@freddyym very much in agreement with you there. It is just a number.

What is more. Before I got a full understanding of online privacy, I use to post on Facebook very regularly. At best, I'd get a handful of likes. I then stopped posting for a bit, and at a number of events where I would meet large numbers of people who knew me (think in the hundreds) I would get approach by people who missed my posts. What struck me was they were all ghost readers, enjoying the content but not willing to comment, share or even like.

This saw me shift from extrinsic to intrinsic motivation, which is why I write for my own edification first, and if others find a bit of illumination then all the better.

Glad you enjoy my work, yours has been on my keen interest list for some time and glad to see some key publications in the privacy space re-sharing your writing. If has helped me to reshape my understanding of data.

@rw its often the case when I try posting my content to a new platform, I get very little engagement. I posted one of my articles to HackerNews and I got one upvote. Someone else posted it and it got to the front page. I don't make any money from my writing (which I luckily don't have to).

I try to write to provide (hopefully) interesting content to others. I enjoy writing, and if others enjoy reading it then I think I've done my job well.

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@rw I feel very lucky with how well some of my work has done. I had no idea that 11 thousand people would read my article on "why privacy matters". It has done better than any expectations that I had.

Thanks for the comment about my articles. Engagement is better than any number of views!