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Five Women Who Are Revolutionizing Medium
Non-Male Writers Have Changed the Landscape
I’ve been writing on Medium since January of 2017. When I first got on the platform, the style and content of the types of posts that did well were quite a bit different than today.
Back in early 2017, the undisputed King of Medium was Benjamin Hardy, who wrote (and writes) stuff like this:
- Why Most People Never Get What They Want
- Unsuccessful People Focus On “The Gap.” Here’s What Successful People Focus On
- Wake Up 1 Hour Earlier And You’ll Be 100X More Productive (Over Time)
And so forth. Now, Mr. Hardy is still doing quite well, all things considered. He still has over 200K followers, and his stories (when he publishes, which is seldom, these days) still generate thousands of claps. However, it seems like he’s focused on other things these days, and that it’ll be awhile before he returns to the top of the pile of Medium writers.
Part of that is probably due to the other work he’s doing (writing a book, etc) but I contend that a much bigger reason for the shift away from the type of self-help listicles that Benjamin was writing two years ago, and towards a more relational, storytelling model is due in no small part to the efforts of women writers…
