Hitting 1,000 Subscribers led to an Existential Crisis

Unwittingly, I'd become focused on the numbers. Hitting 1,000 subscribers had the unexpected outcome of helping me reappraise what I'm doing here on Substack.

The world today encourages us to set big goals and strive with all our being to achieve those goals. But what happens when we finally get there? What if we find the world at the top of that mountain isn’t full of milk and honey after all? What if there’s just another mountain on the other side?

I hadn’t even consciously set 1,000 subscribers as particul…