Number of followers doesn’t equate to how good you are.
Number of followers doesn’t let you know how much of a difference you’ve made.
Number of followers doesn’t get rid of loneliness.
The Big Board of the internet is good at highlighting and measuring certain metrics and getting us emotionally worked up enough to spend hours and years focusing on those metrics…because everyone else is.
What would you have to give up if you decided not to play? What would you lose if you decided to measure something else?
