I’m One of Medium’s New Boost Curators. I Want Your Generative AI Stories.

How to work with me

Thomas Smith
3 min readMar 6, 2023
Illustration by the author via DALL-E

Earlier this year, Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine shared an update about Medium’s new Boost system. The system relies on the “taste” of community curators, who recommend excellent stories for Medium to “boost.”

If a story is chosen for a Boost, Tony writes, it gets at least 500 additional views. In many cases, Boosted stories can get thousands or tens of thousands of views. It’s Medium’s most powerful tool ever for promoting stories — even more powerful than Curation was, back in the day.

In the story, Tony shared that Medium is “currently working with 15 publication editors to find and submit story suggestions for the Boost.” He declined to share who those editors are, though, saying that “it’s the job of these curators to find you.”

Hello From Your Friendly Neighborhood Boost Curator

Well, today I’m here to officially out myself (with the team’s permission) as one of Medium’s first community

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