I like this method a lot -- I'll steal it, or something like it, after January. I'm slowly bleeding out from 1k zaps, and it's produced a couple of informal effects on myself: I zap zero in cases where I would have zapped my old default of 22x. There's a serious friction to the floor being 4x more than your old floor. I could, with great effort, over-ride it, but part of the game was to see what would happen, and that's what's happening.
Based on @ekzyis's kick-ass reporting, I suspect that I could be slightly in the black if I posted a lot, but I just don't have the time to do that. This needs greater investigation, since it's at tension with another thing I believe 100%, which is the outsized benefits of action. But the type of action matters a lot: in the time I devote to SN, I spend it overwhelmingly on comments, and I spend a lot of mental effort on them. But a comment is extremely unlikely to get you enough zaps to keep you in the black; so it's clear where effort should be allocated if you're looking to not get rekt.
Anyway, I think I'll get through January without blowing my balance to zero, and while this isn't about making money, I don't have unlimited appetite to lose money, either, so maybe your methodology will help with that, along with more effort at posting [1].
The thing I cared the most about -- to show people who are producing things that I think are undervalued that they are seen and cared for, with the hope of inspiring them to do more of it -- seems to have not manifested. Still a negligible number of link posts with good descriptions -- you and @siggy47 are the main exceptions that come to mind. Still very little experimentation in form or different perspectives besides the obvious btc ones. But a ship like that will turn slowly, if at all, so I haven't given up. I think the bigger lever for this is modeling. @ekzyis and @davidw have been burning it up on this one lately, and if I find it inspiring and thought-provoking, I'm sure others do, too.
[1] Ironically, this should probably have been an interim report post. So meta.
I like this method a lot -- I'll steal it, or something like it, after January. I'm slowly bleeding out from 1k zaps, and it's produced a couple of informal effects on myself: I zap zero in cases where I would have zapped my old default of 22x. There's a serious friction to the floor being 4x more than your old floor. I could, with great effort, over-ride it, but part of the game was to see what would happen, and that's what's happening.
Based on @ekzyis's kick-ass reporting, I suspect that I could be slightly in the black if I posted a lot, but I just don't have the time to do that. This needs greater investigation, since it's at tension with another thing I believe 100%, which is the outsized benefits of action. But the type of action matters a lot: in the time I devote to SN, I spend it overwhelmingly on comments, and I spend a lot of mental effort on them. But a comment is extremely unlikely to get you enough zaps to keep you in the black; so it's clear where effort should be allocated if you're looking to not get rekt.
Anyway, I think I'll get through January without blowing my balance to zero, and while this isn't about making money, I don't have unlimited appetite to lose money, either, so maybe your methodology will help with that, along with more effort at posting [1].
The thing I cared the most about -- to show people who are producing things that I think are undervalued that they are seen and cared for, with the hope of inspiring them to do more of it -- seems to have not manifested. Still a negligible number of link posts with good descriptions -- you and @siggy47 are the main exceptions that come to mind. Still very little experimentation in form or different perspectives besides the obvious btc ones. But a ship like that will turn slowly, if at all, so I haven't given up. I think the bigger lever for this is modeling. @ekzyis and @davidw have been burning it up on this one lately, and if I find it inspiring and thought-provoking, I'm sure others do, too.
[1] Ironically, this should probably have been an interim report post. So meta.