Working on this episode now has me earwormed with what I'm calling "New York Spaceship Disaster 1969"

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Didn't remember how much more viola there is on the mono mix of "Heroin"

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But anyway, all that to say -- Patreon is flawed, and infuriating, and slowly (very slowly, thank God, on a timescale of decades rather than weeks) enshittifying as all businesses do. But it saved my life and is likely saving the lives of many writers, podcasters, cartoonists etc you admire.

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Robert Anton Wilson talked about how when he had a similar crisis and quit his dayjob to be a full-time writer, he set himself one rule -- he could write whenever he wanted, however long he wanted, but he could never start at 9AM or finish at 5PM. He had to break the conditioning.

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This is also why I try not to push past my limits and work faster than I safely can. I *could* probably have got as many as two more episodes out this year if I'd pushed myself, but then I could have ended up back in that state, and I'm never doing that again.

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