There are almost 8 billion people in the world. I think 17,000 people is a small number. And geeks are going to geek and nothing geekier than checking Microsoft Calculator, a simple project that everyone can relate to.

I think you are right. Another possible explanation would be a big conspiracy though, and probably the government is also involved somehow.

So he basically posted the same last year (https://medium.com/s/silicon-satire/how-to-design-for-the-mo...) without the Brave links.

The Medium editorial team kinda messed that one up, I gave permission because I thought it was really funny that Medium was gonna feature me bashing on Medium. Which it was but they kinda just made it dull and ruined the tone.