... not counting the first couple of years where it was too ill-formed, but I think I made up the first outline for a potential book type thing in 2015
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What's actually making slow progress possible now is that I'm serializing it on my substack, now at 5 chapters in. The steadiness of substack revenue creates something of the stability necessary to keep at it. I'm now guessing an ETA of 2025.
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None of these mechanisms is entirely ideal for me tbf. I'm probably too old and oddly enough "too useful" in some sense... my normal money-making methods are almost too pragmatic and effective for me to compete with more economically hapless subspecies of humanity.
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If I were (say) a fine artist or avant-garde novelist trying to wrap those talents into a consulting package ("art for culture change!", "narrative leadership workshop!") it would be a different story. But my stock-in-trade is very pragmatic meat-and-potatoes consulting
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I joke about mansions because that's actually the only logical endgame...
2x2: useful to useless, impoverished to independently wealthy... I'm somewhere just north-west of the origin. Submansion class in both uselessness and wealth.
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ie, I have to become somewhat more useless and somewhat more wealthy to hit the enmansioned leisure class
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If some of my current bets work out, that's where I'll land. I'll turn 48 later this year, so goal is to be a privileged, entitled, useless burden on society by age 50, in time to ride out climate change securely in my mansion
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lol... no. ebook at most, and that seems increasingly unlikely. Will probably just throw up unedited ebooks as free things on a webpage
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I don't suppose there's a chance now to get the unedited AoG ebook?
In all honesty, was not a subscriber when it was out, but interested in reading it now / purchasing
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Gumroad could work if you really want to do it for free. You can do $0 or optional gift (which I’d like to donate to mansion fund).
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