Todd, your ideas about the __________ page are both interesting and exciting. I don’t really understand numbers. I have no sense of them. My estimates can be off by an order of magnitude and I won’t notice.

I have a lot of data at my job. I seldom “dig down”. I run a bunch of web sites for tiny non-profits in my town. I get monthly web statistics reports on each site. I. Couldn’t. Care. Less.

If Medium were to pick up the gauntlet you’ve laid down here, the product might be revolutionary. We know the metrics of business, and our society is plagued by the unanticipated chauvinism of that numerical myopia, but what are the metrics of community? I too want to know the numbers that connect, enrich, and inspire us.

Thanks very much for this. I’m going to go reread it again.