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Remember the great promise of Medium?

It’s been a few years, so maybe you don’t. Launched in 2012 by two Twitter founders, it committed to being our Canaan, a clean reading space where thinking was prime and every article worth reading. As such, its launch was limited, permitting only a select pool of writers at the outset.

Five years have passed since. Medium is open to anybody now, and while its platform remains one of the most agreeable CMS experiences for writers out there, it’s hard to put a finger on what makes it special.

This is a reminder.

Today,

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