Boats Against the Current: Reason for Being in the World, Part 4

An Experiment in Intellectual and Spiritual Accounting

My thanks to the influx of new subscribers these past few weeks. I appreciate you. I appreciate my latest paid subscribers and the readers who’ve been buying me espresso. You’ve even known that I favor Intelligentsia Black Cat and Counter Culture Apollo. How cool is that? You guys are the best! You all know who you are.

If you’ve been reading for more than a couple of weeks, you know that I reduced the publication schedule to only once a week and made all current writing free on publication. No more paid-access-only for anything newer than three months. But you see that the one piece of writing each week is substantial. My ambitions for Homo Vitruvius are significant: that’s what I said from the start on the About page and Home of Homo Vitruvius.

It’s a lot of work. I love it. It’s what I live for. But a lot of work. I teach the occasional class these days, but I’m trying to earn income from writing, so if you can afford to pay, however much, however often, you will have my gratitude. I…