Tony Stubblebine / is on Nostr

CEO @ Medium. Early Twitter user, like really, really early. Some people call me Coach Tony. Partner is Sarah. Dog is Eloise.

Medium: https://coachtony.medium.com

Last Notes

2024-08-21 19:05:07

My keynote from Medium Day. It was overall a pretty positive message but I also didn't shy away from what's broken on the Internet.
https://blog.medium.com/state-of-medium-c54d1706a9b4

2024-08-19 02:40:44

Do you remember when hover boards were a thing? I watched this guy board a flight on one in 2015.
https://media.me.dm/media_attachments/files/112/986/372/119/682/907/original/942b5858c1e933f2.jpeg

2024-08-17 17:59:41

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That's a weird way to display that but if you read it top to bottom, moving from monthly to annual drops the price from $60 to $50. That's our standard price. Then 20% off is $40. As displayed in the bill today.

2024-06-12 20:07:56

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I think we are close to supporting turkey. But some of these problems are specific to the country, ie there is something screwed up going on with India and stripe right now.

2024-06-12 01:50:38

This is what I was trying to work out what to say recently, why the Internet needs more spaces that are paid for directly by the users rather than by advertisers.
https://blog.medium.com/be-part-of-a-better-internet-5c4aa58ec826

2024-06-12 01:48:11

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Can I ask where you are seeing this AI content so that I can look into it? We do do a lot of heavy lifting not to recommend it to you unless you are directly following the pub or person. I think recommendations is an area where we can mostly succeed. But there is still a ton that exists and people run into it in different ways, i.e. Google.

2024-06-10 04:19:15

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does this hold up seven years later and Ev did not pull the plug on Medium and Medium is becoming self sustaining?

2024-06-06 22:39:27

I love being done with a board meeting.

2024-06-06 21:56:17

I ❤️ paywalls

2024-06-02 20:02:13

Testing whether my Threads account connect up here? I'm so confused by where Facebook is taking their fediverse integration. (And that's even after having talked to them about it)
https://www.threads.net/@the_coach_life/post/C7uak2Tyu0C

2024-06-01 16:31:27

At some level, the point of social media is to have fun having opinions. Like I'm doing.
But then it got sold as simultaneously being about a source of information. That's different. Having an opinion about something you are informed about and care enough about to get right (and correct yourself if you miss) is a totally different thing.

2024-06-01 16:18:26

The thing about the conviction news yesterday is that I want there to be more news to read but there isn't. There's just opinion, nearly none of it well thought out.
Maybe it's because I'm such a sports fan, but I saw things like Stephen A. Smith and Skip Bayless on ESPN and wanted way less of this. Who cares about opinion for the sake of opinion?
(My opinion)

2024-06-01 16:15:29

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100x cooler. A third of my board letter is just administrative details.

2024-06-01 16:14:34

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They are doing this trying to squeeze out tens or hundreds of dollars from us.
This is the definition of a local maxima because meanwhile...
We are hunting for deeper pieces and boosting them.
And there is a job market (even now) that pays hundreds of thousands of dollars for experts.
So if I were writing technical stuff I'd be writing to impress someone important who could open up those doors.

2024-06-01 16:12:55

"write to impress someone important."
That's probably the most elitist thing I've ever told a Medium writer. But it was specific to programming topics and I still agree with it.
Medium has a huge, huge readership in software development.
But we also have a ton of technical writers who write simple programming content, a lot of it summarized from other sources, and all of it destined to be replaced by AI summary and copilot.