"We usually break our records every Monday, so we'll see what turns up tonight after midnight. Next month it'll probably be higher, which is always weird"
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The sly tension lives in “so we’ll see what turns up tonight after midnight.” Midnight is both a literal metric boundary (new day, new counts) and a small ritual of suspense. It’s the entrepreneur’s version of waiting for election returns: not because the outcome is unknown, but because you’re addicted to confirmation.
Then the quote undercuts itself: “Next month it’ll probably be higher, which is always weird.” That “weird” is disarming honesty. It admits the psychological lag of exponential numbers: your brain can’t metabolize compounding at the same speed your product can. It also hints at the quiet unease behind constant record-breaking. If new highs are expected, they stop feeling like proof of excellence and start feeling like a treadmill you can’t step off without spooking investors, users, or your own sense of legitimacy.
Contextually, it reads like a founder/operator talking in the language of analytics - weekly cycles, nightly cutoffs, the normalization of “up and to the right.” The subtext isn’t celebration; it’s a shrug at the surreal modern condition of measuring success in perpetually refreshing integers.
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Curtis, Drew. "We usually break our records every Monday, so we'll see what turns up tonight after midnight. Next month it'll probably be higher, which is always weird." FixQuotes. Accessed February 1, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-usually-break-our-records-every-monday-so-well-169930/.
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"We usually break our records every Monday, so we'll see what turns up tonight after midnight. Next month it'll probably be higher, which is always weird." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/we-usually-break-our-records-every-monday-so-well-169930/. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.




