Venkatesh Rao

Thanks for the reminder...

All of a sudden software is eating the world and we’re grappling with with not only what that means for the future, but also for the perspective this puts on the once bedrock assumptions of the past. Your work helps to process all this stuff.

What need does Ribbonfarm address? The need to think and be challenged. It’s a surprisingly underserved market. Also, start a Patreon.

If you had a Patreon, I'd barter some of the earnings from the labor I sell for your thoughts abt timely topics and perhaps direct clarification every now and then. #BarterEconomyFail

We are a great product. Work on your marketing.

The loosely-defined community orbiting around it. (Albeit sometimes in the form of distant unpredictable orbits like with Neptune, comets or Kuiper Belt objects.)

We are customers paying through more-valuable-than-fiat-currency long-read-level-attention in order to become and be the kind of people who, if you or anyone else were to try to monetize, will be unsaleable. As Hancock says, "Good job."

I am the opposite of a religion: pure unsellable.

we are paying with our attention, it’s the top of your sales funnel. when we become executives we need you to be our sparring partner