One Year
To All,
I started this a year ago and want to thank you all for reading and greater thanks to all who have contributed monetarily to help move forward. I'm still skeptical of subscriber based models, but a few have made it work.
I'm a great advocate for information being freely and easily available. While I have plenty of problems with how this information revolution has evolved, for an information junky, it has created an absolutely incredible, unprecedented information retrieval resource.
We need a lot lot better thinking on how it’s all structured, particularly in regards to power and communication. Industrial Era valuations and methods are not very useful for this quickly developing age, yet they remain firmly entrenched in both the old and the new. While new, healthier ones, well let’s just say at this point, at very best, it’s a very very difficult breech birth.
Ok, a long way of getting around to if you like this writing, it needs a much bigger audience and more subscribers.
I put out a 140 pieces in the first year, so if you had $75 subscription, that's not much more than fitty-cent a piece. What a deal. If I could get a lot more subscribers, I'd be more than happy to bring the subscription price down. But right now, I'm not pulling in enough to keep a roof over my head while eating tortillas and beans. It’s an enterprise still largely subsidized by the Bank of Joe and unlike the Fed and crypto-boys, I can’t print my own money.
I need more paying subscribers, so if you ain’t, please do.
And just in time for the holidays you can gift Life in the 21st Century.
I know in this two-tiered economy developed over the last fifty years, money can be tight. And if you don't have the cash, you don’t have the cash. I'm immensely happy you're reading. But you can help by increasing the audience. To start out the New Year, take it upon yourself to get 10 new people receiving Life in the 21st Century.
It's been enjoyable doing this the last year. Much of what I write about I've spent years, a literal lifetime, learning, studying, and experiencing, mostly with the intention of utilizing. It's nice to at least get it out there, better yet when it’s read, best if it in anyway becomes useful.
Thanks again for reading, Happy New Year, let's hope it's a good one.
Joe