An interview with Cassie Kozyrkov — Cassie Kozyrkov is the Chief Decision Scientist at Google. So what does that mean she does all day? “Everyone asks me that!” she says. “The truth is, what I do day-to-day varies a lot, and you’ll be disappointed to know what the one constant is. The true misfortune of human…

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Entrepreneur Thomas Smith talks about starting The Generator, writing on Medium, being a Boost Beta curator, and more. — Thomas Smith is a longtime Medium contributor and the founding editor of the new Medium generative artificial intelligence publication, The Generator. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University with a degree in cognitive science, he’s also the CEO of Gado Images, an AI-driven company whose purpose is to “digitize, capture, and…

On the strange, satisfying power of the taxi whistle As a follow-up to the critically important New York Times Magazine essay I wrote a while back about fishing in the street, I wrote a critically important New York Times Magazine essay about really loud whistling. If you’re a fan of weird or useless skills, you have clicked the right link.

Where to read the posts you submitted in response to our request Last week, ahead of the third anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, Medium asked you to submit your own pandemic stories. To date, we’ve received some 600 responses, with themes ranging from the personal to the political to the medical. You can read a list of some of our favorites here or see all of the submissions here. Taken together, the entries paint a pointillist picture of the pandemic, each dot meaningful in its own right and also part of a larger, broad-canvas whole.

On the third anniversary of the COVID-19 outbreak, we’d like to hear from you — Saturday, March 11, marks three years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. It’s hard to think of anything that hasn’t changed since then. As of this writing, there have been 758,390,564 confirmed COVID cases worldwide, including 6,859,093 deaths, according to the W.H.O. Political battles have been fought…

If not for yourself, then for me and the millions of other people like me — I’m reposting this Washington Post op-ed I wrote earlier this year in light of the news that fewer people than hoped for are getting the new Omicron booster shots: Perspective | This is a dangerous time in the pandemic for people like me. Don't forget us. In the fall of 2002, I slipped on the ice when I was leaving work one night and twisted my hip. The pain never fully…www.washingtonpost.com

I know because I’m one of them — I wrote an Op-Ed for the Washington Post yesterday about an issue that’s personally important to me: how the Omicron Covid variant is posing a unique threat to immunocompromised people (I’m a cancer patient). …

An urban fly-fishing story — Back in August, I wrote a story for the New York Times Magazine about a strange habit I have that’s been helping me cope with quarantine isolation. Now I’m posting it here, too. I hope you enjoy it. Fly Casting on City Streets Is Weird. That's Why I Love It. Letter of Recommendation I live in New York City, in downtown Manhattan, on the seventh floor of a 13-story apartment…www.nytimes.com