Noted.
Still, numbers flatter more than they explain. They can be padded, manipulated, and inflated.
What actually excites me is something quieter and harder to fake. In March, this site turns 17 years old.
Seventeen years of writing, thinking, arguing, refining, reposting, changing my mind, and occasionally getting it right. Seventeen years of watching blogs I admired appear with a flash of brilliance and disappear just as quickly. All while trends burned through themselves and moved on.
Longevity can’t be fudged. You’re either still here or you aren’t.
So yes—thank you to everyone who clicked, read, shared, lurked, or returned over the years. Three million is a milestone. Seventeen years is a testament.
And I know which one I’m prouder of.
