The 60 Most Recommended Medium Stories of All Time
The 3000+ Club
This morning I wondered if one of my stories was in the top Medium stories of all time. Nope. But I did find it fascinating to see the most recommended stories of all time ranked from top to bottom. Putting this list of stories together was like going through a childhood photobook and reliving the fond memories. Medium has taught me so much.
Methodology
I went to Medium’s Top Stories and went back to the earliest month — May 2013. Then, I scrolled down each month’s Top 100 and manually recorded any story with over 3,000 recommends. For last month (September 2015), I clicked through each day’s Top Stories because the Top 100 has not yet been compiled.
Interestingly, I noticed the Top 100 Stories were ranked by Most Read until November 2014 when it switched to ranking by Most Recommended. I don’t know why; just an observation.
I couldn’t find an exhaustive list of the most recommended stories on Medium, so I put it together myself. Here it is. Enjoy.
The 60 Most Recommended Medium Stories of All Time
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2. The 37 Best Websites To Learn Something New
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3. How quitting my corporate job for my startup dream f*cked my life up
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4. 8 Things Every Person Should Do Before 8 A.M.
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5. 7 Things You Need To Stop Doing To Be More Productive, Backed By Science
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6. 33 Websites That Will Make You a Genius
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7. HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT IN 4 EASY STEPS
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8. Advice from 30 year old me to 20 year old me
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9. The Crossroads of Should and Must
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10. 7 Rejections
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11. When I’m Gone
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12. Slack’s $2.8 Billion Dollar Secret Sauce
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14. 10 Tricks to Appear Smart During Meetings
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15. +300 Awesome Free Things for Entrepreneurs and Startups
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16. How a Password Changed my Life.
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17. Formula for Entrepreneurial Success
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18. Stock photos that don’t suck
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19. I Had a Baby and Cancer When I Worked at Amazon. This Is My Story
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20. A Teenager’s View on Social Media
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22. How We Changed the Facebook Friends Icon
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23. 7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI (Part 1)
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24. How to Be Polite
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25. The 30 second habit with a lifelong impact
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26. Average Manager vs. Great Manager
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27. Mobile:2015
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28. The 30 second habit with a lifelong impact
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30. Want a Better Pitch? Watch This.
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31. Junior Designers vs. Senior Designers
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33. You Are Not Late
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34. Why You Should Be A Morning Person
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35. Thirty Things I’ve Learned
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36. Why can’t we read anymore?
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37. 7 Reasons Why You Will Never Do Anything Amazing With Your Life
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40. The Ten Most Important Books To Expand Your Brain
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41. 30 Questions to Ask Your Kid Instead of “How Was Your Day?”
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42. An honest guide to the San Francisco startup life
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44. How To Be Happy
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46. A Gentlemen’s Guide To Rape Culture — Human Parts
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47. Dear Guy Who Just Made My Burrito:
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48. This is your brain on mobile
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49. 7 future web design trends
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50. Why Creating a Meaningful Morning Routine Will Make You More Successful
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52. We Don’t Need More Designers Who Can Code
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53. We Don’t Sell Saddles Here
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54. What did Billion Dollar Companies Look Like at the Series A?
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55. What I Learned Building Medium (So Far)
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56. How To Make Something People Give A Shit About
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57. Why Product Thinking is the next big thing in UX Design
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58. Never Tell People What You Do
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59. When the heck did learning to code become cool?
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60. Postmortem of a Venture-backed Startup
