Exposure

We have been led to believe that work without clicks, views, or likes is a failure. But that makes sense only if visibility is the purpose. Not learning, expression, enjoyment, or self-exploration.

If visibility were the only measure, then everything created in private would be meaningless. Every draft never published. Every unpublished sketchbook. Or songs and poems made solely for the person making them.

Making things changes you, even if no one watches. You don't walk away empty-handed only because an algorithm didn't pick you.

Some things are worth doing just for the pleasure of doing them. Value comes from you first.