if there's one thing I'm learning from a lot of the incredibly kind things people have been saying about my posts over the last day or two it's that it's worth doing things becuase you find them enjoyable even if there's no immediate, obvious reaction
we're so trained to only care about likes and reblogs but there's so many people who read, don't interact, but still have a positive experience, and that is valuable. Holding faith that if you enjoy something, it'll be enjoyed, even if there's no immediate positive reinforcement that says so, is an attitude I hope to carry into my next Era of Posting
A specific goal I set for myself when I started CD-ROM Journal is that I'd have no metrics. And I still don't. I have no idea how many people read my blog, or how they get there, or what search terms they used to find it. With so much else online very specifically wanting me to metricize every single moment of my experience, I need something that doesn't have those things that helps me remember that there are meaningful things that aren't represented by those metrics.

