titles) are entertaining. They’re helpful. They’re surprising. They’re evocative. They’re often assertive. And they just sound cool when you say them out loud. Today, we led a free creator workshop on finding the best headline for your story — and here’s the ...

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What We’re Reading: Work-life balance: The best lie ever told?

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Photo by Alex Kotliarskyi on UnsplashHi everyone,A lot of people have a lot to say about...
Photo by Alex Kotliarskyi on UnsplashHi everyone,A lot of people have a lot to say about the work ethic, the so-called laziness or the alleged attitudes of the next generation. Baby Boomers generalize about Gen X, who joke about Millennials and Gen Z. I’m not sure yet who is going to criticize Gen Alpha, those kids ...

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What We’re Reading: In defense of the ‘everyday risk’

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Photo by Cristofer Maximilian on UnsplashHi everyone,Celebrity photographer Tom Zimberoff has made a picture of everyone...
Photo by Cristofer Maximilian on UnsplashHi everyone,Celebrity photographer Tom Zimberoff has made a picture of everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger (who writes on Medium sometimes) to Ava Gardner (who, uh, does not). I’ve worked with a number of high profile photographers in my career, and every single one of them h...

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