numbers game
On having a post reach the Trending page of Bear Blog's Discover feed, Xavier states in Why I stopped reading the Trending page:
That sort of engagement wasn't what I joined Bear Blog for though. As a matter of fact, I came here to escape the numbers game.
What does it mean to play the numbers game with numbers suitable for my growth? The trustworthy connections you make, the warm love you share, and the beautiful people you help are few of many gifts I can view numerically. Their many beneficial qualities, results, and byproducts follow the same principle. The higher all those numbers go, the more resilient the subjects become.
As Tala mentions in you are not an optimization problem, we can't forget what makes us human. We can employ strategies like satisficing, imperfection, and accepting our fallibility to overcome the pitfalls of optimization. Let's replace the floor functions lowering ourselves with ceiling functions lifting ourselves up, if not exponentiation launching us toward our dreams.
There's unfathomable upside with how small most impactful numbers are around us. Even better, life constantly introduces new numbers in our lives. How can we work together to increment the best ones and then reap their rewards?
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