For the first time ever, Medium is becoming more than just a blogging platform. The company is launching a new app, called TK, that combines note taking and journaling with something resembling a private social network. The app is meant to get you writing more, and help you share that writing with friends and fans. And it’s part of a much bigger idea about blogging, and a much broader thesis about the state of the internet.

“I don’t think we’ve actually had a launch of anything important since 2017,” Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine tells me over Zoom, a few days ahead of the company’s biggest launch in apparently almost a decade. That was when …

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