Tag: wp

I see the names of the people who come by and decide to back the project. I love that.

The names come in, and I think "Hey I know that guy," or "Wow, she dropped in and decided to back it, awesome!"

I don't know everyone, but most of the names I recognize.

On the one hand, there's a chance the whole thing might start to feel like "oh, it's just my friends chipping in to help," but as soon as I have the thought, I realize it conveys the wrong scale.

Yes, I do recognize many of the names backing the project.

They are from my home town, and my home state, and from Washington, and California, and New York, and Florida, and England, and Scotland, and Belgium, and Iceland, and Austrailia, and Germany.

Many – most – I've never met, face to face.

But they are friends.

They are also customers and fans.

In some cases, they are people whose creative work I have backed in the past. I am their fan, and I do a little internal backflip when I see them digging what I'm doing.

And yet, we're friends.

Those names I don't know? By the time this project is done, we're going to be friends, too.

Creators. Customers. Friends. Collaborators. We're all these things, at the same time.

And that is a hell of a remarkable thing.

Please check out the kickstarter. I'd love for you to be involved, too, and we're very, very close to fully funding.

Thanks!

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As a round of layoffs burn through the dayjob, leaving my department gutted by 50%, I turn to the internet for a bit of perspective and Stoic-style cheering up.

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I really don't need another audiobook to listen to right now, considering how much other stuff I should be reading at the moment.

But… I just finished the Scalzi/Wheaton pairing for Agent to the Stars (spoiler: funny!)… and I haven't read Redshirts yet… and…

Well, dammit. Daily Deal? Fiiiiiine.

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Pretty much this.

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