I've got a few friends looking at building independent research labs right now so I wrote up some thoughts. Ft
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The post asks a simple question: what if you could fund an independent research lab through direct audience subscriptions?
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I dug this! I’m very excited about your “step 3,” and selfishly I hope more people go the indie-crowdfunded route so that I can have more collaborators of that kind.
See also ’s recent comments on collaborations under “Research philosophy” here: martin.kleppmann.com/2021/02/23/pat
i too rly want this pathway to be viable
scope conditions are probably not as restricted as they at first appear
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Yay 😄 Andy, your recent blog post andymatuschak.org/2020/ was the primary inspiration for me to set up a Patreon account as well. Especially the "buying into production of future work" insight was key for me. Thank you for that!
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