My personal bar is I read a lot of personal essays...I use that as a bar of whether other people will get something out of a story.
The beauty of Medium is that we can always tell writers... share it on the pub through the partner program, and they can earn revenue that way, and more importantly, tell their story.
For editors, it's mostly important to see if there's something in that personal essay that would resonate with our readers... we're looking for stories for our publication that will serve our readers.
It can even be a matter of we just published something like that last week... It's just a matter of spreading it around and having a variety for our readers.
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