The Daily Whatever, May 20: Leaving Medium with Patrick Stewart
On losing access to our email subscribers and losing the platform that helped launch us
Patrick B. Stewart is a writer and publisher and a Taoist/Daoist.
When he joined us on The Daily Whatever last week, he dropped a big truth bomb—that Medium stopped giving writers access to the email addresses of their new subscribers, moving forward.
And as we GenXers do—he researched. He aligned with his values. And he pivoted—away from Medium, removing his The Taoist Online publication. He plans to relaunch on June 1, 2025 at https://thedaoist.online.
On today’s podcast, we discuss why he left, why we think Medium has made these unpopular changes, and what the future of writing online looks like for all of us.
Thank you Polly Walker Blakemore, Brandon Ellrich, Noble Blend, Carol Finch, Peter Sukowski, Ali Hall, Lotus Reborn, Janet Payton, Mihai Dragomirescu and many others for tuning in Live with Patrick B. Stewart, Dana DuBois, and Lawrence Winnerman!
Here’s what we’ve got coming up for the rest of this week. Hope to see you there!
Love you mean it!!
Dana DuBois
The memoirist
Dana DuBois is a memoirist and Gen X word nerd based in the Pacific Northwest. She founded I Write Out Loud, her Substack publication, where she writes across a range of subjects; parenting, music and pop culture, relationships, and feminism are her favorites. She co-hosts The Daily Whatever Show. Em dashes, Oxford commas, and well-placed semicolons make her heart happy. All stories by Dana
Lawrence Winnerman
The science fiction writer
Lawrence Winnerman is a science fiction writer in Fort Wayne, Indiana. After twenty-five years leading technology programs at Amazon and Microsoft, he was chief operating officer of Blue Amp Media. In his Substack publication, The Hinge & The Near Field, he writes about AI and democracy and is serializing his novel Light Shines Through. He co-hosts The Daily Whatever Show. All stories by Lawrence
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