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The golden age of hand-illustrated computer magazine covers: BYTE 1977-1984

I am a huge supporter of Medium, because I am a huge supporter of the idea of Medium. 

Founded by a founder of Twitter to be a place where long-form thinking was possible, Medium has become a critical platform for spreading understanding in depth. I like it much more than an op-ed page in a major newspaper (since there’s no 800 word limit and it is more timely). I want to do everything I can to help it succeed.

Medium has now established a paid content section to its publication. That content is content recommended to its paid subscribers. I want my content to be easily available to both those paid supporters of Medium and anyone else. That want has led to this resolve:

I will publish my essays presumptively on Medium (sometimes elsewhere but I am exhausted by the submission process), thereby supporting the subscriber part of the platform (while earning the small bit that publishing earns me). But any article published in Medium will also be available here with a “friends link” — meaning a link that allows you to read the article whether or not you’re a paid subscriber to Medium.