But the bigger problem is, whether you navigate the valley of death with crowd money or VC money, you're beholden to some source of other people's money (OPM) for growth capital. People who are NOT interested in writing as a frontier act of discovery.
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VCs want ROI (hence Buzzfeed etc), which means giving up on a discovery/exploration mission for chasing a slice of a shrinking advertising dollars pie, while crowdfunding capital demands returns in the form of Tribal Capital. It is no accident that Patreon is a set of tribes.
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You seem well positioned to cater those interested in discovery/exploration as your tribe, slipping between the two horns of the dilemma.
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Ah you’re using Tribe in some semi-technical way here? (Regardless, my suspicion is you could build a sizeable-enough Patreon audience to change some of this math that would simultaneously demand experimentation and discovery from you.)
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Yes, and I think that's the only way to use it. The use of platforms like Patreon inevitably taps into true tribal dynamics.
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Would you spell out for me a little more what you’re worried about? How would Patreon support distort your work?
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I've ranted about it in spots before. Too complex to get into. I might do a short bit on it later in my elderblog sutra thread of blogs I'm starting on ribbonfarm
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I read the first of those and will be following the series. It made me miss blogging myself.
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Highly orthogonally, have you read Norman Klein’s Vatican to Vegas? Something about the undercurrents of that post made me think of it: amazon.com/Vatican-Vegas-
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Nope. Looks neat though, very germane to refactor camp 2019 theme (escaped realities) to be held in LA in June.
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Yeah you'd be perfect. Maybe you could even do a talk based on your TV show experiences on minority report.
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