“actually one never asks one’s Facebook friends for anything” — so that must be the very root of my discomfort, which I couldn’t put a finger on before writing this article, and now hearing it from someone else (you). They’re not my fans (though some openly say they are), they’re my friends. There’s a difference.

I’m all for normalizing donations and tipping jars. I’ll carry on with setting up my own site for reposting some of my Medium articles, and place a coffee plugin in there. I’ll have the time for doing it this year that I’m on leave from work. Thanks for this.