Simon Willison’s Weblog

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I’ve never liked the idea of charging for my content. I get enormous value from putting all of my writing and research out there for free.

So I’m trying something a little different: pay me to send you less.

I’m starting a sponsors-only monthly newsletter featuring just my heavily curated and edited highlights. If you only have ten minutes, what are the most important things not to miss from the last month?

Don’t want to pay? That’s fine, you can continue to follow my firehose for free!

Anyone who sponsors me for $10/month (or $50/month or more) on GitHub sponsors will receive my new newsletter on approximately the last day of the month. I’ll be sending out the first edition next week.

This blog and my newsletter will continue at their same breakneck pace. Paying subscribers can get a lower volume of stuff.

I'm cautiously optimistic that this could work. I've never liked the idea of business models that incentivize me to publish less. This feels like it encourages me to do what I'm doing already while giving people a rational reason to support my work, at a relatively small incremental cost to myself.