I'm subscribed via RSS to a guy named Collin Donnell's Hey World posts. I don't really know him, but must have followed him when Hey World popped off several weeks ago.

Anyway, I stumbled on his recent post about blog analytics and how he doesn't care about how popular his writing is or who/how many people are reading it. Couldn't agree more. 

Often it's liberating to just write, publish, and sit on those thoughts for a while without the siren call of analytics for ego validation. If only social media emphasized that validation design pattern less and focused more on simply connecting and communicating, the Internet might turn out to be a better place to share and spend time.