Andy Matuschak
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Celebrating a significant Patreon milestone; thoughts on crowdfunding tools for thought
🕑 Added 2020-08-05 19:30:51 +0000 UTCWe've now crowdfunded two thirds of a grad student-level grant for research on tools for thought.
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Andy Matuschak
Yep, I think that'd be helpful! I'd like to do that at some point here with my notes.
Martin Bernstorff
Maybe one can resolve some of this tension by adding a "last edited" index to evergreen notes? Then patreons could follow along the researchers process without the researcher having to use conscious effort to promote himself :-) It may affect the writing, but I don't know to which degree it'll do so above the effect of having publicly accessible notes.
Andy, this is amazing. Thanks for sharing the good news. Glad to be supporting along with everyone else. Keep it up!
Andy Matuschak
Yes: counter intuitively one practice that’s really important to doing good work here is not spending all that much time thinking about the Patreon.
Wonder what might it take to scale this model up: how to make it easier for more people to empathize with the researcher? Posting video logs of their progress/thoughts every 1/2/4 weeks maybe? But also wonder how fast will this approach become dominated by those spending most time on presentation and not the actual research : (
This makes me so happy. Thank you for all you do Andy!
Congrats Andy, this is awesome!
Hell yes! Keep doing what you're doing.
Jim Beaver
I like the direction. I too would like to see a democratization of scientific research and development. Hopefully you can keep going!
