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Raw pageview or reader counts are not actionable information for a writer's editorial decisions.
Their wordsanalytics is not actionable: what difference does it make if a thousand people saw my article or ten thousand?
Their wordsI mean, sure, you might try to guess people's tastes and only write about what's popular, but that will destroy your soul pretty quickly.
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