I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.
If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.
Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.
Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.