Survey Says

And now for something completely different:

I’ll be honest, my goal is to be able to write full time and my hope is that Radio Bebop is a rocket I can build to get me there. I currently spend 3 or 4 hours a day on it, and my plan is to keep doing that essentially forever. On the one hand, this is a way for me to walk into the forge each morning and hammer some metal, and on the other it’s the most fun I’ve had in years with my clothes on.

My initial vision for it was a kaleidoscope that changes each morning when you look through it, and I don’t think that will ever change. The entire purpose of my life might be as simple as giving as many people as possible a regular ride through Willy Wonka’s tunnel and I don’t have any interest in straying from that. But given how much I’ve been loving this movie challenge, and how draining it is to keep things truly random in the midst of my other current work commitments, I’m interested in tightening the focus of the lens here a bit and I could use your help.

I’m insanely grateful that you even read this newsletter in the first place, and while I can’t promise that I’ll end up deciding to do what you suggest, I can say that all input is good input right now and it means a great deal to me that I’m able to have any sort of audience for my writing. And as much as I hate sailing as a visceral experience (I’d rather go bowling in Hell) I have a sense that this newsletter will require a certain amount of tacking for its entire lifetime. I’m just a person who benefits a tremendous amount from zig-zagging, and any additional structure here exists within that context rather than trying to imitate a finance blog. I’m just not a single-engine craft and it’s taken me a number of years to be cool with that.

So, that being said, I’ve put together a very quick survey below to gather the fresh cut wheat of your opinions into my little barn. The basic question here is this: what do you think about me focusing on reviewing, or perhaps introducing, things and just mixing my conversations with my own personal ghosts in with it as I go? The dialectical chewing is what I’ve loved the most so far, which I wasn’t expecting, and as fate would have it centering on that would give me a much more approachable structure to start planning around.

If you’re cool to take a 2 minute survey, you can click the button below. If you’re not, I still love you the same amount as I did before and our regular programming will be back tomorrow.