Hey everyone. I'm a writer, and like a lot of us, I spend most of my day in my own head, putting words on a screen for an invisible audience. It’s easy to feel like you’re just shouting into the void.
The other day, out of curiosity, I used a simple site that shows the active visitors on a webpage in real-time. I linked it to my portfolio/blog. I wasn't expecting much, but seeing those little dots representing actual people, in different countries, actively reading my articles at that very moment… it honestly hit me differently than just watching analytics numbers go up.
It wasn’t about vanity metrics. It was a sudden, visceral reminder that those “pageviews” are individuals taking a few minutes of their day for something I created. It made the abstract feel personal and has subtly shifted how I think about writing now.
Has anyone else had a moment like this, where a simple piece of data suddenly made your online work feel profoundly more human?
The other day, out of curiosity, I used a simple site that shows the active visitors on a webpage in real-time. I linked it to my portfolio/blog. I wasn't expecting much, but seeing those little dots representing actual people, in different countries, actively reading my articles at that very moment… it honestly hit me differently than just watching analytics numbers go up.
It wasn’t about vanity metrics. It was a sudden, visceral reminder that those “pageviews” are individuals taking a few minutes of their day for something I created. It made the abstract feel personal and has subtly shifted how I think about writing now.
Has anyone else had a moment like this, where a simple piece of data suddenly made your online work feel profoundly more human?