I realized I was remiss this morning in not having put this out to my audience and with to whom they might themselves, in their private wisdom.

So I'm correcting that. Because, of course, what I do is for myself as a public service—my giving at the office—and turning this blog into the mostly-paid membership site is not about cashing in, but about the financial support required to devote all of my time to it.

I know this is the way things are going. Bloggers are street merchants now. You pick the one you like, or a few. You can't patronize all, even if you'd like to. I'm enthusiastic to compete in that market. Walk through the fantastic Bazaar in Istanbul, Turkey.

It's hard to choose.

Before I take you to the subject, a bit about why I didn't do my membership blog as a Substack blog as so many others did. Every little thing is in-house here—I cannot be censored. I previously had a Patreon about Cryptocurrency and built it to 600 subscribers at $5 per month in about 4 months ($3K per month). Then I saw that Patreon was deplatforming its creators over wrongthink and wrongwrite and I never posted much there again. Why invest my time in pursuit of faux business where I actually own nothing?