There was a stampede at No Impact Man yesterday to discuss Kant and who is the preferred philosopher of No Impact Man’s Faithful. Yet there was one among his supportive readers who picked up on Colin’s plea for financial support, writing:
BTW, Colin, I’m curious – why are you looking for monetary support from your readers, other than buying your book? Michelle wrote about how satisfying it was to watch money piling up in your account – is this creating financial demands that are different than that, or is it just that so many people are dying to give you wads of cash ;-)? Curious.
And then another of his readers (but not among his “faithful”, which I’d originally and mistakenly presumed, her blog serving as testimony) said:
…an excellent question… if No Impact is all about not buying and reducing your needs, why are you accepting donations? Doesn’t quite seem in the spirit of No Impact to me (especially since one would think you received an advance to write your book).
No Impact Man’s response was typical for him. He tried to leapfrog all points:
There isn’t quite a stampede of donors, but maybe you could be the start of one. You know where the link is, right?
I would never begrudge a local farmer’s attempt to add revenue streams in order to self-support. I can only hope, in turn, that a local farmer would not begrudge the same of me.
I have an idea: while I help explain to the world why it is worth paying higher prices to keep small, local farmers in business, maybe you could help explain to the world why it is worth helping to keep me in business!
To the woman who said this was an excellent question, wondering about his book advance, he wrote:
If only you could give me 10 or so of your 50 beautiful acres of land in Maine…
Then I might have the resources to just putter around trying my hand at house renovations and spinning my own wool. 😉
Until then, I have to earn a living. I am, however, tremendously grateful that I have the privilege of being able to do so in a way that I love and that allows me to do a little bit of good along the way
The blog of the woman to whom he’s replying reveals that she and her husband left the rat race to live on a 50 acre farm in Maine where they raise their food, renovate their house, and spin wool etc.
Well, well, well, Colin thusly pissed off those two readers and if you go take a look you’ll see toward the bottom of the comments the responses of Sharon and Liz to Colin, and they’re full of good points.
Nooooooww, what will Colin do next, because yet a third reader has asked what is up with the donations request. Will Colin let fly another Koan? What will be his next dance move?
Anyway, Colin’s advice for today is the “green hipster” way of doing a PDA, which is using index cards instead, fastened by a clip.
“Clever solution!” says one reader. Another thanks him for always providing a new and useful tip. Another describes how she uses scrap paper as a PDA and dubs her own idea as “Brilliant!”
Colin followed today’s post with a reminder that if you like this post and would like to support my work, you can do so financially by clicking here…
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