Danica Swanson on Warpcast

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any writers with grievances on how to better monetize your craft on here? I have a few ideas curious to hear what others think

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cc @wanderloots.eth @markfishman @rileybeans who all have a good POV here also cc @reidtandy from Paragraph who thinks about this for a living

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Yes! Many thoughts. Also will tag @danicaswanson and @trigs But in general, we need a better way to accrue value to high intensity work. Eg, a newsletter might take me 20 hours to research and 10-20 hours to write. Having a collect button for a few cents, only to have the post lost in the chaos steam, is not the way. We also need a way for referential rewards. Eg, someone quotes someone else, value should flow back to the original creator. I’ve also heard people suggest pay as you read. Eg maybe it costs $5 to read the whole article, but the payments happen in micro, paragraph by paragraph, automatically. Lots of options, but the key is to compensate the deep thinkers, who currently have to rely on subscription models (which are difficult to manage and time consuming)

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Thanks for the tag. These are *really* hard problems. I think about them every day. Others who may be interested in reading this thread: @abundance @eirrann.eth @y0b @bradq @mrmemes.eth I think philanthropy will play a part in supporting writers long term. I like the "club goods" idea @trigs mentioned, and @matthewb's idea of creators-in-residence (mentioned elsewhere). But philanthropy isn't well developed in crypto yet. More experiments, please! I agree with @markfishman and @rileybeans that the most realistic approach is to monetize something other than the writing. As Leigh Stein wrote: "What work do I have to do to get paid, in order to do the work that pays nothing?" However, that adds additional labor on top of work that's already quite demanding, so it increases the risk of burnout. I'll link a thread below that outlines my thinking on this. @tombeck.eth also wrote a great piece I keep returning to. https://warpcast.com/danicaswanson/0xc294f6a5 https://paragraph.xyz/@driftless/curator-economy

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A couple of other notes worth mentioning: Like @adam-, I find "network rewards" to be a promising model (see thread below). @meritsystems (which I learned about via a mention from @eulerlagrange.eth) is building tools to remove the friction of funding Open Source maintainers -- another notoriously hard problem. If their model succeeds, perhaps there will be lessons from it that could apply to funding writers. https://warpcast.com/danicaswanson/0x204a4750

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