[secondaryacct]

I... have two accounts above yours (1k and 3k) wtf it's a small community indeed - I dont even work in a startup, the US, or care about YC lol.

I post too much crap here :s Ill be more careful posting since it's easier to stand out than reddit then !

[Semaphor]

Neither US, nor startup, nor caring about YC, rank 1174 ;)

[mattowen_uk]

#1194 here, same situation. I feel slightly less irrelevant now. ;)

[noduerme]

Well - yeah! Jeez. I never thought about relevance. I quit all my social media years ago. Buy I guess technically that puts our opinions in the top 0.01% of the internet; HN usually surfaces things about six hours ahead of the mob ;)

FWIW, everyone I know who worries about their irrelevance to humanity or the zeitgeist is already someone who's contributed way more imagination and creativity than most other people. I feel irrelevant, too; I got to that feeling by proving to myself how little it means to build even the grandest projects, in the medium we work in (code). Recording music again, painting again, just remind me how irrelevant we all are. That's okay. It's in line with realizing you're not the only person with brains on earth; the dude your girlfriend leaves you for might have some brains too, he's not just a cartoon. There's a glimmer of reassurance there when you realize we're all just human. It means you're not expected to be relevant like Julius Caesar, just, it's enough be a good and humble craftsman who's appreciated and compensated for his work.