You don't want to treat any one person as oracular.
The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.
Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.