our tribe

there's this check-in / lifelog app that i use, swarm, and it has weekly leaderboards and venue mayorships.

you get points for checking in to venues and these points determine your ranking in the leaderboard.

if you're the one with the most number of check-ins in a venue for the last 30 days, you become virtual mayor of the venue.

leaderboards, you compete only with your friends in the app.

mayorships, you compete with everyone using the app, be they friends or strangers.

i've consistently been topping my leaderboards lately. i even got 3,072 points last week, the first time ever that i hit 3,000 in a week in my 8-year usage of the app. (you used to check in to foursquare before it spun off swarm in 2014.)

but i also just lost four mayorships in a span of eight days.
(i have 168 mayorships right now.)

i get happy whenever i become mayor.
but it makes me smile, too, whenever someone dethrones me as mayor.
it's a concrete example that there are others out there also using the app. i hope they derive as much joy from it as i do... : )

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