Would You Like To Give Me Money?

Some readers have kindly suggested I add a tip jar to this blog, which I genuinely appreciate very much. However, I don't think using tips for a blog like this makes a ton of sense for anyone.

From your side, due to the current digital payments infrastructure in the Usonosphere, making small payments online is a pain in the ass. It is very plausible that for many of you it would take more than $5-worth of your time to send me a $5 payment.

(Incidentally, this is not true in the Indian and Chinese payment spheres, to my understanding, where you could easily tip 10c every time you read a piece you enjoyed, which would also be more meaningful for me as a gauge of which of my pieces readers truly enjoy. But alas, the future is unevenly distributed, and inconsistently so).

From my side, I am (thankfully) at a point in life where $5 or $10 is not important to me anyhow. But I would always love to do more freelance work of various types. So I would far rather that 0.1% of my readers hire me for a $1k freelance project than that 20% of my readers give me $5. And presumably if you're hiring me for an $x freelance project then presumably I am giving you > $x of value, instead of you just giving me something from the kindness of your heart, which is nice.

So: would you like to give me money for something? I'm delighted to hear any and all proposals, I'm extremely fond of novelty. I think if you've read this blog for a while you have as good a sense as I do of what I would/wouldn't be good at, so feel free to ask for anything you desire.

To be clear, I am still/also delighted to keep writing this blog for free, so if your answer to this question is "I wouldn't give you a red cent for anything in the world" then fear not at all. Your adjacency in the global thought-graph is a gift to me in itself; I thank you, and would tip you 10c if I could.