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David Todd McCarty

Writing is all about ideas. Mining them, discovering them, generating them, or stumbling upon them. I’m mainly talking about the personal essay, but I don’t think it really matters what kind of writing it is. It’s all communication of one sort or another and requires the same answer to the same problem. What’s the big idea?

#Writing #Medium
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Ellemeno · Finding The Idea In Your Story - Ellemeno - MediumBy David Todd McCarty
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Today in The Medium Newsletter, featured stories include:

• The brain science behind compulsive drinking and phone scrolling, with Sober-ish and Carey

• How #AI is impacting elite professions like law, medicine, and finance, by Samuel Z. Alemayehu

• A take on this week’s #Apple #WWDC, by @markellisreviews

• A #photographer on being published in #NationalGeographic, by Lauren Winslow-Llewellyn

medium.com/blog/how-incentive-

Screenshot of a story by Carey with title “You’re Not Addicted to Your Phone — You’re Avoiding Your Nervous System” and an image of a man looking at his phone with a worried expression
Screenshot of a story by Samuel Z. Alemayehu with title “The end of prestige: How AI is quietly dismantling the elite professions” and an image of a cracked and crumbling bust
Screenshot of a story by Mark Ellis with title “The Only Announcement That Mattered To Me At WWDC 2025” and a photo of a man with a quizzical expression in front of three iPad displays
Screenshot of a story by Lauren Winslow-Llewellyn with title “Am I Officially A Photographer Now?” and a photo of a bald eagle soaring over the water, with snow-covered mountains in the background
#Medium#writing
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Today in The Medium Newsletter, featured stories include:

• The pros and cons of corporate support of #Pride, with @ginoc, @daynaellis, and Giulio Serafini

• A 1st-person perspective on an #ICE #protest, by @agreenjay

• An analysis of the “long decade” of #ClassicRock, from 1969-81, by Jesse Owen

• The joys of a #BuyNothing group, by Eda Benjakul

• Making meaningful friendships in midlife, by Vijay Solanki

medium.com/blog/the-pros-and-c

Screenshot of a story by Gino Cosme with title “How Pride Went Global — and Got Hijacked by Corporations” and a photo of a Pride flag flying on a light pole with skyscrapers in the background
Screenshot of a story by Andrew Jaye with title “On the ICE Protest Front Line” and a photo of people gathered outdoors holding protest signs
Screenshot of a story by Jesse Owen with title “The Long Seventies and the Death of Rock and Roll” and a collage of rock album covers
Screenshot of a story by Vijay Solanki with title “The Friendship Paradox: Why Finding Deep Connection in Midlife is So Hard” and a cartoon depiction of four people sitting at an indoor table, three smiling and talking while one looks on with a sad expression
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Janice Harayda

The Secret Language of Book Critics: 25 Words or Phrases You Keep Seeing in Reviews, Demystified

At @medium, I decode terms popular with reviewers (including current favorites like "propulsive" for thrillers), based on my years of editing the book section of a large newspaper.
#books #Medium #culture #journalism #thishappenedtome

medium.com/lit-life/the-secret

Cover of “The Accomplice” by 50 cent
Lit Life · The Secret Codes Of Book Critics - Lit Life - MediumBy Janice Harayda
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Today in The Medium Newsletter, featured stories include:

• The case for #UniversalBasicIncome (#UBI), with @katiejgln and Ashraff Hathibelagal

• Parasocial relationships with #podcasters, with Colin Myers

• From attention-starved child to professional chef, with Abbey Wade

• What zebra stripes can teach us about #AI, with Marina Tosic

medium.com/blog/universal-basi

Screenshot of a story by Katie Jgln with title “Just How Many More Successful UBI Trials Do We Need?” and an illustration of a person standing on a beach holding an umbrella with dollar bills falling out of it
Screenshot of a story by Colin Myers with title “Are You Closer to Podcasters Than Your Friends?” and an illustration of a person wearing headphones looking out a window at a colorful cityscape
Screenshot of a story by Abbey Wade with title “I Feed People Because I Was Emotionally Starved as a Child” and a photo of the author and her young daughter working together in the kitchen
Screenshot of a story by Marina Tosic with title “The Zebra Principle” and a photo of a zebra
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