99 subscribers are here on my blog: Updated

99 subscribers were here, but now it's 98

If one of those subscribers should happen to cancel, 98 subscribers would be here on the blog.

But if I were to add a share button and one of those subscribers were to click on the button and encourage two friends to subscribe then there might be 101 subscribers. And if each of them were to invite two friends, well you know how exponential growth goes, right?

“If I say I don’t know, are you going to write a one million word post explaining exponential growth?” Asks an imaginary reader—not one of the 99 or 101.

“No,” I say firmly after writing a 1,500 word introduction to the million word post and realizing that the imaginary reader was being sarcastic.

“And anyway, being a figment of your imagination,” said the imaginary reader. “I know all about exponential growth, quantum collapse, the Free Energy Principle, and all the other shit that you’ve filled your brain with,” says the imaginary reader. “Or our brain, in case I’m you.”

“What’s a figment?” A real reader is going to ask, in the comments, after I post this.

“Why are you writing this when you don’t want subscribers,” asks another reader in the comments, anticipating a post that I have written but not published, yet.

Here’s the answer, I say, linking to the post.

Update: Irony