One question ask myself often with how much I share is: where is the money?
And thankfully started on web over 20 years ago trying to solve famous math problems. Seemed like a good idea at the time. And you don't do that for the money, but at first said I did and was convinced was a decent strategy, but no. Doesn't work that way.
Eventually realized mathematics is a community good, and I enjoyed searching for my own mathematical discoveries and talking that process out on the web.
Importantly my experience was better for sharing and there was no gain from not sharing. Learned more faster. Great lesson learned.
But spend a lot of time with web things and wonder, when can I expect to make money with something?
Have talked much on that subject across more than one blog, but here will simply note that a marketable product is needed to make money, and you sell that product--at a market.
Oh. So need a marketplace and good marketplaces have rules and prefer, or should prefer, to have products that are top quality. If not, how do you feel? Like if walking through a grungy store with sketchy things for sale? We even want the store to be...well most people do want a clean store, right?
Ok. Can do quality. But where are marketplaces where I might sell things I make?
Which is where am stuck. Good news is, have focused on community things like math, an open source product, and other idea things meant to be free like my science of entertainment.
So am good. Community focus got me global.
Being global is great and web enables that option for someone like me, and have learned a lot.
But yeah, wouldn't mind making a marketable product, like have considered writing fiction. But old 20th Century systems for publishing? Am NOT interested.
And oh yeah, money people scare me. So am like get an agent ever? Hell no. So yeah.
Web marketplaces are still the future. And that future is coming folks, but is sadly not here, yet.
