Huge thanks for sharing the song Simon. It won't surprise you to know that I wholeheartedly agree regarding the value of work and the mad achievement of getting even 10 people to listen to something.
I never look at the metrics of my posts here on Substack for these very reasons. But you're right; if even 10 people like what I've written enough to take the time to read it that's pretty awesome. I wish I was able to be happy with that, but the world has taught me that anything under 1000 is rubbish.
100% - it's such a powerful deception that even though I just wrote this yesterday - I've already felt slightly annoyed and disappointed that its 'only' been read by a three digit number of people which is a *ridiculous* way to feel about that many people choosing to pay any attention at all to my random thursday pontifications.
Huge thanks for sharing the song Simon. It won't surprise you to know that I wholeheartedly agree regarding the value of work and the mad achievement of getting even 10 people to listen to something.
I never look at the metrics of my posts here on Substack for these very reasons. But you're right; if even 10 people like what I've written enough to take the time to read it that's pretty awesome. I wish I was able to be happy with that, but the world has taught me that anything under 1000 is rubbish.
100% - it's such a powerful deception that even though I just wrote this yesterday - I've already felt slightly annoyed and disappointed that its 'only' been read by a three digit number of people which is a *ridiculous* way to feel about that many people choosing to pay any attention at all to my random thursday pontifications.
Three digits? Blood hell man, I'm lucky if anything I write goes into double digits. You should be totally stoked with this!
Oh yes. I was talking about this with a friend of mine today. It hasn't been easy to change that though 😅