I’m A Kottke Micropatron

I final­ly got around to donat­ing some to Jason Kot­tke this evening. Tomor­row is the last day of his fund dri­ve, and I felt it was impor­tant to give some­thing to him. I use his real­ly cool silkscreen font on some of the but­tons on this site and I read his blog reg­u­lar­ly. He’s an excel­lent writer and I find myself agree­ing with him more than not. This feels a lot like when I give to NPR, and for most­ly the same reasons.

I don’t know that I’ll be donat­ing funds to every­body on the inter­net that decides to quit their jobs and blog for a liv­ing. How­ev­er, Kot­tke is set­ting an exam­ple of a dif­fer­ent type: not that quit­ing your day job is what you should do, but that you should do what you dream of. I’m real­ly pay­ing him some­thing for dar­ing to remind me of that.