You Don’t Need to Know What People Are Saying About You

How to live your life on a need-to-know basis

Meghan Daum
Forge
Published in
5 min readApr 9, 2021

--

Photo: Westend61/Getty Images

I recently offered this piece of unsolicited advice to an author whose first book had just been published: “Don’t be constantly checking your Amazon rank. Limit yourself to 30 times a day.”

It was only sort of a joke, since I had a feeling this author was likely to…

--

--

Meghan Daum
Forge
Writer for

Weekly blogger for Medium. Host of @TheUnspeakPod. Author of six books, including The Problem With Everything. www.theunspeakablepodcast.com www.meghandaum.com