Goodbye, Medium

Profit off my writing? Fine. Restrict it? Nope.

This article is just to say that I will not be writing further articles on Medium until there is a way to write something that is both:

• Visible to anyone, including non-subscribers, at some publicly-searchable URL.
• Eligible for recommendation and curation, like other premium Medium content, at some URL.

These don’t have to be the same URL. It’s OK with me if Medium doesn’t tell paying customers that they could have gotten my content for free. And this does not have to be default behavior. I’m fine with jumping through extra hoops to get both of the above. But until there is some way to do both, I will not be writing at Medium, and I will encourage my friends to do the same.

Since I don’t want the hassle of administering my own blogging platform, I will for now be publishing my long-form thoughts on LessWrong.Com. This is a site with an engaged community, albeit a narrower one than Medium; but also, one which allows publishing meaningful long-form pieces without unexpectedly altering their policies to maximize profit rather than learning.