diff --git a/rails/select-value-for-sql-counts.md b/rails/select-value-for-sql-counts.md
index 22eb325..f94e54d 100644
--- a/rails/select-value-for-sql-counts.md
+++ b/rails/select-value-for-sql-counts.md
@@ -12,3 +12,7 @@ of _whatever_.
    (0.6ms)  select count(*) from posts where published_at is not null
 => 42
 ```
+
+Writing raw SQL for a simple query like this hardly seems like a win.
+However when a count query starts to involve joins or other fanciness, I
+find it much clearer to reason about the raw SQL.