Why does "the number" always have to be big? Can't we just celebrate effort and creation?

Not everything needs to "blitz-scale" and get 1M downloads per week. Sometimes we should embrace mere creation.

I was looking at my podcast yesterday afternoon. For context, I started that podcast for a few reasons. One is that this post of mine always resonated with me about how life changes from, say, 28 to 35. Two was that I didn't have a lot of work in fall 2019, and I needed ways to fill time. Three was that I figured it could be interesting and network-y. A…