I Don’t Do Surveys

Neither should you.

Mushrooms on a log. Image by author.

My opinions are worth more to me than they are to you. Opinions, in my opinion, should not be trod upon, nor commoditized. Nor should they be shared lightly.

So what got me on my soapbox this time? Someone called me on my phone. I don’t know who. I’m sure he’s a nice enough person. His voice sounded nice. But he’d rattled off who he was with, that he was conducting a survey, and was…