Your Substack is not a factory, and you are not a machine. You are dirt.

I mean that as a compliment.

If you pull a seed out of the dirt every single day to check its metrics and see if it has roots yet, you will kill it. Real depth requires the dark. It requires periods of fallow, seasons of quiet, and the courage to do absolutely nothing while the guy next to you is screaming about his 10k subscriber streak.

Leave the seed alone. Stop forcing the bloom. Just be good dirt.