Less Hustle, More Art — Moving to a New Model

Well, boys and girls, ladies and gyms, my esteemed and lovely listeners. Short version. I'm getting rid of ads. And sponsors for a six-month test. And the podcast will continue to be free, one hundred percent free, nothing behind a paywall. And you can learn more. About that and why at tim.blog forward slash support. That's Tim.blog forward slash support. I'd really appreciate if you listen to this message in full. It's not gonna be super long.

So here is a little bit more. Thousands of you, fans, readers, listeners have asked me over the years, how can I thank you? I wanna thank you on Twitter and all sorts of other places. What can I do To thank you besides buy your books. And I've never had a product. I've never wanted to just come up with a product or a course or fill in the blank. Nondelless. nearly four hundred episodes with the podcast later, four hundred million or so downloads, a thousand plus blog posts and so on. I've thought about this.

And I've thought about it a lot recently. Because The sponsorship model, when I actually look at the calendar, it's great on a lot of levels, but it cuts into time and resources. I'm not learning very much. And It's an elegant model in some respects. I don't think advertising or sponsorship is evil, and I turn away ninety plus percent of my sponsor inquiries.

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