THB #200: Money Changes Everything

10 months and 1 day ago, I launched this newsletter.

I hadn’t written daily for a few years and after a lot of thinking, I decided it was what I should be doing. It’s been a happy time, back at the keyboard, analyzing, reviewing, and trying every day to find the muse in the industry I have loved for more than 45 years, been a part of for more than 35 years, and written about for more than 25 years.

I have always believed in free content. The idea of charging the reader has never really sat right with me. Not 100% sure why. Maybe it’s because I am a niche guy, writing in depth about things that tend to only be interesting to a narrow swath of the public. Maybe it’s just a self-indulgence, willing myself to be free of the demands of thinking about satisfying my supporters before myself. Maybe I just want the door to be wide open to people who have never read me before and might join in the conversation in some unexpected way.

But after a few months of writing daily for free and then a fe…