Recommended Consumption: The Best Posts from Medium, July 2013

This week I decided to browse through Medium to see what the fuss is all about. My overall impression: beautiful design; truly impressive UX; uneven content. While scanning through one of their best-of lists, I found July's Top 100 to be a mixed bag ranging from heartstring-tugging brilliance down to self-masturbatory nonsense.

It's unfortunate that a small population of flimsy & self-promotional pieces are distracting from the all of the other great work on the site, because some of it is really quite good. For example, here's my favorite articles from the July Top 100 list. Enjoy:

• The Risk Not Taken by Andy Dunn (my favorite)
• A Product Manager's Job by Josh Elman
• Sell Everything by Marshall Haas
• Coffee vs. beer: which drink makes you more creative? by Mikael Cho
• Everything there is to know about startup competition by Tony Stubblebine
• Rise of the full-stack marketer by Kyle Tibbits