The Muse Be Willing

Tag: value

  • From Free to Fair

    A New Way to Support the Content You Love
    We’ve all been there: you click on a promising blog post, only to be met with a wall of ads, a popup asking you to subscribe, or a paywall that stops you cold. The internet was built on the promise of free information, but a business model based on ad revenue has created a broken experience for both readers and creators. What if there was a better way? What if you could instantly and effortlessly support the content you loved, without subscriptions or invasive ads?
    Welcome to the world of programmable money. This isn’t just about a new type of currency; it’s about a new kind of transaction. Imagine an app on your phone that’s connected to a small digital wallet. When you click on a blog post, this app recognizes a tiny piece of code on the page. In a fraction of a second, it sends a micro-payment—say, a few cents—directly from your wallet to the author’s. The payment is so small that you barely notice it, but for the author, those tiny payments from thousands of readers add up.
    This is programmable money in action. It’s digital currency with rules built into it. The rule, in this case, is simple: “If a user reads this blog post, send the author a small, pre-approved payment.” The beauty of this system is that it’s automated and frictionless. There’s no need to manually enter credit card details, sign up for a service, or deal with frustrating popups. The transaction happens instantly and seamlessly in the background, making it as easy to support content as it is to read it.
    For readers, this new model could mean an ad-free, clutter-free browsing experience. You get to consume high-quality content without a single interruption. For writers and creators, it offers a direct and sustainable way to monetize their work, freeing them from the whims of advertising algorithms and the pressure to go viral.
    This isn’t a future vision; the technology to make this happen exists today. The question is, are we ready to move from an economy of free-but-interrupted content to one of fair-and-effortless support? The next time you see a great article, imagine if reading it could also be an act of direct support, all thanks to the quiet magic of programmable money.

  • Why questioning is quintessential.

    If I have a talent for writing… what can I write that I would enjoy writing and also provide a service, I ‘m asking the question, but I don’t hear the answer because I’m not perfect. Will I eventually realize the answer? I hope so or do I guess at the answer? Of course my guess will be influenced by my attitude, whether it be good or bad, positive or negative and that in itself is a problem isn’t it. Because your guess will just be a shot in the dark, so what is a person to do to get answers to life’s persistent questions that seem to persist only in their insistence on being answered. The inevitable or probable next step is to continue to ask questions, because in the asking we redefine the problem. They say by continue to ask questions, you continue to halve the problem, if one keeps asking questions about the questions, then the nature of the problem is dwindled continually, but not snuffed out…? But I think there was a scientific experiment that by repeatedly dividing something in half, the halving is never done. But that doesn’t make sense, because eventually your division results in nothing. especially when you consider the atomic level, dividing an atom in half, results in the simplest element whether its helium or hydrogen. And there is supposed to be relatively more space between the nucleus and the electrons of an atom. How did they ever determine that an atom is mostly space? But it’s not nothing, I think, because in that space are the forces that keep that atom together. 

    I got off track from my desire to find the answers to questions that are deal with destiny, duty and purpose. I think that by continuing to devise new questions that refine the inquiry to a point where the mind is pondering the nature of the unknown with greater and greater determination then sincere interest in lead one to realizing the truth and put one in a space of seeing deeper into the nature of one’s life and its meaning, purpose and value.