audience growth psychology
When you pass 1,000 email subscribers, Substack will send you an email congratulating you, along with a procedural graphic that it encourages you to share. It’s okay to celebrate, but something feels braggy about doing this in public. And it steers discourse towards metrics and career goals instead of the actual work.
After posting a Twitter thread last night, it’s very tempting to check my notifications after waking (I don’t have it on my phone, so I’d have to go to my computer). In the flow of creating it, I was seriously enjoying myself and not really caring about performance. But now, it sneaks back. I’m curious and eager.
The vacant mind is the one that
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