Why You Should Only Check Out Your Medium Stats Sparingly

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We’ve all been there — we’ve put the time and energy into ideation of an article, writing it up, editing, and then hitting publish — hoping that the audiences of the internet will enjoy the journey of our story as much as we enjoyed writing it.

And shortly after we’ve hit publish — the one thing many writers will do is check their stats page to see if it’s been…