A successful novel might sell 50k copies; a poetry collection, less than that; a beloved zine, a few hundred copies. But people spend time with them, and they spend time with people - sometimes the rest of their lives. By any metric that matters, this is more valuable than 99% of software (3/n)

When I was in grad school, I went to see a band - friends of my girlfriend at the time. We hung out, they were great, I bought their record. It was their only record and there's barely any trace of the band - but I still listen to that EP, have included one of its songs on mixes. (4/n)