Tony Stubblebine is only the second CEO in Medium's history, and he did not arrive with a soft touch. "The best writing on Medium is better than the best writing in the New York Times. "A lot of the creator economy was writing at the level of what AI can write at. The attention economy, he argues, trained algorithms to reward a great headline and a punchy intro over an article that actually delivers. His conclusion is almost stubborn in its optimism: Medium is full of people with purpose, so why automate them out?