1997 Monetize Your Life.

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It’s monetization
That’s sweeping the nation
Every little thing you do deserves consideration

Writing to the tune of a song takes a long time. Way longer than I have at the moment for sure. Anyway, I know that I have a hard time convincing myself to do stuff that I can’t potentially use to monetize somehow. Even my Lego pictures get posted mostly in hopes that some random site will decide they are great and I’ll get some attention for my other work from them. Having a business online has made me much more aware of that sort of thing & much more mercenary than I was in my youth.

Of course I still have a one level of support on Patreon because I feel bad about locking people out with a pay wall, so I’m hardly a capitalist mastermind over here like James Charles or some shit. I’m never going to become rich via my own schemes.

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A gal’s gotta eat!

It’s the universal principle behind every artist who reconsiders monetization.

Okay, sometimes it’s more like “a fella’s gotta eat!”, but still, it’s the same basic concept at the end of the day.

There is “You will never know till you try” and “They won a Darwin award, lets not do that”.
The trick is to differentiate one from the other.

“Take chances, make mistakes, and get messy.”
“Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.”
“Learn from others mistakes. You can’t live long enough to do them all yourself.”
and finally my favorite and one that gets missunderstood by manager types
“Failure is not an option – it is mandatory. The option is whether or not to let failure be the last thing you do.”

I kind of love Jo’s expression here. sort of sweetly besotted and pleasantly surprised.

I feel like Jess is used to people misunderstanding her motives as greedy. Maybe she is greedy, but she just seems motivated to me. I definitely know the feeling of wanting to be a part of something, wanting to create something that allowed me to pursue more of what I like. What I like ranging from biological sciences to psychology, to art and animation, to sewing and clothing design. Sometimes you never get amazing at one thing, but you accumulate enough skills to be pretty good at enough things to get people’s attention.

If I hadn’t developed the chronic pain condition that is currently making my life difficult, I think Jessica and I would have a similar life trajectory. Sometimes you gotta be a little mercenary to have the freedom to be less so.

I don’t think there is anything wrong in being a maverick. What matters is what you do that not only benefits yourself but others as well.

“It’s monetization
That’s sweeping the nation
Every little thing you do deserves consideration”

I have a decent memory for music, but can’t figure out what song this is based on.

“Of course I still have a one level of support on Patreon because I feel bad about locking people out with a pay wall, so I’m hardly a capitalist mastermind over here like James Charles or some shit. I’m never going to become rich via my own schemes.”

Well at least you do it out of your own choice, so it’s OK. Better than getting quietly robbed by your agent or something.

Seems less like trying to fund something and more like she’s just adverse to really working and looking for the easy money. :p

Which reminds me of a line from a documentary about the Alaska Gold Rush:

“Never had so many worked so hard to get rich without working.”

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