Today, Wikipedia has over 6,229,184 million English pages.
Tech companies and governments use it to source news, fact-check, and fight misinformation — despite despairing teachers everywhere. There’s even a copy of Wikipedia on the moon.
But in its first year, Wikipedia only published around 20 pages.
The gamechanger for them — letting other people contribute — almost never happened at all. But just a year after they’d made that one small change, they had 20,000+ articles.
When we’re on a journey and things aren’t going our way, it’s tempting to give up. But the gamechanger is often just a bit further down the path, around a corner where we can’t see.
A couple more steps forward, with maybe a small pivot, and life can change pretty damn fast.