Reflections on Mother’s Day, a window into the Carroll v. Trump trial, and more perspectives worth reading — Hey y’all, I recently received an email from a retailer, asking if I would like to opt out of Mother’s Day emails and congratulations. (For our international readers: celebrating motherhood in mid-May is customary in the U.S.) I pondered that email, thinking about my two children, who are a joy…

A few Medium stories you may have missed this week — Hey all, I’ve been doing a deep dive into essays about heritage and how modern life is intersected and informed by the actions of your ancestors. Some of you are really good about researching and documenting your findings. Take professor and author Aimee Liu, for example. After she shared the…

This month, we’re sharing a collection of personal stories exploring the joys, challenges, and complexities of the Asian American and Pacific Islander experience — “We are treated as a monolithic group, despite comprising more than 19 groups speaking over 38 languages,” Ellen K. Pao and Tracy Chou explain in a popular Medium essay about being Asian American in tech. It’s a good reminder that, though May in the U.S. is “Asian American and Pacific…

A few Medium stories you may have missed this week — There is a lot of advice out there about the best time to wake up, the best time to work out, and the best habits to develop. The advice is so abundant that, if you try to incorporate them all, your wires just might overload. Sometimes you are the best…

A handpicked selection of stories you may have missed this week — Want to see something beautiful? This mosque in Malaysia, a little cottage on the hill in Poland, and a series of tiny red houses seemingly floating on water in Norway are included in a cool, image-heavy article highlighting diverse architectural photos. Posted by the folks behind Wikipedia, these 25 otherworldly…

A few stories you may have missed this week — Humans are amazing sometimes. In the midst of *gestures broadly* everything happening in the world right now, it’s worth coming back to this simple truth from time to time, and I wanted to share two stories from Medium this week that illustrate the point in two very different ways. The…

A few stories you may have missed this week — A movie set in the world of the nerdiest pastime ever, “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves,” topped the U.S. box office this past weekend. Artificial intelligence is the biggest technology story of the moment. Where do these two things intersect? In this incredible story about using ChatGPT4 as the…

For U.S. National Poetry Month, we’re highlighting verse, wordplay, and essays about poetry from across Medium — “Poetry is a political act,” wrote June Jordan, the late poet, essayist, and playwright, “because it involves telling the truth.” As Casira Copes wrote in an essay about Jordan’s legacy, great poems can change us. They give us words for emotional complexity. They contain meaning that can’t be summarized. They…

Notes on Wikipedia’s redesign, reflections on the rise of AI, and more perspectives worth reading — Every day, thousands of writers publish their stories on Medium. They use the platform for all sorts of reasons: To hone their skills as a writer or thinker, to connect with an audience, to build their professional profile, to share insight and expertise. As a Medium reader, you have direct…