Although I’ll be doing the middle tier not the monthly.
I think it’s a good thing he’s realized the supporter/subscriber thing, though. He kept thinking he was competing with Werner, et al. and he wasn’t at all. They’ve always provided two different things. Even if it was subconscious, I think that was killing him. He became almost adversarial with the beat writers it felt like, and to be alienated from your “peers” at “work” just felt like unnecessary stress he didn’t need and sort of concocted.
Hopefully this allows him to be more at peace. He deserves it and it probably improves his work too.
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Seriously.
He is doing what just about any of us would dream to do, and he took a huge chance on himself to do it.
Is he a little different now? Yes, he absolutely has to be in order to make this work.