I'm Asking You to Support My Work This Month

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Of Two Minds serves this purpose: taking control of and improving our own quality of life and security.

Once a year I ask you to support my work. In the past, I’ve struck a humorous note–rattling the begging bowl. This year feels different. The veneer of normalcy is peeling off faster than it can be glued back on, and this decoherence is accelerating, which is why I’m writing a series for subscribers entitled The Revolution No One Sees Coming.

Of Two Minds content ranges over so many fields that it doesn’t fit into any one conventional category. But beneath the surface jumble it’s always about solutions, macro and personal/household, solutions derived from understanding the dynamics at work beneath the conventional surface explanations, all of which ultimately serve this purpose: taking control of and improving our own quality of life and security.

I am especially interested in social evolution and change, as this process is neither transparent nor predictable. Our era is one of vast wealth-power inequality, resource depletion and technological changes (AI, social media, etc.), dynamics that are changing the global order at every scale, which is why I focus on navigating instability via self-reliance, avoiding burnout / Ultra-Processed Life, and investing in ourselves and the revolution that no one sees coming.

The Revolution No One Sees Coming will not just be a series of external events, it will be personal, as each of us will face situations we didn’t choose whose novelty and scale may exceed our previous experience. History is full of changes no one thought possible a few years earlier. No one else is writing about it like I am, so a subscription–which costs the same as a few sushi–is a unique value. Thank you for supporting my work.

I have always felt that if even one single idea presented here changes your life in a positive way, then the subscription will pay for itself many times over in the advance of your security, self-reliance and quality of life. Thank you for your readership, and I greatly appreciate your financial support via any of these methods:

The subscription is $7/month or an annual payment of $70/year. At readers’ request, there is also an “extra-generous subscription” option of $10/month.

1. Subscribe to my Substack at the $7/month / $70 annual subscription or the $200 option.

2. Become a $7/month patron of my work via patreon.com There is a 10% discount for an annual payment.

3. Send payment of $70 via U.S. Mail (or $100 for two years). Please include your email so I can add you to the Musings Report mailing list and acknowledge your subscription. Please make checks out to “Charles H. Smith”; you can send a check, cash, gold doubloons or quatloos to:

Charles Smith
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Source: http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2026/08/im-asking-you-to-support-my-work-this.html