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We have raised approximately $4,940. This includes ongoing subscriptions (multiplied by three).
As $5,000 is the goal for writing ten non-fiction book reviews on books I consider important to understand the world, we’ll certainly reach that.
The next goal is $8,000 for an additional six reviews.
If we make $11,000, I’ll write a booklet about how readers can improve their thinking about the state and future of the world. Most people are very bad system thinkers, especially when prejudices are engaged, so I’ll try to distill and teach what I’ve learned over the past, well, almost 30 years, and which allowed me to predict that the next President after Obama would be a right-wing authoritarian populist, or the month and year of the financial collapse, as well as various other events, past and to come.
I fund-raise not just to determine these goals, however, but to determine, in general, how much time I should put into writing for my blog. Simply put, the more people give, the more I can justify writing. If people won’t give, it tells me I should spend my time doing other things. (If I were wealthier, I could ignore such survival concerns. I’m not, so I can’t.)
Finally, if you are in financial straits yourself, with difficulty paying for rent, food, or healthcare, please don’t give. Take care of yourself, with my best wishes and hope that your future is better than your present.
Oh, also, if you prefer to donate with Crypto, options are at the bottom of the donation page.
I am raising funds for 2019. The more funds I raise, the more I write.
The specific goals for this year are:
$5000—10 non fiction book reviews on books which are helpful to understand society.
$8000—Another 6 book reviews to the series.
$11,000—A booklet, “How To Think: Understanding the World.” A lot of people believe thinking ability is mostly about IQ, but intelligence, however it is measured, is only the ante. It’s possible to out-think much smarter people than oneself, because most people don’t know how to think, and good thinking about the world requires us to accept facts about the world which are painful.
This booklet will try to teach this sort of thinking.
Subscriptions will count triple compared to donations. Current subscriptions will be included in the count.
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Last year, I promised to collect my most important posts, and write commentary on them.
I’m turning to that now, and I have some that’ll definitely be there.
But I’d like to know what readers think to help me choose others. Please let me know in the comments, or feel free to email me (admin-at-ianwelsh-dot-net.) If you want to add something extra, let me know why you think it was a post that mattered.
If you’ve been reading me for a long time, please think back a bit on older posts. I’ve been writing for a long time now…
So, yesterday someone managed to hack the blog and blog one post. I took it down, and fixed the security flaw (I think) which allowed it to happen.
However, I didn’t consider the e-mail notification system and it went out with the nightly push. (Your email addresses are almost certainly not compromised, they are on a different system than the blog, with different security.)
My apologies. This should be the last time, though there’s a small chance it isn’t.
I hope you are having a good one. It’s been a long year for me, and I suspect, for many of you. Let this be a good day for us, if we can.