An interaction on Substack today gave me a real chuckle: just two different approaches to the platform / whole social media sphere colliding.

I might not have a major following, but I do find my way into quality chats with the readers who stop by, and that's a real gift. Every other desire for markers of "success" is mere economic anxiety given material form.

We are here to be present: to connect, to bear witness, and to grow.

That's the signal.

Everything else is just noise.