I made more for Code of Vets in a day via my newsletter than I do for myself in a year via Patreon/SubscribeStar. I know it's blowing my own trumpet a bit, and my art shows where my heart is anyway, but I am sensitive to what are appropriate and inappropriate ways to make a living given the subjects we cover.

The only paid content I do is for Bossmaker, and it's a tiny cost for a newsletter aimed at "people with civic and institutional responsibilities" — they don't take "free" seriously. Every single photo I sell has first been offered for free; every single essay in my books was first published for free; naturally every insight or curation I do on social media is free.

That said, it would please me to sell lots of books and have resources for both my own family and to be generous with to support others as well as causes I approve of. Nothing wrong with financial reward for hard work — just meaning is the motivator, not money itself.