Re-Inventing Myself: Something Old, Renewed...

As part of my ongoing attempts to "reinvent myself," I visited one of my old blog properties today.

And decided that it was time to kick some life back into it. After all, it's currently the oldest ongoing chronicle of my attempts to understand life that's still published online.

I decided that it was time to give it a "facelift," and then to resume it... except with some new twists.

Thistle in the sun

No, I'm Not Abandoning Steem!

But I am going to go back to a psychology niche where I built a name for myself, between 2002 and about 2016. Except, this time I am going to put the more consequential content behind that "pseudo paywall" known as Patreon.

Yes, maybe I am partially selling out to one of the "evil empires" of the world, but yanno what? I have to eat.

And with some 15,000 subscribers, I feel hopeful that at least a few dozen will be willing throw a couple of bucks a month my way. I may be an idealist, but I am sort of done with giving away everything for free... ironically, something that has really been reinforced by being part of this community.

Yes, I realize that here we don't make anyone pay for content... but, on the other hand, we are also taught that our content has at least some minimal value.

Of course, I am also going to use aforesaid blog to cross reference our community here, and to sell people on the idea of becoming Steemians. So yes, there's some extended method to my madness!

Path through the greenery...

Announcements Later

Sorry, not going to link to it till later, once I've gotten some housecleaning done. Right now, things are a little out-of-date.

This just another example (mostly) of that nifty attribute of a blockchain community: This is a bit of a "permament record," so I can record that I started this work today... and later I can report my progress.

In connection with the blog, I also plan to start a book project I shelved some years back... mostly with the "excuse" that I wasn't able to "concentrate" for long enough to finish a book.

In retrospect, that was just a "cover story."

And that's about it, for this little "bookmark." Thanks for reading!

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