"My suggestion is to not get too bogged down in the details of the math, curation rewards, and voting power. "

Absolutely. Great advice. I still struggle with the idea of how many times should I vote, etc . . and was seriously fighting voting sometimes. I joined a bit before the latest hardfork, and noticed a big difference in the payouts cast by my votes immediately after.

Your advice is sound. Rather than going through steemdb to check my voting power and going to steemnow to check what my vote is worth, I just started to vote on content I enjoyed. It took some of the pressure off. There shouldn't have been any, but I have a habit of overthinking things too much.

When I just started reading people's posts that I liked, and didn't think too much about the voting scale, I enjoyed my time here more. I don't know if anyone else can identify with what I'm saying, but it helped me haha