Formerly The Startup — Medium's largest active publication, covering career advice, entrepreneurship, and the creator economy.
Why I recommend it: Wide range and easy to submit to if you want writing samples with reach.
Read / subscribe freeMedium CEO Tony Stubblebine's announcement of TK, a private agentic notebook app from Medium for drafting writing and developing ideas, describing the company's position that writing still matters as AI tools spread.
A Snowflake Builders Blog post by Eylon Steiner on data governance once AI agents can run SQL, covering masking, access controls and related practices in Snowflake.
Essay by linguist Emily M. Bender on Medium arguing against framing AI ethics and AI safety as a "schism." The page blocked automated reading, so this description is based on the title and author.
Medium essay from the All Humans Are Human publication. The page blocked automated reading, so this description is based on the title only.
The December 2020 open letter from Google Walkout for Real Change supporting Timnit Gebru after her departure from Google's Ethical AI team, with its list of signatories. An advocacy document written by her supporters.
Manuel Cebrian's essay on "Markovian Parallax Denigrate" — hundreds of identically titled, meaningless posts that flooded Usenet in August 1996 and have never been explained. It walks through each theory in turn: a Cold War-style numbers station, a cipher, a mail-server fault, or an early Markov-chain text generator in the lineage of the Mark V. Shaney experiment, and what the trail of headers actually supports.
Why I recommend it: A enjoyable read, and a useful one: machine-generated nonsense has been circulating for thirty years, and this is a case study in how hard attribution is once it does. The author is careful to label what is evidence and what is speculation — which is more than most write-ups of it manage. Medium sometimes meters free reading, so tell me if it asks you to sign in.
Open publishing platform for essays and articles. Writing and publishing are free; reading is limited by a metered paywall unless you pay for a membership, and the Partner Program requires a paid membership to earn.
From the site: On Medium, anyone can share insightful perspectives, useful knowledge, and life wisdom with the world.
Why I recommend it: Free to publish and build a portfolio of writing. Be aware readers may hit a paywall on your posts, so cross-post anything you want widely read.
A hands-on write-up of wiring Google's open Gemma 4 model into the Codex command-line coding agent so it runs locally instead of calling a hosted API.
From the site: I wanted to know whether Gemma 4 could replace a cloud model for my day-to-day agentic coding. Not in theory, in practice. I use Codex CLI…
Why I recommend it: Useful if you want to try coding agents without paying per token — local models are slower, but free and private.
A plain-language explainer on RLCD, a way of aligning language models by learning from contrasting outputs rather than human ratings alone.
From the site: RLCD is a method developed to adjust language models to human preferences without using human feedback data. This approach aims to address…
Why I recommend it: Good background reading if you want to understand how the models you use are actually steered.
Free virtual community gathering from Medium with over 100 sessions of writing and publishing insight from writers, editors, and experts, plus live product demos, writing workshops, and meetups with Medium staff and writers. Speakers include Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine and writers such as Zulie Rane.
Why I recommend it: A good low-risk day to invest in your writing if you are building a personal brand. Pick two or three sessions rather than trying to watch everything, and use the meetups to actually meet editors.
Business publication covering work culture, career navigation, and the forces shaping the business world.
Why I recommend it: Helpful context on why workplaces behave the way they do.
Global community of startups and founders, covering fundraising, product development, and market research.
Why I recommend it: Useful for seeing how other founders describe the same problems you have.
A step-by-step personal account of self-teaching, portfolio building, and applying until landing a first developer role without a computer science degree.
Why I recommend it: Copy the process, not the timeline. Everyone's runway is different, and comparing yours to a blog post is a fast way to quit.
A first-person account of moving from a coding bootcamp into a professional engineering role, including the skill gaps that showed up on the job and how they were closed.
Why I recommend it: Firsthand accounts are worth more than program marketing. Note what she says about the first 90 days on the job.
Airbnb's engineering team explains how Connect was designed, who it is for, how apprentices are supported and mentored, and what work they ship during the program.
Why I recommend it: The most honest look at daily life inside an apprenticeship. Use its language when you write your Connect application.
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Agency-written guide comparing influencer platforms and describing profile setup, outreach and brand-deal workflows. Free to read; individual platforms may charge fees or have eligibility requirements, so the article is not a directory of guaranteed free services.
Free November 2026 PDF on seven creator-economy infrastructure issues, including measurement, contracts, payment terms and data sharing. Based on interviews and a survey of 53 industry leaders; the sample leans toward high-volume intermediaries and the results are directional, not population-wide estimates.
Michael Normyle examines the rise in Census business applications without planned wages since early 2025 and compares sector-level application growth with AI adoption. The article argues that generative AI may lower barriers for solo businesses while identifying tax-reporting changes as a likely unrelated driver of earlier retail growth.
Why I recommend it: The article presents an interpretation of business-application and sector data; timing and sector associations do not establish that AI caused the increase.
Tubefilter reports, citing Business Insider, that Instagram has offered select YouTube creators between $50,000 and $500,000 to post long-form horizontal videos in its new Features format. Meta confirmed it is funding some creators and called deal details confidential.
Remote job board with no registration and no charge to search. It has a dedicated Part-Time Jobs page and categories including IT and software development.
Why I recommend it: Free and simple. As with any board, apply only on the employer's own site and never pay to apply.
Free account for temp, part-time, full-time and on-demand work. No interview or résumé needed. Its page says W-2 shifts pay in 1 to 2 days and that it serves all 50 states.
Why I recommend it: One of the broadest lists on the page, with no résumé needed, which is useful when you don't want to rebuild one. Read each posting to see whether it is a W-2 or contractor shift.
